Join Louisville Visual Art in celebration of individuals that have made a significant impact in our visual art community at the Louisville Visual Art Honors luncheon.

THE 2020 LOUISVILLE VISUAL ART HONOREES

Legacy Award - Billy Hertz

Benefactor of the Year Award - Nana Lampton

Visual Art Educator Award - Professor Ché Rhodes

Emerging Artist Award - Liz Richter

Juried Exhibition Opening Reception and OSW Launch Party

November 1, 2019
6:00pm–8:00pm
The Cressman Center (100 E. Main St.)

 The annual OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND is a landmark event when artists across the Louisville Metro open their work spaces to the public. It’s a prime opportunity for fans, collectors, fellow artists, or those just curious about Louisville’s bustling scene to get behind-the-scenes views of creative processes, learn about new artists in the area, and take advantage of studio sales where available. For participating artists, it’s a wonderful way to connect with new audiences, inspire young visitors, and share deeper significance of how and why they make what they make. Louisville Visual Art and the University of Louisville Hite Art Institute partner to develop the roster of artists and create a comprehensive Directory that maps the studio locations and provides information on all participants. The Directory serves as a ticket to OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND, and is prized in the community as an invaluable guide to Louisville’s art scene. Participating artists are eligible to submit work to a juried exhibition that kicks off OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND at the UofL’s Cressman Center downtown.

Open Studio Weekend Self-guided Tours

November 2–3, 2019
Saturday and Sunday 12 noon–6pm
 

FREE Open Studio Weekend LouVelo Bike Tour

November 2, 2019
Saturday 12 noon @ Hyland Glass (721 E Washington St)

Louisville Visual Art announces our first ever

Homecoming Celebration for

Children’s Fine Art Classes

and the Academy of LVA

Celebrating 94 years of exceptional art education for young people!

October 20, 2019

LVA , Louisville Kentucky

Come out and enjoy this environmental fair featuring food trucks, live music, art, and lots of family outdoor fun!

The LVA Plein Air Paint Out will join the Waterfront Botanical Garden’s annual FREE, family-friendly fair, featuring environmental booths and demonstrations, food and drink, arts and crafts, music, and more!

The reGeneration fair will be held on the Botanical Gardens property located on Frankfort Avenue off right off River Road.

Register

This years reGeneration Fair includes:

Free Admission
Live Music
LVA's Plein Air Paint Out: Painting 8a-3p
LVA's Plein Air Paint Out Art Sale: 3:30-5p
Homebrew Fair - People’s Choice & Judging 2-4p
Steel City Pops
River Rd BBQ
Apocalypse Brew Works

More information
Plein Air Paint Out
Botanical Gardens

LIFE ON THE RIVER

6th Annual Portland Art & Heritage Fair Juried Exhibition

Location: Portland Museum, 2308 Portland Ave, Louisville, KY, 40212

The 5th Annual PAHF Juried Exhibition is a juried exhibition and will be on view at the Portland Museum in Portland,  Saturday, September 28, 2019 from 11am–5pm. The exhibition is part of the Portland Art & Heritage Fair and a production of Portland, Now!

PORTLAND ART & HERITAGE FAIR
Saturday, September 28, 2019
11 am to 5 pm
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
More information on the Portland Art & Heritage Fair

Submit to the PAHF exhibition:

Please complete entry form & confirm payment by August 26, 2019 @ 11:59pm.

Fee: $20 for LVA members, $30 for non-members. Up to 3 entries.

Open to: all media (with the exception of live performance-based art) that focuses on or is an interpretation of the river. Artwork may not exceed 4 feet in any direction or have a weight exceeding 50 pounds.

Awards
1st place:     $500
2nd place:   $200
3rd place:    $100
 

Join Louisville Visual Art in celebration of individuals that have made a significant impact in our visual art community at the Louisville Visual Art Honors luncheon.

The 2019 Honors are:
Legacy Award - Ed Hamilton
Benefactor of the Year Award - Reverend Alfred Shands III
Visual Art Educator Award - Professor James Grubola
Emerging Artist Award - Monica Stewart

The 5th Annual PAHF Juried Exhibition is a juried exhibition and will be on view at the Marine Hospital in Portland,  Saturday, September 29, 2018 from 11am–5pm. The exhibition is part of the Portland Art & Heritage Fair and a production of Portland, Now!

Disappear into a historic neighborhood nearly erased by the floods of time….
Where things aren’t always what they seem!

Saturday, September 29th
11am to 5pm   -  rain or shine

Forget about Bermuda, have you witnessed the Portland Triangle?! Formed by three of our most historic buildings – The US Marine Hospital, The Portland Museum and The Dolfinger School – our triangle hasn’t been prominently featured in any sappy 80s Beach Boys hits, probably only because “Portland” doesn’t rhyme with “come on pretty mama”.

Enough talk about tropical contact highs, it’s time to announce the Fifth Annual Portland Art & Heritage Fair (PAHF)! Set your calendars for Saturday, September 29th as we once again invite you to come celebrate the creativity and the history of our neighborhood with us.

We’ll be announcing details that you’ll wanna catch a glimpse of, as the date approaches. Rest assured PAHF 2018 will put a dreamy look in the eye of your entire family! For now, check out our mysterious new poster and start planning where you want to go (to get away from it all) in a couple months!

Come on out for Waterfront Botanical Garden’s annual FREE, family-friendly fair, featuring environmental booths and demonstrations, food and drink, arts and crafts, music, and more!

As the WBG site is under construction, the reGeneration fair will be held on the Butchertown Greenway between River Rd and I-71, which forms the eastern border of the WBG site. Parking available at Eva Bandman Park on River Rd., or Karen Lynch Park on Story Ave.

Come out and enjoy this environmental fair featuring food trucks, live music, and lots of family outdoor fun!

This years reGeneration Fair includes:

Free Admission
Live Music
LVA's Plein Air Paint Out: Painting 8a-3p
LVA's Plein Air Paint Out Art Sale: 3:30-5p
Homebrew Fair - People’s Choice & Judging 2-4p
Steel City Pops
River Rd BBQ
Morels
Apocalypse Brew Works

More information
Plein Air Paint Out
Homebrew Fair
Botanical Gardens
 

Lenihan Sotheby’s International Realty presents an exhibition of new work by Douglas Miller and Karen Weeks. Presented by: First Financial Bank. In affiliation with Louisville Visual Art.

Douglas Miller is a professional artist whose drawings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the US. Additionally, Douglas does freelance illustrations as well as private and corporate commissions. Recently, he received the prestigious Al Smith Fellowship for Visual Arts from the Kentucky Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. His artwork is in the collection of the Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, the University of Louisville, the Speed School of Engineering, and numerous private collections throughout the world. His work has appeared in Fine Art Connoisseur, American Artist: Drawing magazines, Manifest Gallery Drawing Annuals and has been featured on NPR First Watch. In 2018, Douglas received his MFA from the University of Louisville.

Karen Weeks is primarily a printmaker, utilizing the letterpress printing machine to generate her imagery. Her focus on pattern and repetition is reflected in her use of this outmoded technology built for creating multiples of the same image. Creating exact replicas, though, is not her aim; instead through exploring the variations within limitations, she finds a more compelling goal. After generating these images and color fields, she later collages them into unique pieces of artwork. Karen finds inspiration from nature and enjoys meditating on the repetitious systems of nature from which all patterns evolve; evoking in her imagery the cross section of technology and the natural world.

Celebrate the Fourth with music, fireworks and family fun!

The family-friendly Louisville Waterfront Fourth celebration will open at 5 p.m. with a variety of activities produced by popular arts and cultural attractions in the Catfish Louie Kids Area. The activities will be nestled in the shade of the trees near the Children’s Playground and will appeal to a variety of interests – Science, Music, Art, and Nature! There will also be a large area devoted to engaging with our community helpers. Families can meet our first responders, firefighters and police officers who will have special equipment on display.

Kentucky Science Center will provide science activities and demonstrations.
WUOL Youth Stage, hosted by Jecorey Arthur
National Jug Band Jubilee will provide music education activities by helping children create their own musical instruments, which they can use to join in a jug band performance! 
DrumSmart LLC will engage community members of all ages and abilities in a drum circle that will make you feel refreshed, creative, and full of energy.
Louisville Visual Art and Steam Exchange art activities for children. 
Waterfront Botanical Gardens nature activities, lawn games, pony rides and a petting farm!
Other new attractions for 2018 include the Kentucky Derby Museum, One Love Louisville, and the Mayor's Office for Safe & Healthy Neighborhoods. 
Louisville Metro Police Department and Louisville Fire Dept. will have a helicopter and other safety equipment on display for children and families. These activities will occur from 5-9 p.m. and are completely free.

Admission: FREE!
Thanks to our generous sponsors:
• Coors Light
• Louisville Metro
• Louisville Public Media
• Louisville Downtown Partnership
• Waterfront Development Corporation
• Old Forester
• WHAS11 News
• Magic 101.3 FM
• Friends of the Waterfront
• Louisville Bats
• Bearno's 502 Pizza
• Flags4Vets
• Simon Signs
• WaterSide at RiverPark Place
• Jug Band Jubilee
• Kentucky Science Center
• Louisville Folk School
• Louisville Visual Art
• Steam Exchange
• WUOL Summer Listening Program
• Waterfront Botanical Gardens

Bill Daniel book release show: "Tri-X-Noise"
One evening only: Wednesday, June 6, 6-9 PM
Louisville Visual Art
1538 Lytle St., 40203
http://www.billdaniel.net/touring/

Bill Daniel is back on the road with a pop-up photo show comprised of 30 years of 35mm photographs beginning with the early '80s punk scene in Texas. Daniel has continued to document various subcultures using the same camera, lens, flash and Kodak Tri-X film for over 30 years. This exhibit, all non-digital darkroom prints, charts a path starting with punk shows in Texas and crawls through the '90s graffiti scene in San Francisco, freight-hopping scenarios, art openings in Los Angeles, house shows in Louisiana, generator shows on the Monongahela River, etc., all seen through Daniel's unique spelunker flash-lit vision.

Bill Daniel was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts and is an American experimental documentary film artist, photographer, film editor, and cinematographer. He is also an installation artist, curator and former zine publisher. His full-length film, "Who is Bozo Texino?," about the tradition of hobo and railworker boxcar graffiti, was completed in 2005 and has screened extensively throughout the United States and Europe.
 

Porter Watkins is a Louisville native who inherited a strong sense of community involvement and philanthropy from her family. Her Grandmother, Nora Iasigi Bullitt, was President of the Ladies' Auxiliary in 1913, and her uncle, Eugene “Bud” Leake, was for a decade the director of The Art Center (now know as Louisville Visual Art). Porter was a precocious child whose upbringing was a mix of the rural and the urban, characterized by adventures on horseback up and down Lime Kiln Lane and exposure to an arts and culture scene experiencing tremendous growth. Porter and her husband, George Bailey, follow their passion when it comes to the arts, and Porter put her “time, talent, and treasure” to work for several organizations over many, many years, serving on the boards of Louisville Visual Art, Sister Cities of Louisville, English Speaking Union, The Zoo, Kentucky to the World and YouthBuild-Louisville, and she has been significantly involved with Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm and has recently taken an interest in the Waterfront Botanical Garden.

 

Legacy Award - Elmer Lucille Allen
In Memory of Julius Friedman

photo by Tom LeGoff

Elmer Lucille Allen, born in Louisville, Kentucky, is a ceramic artist and chemist who graduated from Nazareth College (now Spalding University) in 1953. She became the first African-American chemist at Brown-Forman in 1966. Allen retired from Brown-Forman in 1997, after which she devoted more time to her art. Starting in 1981 she began to study art at the University of Louisville, receiving her Masters of Creative Arts with a focus in ceramics and fiber in 2002. Allen's textile work incorporates Japanese Shibori dyeing techniques. She states, "When I rented my first studio in 2005 at Mellwood, I knew that I was truly an artist." In 2011 Allen's work was included in the show Powering Creativity: Air, Fuel, Heat at the Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Indiana. Allen's work was part of the 2016 Women's Artist Exhibition: The African Heritage Experience at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.