Friday Link Roundup, September 27, 2019

Melanie Miller, Lover, Glass, Solid Brass Hardware 20"t x 7"w x 4" D Hot Sculpted Glass at LVA’s Life on the River

FRIDAY:

Vinhay Keo: Dancing in Darkness opens tonight at Moremen Gallery.

Enid Trolley Tour of Louisville with The Filson Societ.y

Four Weddings and an Elvis by Nancy Frick opens at Little Colonel Playhouse.

SATURDAY:

2019 Portland Art & Heritage Fair is today only, and the The LVA Juried exhibit Life on The River: Portland Art & Heritage Fair will be at The Portland Museum.

In Other Words: Poetry Workshop, Exhibit, & Reading is at WXOX/Artxfm studios today.

Ultimate Things: Madison Cawein Opening Reception at B. Deemer Gallery.

Vinhay Keo at Moremen Gallery & KMAC.

Artist Talk - Vinhay Keo at KMAC.

Louisville Championship Arm Wrestling: Fallout is tonight at Mile Wide Brewing Company.

NuLu Fest 2019 is all day, with plenty of art involved.

ONGOING:

Fake AF: Tammy Burke, Maiza Laurent Hixson, and Thaniel Ion Lee continues at Swanson Gallery.

Jacob Heustis “Beasts Will Be Still There” is at Quappi Projects. Listen to an interview with the artist and Quappi director John Brooks on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio.

Taradiddle continues at the Paul Paletti Gallery.

Cultivating Creativity: Photographs by Kevin Rose Schultz at the Kent Mansion Gallery.

John Nation & Joe Wolek at Galerie Hertz.

Bri's Louisville is at Revelry Boutique & Gallery.

The Bold Testament: New Work by Greg Maddux & Yoko Molotov at Surface Noise.

Bellarmine University’s McGrath Gallery is showing Enid Generations of Women Sculptors.

Re/GENERATIONAL: a duo exhibition of work by Harlan Strummer Welch-Scarboro and Scott Scarboro is at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Annual Black & White Show is at Kore Gallery.

Don Stevens/FusionFire Glass Art is at Cook Studio & Gallery.

Ericka Jeffries and Kelly Zellers: is at O Art. Listen to an interview with the artists on LVA’s Artebella On the Radio.

Connecting Community Through Creativity is at Studioworks.

The Triennial continues at KMAC.

Elements Group Show opens at Kentucky Fine Art Gallery.

ART SHOW: Journey to the Heart is at Lettersong Gallery.

ZECK featuring Suzi Zimmerer, Juli Edberg, Nancy Currier, & Keith Kleespies at PYRO Gallery. Listen to a radio interview on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio with the four artists.

Dunno it's painterly: is at garner narrative.

Breaking the Mold: Sculptor Enid Yandell’s Early Life, 1869-1900 is at The Filson.

LVA's Artebella On The Radio June 20, 2019

Ewing Fahey, Caren Cunningham, Gloria Wachtel, Emily Schuhmann joined Keith Waits in the studio this week to talk about the 150th celebration for renowned Louisville-born sculptor Enid Yandell and the two upcoming exhibits of the Enid Sculptors Group. Yandell was a suffragette so we heard songs from the suffragette movement recorded by Elizabeth Knight in 1959. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursday at 10am.

Keith Waits will be on vacation for the next two weeks. LVA’s Artebella On The Radio will return on July 11.

Ewing Fahey & Caren Cunningham in 2014. Photo: Rich Copley/Lexington Herald Leader

Ewing Fahey graduated from the University of Louisville in 1942 with a double major in Fine Arts (painting and drawing) and Art History. During her senior year that Fahey became the editor of the University’s Cardinal newspaper, the first woman to hold that position. That journalistic experience led to her being hired as the first female reporter for WAVE Radio (television was still a few years in the future). She also taught art at the Louisville Girl’s School. In 1946 Fahey took off for New York City to work as a copywriter for McCalls Pattern Sales and later became an Art Director for Norcross Greeting Cards. When Fahey returned to Louisville, in 1953, it was to become the first female Advertising Manager at Louisville Magazine, and within two years she had become editor. She was still in her early 30’s.  

In 1998, she helped form ENID, a collective of women sculptors named in honor of celebrated Louisville sculptor Enid Yandell (1869-1924), who studied in Paris with Auguste Rodin and Frederich MacMonnies and was only the second female to be inducted into the National Sculpture Society.

Caren Cunnignham international artist and educator has work in numerous private collections on five continents. She has held 27 solo exhibitions in the U.S., China, Finland, Kenya, and Peru, as well as over 60 group exhibitions in the U.S., Tanzania, and Germany. Articles have been written about her work in English, Finnish, Hebrew, Mandarin, Spanish, German, and Swahili. She has over twenty-five years of teaching experience from three different continents. She is a Professor of Art and Director of the Arts Administration Department at Bellarmine University. She has served on the boards of the Louisville Visual Art, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and Exceptional Equitation.

Emily Schuhmann, a Louisville Kentucky native, received her BFA from Ball State University in Metalsmithing and later her MFA in Metalsmithing/Jewelry Design from Texas Tech University along with a secondary in painting and a graduate certificate in contemporary art history. She has participated in numerous local, regional, national, international shows since 2002. Currently she is living and working in Louisville where she has served as an instructor for a wide variety of art programs including Bellarmine University, U of L, and Indiana University Southeast. When she isn’t in her studio, Emily is a swing dance and vintage style enthusiast.

Gloria Wachtel studied Art History & Sculpture at the University of Louisville and an MA from the University of Cincinnati. She is a mixed media sculptor currently exploring deconstruction and reductive techniques repurposing her own work.

• “Olmsted’s Louisville: 1891 to Present” exhibit with special events featuring historicalinterpreters as Enid Yandell — Frazier History Museum, April-September

• “Breaking the Mold: Sculptor Enid Yandell’s Early Life” exhibit — Filson Historical Society, June 7- Dec. 27

• “Enid Exhibit” — Speed Art Museum, July 17-Jan. 12

• “ENID: Generations of Women Sculptors” exhibit — Louisville Free Public Library, Aug. 17-Oct. 8

• “ENID: Generations of Women Sculptors” exhibit — Bellarmine University, Sept. 7-Oct. 5

• “France For Me: Enid Yandell in World War I Paris” — Louisville Free Public Library, Sept. 12

• Enid Yandell bus tour — Filson Historical Society, Sept. 27

• Enid Yandell Lecture & Birthday Bash, featuring a talk from Dr. Juilee Decker, author of a forthcoming book “Enid Yandell: Kentucky’s Pioneer Sculptor” — Filson Historical Society, Oct. 3

• Speed Reading Book Club: “Three Girls in a Flat” — Speed Art Museum, Nov. 12 

LVA's Artebella On The Radio 8.30.18

On the August 30 LVA's Artebella On The Radio we spoke with three women artists who are opening exhibits on September First Friday: Jacque Parsley, Gayle Cerlan, & Meredith Harber. Tune in each Thursday at 10am to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com to hear Keith Waits talk to local artists.

Frac/tured An abstract introspection by Meredith Harber  
September 4-29, Reception September 7, 5-7pm
McGrath Art Gallery, Bellarmine University, Wyatt Center for the Arts, Norris Place

Frac/tured serves as an abstract expression of the seemingly disjointed sense of self, both individually and as a gathered community. Through fine lines, gestural marks, and bold colors, Meredith Harber creates a chaotic moment on the canvas that intends to capture the viewer and challenges them to make sense of what is before them. While each piece may serve as a playful distraction from one’s surroundings, it is the artist’s intent that one put each thematic motif into context as it relates to them personally and how it ties into the modern world.

Shared Vision-Gayle Cerlan and Jacque Parsley
September 7-30, Reception September 7, 6-9pm
Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile, 572 South 4th Street, Louisville

Gayle Cerlan has been an active member of the Kentucky arts community through her involvement as the creator and director of the Cityworks exhibition (1997-1998), and as curator of the DinnerWorks exhibition (1994-1997). She has served on the boards of Louisville Visual Art and the Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft and has been an Adjunct Professor of Ceramics at Indiana University Southeast, Bellarmine College, and the University of Louisville. She founded Cerlan Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky (1997-2007) and established a fine arts school for all ages, ArtStudio (1997-2014). Cerlan has exhibited her ceramic art nationally and internationally and has won many awards and grants. Her work can be found in numerous public collections.

Jacque Parsley Using the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life, including a myriad of found objects, artifacts, ephemera, and vintage printed matter, I present an iconography that creates a dialogue between the permanent and the transient.

As Kurt Schwitters said, “The waste of the world becomes my art”.

As a child I embroidered, wove potholders, collected charms and played with paperdolls.  The influence of the fond memories have been integrated into my art by means of collage, assemblage and embellishment. Each work reflects a partly told tale, a moment in time that gives a nostalgic visual narrative of memories that have been recycled, and a past that has been reinterpreted.