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Speed Art
Museum || University of Louisville Morgan Lecture The Architecture of Alfred
Hitchcock's Rear Window
Sandy McLendon discusses how the director used commonly encountered
architectural elements and used them to manipulate his audiences into
acceptance of the tale he wished to tell. Sandy McLendon is author of PreFAB
Elements. Admission is free. (Auditorium)
LOCATION: The Speed Art Museum is located at 2035 South Third Street in
Louisville
DATES & TIMES: Tuesday, March 18 @ 6 PM
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: (502) 634-2700 or visit
http://www.speedmuseum.org
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Speed Art
Museum || Fibers and Fabric: Medieval Women, Textiles and Religious
Communities
In this lecture, Constance Berman from the University of Iowa will speak
on textiles in medieval times. Sponsored by the Medieval-Renaissance
Workshop, Department of Fine Arts, Commonwealth Center for the Humanities
and Department of History at the University of Louisville. Admission is
free. (Auditorium)
LOCATION: The Speed Art Museum is located at 2035 South Third Street in
Louisville
DATES & TIMES: Thursday, March 20 @ 6 PM
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: (502) 634-2700 or visit
http://www.speedmuseum.org
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Lexington
Art League || KNOW fear: Art Therapy workshop with Dr. Eileen Estes
In this five week art therapy workshop series participants will learn to
identify their fear, discern real threats from imaginary ones, understand
the usefulness of fear, and harness this emotion for utilization in
effective decision-making, by creating multiple hands-on art projects and
using pre-existing artwork for inspiration. $150 - LAL Members; $175 -
Potential Members
LOCATION: Loudoun House, 209 Castlewood Drive, Lexington, KY 40505
DATES & TIMES: Saturdays, March 22 – April 19, 2008 / 1:30 – 3:30 pm
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: Kandace Tatum / 859.254.7024 /
jcuriel@lexingtonartleague.org
/ http://www.lexingtonartleague.org
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Berea
Arts Council || 4 Seasons 4 Directions Workshop
The Berea Arts Council and Community Acupuncture Berea present four art
classes with artist Kathleen O’Brien. Gathering on Saturdays near the
Solstices and Equinoxes, participants will learn about the cycles of the
year, its seasons and directions, the origins of the holidays, holy days and
world wisdom traditions, the rhythms of the sun and moon. Participants will
create a loose-leaf folio of works on paper – a journal of writings,
collage, drawing, doodles – by year’s end resulting in a guidebook to
navigate through time and space.
LOCATION: Berea Friends Meetinghouse, 300 Harrison Rd., Berea, KY 40403
DATES & TIMES: March 22, June 21, September 20 and December 13, 2007 @
10:00 am EST to 3:00 pm EST
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: Gwen Childs / 859-985-9317 /
bac@bereaartscouncil.org
/ http://www.bereaartscouncil.org
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Arts
Council of Louisville || "Community Arts Benefit" For Lava House Artists
Let's join hands for community arts. The Arts Council of Louisville is
calling on all Kentuckiana and community artists: dancers, singers, poets,
puppeteers, magicians, young artists, family and friends of the arts. The
Arts Council of Louisville in collaboration with City Properties is asking
for the arts community to participate in the upcoming benefit for the Lava
House artists. The fire of the LAVA House was a tragedy beyond belief.
Please donate your time and consider our appeal to bring healing to a
"Great Creative Community." We are asking you to share your time and
creativity by caring. Your support of this community-wide endeavor will be
greatly appreciated. Join us in our "Community Arts Benefit." All proceeds
will be distributed to the nine artists who were at the LAVA House. We thank
you in advance for your help. Donations of $10 or more will be greatly
appreciated. FREE Admission. Refreshments served. Open to the public and
accessible to all disabilities.
LOCATION: Henry Clay, South Ballroom, Second Floor, 604 South Third Street,
Louisville, KY
DATE & TIME: Monday, March 24, 2008 Time: 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: (502) 585-9525 for more information or details or
confirm your presentation
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Memphis Marsha's Art Gallery & Classes || "Fresh!!" Art ExhibitionMemphis
Marsha's will host nine artists' interpretations of the theme "Fresh."
Sculpture, drawing, painting, digital photography, & mixed media pieces are
expected to be shown. The Opening Reception is in conjunction with Bowling
Green's Gallery Hop, in which 11 art spaces will be open at the same time, &
with a free shuttle running between the spaces about every 20 minutes.
LOCATION: Memphis Marsha's Art Gallery & Classes, 524 E 12th Ave (between
State & Chestnut Streets), Bowling Green, KY 42101
DATES & TIMES: through March 29, on Regular Gallery Days:
Thursdays-Saturdays, 10-4 CT, or by appointment.
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: Marsha Heidbrink / 270.843.1726 / 1-877-640-7973 /
marsha@boo.net
/ http://www.memphismarshas.com
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VSA Arts of Kentucky
|| The Artist Within: Disabling the Myth
This lively and expressive exhibition will showcase 30 paintings
created by adult artists with disabilities who participated in an optional
basic art vocational program started eight years ago by Hugh E. Sandefur
Industries, Inc. for its employees in Henderson. As a full scale manufacturing
facility in Henderson, Kentucky, Hugh E. Sandefur Industries Inc. integrates
vocational evaluation, employment development, adult daily living and work and
social skills into a program designed to allow and give individuals an
opportunity for gainful employment. The media and processes explored in the
vocational classes may include acrylic and watercolor painting, drawing,
sculpture, ceramics, mixed media and crafts. The subjects and styles are
represented in realism, abstraction, as well as, non-objective images. The
exhibition is free and open to the public.
LOCATION: VSA Arts of Kentucky Gallery, 515 East 10th Street Bowling Green,
KY 42101
DATES & TIMES: through April 28, 2008. Opening reception: Friday,
February 29, 2008 / 5:00-8:00PM
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: 270-781-0872 / toll free at 877-417-9597 /
vsaky@bellsouth.net /
http://www.vsartsky.org
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Pyro Gallery ||
"Journeys," an exhibition of prints and drawings by Susan Moffett
Moffett's
artwork chronicles a year long sabbatical and her emotional,
professional, physical, and spiritual journeys. The physical include
trips to Ireland, Costa Rica and the Wisconsin's Lake Superior
shore. These intertwined emotionally and spiritually with another
physical journey related to health. This exhibit is the culmination,
as well as an ongoing investigation, of those journeys and
self-discovery.
LOCATION: Pyro Gallery, 624 W. Main St. in Louisville, KY
DATES & TIMES:
through March 29 / Pyro Gallery hours: Thurs-Sat 11
am - 6 pm, and by appointment.
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: Susan Moffett can be reached at 812-246-5314
or
sumoffet@ius.edu. Moffett’s work can be viewed on the web at
http://www.pyrogallery.com
Pyro
Gallery: (502) 587-0106.
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Pyro Gallery ||
"Caught in the Fall" an exhibition of Marilyn Whitesell's digital
images
Marilyn
Whitesell has been exploring making digital images since 1998. Her
work focuses on a love of natural objects such as shells, rocks,
leaves, and wood. In several past digital photo collage series she
has used these objects in conjunction with textiles, pottery and
basketry. She draws inspiration from her broad collection of
cultural artifacts, in particular Native American craft.
LOCATION: Pyro Gallery, downstairs Garden Gallery, 624 W. Main St.
in Louisville, KY
DATES & TIMES:
through March 29 / Pyro Gallery hours: Thurs-Sat 11
am - 6 pm, and by appointment.
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: Marilyn Whitecell can be contacted at
mwhitese@ius.edu. Whitesell’s work can be viewed on the web at
http://www.pyrogallery.com Pyro
Gallery: (502) 587-0106.
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Speed Art Museum ||
Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt
This exhibition
features the brilliant, bold quilts created in the twentieth century
by a group of women who live in the small, isolated African-American
community of Gee's Bend in southwestern Alabama. The quilts in the
exhibition, created by women spanning four generations, provide a
fascinating look at the work of 20th-century artists who lived and
worked in solitude. Admission is $8, free to museum members.
LOCATION: The Speed
Art Museum is located at 2035 South Third Street in Louisville
DATES & TIMES: Through
March 23, 2008
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT:
(502) 634-2700 or visit
http://www.speedmuseum.org
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Speed Art Museum ||
Medieval and Renaissance Treasures
An exhibition of thirty
five masterpieces selected from London’s Victoria and Albert. The
Victoria and Albert Museum has one of the greatest collections of
Medieval and Renaissance works of art in existence. These mostly
small-scale precious works of art are highly prized for their
beauty, the value of their materials and for the exquisite
workmanship that went into their creation. This once in a lifetime
exhibition will feature such masterpieces as the so-called
Basilewsky Situla, an extremely rare Holy Water bucket made for the
Ottonian Emperor in the late tenth century; the only Byzantine
statuette of the Virgin and Child to be carved entirely in the
round, the ‘Soissons Diptych’, and a notebook of the most famous
Renaissance artist and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci. Admission is
$10, free to museum members.
LOCATION: The Speed
Art Museum is located at 2035 South Third Street in Louisville
DATES & TIMES: Through
April 20, 2008
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT:
(502) 634-2700 or visit
http://www.speedmuseum.org
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Lexington Art League
|| “…as if a forest”
Dima Strakovsky
presents a sound installation that investigates sound, language and
means of communication.
Exhibit in partnership
with LexArts.
LOCATION: Lexington
Art League @ the Downtown Arts Center; 141 E. Main St., Lexington
DATES & TIMES: through
March 22, 2008 / Gallery Hours: Mon – Fri, 10am – 5pm; Sat, 10am –
4 pm
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT:
Kandace Tatum / Communications Coordinator / Lexington Art League /
859.254.7024 /
http://www.lexingtonartleague.org
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Lexington Art League
|| Visual Dialogue IV
Regional artist,
Jennifer Palmer, explores the process of painting that is inspired
by location, filtered through memories and dreams.
LOCATION: Lexington
Art League @ Government Center; 5th and 12th Floor, Government
Center, 200 E. Main St. Lexington
DATES & TIMES: through
March 28, 2008 / Open to the public: Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT:
Kandace Tatum / Communications Coordinator / Lexington Art League /
859.254.7024 /
http://www.lexingtonartleague.org
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VSA arts of Kentucky, Bowling Green ||
Gallery Show: “Side By Side 2008” || January 27 to March 30, 2008
“Side
By Side” features the collaborative artwork created by artists with
disabilities joining forces with professional area artists. This
program is a partnership between VSA arts of Kentucky, the Kentucky
Library & Museum and the Kelly Autism Program. The artists
themselves will be honored at an opening reception.
LOCATION: Garden Gallery located at the
Kentucky Library & Museum located on the Western Kentucky University
Campus, 1906 College Heights Blvd., Bowling Green, KY 42101.
DATES & TIMES: through March 30,
2008. Gallery hours are 9 am to 4 pm, Monday through Saturday, and
1 to 4 pm Sundays.
FOR MORE INFO CONTACT: For more information
regarding the Side By Side program, contact VSA arts of Kentucky in
Bowling Green at 270-781-0872, toll free at 877-417-9597, or at
http://www.vsartsky.org
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