LVA’s Weekend Arts Guide: 9.22.22
Stephen Brown (1950 - 2009) at Wheelhouse Art
FRIDAY: WheelHouse Art is pleased to host an opening reception for Life in Light, by artist Stephen Brown (1950 - 2009).
FRIDAY: Moremen Gallery is opening an exhibit of selected works by Ben Wiseman, a nationally renowned graphic artist and illustrator, Kentucky native, and 2003 alumnus of the Governor’s School for the Arts.
FRIDAY: The Story of Film: A New Generation, directed by Mark Cousins, opens at Speed Cinema tonight.
FRIDAY: Kentucky Opera opens a new season with La bohème.
FRIDAY: Time Slip Theatre will open Jonathan Larson’s tick…tick…BOOM! tonight.
FRIDAY: Mind’s Eye Theatre opens The Musial of Musicals, the Musical at the New Albany Arts Center tonight.
SATURDAY: Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany is having a closing reception for Leslie Volle's Twig Stories.
SATURDAY: KMAC Poetry Slam returns tonight.
SUNDAY: The premiere of season 2, episode 3 of the Bagged & Bored web series will be tonight at The Whirling Tiger.
The Hite Institute of Art and Design at the Cressman Center is pleased to present Lesch | Oldham: Needlework, a two-person exhibition featuring Alma Lesch (1917-1999) and Elsa Oldham (b. 1983).
Portal at 1512 Creative Compound presents Living, Room, a group show featuring 15+ Louisville artists curated by Lance G. Newman II.
Faithworks Studios presents a new production of Ragtime at The Russell Theatre.
La bohème from Kentucky Opera
Chestnuts and Pearls opened Sign of the Times, a group exhibit featuring Marie Britt, Susan Brooks, Karen Chilman, Eric Morris, Penny Hundley, and Ami Jo Romig.
Revelry Gallery is showing Anna Erwin’s debut solo exhibit, Body Electric.
Just Pushing Paint: C.J. Fletcher Solo Exhibition is open at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.
St James Court Scholarship Foundation's HS Scholarship Competition is open at the University of Louisville’s Schneider Hall Galleries.
Kore Gallery has opened their annual annual Black and White Show.
Affirmations of Color and Life exhibits the recent paintings of Aaron Lubrick. and work from The Allied Drawer’s Consortium and it opens at Pyro Gallery tonight Listen to an interview with Aaron, Noah Howard, & Kevin Arthur on Artists Talk with LVA.
garner narrative opens find magic, a group show featuring Dr. Jabani Bennett, Rebecca Cavalcante, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner, Nick Owens, & Aleksandra Stone..
The 2022 KMAC Triennial is now open. Listen to an interview with 2 of the artists included, J. Daniel Graham & Hannah Smith, on Artists Talk with LVA.
”Not In My Back Yard” New Works by Ying Kit Chang is at Moremen Gallery. Listen to an interview with the artist on Artists Talk with LVA.
Brennen Cabrera’s A Summer and Autumn Tenebrae is at Surface Noise.
‘Dreamers’ Visual Art by Ashley Brossart is open at Louisville Grows/Healthy House.
Bellarmine University’s McGrath Gallery has an exhibit of faculty work including Sarah Martin, Ron Schildknecht, Douglas Miller, Laura Hartford, Fong Choo, Shae Goodlett, and Jennifer Palmer.
Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany is showing Leslie Volle's most recent series Twig Stories.
Nikolay Denchev’s paintings are being exhibited at Lenihan Sotheby’s International Realty.
Ate x 10: A Group Exhibition About Food is open at The Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany.
KMAC Triennial
In a New Light: Couplets from the Paul Paletti Collection has opened at The Paul Paletti Gallery.
Graphic Pioneer: The Early Poster Designs of Julius Friedman, 1965-1980 has opened at the newly rechristened Julius Friedman Gallery in U of L’s Ekstrom Library. Listen to an interview with the Curator and Project Archivist on Artists Talk with LVA.
Speed Museum opened Can I Grow? The Metamorphosis of the Black Woman by Community Connections Artist-in-Residence Ashlee Phillips
Crosscurrents: Contemporary Art from the Speed Art Museum Collection and Beyond is open now at The Speed Museum.
Flowerescapes by Ada Asenjo is at Wayside Expressions Gallery.
Reflections on Twelve Years: an LVA exhibit for Metro Hall is up until December. Listen to an interview with three of the Featured Artists on Artists Talk with LVA.
The Hite Institute of Art and Design presents Sites and Sights of Work, at the Schneider Hall Galleries, an exhibition that explores printmaking from the 19th to 21st century as both sites of artistic labor and depictions (“sights”) of modern work.
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.
If you want to be added to future listings, send information on exhibits and other events to: keith@louisvillevisualart.org. Deadline to be included in each Thursday’s guide is Wednesday at Noon.