LVA’s Weekly Art Guide: 4.17.24
David Schuster at Kentucky Fine Art Gallery
THURSDAY: Schneider Hall Galleries at the University of Louisville opens the Spring 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition with a receptionThursday April 18 from 5-7 pm.
THURSDAY: In partnership with the Fairness Campaign, the Ekstrom Library at the University of Louisville launch of our new exhibit: Fairness Does A City Good! A 25 Year Retrospective. Commemorating 25 years since the passing of LGBTQ+-inclusive non-discrimination ordinances in Louisville and Lexington, this exhibit reintroduces stories from the movement that paved the way.
SATURDAY: CeLOUbrate Print happens at the Portland Museum today, 10 am - 6 pm. The event connects community members to Louisville printers and local artists, inviting them all to come together for hands-on workshops (like creating letterpress posters with our very own Beechgrove Press), demonstrations of print techniques (like printing cyanotypes with UofL students), and exhibitions of local print artworks and artifacts (like Shop Talk, opening alongside the event).
SATURDAY: The Quonset Hut is celebrating Sean Garrison’s Let’s Pretend exhibit with a ticketed event tonight during Thunder Over Louisville. gates open at 7:00 pm.
Kentucky Fine Art Gallery has opened Heart of the Bluegrass, a group show featuring works by Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, Greta Mattingly, and David O Schuster.
Last Flowers is a new collection of art by Louisville-based artists, curated by Julie Leidner for permanent installation at Hildegard House, a small non-profit in Butchertown that provides end-of-life care for those in need. A pop-up exhibition of this special collection is on exhibit at LVA.
ARTPORTAL is opened two new shows, Winning Colors and Fancy Feathers, Murderous Millinery on Thursday, and. Winning Colors and Fancy Feathers, Murderous Millinery with an Artist talk + closing is scheduled for May 10th, 4-6 pm.
Chloe Cheng’s s MFA exhibit, Alabaster Glory opened at the U of L/Hite MFA Gallery in Portland.
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage opened Celebrating the Black Experience Exhibition.
garner narrative contemporary is showing Slow Going: Derby Season Reflections, including Rebecca Cavalcante, Mary Craik, Patrick Donely, Stephen Dorsett, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner, Maureen Hagerman, Malynda Poulsen, Liz Snodgress, Aleksandra Stone, & Keith Stone
Cierra Evans at Moremen Gallery
Paradigm: A Multimedia Art Installation by Jeanne Jesse is at Grady Goods.
Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened Rituals and Totems: Larry Beisler and Beatrice Guarneschelle-Holt,
PYRO Gallery presents its Annual Invitational Guess What?
Mellwood Art Center opened a solo exhibition by Payton Thomas: Bourbon/Horses/Sneakers.
Moremen Gallery opened Be Careful Out There, a solo show by artist Ceirra Evans.
Revelry Gallery opened its annual Win, Place, Art Show featuring Brochevski, Ewa Perz, Humberto Lahera, Isabella Siebert, Julio Cesar, Lindsey Taylor, Melissa Crase, Patrick Jilbert, Randell Madden, Robert Brown, Sophia Fowler, Susan Howe, Tiny Art Lady, and Tommy Rallis
Misc. Goods opened an exhibit of work by Matthew McDole. This will kick off the company's Artist Spotlight series.
Kore Gallery opened two exhibits - From Nowhere to Somewhere to Somewhere Else by Joshua Jenkins, and Spirit of Victory with work by Richard Sullivan and Tyler Robertson.
Chestnuts and Pearls opened Equine Extravaganza by artist Mark Hengartner of New Albany.
Wheelhouse Art opened Both/And, a two-in-one exhibition by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley.
Gallery 104 in La Grange has opened Trading Places.
A group show, GiftsDiffering is open at the new Gallery @ MOSAIC.
Capacity Contemporary Exchange opened Spheres Collide, Recent Work by Sam Parker
Aurora Gallery & Boutique opened 2 exhibits: Errata Regatta: A Solo Show by Rich Merwarth and Intersections & Places Between: A Solo Show by Ashley Brossart
KMAC has opened two exhibits, Wild in the Streets, an exhibition capturing the self-expression and creative dynamism that stems from the streets, and Stitched In Strength a solo photography exhibition created by acclaimed photographer Clay Cook. The body of work is a visual exploration of the award-winning nonprofit organization Anchal.
Ken Schuck at ArtPortal
Paul Paletti Gallery has opened an exhibit of Recent Acquisitions 2024.
Sojourn Arts is exhibiting Exuberant Spring featuring art by Cameron Alexander Lawrence, Stephen Procopio, Jeremie Riggleman, Michael Winters, and Ali Wunder.
Lowber Gallery opened new work by Makara Thach Sernett.
The Hite Institute of Art + Design is showing Out There is What’s Left an exhibition of contemporary landscape painters featuring: Alice Stone Collins, Jamaal Peterman, and Mark Bradley-Shoup at the Cressman Center for Arts.
Capacity Contemporary Exchange opened Silence in a Moment is Imagination, Selected Works by Donna R. Charging.
The Speed Museum exhibits Contemporary Art from the South Asian Diaspora and India: South Asian Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art
21c Museum Hotel is currently exhibiting This We Believe, which features over 95 artworks from 21c’s collection, and H2O, a group show of local artists Julia Coash, Susanna Crum, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Mary Newton, Guinevere Smith, and curated by Rebecca Norton.
Meadows Gallery in the Masonic Homes Campus is exhibiting Janna Hankins Wardle.
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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