LVA’s Weekly Art Guide: 12.06.23
This Is Home film premiere at Speed Cinema
Thursday: First Thursday/Area Premiere of This is Home: Artist Jaylin Stewart, directed by Nathaniel R.A. Spencer. Tonight at 6 pm. The film is approximately 15 minutes and there will be a discussion afterwards with Jaylin Stewart and the filmmaker.
FRIDAY: WheelHouse Art opens Truth, Lies, and Fairy Tales, a group exhibition featuring Matthew McDole, Colleen Merrill, Elsa Hansen Oldham, and Monica Stewart. Reception tonight 6 - 8 pm.
FRIDAY: Moremen Gallery opens Perspectives: 35 African American Artists. Reception tonight 5 - 9 pm.
FRIDAY: Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet), directed by Aki Kaurismäki opens at 6 pm tonight at Speed Cinema.
SATURDAY: The Umteenth $20 Art Show is at Headliners Music Hall
today from 6 - 9 PM. FREE ADMISSION!
SATURDAY: Kore Gallery opens two exhibits today, Going Home: Luci Mistratov, painter & Lena Wolek, ceramicist and A Love of Color: Nancy Gordon Moore, painter. reception tonight 6 - 9:30 pm.
Carnagie Center for Art & History opened Intentionally Intimate: The Choice to Work Small, featuring work by Kay Grubola, Wendi Smith, Nancy Currier, Caroline Waite and Rachel Singel.
Michael Coppage opened a traveling solo exhibition entitled: American+ at KyCAD. The exhibition will run from 11/30/23-1/19/24 with a public lecture on 1/19/24 at 5:30pm. Listen to an interview with Michael on Artists Talk with LVA.
Louisville Visual Art (LVA) has opened A Thousand Words, by Lance G. Newman II. at the LVA Gallery. Listen to an interview with Lance on Artists Talk with LVA.
The Love in Louisville - a group benefit art show for Feed Louisville opened at Grady Goods.
Chromatics by Lianne Alcon opened at Mellwood Art Center.
Lowber Gallery opened a new exhibit of work by Sabra Crockett.
Capacity Contemporary Exchange opened Canyons, A Solo Exhibition of New Works by Kris Thompson.
Revelry Gallery hosts their 6th annual Winter Wonderland - an ornament bazar featuring work from 18 local artists.
Pyro Gallery opened their annual OFF THE WALLS exhibit, which features work from 20 member artists.
Beyond the Elements featuring Sarah Jane Castellon, Donna R. Charging, Chloe Cheng, Eisey Eisenhardt, Alana Fitzgerald, Suyun Son, Elite Waller is at U of L’s MFA Building in the Portland neighborhood.
Aurora Gallery opened Tension: A Group Art Show.
Galerie Hertz opened their HOLIDAY exhibit featuring the work of Cheryl Chapman, Tom Pfannerstill, Billy Hertz, Levi Justice, Guinever Smith; among other surprises.
Monica Stewart at WheelhouseArt
garner narrative is exhibiting painstaking, featuring Patrick Donley, Wendi Smith, and Aleksandra Stone.
Hite Institute opened a BFA Thesis Exhibition featuring Emily Davis, hevin ramsey, & Kristen De Voogd at Schneider Hall Galleries.
A group show, Reformation opened at the new Gallery @ MOSAIC.
Bourne-Schweitzer is exhibiting Fong Choo: An Artistic Journey in Clay. Listen to an interiew with Fong Choo on Artists Talk with LVA.
Sojourn Arts is hosting their juried exhibit Light in the Dark.
Mount Saint Francis Center for Spirituality is exhibiting the work of Penny Sisto.
21c Museum Hotel, Louisville is exhibiting Fragile Figures: Beings and Time and Jon Cherry: The Little Mercies through 2023.
Kleinhelter Gallery opened a “small works” exhibit.
A new gallery has opened in the Portland neighborhood, The Outsider Art Museum and Gallery, and it is showing the work of Mark Anthony Mulligan.
Spalding University’s Huff Gallery opened the 4th annual Poems to Paintings exhibit. 16 former alumni make paintings inspired by poetry from the current Spalding Creative Writing.
Paula Peatross, Gibbs Rounsavall, Megan Bickel, Joshua Johnson, Seeded in a Field of Noise, opened at The Common Gallery.
Mellwood Art Center opened The Oak & Peony: An Exploration in Eco-Printing by Cayce Davenport.
KMAC Museum opened two shows: Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Appalachian Folk Art A Solo Exhibition by Dan Gunn.
Meadows Gallery in the Masonic Homes Campus is exhibiting Janna Hankins Wardle.
Bellarmine University’s McGrath Gallery has opened an exhibit featuring the work of 4 new art faculty: Jordan Morgan, Megan Bickel, Michael Kopp & Helen Payne.
Perspectives: 35 African American Artists at Moremen Gallery
The Speed Museum is exhibiting Stories Retold: American Art from the Princeton University Art Museum.
Gallery 104 has opened the Louisville Fiber and Textile Artists Biennial Art Show.
U of L’s Photographic Archives opened What You Say?, Rock & Roll Photos by Dave Cronen.
Kentucky Fine Art Gallery is exhibiting a group show featuring member artists through the end of December.
The Filson Historical Society opened Animals in the Archives. Part of the 2023 Louisville Photo Biennial.
The 2023 Art In City Hall exhibition is open through January 24, 2024. Listen to an interview with Charles Ellis on Artists Talk with LVA. and another with Jamarr Cox.
Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit Go Far, Go Together is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.
Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.
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