International artist Lily Yeh will discuss her current work in Louisville to commemorate the 1968 Parkland Political Uprisings at 28th and Greenwood. Tickets for the May 17 event are $10 (cash only); a book signing will follow her lecture. From 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Kentucky School of Art, 845 S. Third St. From the Village [...]
May 15-19 Actors Theatre & Galt House 583-3100 • festivaloffaiths.org Free-$100; various times This year marks the 18th annual Festival of Faiths, hosted by the Center for Interfaith Relations. Because this particular festival is being constructed to honor the Dalai Lama’s visit to the city (May 19-20), it has been aptly named “Sacred Silence: Pathway [...]
The Carnegie Center, 201 E. Spring St., New Albany, 812-944-7336, is hosting a talk on Tuesday, May 14 from 6-7 p.m. by the River City Fiber Artists in association with the “Form, Not Function: The First Ten Years” exhibition. Free and open to the public.
Artist Robert Halliday will be giving a talk on his new work at the Wine Rack in Crescent Hill on Thursday, May 9 at 6 p.m. He will be showing the works at the Leslie H. Spetz Custom Picture Framing & Gallery, Glenview Point Shopping Center, 426-8880, from May 13-June 7 with the reception on [...]
Pre-paid reservations by Friday, May 10. The Louisville Visual Art Association’s “Food for Thought Lunch & Learn” will feature Martin Rollins on Tuesday, May 14 from 12-1:30 p.m. at the Louisville Boat Club, 4200 River Rd. LVAA Members $25, Non-Members $35; includes lunch, dessert & beverages. Call 584-8166 x100 or send check to: LVAA, 609 W. Main [...]
April 18, 2013 – 12:57 pm
Thursday, April 18 Louisville Free Public Library 301 York St. • 574-1611 lfpl.org Free (tickets required); 7 p.m. David Rohde has unique bona fides for authoring books on modern geopolitical conflict and its human cost. Not only has this journalist earned two Pulitzers, but he’s lived through months as a hostage of the Taliban. His [...]
C. Ryan Patterson, the artist is residence at the Kentucky School of Art, 845 S. Third St., is giving a talk on Thursday, April 11 at 6 p.m. on socially engaged art-making and “The Smoketown Social Club,” a temporary project created with his students. Free and open to all. In the 849 Gallery at 849 S. Third [...]
March 28, 2013 – 11:00 am
Painter William Bailey will present “Being of your time while yearning for more” in which he will discuss his work and its development over the years including his teachers, influences, contemporaries, and personal challenges. At the Cressman Center for Visual Arts, 100 E. Main St. on Thursday, March 28 from 6-8 p.m. A reception will [...]
Anne Peabody will give an artist talk on Thursday, March 28 at 11:30 a.m. at the Kentucky School of Art’s 849 Gallery, 849 S. Third St. Free and open to all.
Leslie Anglin will give an artist talk on her exhibition “Imaginary conversations” on Wednesday, March 27 at 11:30 a.m. at the Kentucky School of Art’s 849 Gallery, 849 S. Third St. Free and open to all.
March 26, 2013 – 10:06 am
Tuesday, March 26 U of L’s Bigelow Hall 608-6103 Free; 6 p.m. About 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere every second last year; the previous two decades were the warmest in millennia; and according to the UN, humans have caused 90 percent of global warming since 1950. Despite greater worldwide awareness [...]
March 14, 2013 – 12:00 pm
U of L is presenting “Public Art and the City 2013: Art In/On the Landscape” on Friday, March 22 from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. at the University Club. $25 registration fee for the general public, free for students if register in advance. To register, contact Janna Tajibaeva at janna@louisville.edu or 852-2247.
March 13, 2013 – 12:00 pm
Registration is required. The Carnegie Center’s next Lunch & Learn program is “A Virtual Tour of Fairview Cemetery and Artists’ Homes in New Albany” with Warren and Julie Payne, guest curators of the Carnegie’s current exhibit “The Artists of the Wonderland Way” on Tuesday, March 19 from 12-1 pm. This program is free but registration [...]
Monday, March 4 U of L’s Swain Student Activities Center vandashiva.org Free; 5:30 p.m. Vandana Shiva is a woman of many talents, from physicist and philosopher to global environmentalist and feminist activist. The published author, teacher and public speaker will share her expertise on a handful of interrelated topics that fall under the umbrella of [...]
February 22, 2013 – 12:00 pm
The Floyd County Historical Society and the Carnegie Center is presenting a Curators’ Talk on Tuesday, Feb. 26 from 7-8 p.m. at the Carnegie Center, 201 E. Spring St. in New Albany, 812-944-7336. Warren and Julie Payne, guest curators of the Carnegie Center’s current exhibit “The Artists of the Wonderland Way,” will speak about the exhibit, [...]
February 21, 2013 – 6:04 pm
Here’s additional information on the Aegis’ symposium on Saturday, Feb. 23 at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft: Pre-registration for the “Taking the ‘s’ Out of Craft” symposium has closed. Admission is $6, free to KMAC members and students with ID. The accompanying exhibition will be up through March 24. Admission to that is also [...]
February 14, 2013 – 9:00 am
U of L’s Hite Art Institute’s 2013 Frederic Lindley Morgan Lecture is by Hazel Dodge of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She will be speaking on the “Symbols of Victory and Colours of Power: Egyptian Stones for the City of Rome” on Thursday, Feb. 14 at 6 p.m. in the Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library.
February 12, 2013 – 12:00 pm
Pre-registration is required. The Carnegie Center’s Lunch & Learn program on Tuesday, Feb. 19 is “Rediscovering Regional Art” with Peter Morrin, Director of the Center for Arts and Culture Partnerships at the University of Louisville. Tuesday, Feb. 19 rom 12-1 pm. This program is presented in conjunction with the Carnegie Center’s current exhibit “The Artists [...]
