LVA’s Weekend Arts Guide: 5.12.22
Sloan Van Arsdale at The Academy at LVA exhibit
TAKE NOTE that many organizations are requiring masks and perhaps proof of vaccination for entry.
TONIGHT: The Louisville Film Society is hosting the Louisville Film Society Short Film Slam at Speed Cinema tonight.
FRIDAY: The Academy at LVA exhibit opens tonight at Louisville Visual Art.
FRIDAY: Numinous: Works by Mags Fitzmaurice opens at Art Sanctuary tonight.
FRIDAY: DB KA$H is back at Revelry Gallery for his second solo show, Manifestations of the Mind.
FRIDAY: Tool and Die by Catherine Rubin is up at Kore Gallery now with an opening reception tonight.
Mags Fitzmaurice at Art Sanctuary
FRIDAY: Structure, New Paintings & Drawings by Stephen Kuhlman opens at Pyro Gallery, with a reception tonight.
FRIDAY: The Automat, directed by Lisa Hurwitz opens at Speed Cinema.
FRIDAY: The Curse of Blue Moose, by local playwright Vidalia Unwin opens this weekend at The Bard’s Town.
FRIDAY: [In]Fertility, a new play by Louisville resident Margaret Miller runs one weekend only at Kentucky Performing Arts. Listen to an interview on Artists Talk with LVA with Margaret Miller & collaborator Heather Summers.
FRIDAY: Martin French directs The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek by local writer Naomi Wallace at Carbon Copy. Listen to an interview with Martin French on Artists Talk with LVA.
FRIDAY: Commonwealth Theatre Center opens its annual Young American Shakespeare Festival this weekend.
Thaniel Ion Lee’ at 1512 Portland Ave Creative Compound
SATURDAY: Thaniel Ion Lee’s RECENT APPARITIONS, opens with an Artist reception 2pm-5pm at The Common Gallery located in the 1512 Portland Ave Creative Compound
SATURDAY: KMAC has opened two new exhibits, Art Walks The Runway: Ten Years of KMAC Couture, and Sandra Charles’ The Reality Of Our Essence and there will be an Artist’s Reception today.
Implicit Images and Visual Poems by Chris Vincent opens at Mellwood Art Center’s Pigment Gallery.
Not a Certainty But a Circumstance opened at Quappi Projects. It features new work from Martin Benson, Skylar Smith, Gibbs Rounsavall, & Letitia Quesenberry.
Departures New Paintings by Jeffrey Bennett is at The Tim Faulkner Gallery.
Galerie Hertz has opened Reflections: New Work by Emily Church, and Who Stole Our Heroes from Lena Wolek.
University of Louisville’s Hite Institute of Art & Design is celebrating 75th Anniversary with an Alumni Exhibition at the Cressman Center.
Moremen Gallery is showing PEREGRINATIONS, an international group show curated by Kōan Jeff Baysa, which includes 14 international artists.
The Hite Institute at University of Louisville opened its Spring 2022 BFA Thesis Exhibition at Schneider Hall.
DB KA$H at Revelry Gallery
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage opened Celebrating the Black Experience Exhibition.
Elmer Lucille Allen opened a solo exhibition at Surface Noise.
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.
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.
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.