November 20, 2009 – 10:51 am
The resale shop eyedia, design it again at 1631 Mellwood Ave. now has a gallery featuring original art.
November 20, 2009 – 9:30 am
Friday, Nov. 20
Carmichael’s Bookstore
2720 Frankfort Ave.
896-6950
Free; 7 p.m.
You’ve seen them — underground band posters with cute animals, hand-drawn type and complex, muted colors advertising My Morning Jacket, Built to Spill, The Melvins and others. The artist, Jay Ryan of Chicago, has a new book out called “Animals and Objects In and Out of Water,” and [...]
November 20, 2009 – 9:30 am
Nov. 20-21
Holy Spirit Church
3345 Lexington Road
893-3982
hspirit.org
Features 35 booths this year with a variety of vendors selling jewelry, artwork, pottery, children’s clothing and accesories that are fun and ‘edgy,’ so to speak, home decor items, stationary and also ’off the wall’ items.
November 18, 2009 – 10:48 am
Through Jan. 15
Photographic Archives Gallery
Special Collections, Ekstrom Library
Belknap Campus, U of L
852-6752
www.library.louisville.edu
The treasure chest that is the Photographic Archives houses the Stryker Collection. It contains Farm Security Administration photographs from the 1930s, including the outstanding “Migrant Mother” by Dorothea Lange.
“This is a mother of seven children and the wife of a migrant worker,” wrote [...]
November 18, 2009 – 10:46 am
Through Feb. 14
Speed Art Museum
2035 S. Third St.
634-2700
www.speedmuseum.org
Let us pray. Before the invention of the printing press, texts and accompanying illustrations were all handcrafted. These “illuminated manuscripts” were highly prized possessions of wealthy Medieval families.
A “Book of Hours” was very popular. The purpose of the spiritual text was to keep people focused on the [...]
November 18, 2009 – 9:22 am
The Bardstown Art Gallery at 214 W. Stephen Foster Ave. in Bardstown is celebrating their 38th Anniversary with an open house on Friday, Nov. 20 from 3-6 p.m. On exhibit will be oils, watercolors and drawings by Jim Cantrell encompassing his works from the past to the present (it ends Dec. 31). A 38% discount is [...]
November 17, 2009 – 10:00 am
Attention artists: A house with a studio in the Original Highlands is for sale (the current owner is a sculptor). Google “1508 Christy Avenue 40204 for sale.”
November 17, 2009 – 9:23 am
Tuesday, Nov. 17
PYRO Gallery
624 W. Main St.
Free; 6-9 p.m.
A benefit for The Food Closet at Calvary Episcopal Church to feed those in need. Featuring art auction and more. A group of Louisville artists is responding to the need by offering their work in support of the Calvary Food Closet. Some 40 artists are focusing their diverse talents on [...]
November 16, 2009 – 10:23 am
Artist Thaniel Ion Lee will be at Swanson Reed Contemporary, 638 E. Market St., from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19. He will be there to discuss his work in the current exhibition “Body & Soul.” The show also features art by Dylan Mortimer. It ends Saturday, Nov. 21.
November 13, 2009 – 10:37 am
Friday Nov. 13
Art Sanctuary
1205 E. Washington St.
386-7114
www.art-sanctuary.org
$15; 8 p.m.
It’s kind of like sitting inside watching the leaves fall off trees — as you may have been doing the past couple of weeks — but there’s a catch. The leaves are clothes and duct tape, the trees are 30 burlesque dancers, and some of them are [...]
November 13, 2009 – 10:31 am
Nov. 13-15
Kentucky School of Art
www.kentuckyschoolofart.com
Visual and performance artist Dan Dutton is coming to Louisville for a trio of free events, courtesy of the Kentucky School of Art visiting artist program. On Friday, he’ll give a presentation at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft from 6-7:30 p.m. His lecture, titled “You’ll Always Come Back,” proposes [...]
November 12, 2009 – 10:14 am
On Saturday, Nov. 14, the Louisville Visual Art Association will host “Splash In,” a free public art project bringing together artists and non-artists alike in a creative community. From 10 a.m.-5 p.m. community members (12 and older) can come to LVAA and paint and draw in the gallery. The public mural will be part of LVAA’s [...]
November 11, 2009 – 10:50 am
The group behind Louisville’s 21c Museum Hotel is renovating the former Metropole Hotel, a historic landmark in downtown Cincinnati. The unique combination of contemporary art museum, boutique hotel, and award-winning restaurant has proven a successful model in Louisville. They are also building one in Austin.
November 10, 2009 – 9:50 am
Tuesday, Nov. 10
Louisville Visual Art Association3005 River Road
896-2146 x100
www.louisvillevisualart.org
$30 ($20 members)
Joyce Ogden earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in fibers and sculpture at Indiana University (Bloomington) in 1990. She has been teaching studio art at Spalding since 1993. Her teaching bridges interests in studio production and community-based art making. She’ll be [...]
November 10, 2009 – 9:03 am
A new mural called “Integral Spaces” by artist Clare Hirn is in the lobby of the U of L Health Care Outpatient Center at 401 E. Chestnut. The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft served as the liaison between Hirn and the Center.
November 9, 2009 – 10:45 am
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 715 W. Main St., 589-0102, is pleased to host Jack Walsh during the 14th Annual Festival of Faiths on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 3-6 p.m. The event starts with tea and scones, then the group will join Walsh for a discussion about his contemporary quilt collection and the relationships he has established with quilt artists [...]
November 9, 2009 – 9:58 am
Through Dec. 2
Liberty Tattoo and Art Parlor
2801 S. Third St.
637-4777
Edds will be showing her ceramic and paper sculptures and Bell will be featuring paintings
