LVA’s Weekend Arts Guide: 4.7.22
Melissa Crase at Revelry Gallery
TAKE NOTE that many organizations are requiring masks and perhaps proof of vaccination for entry.
TONIGHT: The Hite Institute at University of Louisville opens its Spring 2022 BFA Thesis Exhibition at Schneider Hall.
FRIDAY: Kentucky Center for African American Heritage opens the Celebrating the Black Experience Exhibition tonight.
Equine Fascination: A Colorful Spring Cocktail of Horses and Fascinators featuring the work of Melissa Crase & Nicole Bracken opens at Revelry Gallery.
FRIDAY: Bunbury Theatre opens Look What The Fire Did, a new play by Lewis Morrow, at the Henry Clay Theatre.
FRIDAY: Son of the White Mare (Fehérlófia), directed by Marcell Jankovics, opens at Speed Cinema.
SATURDAY: In Search of Faith – Artist Talk by Joe McGee w/ Special Guest Penny Sisto is this morning at Mount Saint Francis Center for Spirituality.
SATURDAY: Jeffersonville Art is hosting an event to Amplify the Arts
SATURDAY: Elmer Lucille Allen opens a solo exhibition at Surface Noise.
SUNDAY: Truth Tellers, directed by Richard Kane, is a documentary about Robert Shetterly’s American Who Tell the Truth painting series.
Wayne Williams, What do you see? – Pour Paint Skin Manipulations is open at Mellwood Art Center.
Kore Gallery has opened an exhibit of new work by Fritz Hilton.
Ann Dawkins’ Fruit/Bodies painting & installation is at garner narrative in NuLu.
Paul Paletti Gallery newest show is Staff Picks, selected by the gallery assistants.
Friends: Bob Lockhart, Lynn Duke, Amber Thieneman, & Cédric Ballarati is now open at Pyro Gallery.
At Bunbury Theatre
The Hite Institute of Art and Design opened their second Spring 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition tonight at the MFA Gallery: Betty Ávarez's exhibition: di•as•po•ra: displaced not erased.
Wheelhouse Art has opened Cynthia Kelly Overall’s The Divinity of All Creatures, Great and Small.
Laurie Fader’s, After Italy, From Landscape to Abstraction is at Galerie Hertz.
Sanford Bigger’s Code Switch is now open at The Speed.
Bellarmine University’s McGrath Gallery will be highlighting the work of graduating Seniors Nobie Martin, Bailey McDougal, Molly Conrad, Makayla Brown, Josh Cushman, and Hannah Reed.
Danny Seim’s Windows Into The Community is open at KMAC until May 8.
Revelry Gallery hosts Louisville artist Kaviya Ravi for her first solo show வண்ணமயம் / VANNAMAYAM.
Quappi Projects has Shining in the Wind: Ryan Tassi + Matthew McDole.
Jingshuo Yang’s University of Louisville MFA Thesis exhibition, Transformation - Find The Inner World, has opened at the Hite Institute’s MFA Gallery in Portland. Listen HERE to an interview on Artists Talk with LVA that includes this artist.
Son of the White Mare (Fehérlófia) at Speed Cinema
Reasons To Try, Reasons to Tremble: Art by Jess Robinson is open at Pyro Gallery.
Chad McConnell's "The Beautiful Uglies" is open at Tim Faulkner Gallery.
The Hite Institute at the University of Louisville at the Cressman Center is showing New Recruits, work by new faculty.
Edward R. White, Returning Home: A Life’s Retrospective is open at The Portland Museum through April 30.
Penny Sisto at 80 has opened at The Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany.
Wayside Expressions Gallery has two exhibits: Muhammad Ali Retrospective: Artwork by Rhonda Bridgewaters AND an 85th anniversary retrospective of the 1937 flood featuring archival photos by George Bailey, Margaret Bourke-White, Sallie Rawson, and Robert Schuhmann.
ravel, unravel - paintings by Dean Brown is at Art Sanctuary.
garner narrative has opened a 2nd location garner LARGE on Bardstown Road.
Elizabeth Kramer is writing about the challenges facing local arts groups at Louisville Arts Bureau.