The Speed Art Museum is holding another “Artist Dialogues” and this time it is on contemporary glass. It will be on Sunday, June 6 at 2 p.m. The museum is showing “Fifty Years of Contemporary Glass: Art, Craft or Otherwise?” through August 1.
It’s one thing to create a great garden – and another to know how to photograph it. So Hidden Hill, (812) 282-0524, 1011 Utica-Charlestown Rd, Utica, Ind., will help solve that problem by hosting a two-day photo seminar on June 11 and June 12. This seminar will be aimed at helping you deal with landscape challenges [...]
“Fifty Years of Contemporary Glass: Art, Craft, or Otherwise?” is at the Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., 634-2700, from April 25-Aug. 2. Created around 1960, the international studio glass movement will, in 2010, move past the half-century mark. The show looks at the movement’s development from both an historical and a critical [...]
by Jennifer Umphress Kaviar Forge & Gallery, 1718 Frankfort Ave., 561-0377, is presenting Andrew Jackson Pollack and Jennifer Umphress’ flamework glass creations in “Nature’s Semblance.” The dual glass exhibition will run June 2-Aug. 28. Kaviar Gallery will be open late on Friday, June 11 from 6-9 p.m. during the Glass Art Society (GAS) Conference 2010. [...]
This is the first official event put on by the Louisville Fund for the Visual Arts, an organization dedicated to promotion and funding of the visual arts in the Louisville Metro Region. Wednesday, June 2, 6-8 p.m., Mellwood Arts and Entertainment Center. Free to attend. Plates, utensils, and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided. Bring a dish [...]
Friday, May 28 New Albany Riverfront Amphitheater Free; 7:30 p.m. Eight Inch Elvis, a six-piece, rock variety band will perform Friday at New Albany’s Riverfront Amphitheater as a part of the city’s Summer Concert Series. The group plays something for everyone, from classic rock to new country, modern pop and your favorite dance and party [...]
May 28-30 MeX Theater Kentucky Center for the Arts 501 W. Main St.· 584-7777 myspace.com/ayutc $16; 8 p.m. (2:30 p.m. on May 30) The As Yet Unnamed Theatre Company continues its 13th season with Samuel Taylor’s “Sabrina Fair,” a Cinderella story with a quick wit. It’s the story of young Sabrina Fairchild, daughter of a [...]
Louisville Clay is offering “Accessing Creativity: Clay and Mixed Media” workshop with Dana Major Kanovitz on June 19-20, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. at Clay House Pots, 741 E. Chestnut, 561-7878. Louisville Clay members, $50, students $50, non-member $75. Catered box lunch is available for $8.50. Prior registration required.
The Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., 634-2734, is offering adult summer sketching classes with Cathy Shepherd on Fridays form 5:30-7:30 p.m. Each session: $12 members, $15 non-members. For all four sessions: $40 members, $50 non-members. Architecture: June 11 Still Life: June 25 Figure Drawing: July 9 Gesture Drawing to Music: July 23
Glassworks, 815 W. Market St., 992-3266 is offering glass classes and workshops: Beginning Glassblowing I: Tuesday evenings, 6-9 p.m., June 22-July 21, $445 One-Day Glassblowing Workshop: Saturday, June 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (with hour lunch break), $225 Intro to Fusing & Slumping: Sunday, June 27, 12-5 p.m., $150
F.A.T. Friday – the Frankfort Avenue trolley on the final friday of the month, May 28. Explore the art galleries, shops and restaurants along Frankfort, Story and Mellwood Avenues from 6-10 p.m. There’s free parking, then hop on and off the free trolley.
Thursday, May 27 Louisville Visitors Center 301 S. Fourth St. Free; 11:45 a.m.-2:15 p.m. WHAS-11 Abbey Road on the River is going to kick off this year’s largest Beatles festival in the world with a free rooftop concert that includes performances from Hal Bruce (www.halbruce.com), Britbeat (www.britbeat.com), and Drew Harrison (www.reverbnation.com/drewharrisonmusic).
May 27-29 The Rudyard Kipling 422 W. Oak St. • 636-1311 $12; 7:30 p.m. (May 27 & 29), 9:30 p.m. (May 28) Sometimes all it takes is one voice to delineate an intricate sketch of human experience, with all of the joy, sorrow, sin and humor we encounter daily scribbled in. The Necessary Theatre’s latest [...]
Through August Art Ecology 224 S. Clay St. • 690-2311 www.artecologyllc.com Andréa Stanislav is showing us we have had it both ways far too long. Her 17 new works in “Darkness Doubled” continue her exploration of utopia, as well as its dark twin, dystopia. “There’s an irony in man’s attempts to achieve the ideal being [...]
VONFIRE Gallery in Glassworks, 815 W. Market St., 584-4510, is showing “Melting the Cultural Fringe: an exploration in glass of contemporary (sub)culture” from June 4-Aug. 29 curated by guest artist Slate Grove from Penland School of Craft. Like no other before in our VONFIRE Gallery, glass objects and installations will represent all things of urban [...]
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 589-0102 is holding a raffle to benefit it’s educational and exhibition programming. Now through Friday, June 11, art glass lovers can purchase a chance to win a piece of blown glass, valued at $35,000, that was created by Venetian glass artist Lino Tagliapietra. From the BORNEO series, the elegant [...]
