October 24, 2012 – 8:00 am
The Louisville Visual Art Association (LVAA), 609 W. Main St., 584-8166, is launching Artebella, a new website and daily email that features a different Louisville-area artist’s work for sale each weekday. The daily email program, set to launch Wednesday, Oct. 24, will include an image of the featured artist’s original artwork along with a short essay where readers can [...]
October 23, 2012 – 8:38 am
Tuesday, Oct. 23 Headliners Music Hall 1386 Lexington Road headlinersmusichall.com $20; 9 p.m. Do you like classic rock ’n’ roll and reading names? If so, Bobby Keys is your man. Actually, he’s been lots of folks’ man: The Texan saxophonist has played with Elvis, Joe Cocker, Harry Nilsson, Eric Clapton, Faces, Dr. John, Warren Zevon, [...]
October 22, 2012 – 2:00 pm
Hyland Glass, 619 E. Main St., 384-BLOW, is scheduled to have a Groupon on Tuesday, Oct 23 that will go out to Goupon’s “Select Audience,” then for all subscribers on Oct 24-26.
October 22, 2012 – 11:00 am
On Monday, Oct. 22 from 5-10 p.m., the Village Anchor restaurant. 11507 Park Rd. in Anchorage, 708-1850, is donating 10% of proceeds to the Louisville Visual Art Association’s children’s art program CFAC.
October 19, 2012 – 2:00 pm
K.A.S. Gallery Spirit & Bottega, 1806 Frankfort Ave., is presenting artist Fahrudin Omeromic from Oct. 20-Dec. 1. The reception is Friday, Oct. 26 at 6:30 p.m. Art Sanctuary, 1433 S. Shelby St., 299-2652, is showing “Thirty Three Quarters: a motorcycle helmet art event” on Saturday, Oct. 20 fro, 7 p.m.-12 a.m. $5. “With Child: Art and Parenting” [...]
October 19, 2012 – 12:00 pm
“The Art of Indian Textiles” opens at the Asia Institute — Crane House, 1244 S. Third St., 635-2240, on Friday, Oct. 19 and runs through Jan. 4. The opening begins at 6 p.m. The exhibition is free.
October 19, 2012 – 11:00 am
“Breaking the Mold” is an exhibition for Louisville Clay 10th anniversary. It’s at Weber Gallery, 736-0818, 1151 S. 4th St. from Oct. 19-Dec. 21. The reception is Friday, Oct. 19 from 5:30-9 p.m.
October 19, 2012 – 10:07 am
Friday, Oct. 19 The Great Escape 2433 Bardstown Road • 456-2216 jasonwwalz.com Free; 6 p.m. Does this qualify as a sad homecoming or a triumphant one? Kentucky native Jason Walz does indeed have a major accomplishment that he’ll be sharing at a signing at The Great Escape. His graphic novel “Homesick” is hitting store shelves [...]
October 19, 2012 – 10:06 am
Friday, Oct. 19 Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft 715 W. Main St. kentuckyarts.org $6-$8; 8 p.m. Sic Alps have a not-unpleasant tendency to sound like scraps of an overheard conversation interrupted by a 10-car pileup. To perhaps understand the stops and starts, the utterly lo-fi, heavily fragmented style, know that frontman (and only constant) [...]
October 19, 2012 – 10:00 am
Oct. 19-Dec. 21 Weber Gallery 1151 S. Fourth St. louisvilleclay.org Reception: Oct. 19, 5:30 p.m.
If you are interested in seeing the work of 100 ceramic artists in one spot, you are in luck. A local potter club, Louisville Clay, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary at the Weber Gallery. The reception is free and [...]
October 19, 2012 – 9:00 am
Artist Ken Swinson will be showing his current work at Leslie H. Septz Custom Framing & Gallery, Glenview Pointe Shopping Center, 2400 C Lime Kiln Lane, 426-8880, on Friday, Oct. 19 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. He will bring one of his printing presses and will be printing a special piece he created to benefit the Shamrock Arrow [...]
October 18, 2012 – 2:00 pm
Keith Stone is showing his “Penguin Series,” featuring the 21c Museum Hotel penguins, at Garner Narrative, 642 E. Market St., 641-8086, through Nov. 30.
October 18, 2012 – 9:22 am
Oct. 18-21 U of L Thrust Theater 2314 S. Floyd St. louisville.edu/theatrearts Free; 8 p.m. The pressure of graduate school can make one start to feel a little nutty and maybe even hallucinate, especially at the worst times. During her comprehensive exams, theater student Beth finds herself haunted by her own subject matter, in the [...]
October 18, 2012 – 9:00 am
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 715 W. Main St., 589-0102, will host “The Moth StorySLAM” in conjunction with the current exhibit “Storytelling as Craft: Chapter One” on Thursday, October 18. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the storytelling begins at 8 p.m. Admission is $8, free for museum members. WFPL’s Gabe Bullard will host [...]
October 17, 2012 – 2:00 pm
There is an art show/sale of the life works of Grace Koleda, mixed media artist on Thursday Oct. 18 at the Polo Fields Country Club, 17001 Polo Fields Lane. For further information, contact Mary Lib McFarland, Reclaimed Treasures of Louisville, at 314-8514.
October 17, 2012 – 10:54 am
My thanks to the readers who sent emails and cards during my recent recovery from a ruptured appendix. And a special shout-out to all who voted for me as Best Local Arts Writer in the Readers’ Choice Awards. The award was the better surprise of the two! –Jo Anne Contributing Visual Arts Editor, LEO Weekly
October 17, 2012 – 9:35 am
Wednesday, Oct. 17 Solidarity 1609 Bardstown Road facebook.com/solidarityshop $5; 7 p.m. Tonight’s all-ages show features a full line-up of blooming acts, connected once again with Louisville and Chicago bands. Absolutely Not come fully loaded with songs from their debut, Extended, and plenty of Chicago love. One must appreciate their tightly wound song scheme; it’s aggressive, [...]
October 17, 2012 – 9:34 am
Through Oct. 31 Tim Faulkner Gallery 943 Franklin St. • 851-2380 timfaulknergallery.com The Tim Faulkner Gallery complex is in its usual overdrive this October. The current star on display is James Russell May, whose new exhibition “Peripheral” features his trademark depletions of the human body. His reception is Friday from 6-10 p.m. Also showing this [...]
