The Kentucky Arts Council is presenting a viewing of the visual artwork of applicants for the Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship Program on Tuesday, May 24 from 4-6 p.m. at the Ursuline Arts Center, 3114 Lexington Rd.
Registration required. Artist Clare Hirn is offering summer art classes for teens ages 12-16. Classes will take place at her studio at 552 E. Market St. in two sessions: June 27-July 1 and July 25-29. Students will collaboratively create mural paintings. For more information, please contact Hirn at 802-4744.
Registration deadline is May 30. The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft is offering KidArt Camp this summer. Grades K-1: June 13-17, Grades 2-3: June 27-July 1, Grades 4-5: July 11-15. 10:00 am-3:00 pm daily. $149 for KMAC members / $174 for non-members. Grades 6-8 have Blackacre Art at Blackacre Nature Preserve on July 25-29 from [...]
Monday, May 23 21c Museum Hotel 700 W. Main St. Free; 7:30 p.m. Featuring musical guest Doug Van Gundy and poets Carolyn Guinzio and Davis McCombs.
This Sunday, Cabaret Life Drawing welcomes Acrobatic Contortionist and Circus Director, Bethan Kannapell. Bethan is a regular (and one of the most popular) models at CLD. She has performed and directed circus productions around the country and is a member of the Circus Performance Group at Warren Wilson College. She has directed her own circus [...]
The Communities of Southern Indiana are presenting an Art Trolley Hop on Saturday, May 21 from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Trolleys will leave all day from the Howard Steamboat Museum on the hour and the Arts Council of Southern Indiana and Hidden Hill on the 1/2 hour. $15 includes admission and transportation to all three locations. [...]
Morgan Grubola will be signing her book “Tiny Toes: A Creative Movement Class for Young Children” at Barnes & Noble at the Summit store on Saturday, May 21 at 11:00 a.m.
Zephyr Gallery, 610 E. Market St., 585-5646, is hosting an exhibit entitled “Heat Prints” by Louisville artist Tom Butsch from Friday, May 20-June 25. The artist reception is on May 20 from 5-8 p.m. “Heat Prints” is a body of work that is part alchemy, part chance, honed over a 20 year exploration of the [...]
Louisville Clay is joining up with the Bardstown Road Farmer’s Market to present “Home Thrown, Home Grown,” an annual pottery clay event this Friday and Saturday. Deer Park Baptist Church parking lot, 1733 Bardstown Rd. Friday, May 20, 4-8 p.m. and Saturday, May 21, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
May 20-22 J. Gumbo’s 8603 Citadel Way • 493-4720 www.louisvillefencing.org Free; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. With the fourth “Pirates of the Caribbean” film set to hit theaters on Friday, the Louisville Fencing Club is riding the wave of pirate fever with the first-ever Louisville Pirate Weekend. Led by Les Stawicki, former head coach of the Polish [...]
Thursday, May 19 E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park $5; 5-7 p.m. Come to the Louisville Astronomical Society’s Urban Astronomy Center located in E.P. Tom Sawyer State Park tonight for the first in a series of Astronomy 101 classes. They will be covering different types of telescopes and how they work. They will also discuss Earth’s [...]
Preservation Louisville has announced its 2011 Top 10 Most Endangered Historic Places & Top 10 Preservation Successes. A “most endangered” list is a preservation tool for recognizing sites with historic, cultural or archaeological significance that are directly threatened or in immediate danger of being lost. “Preservation Successes” recognizes the preservation projects that have successfully rehabilitated and [...]
Wednesday, May 18 Portland Museum 2308 Portland Ave. • 776-7678 www.goportland.com $7; 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (Tue.-Thu.) The Portland Museum opens a new permanent exhibit today featuring the memorabilia of football great — and Portland neighborhood boy — Paul Hornung. A member of every national football hall of fame, Hornung first made headlines at Louisville’s Flaget [...]
May 18 & 25 Kentucky Center www.kentuckycenter.org $7; 7 p.m. After being disowned by his mother for playing the devil’s music, Chester Arthur Burnett — aka Howlin’ Wolf — grew to be a giant on the electric blues scene in 1950s Chicago. Howlin’ Wolf’s sound still echoes today, with Hall of Famers like Keith Richards [...]
Through May 31 Wayside Expression Gallery at Hotel Louisville 120 W. Broadway • 836-7661 Life is full of mishaps — nothing new about that. Stir in the violence of nature, the plight of women and poverty to make it even more despondent. Stephanie Foster’s art speaks for the disenfranchised, especially women. Her series “Natural Disasters [...]
Through June 5 Speed Art Museum 2035 S. Third St. • 634-2700 www.speedmuseum.org If you like your art mixed with scandal, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) is your man. This bad boy lived in society’s underbelly, a lifestyle that led to bar fights and even murder. His “day job” as a painter of baroque canvases [...]
