The IIDA Louisville Lexington City Center Portland Tour

LVA hosted the IIDA Louisville Lexington City Center's tour of Portland's cultural locations. The Portland Investment Initiative's Gill Holland gave a presentation about how architects, designers and other professionals can help reinvigorate neighborhoods everywhere through their work:

The Bolivian Odyssey Project

Dave Caudill presented photos and details of The Bolivian Odyssey Project at LVA on September 13.

In April, he was Visiting Artist at the art center Ars Natura Uta (near La Paz, Bolivia), where construction began on a large labyrinth based on a human fingerprint. He discussed his proposal for a similar public artwork in the Louisville area:

Portland Art & Heritage Fair 2017

Last Saturday, LVA again hosted the Portland Art and Heritage Fair's juried exhibit with submissions from emerging and established regional artists. Congratulations to winner Barry Motes and all who placed, exhibited, visited and otherwise celebrated with us.

MAPped Out 2017

"MAPped Out," a live-painting event benefitting LVA's Mural Art Program (MAP), was held at Garage Bar on Friday, August 18 from 5pm-10pm.

Several of Louisville's best artists created mini-murals for a silent auction, serving as a unique and exciting focus for a night filled with music, drink specials and art, art and more art.

Participating Artists:
Braylyn Resko Stewart
Casey McKinney
Often Seen Rarely Spoken
Juliet Taylor
Margaret Morley

Sponsors:
Coopers' Craft Bourbon, Tito's Handmade Vodka, West Sixth Brewing, Revelry Boutique Gallery, Garage Bar, Via Studio

Studio 2000 Mural Unveiling

We rise by lifting others. Sunday was a great day as we celebrated the first Studio 2000 mural with Louisville Metro Parks. Parishioners, family, friends and Metro Council member Barbara Sexton Smith came together to see what our high school student artists and instructor Casey McKinney made happen this summer, bringing brightness back to a beautiful community.

Home of the Innocents: Exhibition Celebration

LVA instructor Liz has been working with students at Home of the Innocents on several projects, including various crafts, painting, dreamcatchers and an interpretation of HOTI's iconic mural. We recently joined the students, faculty and employees to celebrate the end of a very successful summer!

Studio 2000 Exhibition and Sale

We were honored to hold our Studio 2000 exhibition and sale with Louisville Metro Parks and Recreation last night at Actors Theatre of Louisville's beautiful space.

We are so proud of our young artists! Thank you to everyone who attended, supported, bought pieces and otherwise made it such a great night!

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.

Exhibition: CFAC elementary school students

Our CFAC elementary school students' exhibition was the place to be on June 4 at Revelry Boutique Gallery!

 

Event Feature: art[squared] 2017

Thank you to everyone who came out to support the Children's Fine Art Classes program at art[squared] this year! 154 pieces sold so far, helping us raise over $30,000! This will allow us to continue to provide scholarships to over 1,000 talented and motivated students each year. We are so grateful for all the artists who participated and donated their time and talent, all the collectors who came out to purchase work, the board members and volunteers who helped everything run smoothly, Cunningham Door & Windows for sponsoring the event, as well as CirqueLouis for an amazing performance! It was such a wonderful evening and we are thankful beyond measure for the support of every one of you!

Photos by Crystal Ludwick Photo LLC. 

Event Feature: Open Studio Weekend

Open Studio Weekend 2016 might have been the most successful year yet! We had such a great time visiting artists in their studios and we hear you did too— thanks to everyone who came out and showed your support for these amazing artists. Over 227 visitors went to the 67 participating studios— totaling over 4,000 studio visits in all! 

Check out the #osw2016 tag on Instagram to see more images from the day!

Event Feature: UnMasked Fundraiser

Thanks to everyone who came out to last night's UnMasked fundraiser! We were so glad to share that Luckett & Farley will be our architects and celebrate with an amazing light show by Spettra and delicious pizza from MozzaPi! 

Metro Hall Reception

Studio 2000 participants and instructors with Mayor Greg Fischer

Picture Love participants and facilitators with Mayor Greg Fischer

Metro Hall exhibiting artists Damon Thompson, Noah Hewett-Ball, and Sherry Pearl with Mayor Greg Fischer.

Picture Love exhibition at Metro Hall

Event Feature: MAPPED Out

We had such a wonderful time at MAPPED Out! A huge thank you to Ashley Brossart, Alyx McClain, Braylyn Resko Stewart, Karl Otto, Liz Richter, Pat Sheehan, Vinnie Kochert for creating amazing mini-murals for our silent auction— nearly $5,000 was raised for the Mural Art Program! We also couldn't have done it without our generous sponsors— Garage Bar, Revelry Boutique Gallery, Via Studio, West Sixth Brewing, Tito's Vodka, and of course our wonderful partner Center For Neighborhoods. Thanks to all of you who came out and made the evening so successful— it was so humbling to hear you are as excited as we are about MAP!

Open Doors Feature: Studio 2000 Sale

Studio 2000 Class of 2016

Tote bags, books, and cups at the first table.

The line for artwork purchases was well worth the short wait!

There was some fierce competition during the silent auction!

Studio 2000 Fiber Class of 2016

Studio 2000 Ceramics Class of 2016

Studio 2000 Mixed Media Class of 2016

Event Feature: Instant Installation Invitational

Open Doors Feature: Buy Local Fair

We had a wonderful time creating "robots" from recycled materials with kiddos at the Buy Local Fair! We always love getting to meet new people from the community— especially talented young artists! 

The Academy of LVA 2016 Exhibition

Congratulations to Emily Yellina! Her drawing from her Studio Art class at IUS is the People's Choice winner for The Academy exhibition this year! We'll have a second winner selected through Instagram, so be sure to cast a vote by posting a photo of your favorite piece and  #childrensfineartclasses#theacademyoflva until the show comes down!

Congratulations to Zehui Ni for receiving the LVA Vision Award, Michael Morarity for receiving the Artist and Craftsman Community Award, Kylie Milliken for receiving the Blick Community Award, and Amber Eger for receiving the Preston Arts Center Community Award! These seniors have shown active and passionate involvement in CFAC and The Academy, exhibit great determination and drive, and their creative ability is continually improving. We are so proud of each of you!

Event Feature: Art[Squared]

Thank you to everyone who came out to support the Children's Fine Art Classes program at art[squared] this year! Over $25,000 was raised— this will allow us to continue to provide scholarships to talented and motivated students to over 1,000 students each year! We are so grateful for all the artists who participated and donated their time and talent as well as all the collectors who came out to purchase work. It was such a wonderful event!

Event Feature: Reception to Welcome Lindy Casebier

A big thank you to the staff at Oxmoor Farms, Wiltshire Catering, Nanz and Kraft Florist, and the LVA board for making the evening such a memorable and wonderful one!