August 31, 2011 – 2:00 pm
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft’s September Artists of the Month are Laura Ross and Dennis Shaffner. These artists will be featured in KMAC’s Sales Gallery during the month. 715 W. Main St., 589-0102
August 31, 2011 – 12:00 pm
The Speed Art Museum, 634-2700, 2035 S. Third St., has on display 119 examples of early Kentucky furniture, paintings and other objects from the Noe collection. It will be up until further notice.
August 30, 2011 – 12:00 pm
The Gebhardt Marshall Gallery, 801 E. Market St., is available from Sept.- April. Individual wall space, partial or entire gallery option. Contact Angela Gebhardt at angelageb@me.com.
August 30, 2011 – 9:26 am
Tuesday, Aug. 30 Brown Theatre 315 W. Broadway • 584-7777 www.gillianwelch.com $29.50; 7:30 p.m. How does she do it? To the casual ear, Gillian Welch’s folk/country songs can seem painfully earnest. Her voice doesn’t infuse a lot of character for its own sake. And the bluegrass/gospel-flavored arrangements she fashions with partner Dave Rawlings could be [...]
August 30, 2011 – 9:24 am
Tuesday, Aug. 30 Headliners Music Hall 1386 Lexington Road • 584-8088 www.justintownesearle.com $12 adv., $15 door; 9 p.m. A descendent of music royalty (son of Steve Earle, named after Townes Van Zandt and, legend has it, conceived in the musty palace that is Nashville’s most notorious dive bar, Springwater), it shouldn’t come as a surprise [...]
August 30, 2011 – 9:22 am
Aug. 30-Sept. 24 Actors Theatre of Louisville 316 W. Main St. • 584-1205 www.actorstheatre.org $24-$59; various times Actors Theatre celebrates the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s first novel, “Sense & Sensibility,” with founding artistic director Jon Jory’s adaptation of the classic comic tale of romance and redemption. The Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, find themselves [...]
August 30, 2011 – 9:00 am
The Carnegie Center’s 15th annual fundraising event “A Taste for Art & History” will be on Friday, Sept. 9 at 6:30 pm. Held at the Carnegie Center, 201 E. Spring St. in New Albany, it features a wide variety of beverages, cheeses and other food. Guests enjoy a silent auction where they may acquire artwork, [...]
August 29, 2011 – 9:00 am
A hand-carved walking stick featuring a Harley Davidson skull has been stolen from the Kentucky State Fair. Artist Greg Miles is asking for it back, no questions asked. If you have the stick, turn it in at the entry booth at the Fair. If you know who took it, a reward is being offered for [...]
August 29, 2011 – 8:44 am
Monday, Aug. 29 21c Museum Hotel 700 W. Main St. Free; 7:30 p.m. This month’s series features author Adam Clay with music by Amos Hopkins.
August 26, 2011 – 2:00 pm
The Louisville Visual Arts Association’s Children’s Fine Art Class (CFAC) program, 896-2146, is now enrolling students for the Fall 2011 semester. CFAC is a scholarship-based fine arts program and admission into CFAC is competitive, and granted by invitation only. Class placement is administered on a first come, first serve basis with only 12 students per core class [...]
August 26, 2011 – 9:45 am
Friday, Aug. 26 Monkey Wrench 1025 Barret Ave. • 582-2433 www.brigidkaelin.com $5; 7 p.m. One of the more popular solo artists to hit Louisville in the past decade is doing what many have done before her — leaving Louisville for a bigger city. But it’s not Nashville or Austin, the obvious choices; no, she’s moving [...]
August 25, 2011 – 9:00 am
Thursday, Aug. 25 Bristol Bar and Grille Highlands Featuring new work by artists Aberyln Sweetland-May, Chris Little, Danielle Maudlin, Miri Fetko, Jessica Elam, Veronica Greenwell and more.
August 25, 2011 – 9:00 am
On Thursday, Aug. 25 from 6 p.m.-midnight, the Bristol Bar and Grille, 1321 Bardstown Rd., 456-1702, will celebrate local artists with an art opening featuring food and drink specials. The new work includes paintings, drawings and photographs by Aberlyn Sweetland-May, Curtis Little, Danielle Maudlin, Miri Fetko, Jessica Elam and Veronica Greenwell.
August 24, 2011 – 2:23 pm
Through Sept. 12 The 930 930 Mary St. • 338-5857 www.the930.org You can stir cream into your coffee, but how do you stir art? Don’t have to — it stirs you. The premise of “STIRRING” is to make us think. Denise Burge’s series “Procession of the Great Destroyer” features that hell-in-a-hand-basket feeling that was the [...]
August 24, 2011 – 2:21 pm
Through Sept. 17 Kaviar Forge & Gallery 1718 Frankfort Ave. • 561-0377 Opposable thumbs, speech, our ability to accessorize — there are many arguments for what sets us apart from animals. The Kaviar Gallery’s latest exhibit proposes that it is not poetry or Prada that make us unique, but the remembrance of loved ones who [...]
August 24, 2011 – 2:20 pm
Through Sept. 30 Gallery M Mellwood Art and Entertainment Center 1860 Mellwood Ave. • 895-3650 www.mellwoodartcenter.com There’s a sense of nostalgia in the photographs of George Barnett. Maybe it has to do with the expired Polaroid film he uses. It could also be the simple and oftentimes peaceful subject matter he prefers, like what we [...]
August 24, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Koch and Company, a new gallery at 10978 Dixie Hwy. in Valley Station, is seeking artists for their Dixie Alternative Art Show on Saturday, Oct. 8. Details on the website.
