Studio 2000 had a very full week! Mural students made great progress despite the heat; fiber students went wild with Japanese shibori dyeing; ceramic students dove into wheel-throwing; mixed media students began creating custom skateboard decks; and Tuesday found us all trekking around visiting artists' studios at Hope Mills, Hound Dog Press and Art Sanctuary. Whew! We are exhausted and inspired!
Friday Link Roundup: July 14, 2017
FRIDAY:
Surface Noise celebrates artists and musician Jason Noble
Studio Works by Zoom Group premieres "Composed," a collaboration with Lattitude Arts
SATURDAY:
KMAC invites you to a "Free Family Fun Day!"
Hidden Hill's "Monarch Festival" includes glassblowing demonstrations
Sabra Crockett unveils the New Cut Road mural
WEEKEND:
The Forecastle Festival will be filled with art all over!
NEXT THURSDAY!!!
The Future Is Now - opening reception will be held from 5-7 p.m. at the Kentucky Center for Art + Design's 849 Gallery
PUBLIC 7.13.17
Artists Remi and Aron Conaway were on PUBLIC this week to discuss the completion of their Butchertown mural. Tune in each Thursday to WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 a.m. or stream on Artxfm.com to hear Keith Waits speak with local artists.
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Art FM: LVA on the PUBLIC Airwaves
"PUBLIC" is a radio show where we feature a local visual artist each week to discuss their work, inspiration and the current state of Louisville’s artistic community. We seek to bring greater awareness of the visual arts as a whole while promoting local artists and their endeavors.
Tune in Thursdays from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. through artxfm.com or 97.1 FM, WXOX in the Louisville metro area. "PUBLIC" is presented by Louisville Visual Art and hosted by Keith Waits. You can check out some archived shows here.
Artists Remi and Aron Conaway visited "PUBLIC" to discuss the completion of their Butchertown mural:
Creature Feature - Oaxacan-inspired animals
Creature Feature is the class for children who like to experiment with multiple media, such as paint, plaster, gauze and air-drying clay! Students will incorporate both 2D and 3D techniques, utilizing a variety of provided materials along with found objects to create one-of-a-kind works of art. Students will draw, paint and sculpt to create a whimsical animal bust to hang on their wall!
Miss Kentucky's Outstanding Teen 2017
Miss Kentucky's Outstanding Teen 2017, Abigail "Abby" Quammen, visited LVA's summer camp! She is a literacy advocate and plans to become a lawyer in the entertainment industry. MKOT and Fund for the Arts help develop Arts Ambassadors throughout Kentucky!
Friday Link Roundup: July 7, 2017
FRIDAY:
Ashley Brossart unveils "City Walks" at Craft Gallery & Mercantile
Prince is praised daily at Revelry Boutique Gallery
Tiffany Ackerman Westmoreland premieres "Added Value" at Art Sanctuary
SATURDAY:
Ultra Pop celebrates 10 years with a group show
SUNDAY:
Sonic Bernheim returns with an evening of nature sound art
PUBLIC 7.6.17
Adrienne Miller returned to PUBLIC on July 6. She is the winner of the 2017 Mary Alice Hadley Prize for Visual Art. We talked with her and Anne McKune from the Community Foundation of Louisville. Tune in Thursdays at 10 a.m. to WXOX 97.1 FM or stream on Artxfm.com.
LVA is on the cover of the Portland Anchor!
LVA is on the cover of our neighborhood newspaper, the Portland Anchor! They're sharing the excitement about recent National Endowment for the Arts grants received by us and the Portland Museum!
Independence Day 2017
This year for the 4th of July, LVA had a booth at Louisville Waterfront Park, where we made new friends of all ages from all over! When art wasn't being made, everyone enjoyed live music, fair food and community.
Dreamcatchers at Home of the Innocents
LVA instructor Liz has been working with students at Home of the Innocents on several projects, including a mural to be unveiled soon and these dreamcatchers. A fellow institution that has worked for more than 100 years to benefit Louisville, HOTI shares LVA's mission to give children and young adults "the opportunity to access services that may be hard to find elsewhere."
Friday Link Roundup: June 30, 2017
John Matthews, from the "Big Trouble in Little China" show at Haymarket
FRIDAY:
Block Party's Crescent Hill location showcases screenprinters Cricket Press
OPEN Community Arts Center closes 2017's "Queer Voices" fundraiser event
SATURDAY:
An art exhibit at Haymarket was inspired by the movie "Big Trouble in Little China"
SUNDAY:
There's always plenty to see at the annual Buy Local Fair at the Water Tower
PUBLIC 6.29.17
"Prazak Quartet" by Micheline Rouboulleau
Micheline Rouboulleau, Evelyne Lagnien and Gena Neuman joined us in the ArtFM studio to talk about "Origins/Joie de Vie," an exhibit of Louisville and French artists currently at Louisville Metro Hall. Tune in Thursdays at 10 a.m. to WXOX, 97.1 FM.
Painting Lab: Animals
LVA Painting Lab students sing: "I'm an animal / you're an animal, too."
Painting Lab students (ages 7-12) use a variety of surfaces, including paper, wood and canvas. Simple compositions lead to experimentation with various approaches to painting, and students have the chance to experiment with non-traditional techniques.
Painting Lab: Love
Painting Lab focuses on the young artist (ages 7-12) who needs the time and space to experiment with the wonders of paint. Students will work with a variety of media including watercolor, acrylic paint, and even house paint!
Family, friends, art ... all our Painting Lab students need is love.
The 5th Annual Mary Alice Hadley Prize for Visual Art
Adrienne Miller
The Community Foundation of Louisville, in partnership with Louisville Visual Art, presented Louisville-based artist and printmaker Adrienne Miller with the fifth annual Mary Alice Hadley Prize for Visual Art today at 10 a.m.
The $5,000 award is an opportunity for local artists to enhance their careers through a targeted enrichment experience. Miller will use the prize to research the landscape and art historical influence of the Four Corners area of the American Southwest. The two-week trip will cover close to 2,000 miles in a loop through the Four Corners region and will include a variety of stops, including several different pueblo ruin sites, printmaking studios in Albuquerque, the Georgia O’Keefe museum and archives, several National Parks, energy vortexes in Sedona, and several large earthworks in the region.
“I want the experience to be transformative and immersive so that I come away feeling as though the experience really was a tipping point for me,” said Miller of the Hadley Prize enrichment experience. “I want to return to Louisville renewed to create a whole new body of work.”
Adrienne Miller, Susan Barry
“The selection committee was very impressed with Adrienne’s clear artistic vision and the unique nature of her enrichment experience,” said LVA director Lindy Casebier. “Her focus on landscape, both as a part of the American identity and as a driver of her own work, really stood out.”
“The local artists competing for the Hadley Prize continue to impress us with their originality and passion,” said Susan Barry, President and CEO of the Community Foundation of Louisville. “While this award focuses on a single artist and a single project, it has the potential to make a much greater impact. By helping Adrienne develop professionally to realize her full potential, she will be empowered to share her gifts with other artists and the Louisville community.”
Brad Vetter, Adrienne Miller, Susan Barry, Lindy Casebier
Studio 2000: Batiks, 2D and Ceramics
Studio 2000 allows high school students who are interested in pursuing visual art as a career to have the opportunity to work with professional artists in clay, fiber, mixed media, and mural art while also receiving a $500 stipend at the end of the eight-week session. The program culminates with a public exhibition and sale at the end of the summer that brings proceeds back to Studio 2000 to support future programming. Studio 2000 is a partnership between Louisville Metro Parks and LVA.
This week, students at the Shawnee Arts and Cultural Center enjoy working on ceramics, 2D art and Batiks.
The Batik process is a wax-resist dyeing technique that is traditional in several different cultures, mostly in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. The textiles that this group is making will be used to create "functional" items - book covers for handmade books, pillow cases, tote bags, etc.
The 2D group's emphasis is on printmaking, but they will also be creating primarily functional things - printing on greeting cards, t-shirts, totebags, skateboard decks and more.
PUBLIC 6.22.17
Tiffany Ackerman and Tony Dixon from Gallery Jaan were in LVA's Public studio on June 22 to talk about Tiffany's current exhibit, "Perceptions". PUBLIC airs live Thursdays at 10 a.m. on Art FM 97.1, or stream on Artxfm.com.
