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Artebella On The Radio: December 10

This week we will be speaking with Remi about her latest project, the ISEEU Mobile Platform. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com Thursdays at 10 am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

Tara Remington (Remi) is an American Multi-Media 2D/3D Artist whose processes include: public art, installation, printmaking, drawing, photography, and sculpture. Remi’s formal study: Ringling School of Art, Sarasota FL and Portfolio Center, Atlanta Ga where she studied graphic design, photography, and advertising. Her professional career began in the early 1980s in arts management, programming, instruction, and facilitation. Remi’s ten-year focus has been on collaborative 3D temporary and permanent public art installations and murals. Her work has introduced mixed media processes and art to a cross-section of age, gender, race, and socioeconomic participants. Remi envisions art as a mindful and empowering vehicle of change, informing the masses how creativity can be embraced by everyone and can be approached from many perspectives.

#Women artists #multi-disciplinary #interactive indt6allations #social practice #Kentucky Foundation for Women #earth sculptures #Josephine Sculpture Park

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Artebella On The Radio: April 16, 2020

Today’s broadcast features and interview with Alison Huff (Commonwealth Theatre Center) and Jackie Pallesen (Kertis Creative) talking about Elevator Artist Resource’s Artist Relief Trust initiative, which has quickly raised the money to fund emergency relief for Kentucky artists. The interview is the first 20 minutes of the show and was remotely pre-recorded the night before because of the pandemic. In fact the entire broadcast was executed remotely as a part of WXOX station management’s efforts to reduce risk to the health and safety of all of it’s on-air personalities.

The Artist Relief Trust is a coalition-led initiative to provide emergency assistance to artists who have lost work due to Coronavirus / COVID-19 and related closures and cancellations. Though applicants must demonstrate that they are working artists, there is no review of their artwork — awards are based on need.

Artist Relief Trust can help. If you’re an artist who is struggling to meet basic needs because of COVID-19, go to

 http://elevatorarts.org/artist-relief-trust/ and apply

Other support resources:

Metro Louisville's official DAILY arts commissioning program: the Louisville Arts Network! Submit your idea in ANY artistic medium - music, literary arts, visual art, etc! You'll have three days to complete the project and you'll get either $150 or $200 (the extra is if you agree to present your work on Lift Up Lou's Facebook page). This is Louisville's own micro-WPA, our own mini-New Deal. Artists and creatives, let's go to work to build a better world right now!!

www.louisvilleartsnetwork.org

APRON, Inc. was founded in 2011 by a group of individuals with ties to the local restaurant community. Apron supporters include owners, servers, chefs and others concerned about our local independent food and beverage service workers. They realize that independent restaurant employees may be susceptible to financial distress in times of crisis.

http://www.aproninc.org/application-for-assistance/

#Elevator Artist Resource #artist relief funds #great meadows foundation #Juylien Robson #pandemic impact on creatives #musicians are artists too #tatoo artists #Commonwealth Theatre Center #Kertis Creative

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Thursday Link Roundup: ART FROM A DISTANCE March 26, 2020

Being in the room is important, but during this time, on-line experiences are available:

LOCAL ONLINE OPTIONS: Here’s what we know, but local artists are doing impromptu live performances online daily. Stay alert!

TUESDAY=THURSDAY:

Channel StageOne launched on Tuesday, March 24th Providing digital content in Storytelling & theatre-based instruction

FRIDAY:

Kentucky Shakespeare offers another Encore Presentation, this time of their 2018 production of Much Ado About Nothing.

LOCAL ONLINE and ONGOING:

Art Starts Here is a series of weekly art instruction podcasts from LVA.

Here is the first one.Kore Gallery has Personality Plus by Carlos Gamez De Francisco by appointment.

I Do Not Ask Any More Delight at Quappi Projects is by appointment only.

Keep making art! Preston Art Center will deliver and has curbside pickup during their shortened hours.

AA Clay - Home Clay Kits are available for sale: pick up or local delivery is available. Videos intended to keep your creativity flowing. 

Revelry Gallery is closed but A Thousand Ships by Lyndi Lou is now available to be viewed online.

Anne Peabody: Sunspike  is on view by appointment at Moremen Gallery.

Kore Gallery has Personality Plus by Carlos Gamez De Francisco. by appointment only.

A First Anniversary exhibit at Keinhelter Gallery in New Albany is by appointment.

Catherine Bryant's Plein Air Painters at Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery. by appointment only.

I Do Not Ask Any More Delight is at Quappi Projects is by appointment only

NOT LOCAL BUT WORTH IT!:

These 10 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours (Video)

The Art Institute of Chicago Puts 44,000+ Works of Art Online: View Them in High Resolution

An Even Bigger Selection from Google

Study Art History online: Artists and Movements

Installation work from MoMA (video)

The Artist is An Explorer: Curated by Marina Abramovic (video)

David Byrne’s American Utopia tour (video)

Paris Museums Put 100,000 Images Online for Unrestricted Public Use

Exquisite Corps (42 choreographers, 1 dance) is a film by Mitchell Rose (video)

Bestselling Children’s Author Mo Willems Is Teaching Kids Drawing On YouTube

Think we are missing something? Let us know: [email protected]

#Art at home #art supplies #art online #museums online #Louisville galleries #Cuban artists #installation art #art instruction

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Vignette: Fuko ito

Imagine a world without edges and you begin to understand the work of Fuko Ito. All of figures and the environments that surround them are plush, but not necessarily lacking in conflict or even violence. In her artist’s statement, Ito explains: “Plush is a texture that is both soft yet firm — it is able to absorb trauma and mend itself back into shape. I imagine our hearts and emotional capacities to have the same visceral effect of being bruised and healed like plush. In my drawings, I portray naked, vulnerable creatures called ‘fumblys’ in this plushy ecosystem.”

“Humans and their material belongings collapsed after the ‘Apocalypse of Intolerance’ in which those who denied kindness and compassion to others destroyed humankind. These plushy naked creatures began sprouting from the human remains of those who cared for the well being of themselves and others. Fumblys fill their infinite ecosystem with plush to save themselves from the collapse, fall, and heartache they experience from living among themselves. In my image-making process, I play with color, light, luminosity, and texture to amplify the soft, radiant, and delicate sensations that exist in the otherworldly space of fumblys.”

Ito’s imagery is deeply rooted in fantasy that is childlike but not childish, a nursery with all of the rough edges rounded out that still contains indications of the disruption of creativity. In the hand-colored monotype “Squeeze Cap” one of the fumblys has “given birth” to an explosion of plush infants, a bloodless event that nevertheless is graphic in depicting a ferocious eruption of the host form. Ito’s alternate world may be soft, but it does not lack passion or a perspective with social commentary.

“Like in Mannerist works, I exaggerate physical features and figurative gestures of the fumblys to dramatize emotion and physical sensations of grasping, embracing, and releasing. I reinterpret cultural and individual signifiers by presenting fumblys as faceless, naked beings in which empathetic gestures and expression is visualized only through body language. Furthermore, I reference figurative works by male artists throughout art history as a way to question the gendered moral hierarchy of historical narratives. I attempt to reinvent the male-gaze driven imagery by extracting hostility, aggression, and objectification from my figurative forms to ultimately envision a more non-binary narrative that complicate the lines of protagonist and antagonist.” 

“The plushy world of fumblys is not a vision of a hopeless romantic but is a world of soft, affectionate sensations that exists in protest to the often unforgiving social structures we live in. Through navigating my own surroundings and bringing my experiences back into the studio, I attempt to build a more empathetic view of the world and ultimately transcend and invite my viewers into a plushy parallel universe.”

Ito exhibits frequently, and is scheduled to participate in two upcoming shows in 2020:  "CELEBRATION," at WomensWork.Art Gallery in Poughkeepsie, NY, and "Comfort & Joy," at the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, MO.

She has exhibited in Portugal and Japan most recently was in a show with Eugene Sarmiento at Powell Botanical Gardens in Kingsville, MO.  

Hometown: Kobe, Japan Education: Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Drawing, Honors, University of Kansas, 2018; Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Artists’ Books, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014 Website: www.fuko-ito.com/ Instagram: @fukoito

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Written by Keith Waits. Entire contents copyright © 2019 Louisville Visual Art. All rights reserved. In addition to his work at the LVA, Keith is also the Managing Editor of a website, Arts-Louisville.com, which covers local visual arts, theatre, and music in Louisville.

#Women artists #Japanese #fantasy #Lexington Kentucky #monotype #hand-colored prints #non-binary #gendered moral hierarchy

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LVA's Artebella On The Radio: November 14, 2019

CirqueLouis will present The Circus Show Saturday and Sunday at The Kentucky Center, and Abbie Springer, Myranda Thomas, and Jordan Clark joined us to talk about. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk with artists.

CirqueLouis: The Circus Show

Featuring Ben Sollee

Saturday, November 16 at 7:30 pm & Sunday, November 17 at 2:00 pm The Kentucky Center. Click here for tickets.

Abbie Springer competed with the nationally ranked University of Louisville cheerleading squad and in 2009, she began her circus arts training. Abbie has appeared with her family in the annual Turners Circus spring production since 2009 and she has performed in CirqueLouis’ previous productions of at Iroquois Amphitheatre and Kentucky Center. Abbie is also a part of CirqueLouis’ event performance troupe appearing at prestigious venues all over the city

Myranda Thomas is a recent graduate from the University of Kentucky, where she earned two degrees in theatre and elementary education. She currently works at StageOne Family Theatre as an education associate as well as at Acting Against Cancer as a teaching artist for their after school children’s program and was recently the Leading Player in their production of Pippin.

Jordan Clark, born in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been performing with CirqueLouis for several years and has directed their recent productions Gravity’s Varieties and Happy Birthday!  After training on his own in high school, Jordan began his formal circus training in 2006 at the National Circus School of Montreal’s summer program. He was later accepted into the school’s prestigious college program where he completed his training in 2012. Jordan has performed his hand-balancing act in over 20 counties as well as at sea.

#CirqueLouis #Kentucky Center #circus arts #Ben Sollee

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LVA's Artebella On The Radio: October 10, 2019

J. Ariadne Calvano is the director and Dr. Janna Segal the dramaturg for the upcoming production of Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror at the University of Louisville. They were in the studio to talk about it this week. Tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM, or stream on Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10:00am to hear Keith Waits talk with artists about their work.

The University of Louisville’s Theatre Arts Department Presents Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith

Thursday, November 7-17 at 7:30pm at the Thrust Theatre, 2314 South Floyd Street

J. Ariadne Calvano is an Assistant Professor of Acting and Movement at the University of Louisville, and as a freelance movement director and performer. She earned her PhD and MA in Theatre from the University of Colorado Boulder; and additionally, holds a BA in Fine & Performing Arts from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and a BA in History from the University of Maryland. Earlier this year she directed Theatre [502]’s production of Women Laughing Alone with Salad by Shelia Callaghan.

Dr. Janna Segal teaches undergraduate and graduate courses at the University of Louisville in: theatre history, literature, and theory; Shakespeare and Shakespearean adaptation; American feminist theatre; and dramaturgy. Dr. Segal is also a freelance dramaturg whose past production work includes Shakespeare, Shakespearean adaptation, contemporary theatre, and new plays in development. She is the Resident Dramaturg of the Comparative Drama Conference, for which she dramaturgs two to three new plays a year, and a dramaturg for ATHE’s annual New Play Development Workshop. At UofL, she has dramaturged Baltimore,Eurydice, and The Master and Margarita, and The Taming of the Shrew. She has also worked locally as a guest dramaturg for Commonwealth Theatre Center. Dr. Segal is a member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), and she serves on the Board of the Comparative Drama Conference.

#Univer #African American Theatre #Anna Deavere Smith #dramaturgy #Intimacy Director #movement #Season of Black Plays #Louisville Theatre #Tribe Called Quest #Women Directors #women artists #African American Women Artists #New York City

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Friday Link Roundup: Friday, July 19, 2019

SUNDAY:

Louisville Film Society is presenting The 11th Annual Flyover Film Festival beginning Sunday.

Kay Milam’s The Butterfly Trees will open the festival Sunday night.

Followed by Bethany Brooke Anderson’s Burning Kentucky.

ONGOING:

TKO: New Work by Tara Key & Tara Jane O'Neil is at Surface Noise.

Derby City Playwrights New Play Festival continues at The Bard’s Town. Listen to an interview about this festival on LVA’s Artebella On The Radio here.

Cardinal Moments is at Swanson Contemporary.

Resident: Works by Renzo Velez is at Houseguest Gallery.

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

“My Thoughts on Everything” is a solo show from Bob Lockhart at Kaviar Forge & Gallery.

Form, Not Function: Quilt Art at the Carnegie continues through August.

Mental Misconceptions: The Art of Self Care at The Hite Institute’s Schneider Galleries.

2019 MFA Graduates Exhibition at Cressman Center.

The Spring Invitational. is at Kleinhelter Galley in New Albany.

Joyce Garner - lazy susan is at garner narrative contemporary.

#Louisville Film Society #Louisville Galleries #Louisville Artists #Louisville filmmakers

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Vignette: Macei Hamilton

“Serious” art people are often skittish about paintings of animals; simple, straightforward, portraits of pets are the work of “hobbyists” they might say. Yet the concept that any artist’s practice draws directly from their immediate environment and experience is a common point of discussion in any critical appraisal.

Macei Hamilton resides in the knobs of Casey County, Kentucky, a rural area in in which her menagerie of12 dogs and 12 cats is not that unusual. So why shouldn’t these plaintive yet precocious subjects serve as a valid expression of Hamilton’s environment? Hamilton was raised in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, so the attachment to the land and its non-human inhabitants comes naturally to Hamilton.

A nurse by profession, Hamilton has only been painting for about 4 years, and for having painted for so brief a time, there is authoritative us of the brush in capturing the details of this “Rooster” that is compelling. Nothing is overworked. The relative lack of experience seems to have merged with the intimate understanding of subject to finish a simple, naturalistic expression of wariness in this Bantam’s face. It is as individual as any portrait of a human subject.

Hometown: Ligon, Kentucky Facebook: Macel's art

Written by Keith Waits. Entire contents copyright © 2018 Louisville Visual Art. All rights reserved. In addition to his work at the LVA, Keith is also the Managing Editor of a website, Arts-Louisville.com, which covers local visual arts, theatre, and music in Louisville.

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#women painters #Eastern Kentucky #rural artists #animals #farm animals

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Spotlight: The Academy at LVA Graduating Seniors, Part One

On May 10, Louisville Visual Art will open the 2019 Academy Exhibition for high school students. This is the first of a two-part look at the senior students included in that exhibit.

“LVA has made a major difference in my life” - Alexis Fromm

In the work of these three graduating seniors we see a preoccupation with a deconstruction of the human form. Bodies are modified through dismemberment, the peeling of skin, or a grafting of mushrooms onto the epidermis, not for horrific effect but as metaphorical signposts for the adolescent introspection building a foundation for identity. Each of these artists is still finding themselves, searching for who they are by peeling themselves like an onion.

Whether or not the exact images are self-portraits is beside the point; all art expresses the aesthetic concerns of the individual. In “Moulting” Madelyn Hicks depicts a woman’s torso, bereft of hips, legs, or feet, stripping away skin. The piece may be inspired by a case of post-beach vacation sunburn, but it elicits feelings of discomfort in the viewer in part because the woman so casually changes her physical form without any preciousness or hesitation.

Natalie Stastny’s “Mushroom Bride” wears a garment made of the plants, or is the fungus a part of her skin? The ambiguity is compelling, but the choice of color, gesture, and expression do not suggest distress. Whatever the reality, the bride seems happy enough.

A print from Alexis Fromm is slightly more gruesome. It shows a naked female torso in which the skin has been pulled away to reveal an oversize eyeball surrounded by teardrops. The merging of vivisection and whimsy is pure surrealism. We want to turn away but we cannot.

These are arguably the more overt examples of a fascination with the physical self that might be claimed as a teenage stereotype, but the level of confident, even sardonic self-awareness and forensic examination is impressive. One of Fromm’s favorite subjects seems to be animal skulls, although she extends them into fantastical forms beyond the mundane farm inhabitants whose brains they once held. “Hellboy” imagines the horns and stretched earlobes of the comic book character.

And Hicks’ young person eating Tostitos from the bag while prone on their bed in violation of how many rules of civilized behavior is not quite “Ladylike”, but the image suggests that they could care less about outmoded nomenclature intended to restrict all natural impulses for comfort.     

Meanwhile, Stastny is fond of entangling her figures in organic forms that seem to bind and blind them. We assume it is not because she doesn’t like drawing eyes that she inevitably shields them from view.

All three artists are fearless in exploring the plasticity of the body, lending it malleability that aligns them with Modern and Post-modern movements.

Alexis Fromm has been in LVA classes since 7th grade. She will be attending Spalding University with a $6,000 Merit Scholarship and a projected major of Studio Arts.

“After my first class with Rodolfo Salgado Jr., I fell in love with Printmaking and have taken every printmaking class with him that was available. Before LVA I did not know what printmaking was and I didn’t know the large variety of art that was in the world besides clothing, painting, and drawing. LVA has inspired me to go to college and pursue my love for art.”

Fromm has worked as a volunteer for Steam Exchange Community Arts Center over the past four years. With Steam Exchange she attended the Mayor’s Give A Day to help clean out their building and clean up around the Smoketown neighborhood.

Madelyn Hicks has taken LVA classes every semester for all four years of high school: Studio Art with Rudy Salgado, Drawing 1 and 2 with Wilma Bethel, Painting 1 with Dennis Whitehouse and Sunny Ra, and Painting 2 with Sunny Ra, Julie Leidner, and Tenille Novinger. She was accepted into several schools and will be attending The University of Cincinnati’s DAAP program in the fall and majoring in Industrial Design 

Hicks was accepted into GATES (Gifted and Talented Educational Services) for art, and the Governor’s School for the Arts (GSA) 2018 program. She also won an LVA competition to have her work featured on the 2018-19 season poster for The Kentucky Opera.

“LVA truly taught me how to make art. My teachers all taught me different techniques and styles of creating that shaped me into the artist I am today. The classes I took with Sunny Ra in drawing and painting established the foundations I needed to discover my perspective as an artist and work not only technically but also conceptually. Sunny definitely went above and beyond for me and was extremely helpful in building a portfolio for both GSA and college auditions. The different perspectives and skills I learned through LVA have provided a strong base for me as a creator.”

Natalie Stastny has taken Academy at LVA classes for three years: 2 Digital Art classes with Lilly Higgs, one Drawing and Painting class with Sunny Ra, and one Drawing and Painting class with Julie Leidner. She has been accepted at and received scholarships and/or financial aid for the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the Columbus School of Art and Design, and Eastern Illinois University.

Stastny is also involved in National Art Honors Society and the Atherton High School Art Club and earned a varsity letter in Swimming. She has represented Atherton on WLKY and the PBS News Hour talking about the school’s transgender bathroom policy.

“My favorite class with LVA has been the Digital drawing class. I’ve taken it twice mostly because the program itself helped me understand digital media but also because my teacher (Lilly Higgs) was very encouraging and helped me practice digital drawing with tablets, which at the time was a resource I did not have access to at home.”

“I loved all of my classes and think they have helped me a lot in both my personal and school related art projects. Lilly Higgs and Julie Leidner especially seemed to want to talk to me and get to know me better. I won’t forget the kindness that those teachers offered me. It also allowed me more practice time during the day and a space where I can just be creative and also learn the basics of art at the same time.”

Written by Keith Waits. Entire contents copyright © 2018 Louisville Visual Art. All rights reserved. In addition to his work at the LVA, Keith is also the Managing Editor of a website, Arts-Louisville.com, which covers local visual arts, theatre, and music in Louisville.

Are you interested in being on Artebella? Click here to learn more.

#student work #Academy at LVA #children's fine art classes #Atherton High School #north oldham high school

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2019 Academy and Children's Fine Art Class exhibitions

CFAC & Academy Exhibitions 2019

Louisville Visual Art1538 Lytle StreetLouisville, KY, 40203United States (map)

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May 10 from 6-8 PM: The Academy of LVA (High School) reception May 10 - 16: The Academy of LVA (High School) exhibition June 2 from 2-4 PM: CFAC Middle School reception June 2 - 11: CFAC Middle School exhibition June 23 from 2-4 PM: CFAC Elementary School reception June 23 - July 2: CFAC Elementary School exhibition Gallery hours: Mondays - Thursdays from 12-4 PM or by appointment.

#the academy of lva exhibition #Children's Fine Art Classes #CFAC exhibition #art by kids

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LVA's Artebella On The Radio: April 4, 2019

Hannah Drake is a true "Rock Star" in the Louisville community, a force to be reckoned with! She was my guest for April 4 on WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com. Tune in at 10am each Thursday to hear Keith Waits talk to artists.

Hannah Drake is a blogger, activist, public speaker, poet, and the author of 9 books. She writes commentary on politics, feminism, and race and her work has been featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine. Hannah has presented at the Idea Festival, curated performances for the Festival of Faiths, partnered with The Louisville Ballet for their Choreographer’s Showcase, and exhibited her visual art and poetry at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft and 1619 Flux. Her poem “Spaces” was selected by the National Academy of Medicine for a national art exhibit about health equity. Hannah was selected as a 2017 Hadley Creative by the Community Foundation of Louisville and Creative Capital and her work has been honored by the Kentucky Alliance of Against Racist and Political Repression. In July of 2017, Hannah Drake was featured on the Tom Joyner Morning Show with Jacque Reid to discuss her movement, “Do Not Move Off The Sidewalk.” In February 2019, Hannah was selected by the Muhammad Ali Center to be a Daughter of Greatness which features prominent women engaged in social philanthropy, activism, and pursuits of justice. Hannah’s message is thought-provoking and at times challenging, but Hannah believes that it is in the uncomfortable spaces that change can take place. “My sole purpose in speaking and writing is not that I entertain you. I am trying to shake a nation.”

#Louisville artists #women artists #African American Women Artists #poets #activists #Colin Kaepernick #Hadley Creatives #Muhammad Ali #racuial equity

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2019 Art[squared] Featured Artist: Richard Sullivan

The 2019 Art[squared] Fundraiser will feature the work of three local artists sold through silent auction.

Richard Sullivan was a ballplayer before he was an artist - or was he an artist before he was a ballplayer? Both talents are accepted as inherent abilities; that to excel in either requires hard work, but to be really good requires you to be born with some ephemeral spark of ability.

Sullivan combines the two worlds in his subject matter: “My sports watercolors are directly linked to my past as a professional athlete. My goal is to convey the intense focus and concentration of athletes at the highest level of competition. I draw from my past experiences as a former professional pitcher to harness the emotion of each moment that I portray.”

Which might beg the question of how far does personal experience take you as an artist instead of observation. I’m sure Sullivan does not shirk on the latter, but he also knows the feeling of the pull and balance when the left leg ascends to its peak just before the pitcher unfurls that fastball, or the very specific cock of the shoulder before the batter swings.

But Sullivan, as most Kentucky painters inevitably will, has recently turned his attention to horses, so we can more accurately weigh the kineticism of his approach, the spontaneity of his marks, all of which make his work look deceptively easy.  

“I convey action, movement, and emotion through loose brush strokes and expressionist watercolor style. I have learned that watercolor is really about letting go. Each painting that I create requires the same amount of concentration that it took for me to pitch in a game, but after every successful painting I receive the same burst of energy and awareness. My hope with every painting is for the viewer to feel the same connection between art and sports that I do.”

“I have found parallels between painting and pitching that I would not have known existed until I was introduced to watercolor. When on the mound, once the ball would leave my hand, I would have little control over what would happen next. The same is true for watercolor. Every time I place a brushstroke, I have little control once it is on the paper. Just like facing a new opponent, each painting has new challenges.”

His work has been accepted into the permanent collection of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Yogi Berra Museum and exhibited by the Louisville Slugger Museum and the Kentucky Derby Museum. Over a dozen Major League Baseball players, including Tom Glavine have started collecting his work. Coca Cola recently commissioned him to create a special 75th Anniversary painting for USO.

In 2017 the Atlanta Braves commissioned Sullivan to create 18 original watercolor paintings and 20 prints for their new stadium SunTrust Park. The paintings line the corridors of the Champions suite and the Executive Offices. The Atlanta Falcons commissioned Sullivan to create a portrait of their owner, Arthur Blank, that hangs in the owner’s suite of the new Mercedes Benz Stadium.

Sullivan is a member of the 2019 Hadley Creatives Class, an initiative from the Community Foundation of Louisville.

In April Sullivan will be showing at Craft(s) Gallery. Horsepower: The Latest Works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Tyler Robertson and Richard Sullivan will run April 5th through May 31st, with an Opening Reception with the artists scheduled for Friday, April 5th from 6-10pm.

Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky Education: BFA, Illustration, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Website: Richardsullivanillustration.com

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Written by Keith Waits. Entire contents copyright © 2018 Louisville Visual Art. All rights reserved. In addition to his work at the LVA, Keith is also the Managing Editor of a website, Arts-Louisville.com, which covers local visual arts, theatre, and music in Louisville.

Are you interested in being on Artebella? Click here to learn more

#Louisville Artists #horses #sports painting #former baseball player #Atlanta Braves #portland neighborhood #Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile #Hadley Creatives

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Friday Link Roundup: March 22, 2019

TONIGHT:

Birds of Passage (Pájaros de Verano), Directed by Christina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, opens at Speed Cinema.

Inaugural Rocinante Records Concert Series features Brent Mathis. and Adventure.

SATURDAY:

The application period for the 2019 Hadley Prize for Visual Art is now open and there is an Information Session on how to prepare today.

1619 Flux Artist Mixer Event happens this morning

ONGOING:

Jake Ford’s Unveiled opens tonight at Quappi Projects

Dru Pilmer’s exhibit Moving Through is at Art Seed Gallery through April 5th.

Freeze State: Dissociating from the Here and Now is at Swanson Contemporary

Duality | The New Work of Valerie Timmons is at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Image and Word is at Kaviar Forge & Gallery through April 6.

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, and Barbara Tyson Mosley are exhibiting at Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany.

Rebirth, an exhibition by Bette Levy, continues at Pyro Gallery through March 23

Years of Chaos- Issues That Are Destroying Us is at Kore Gallery, now relocated to the Hope Mills Building.

#Louisville Art Galleries #Louisville Artists

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Friday Link Roundup: March 14, 2019

TONIGHT:

Jake Ford’s Unveiled opens tonight at Quappi Projects

Ruben Brandt, Collector, Directed by Milorad Krstić opens at Speed Cinema.

Just Like Us/Justo como nosotros, a co-production of Looking for Lilith & Teatro Tercera Llamada opens at The KY Center.

Wayward Actors Company opens OH MY GODS! - "God" by Woody Allen & "St. Francis Talks To The Birds" by David Ives at The Bard’s Town

ONGOING:

Dru Pilmer’s exhibit Moving Through is at Art Seed Gallery through April 5th.

Freeze State: Dissociating from the Here and Now is at Swanson Contemporary

Duality | The New Work of Valerie Timmons is at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Image and Word is at Kaviar Forge & Gallery through April 6.

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, and Barbara Tyson Mosley are exhibiting at Carnegie Center for Art & History in New Albany.

Rebirth, an exhibition by Bette Levy, continues at Pyro Gallery through March 23

Years of Chaos- Issues That Are Destroying Us is at Kore Gallery, now relocated to the Hope Mills Building.

Angie Reed Garner "shantyboating" is at garner narrative.

#Louisville artists #Louisville gallery openings #Louisville Theatre #Quappi Projects #The Bard's Town

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Friday Link Roundup: March 8, 2019

TONIGHT:

Archie Borders’ new film Under the Eiffel Tower has SOLD OUT its Louisville premiere tonight at Speed Cinema, but there are several other showings on the schedule in the next week.

Cabaret opens at Commonwealth Theatre Center

SATURDAY:

Artist Talk "Network is Networth" With Victor Sweatt will happen at 1619 Flux.

KORE Gallery’s official Grand Opening is today

StageOne Playmakers Gala: Small Steps, Giant Leaps is at C2 Event Venue

ONGOING:

Freeze State: Dissociating from the Here and Now is at Swanson Contemporary

Duality | The New Work of Valerie Timmons opens at Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile.

Image and Word just opened at Kaviar Forge & Gallery and runs through April 6.

Elmer Lucille Allen, Sandra Charles, and Barbara Tyson Mosley are exhibiting at Carnagie Center for Art & History in New Albany.

Rebirth, an exhibition by Bette Levy, continues at Pyro Gallery through March 23

Years of Chaos- Issues That Are Destroying Us is at Kore Gallery, now relocated to the Hope Mills Building.

Angie Reed Garner "shantyboating" is at garner narrative.

Industrial Wastelands Solo Exhibition from Dean Thomas at Tim Faulkner Gallery.

#Louisville artists #printmaking #Louisville Theatre #Louisville filmmakers

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LVA's Artebella On The Radio: March 7, 2019

Haydee Canovas of Teatro Tercera Llamada & Kathi E. B. Ellis of Looking for Lilith will join us this week to talk about the upcoming collaboration between the two companies, "Just Like Us/Justo como nosotros", which opens March 14. tune in to WXOX 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com each Thursday at 10am to hear Keith Waits talk to artists.

Haydee Canovas is a Health Care Professional, a playwright, actor, director & producer and co-founder of Teatro Tercera Llamada, a Spanish-language theatre company here in Louisville.

Kathi E.B. Ellis is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and a member of Lincoln Center and DirectorsLabChicago. She has attended the La MaMa Directing Symposium in Umbria, Italy and is featured in Southern Artistry, an online registry of outstanding southern artists. Her directing work has been recognized with nominations for South Florida theatre's Carbonell Award. Locally, Kathi is a member of Looking for Lilith Theatre Company, a founding principal of StageLab theatre training studio, and part of ShoeString Productions, an informal producing collective.

Just Like Us/Justo con nosotrs, based on Helen Thorpe’s book of the same name, dramatizes the lives of four Latinas in Denver – two of whom have papers, two of whom do not – as they navigate school and college, friends and romances, all within the shadow of their statuses. Their close-knit friendships and dreams begin to unravel when immigration status dictates the girls’ opportunities, or lack thereof. When a political firestorm arises, each girl’s future becomes increasingly complicated.

Hannah Connally and Jennifer Thalman Kepler (Founder & Co-Artistic Director Looking for Lilith) read a scene from the play.

#Louisville theatre #immigration #dramatic reading #Karen Zacarias

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Legacy: Marvin Finn (1913-2007)

When I was a student at the long ago-defunct Louisville School of Art, the school gallery in the Cloisters building hosted an early exhibition of the work of Marvin Finn. I remember the gallery being filled with a menagerie of wooden animals (I purchased a small bull for $11), but also intricately tooled machines: monolithic cranes, personable bulldozers, and magnificent biplanes hung from the ceiling at daredevil angles. The retired African American gentleman making all of this within the confines of his tiny Shelby Street home in the Clarksdale housing “projects” was the talk of the town, and his work was collected by the wealthy and powerful.  

Finn embodies the meaning of the Folk Art aesthetic. His love of carving wood came from watching his sharecropper father whittle as a young boy in Clio, Alabama, and his lack of any formal art education and adherence to simple forms fits the concept perfectly. He spent many years making wooden toys for his children and grandchildren so that there was also a purity in the motivation.

“There were ten boys and two girls in my family, and most of them older than I was, so I didn’t have toys except I made them,” said Finn when recalling his childhood on the farm in Clio. “I thought my old man was everything. When I was little I stood right up under him when he was whittling, and I learned it from him. I always tried to make my own toys when I was coming up as a kid. Anything that looked like a toy I would go into the woods and find me a tree and make it. But I remember a lot of Christmases when I never even seen me a toy.” (1)

After first exhibiting at the Kentuckiana Hobby and Gift Show in 1972, Finn’s profile rose over the next ten years, even though his prices did not. In the 1980’s the show at LSA and attention from the newly formed Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation (now KMAC) cemented Finn’s status as one of the most beloved and respected artists in Louisville.

Eighteen years ago, Louisville Mayor David Armstrong and an advisory committee developed the concept for the use of Marvin Finn’s work as the inspiration for a major public art initiative.

“Public art is more than an amenity in the streetscapes and open spaces in our city,” said Mayor Armstrong. “It evokes pride and awe in our city from passers-by, and it is a gift to every citizen.”

Thus, the idea for the flock of Finn’s was hatched. Dozens of owners of Finn’s art presented their originals to the Mayor’s advisory committee and 32 pieces were selected as models for the public art project. Colorful steel renditions, some as tall as nine feet, were cut out of half-inch thick steel and painted with graffiti proof paint by a cadre of artists mimicking the unique colors and patterns of Finn’s work. In April of 2001, the “Flock of Finns” landed in Waterfront Park in downtown Louisville.(2)

Finn’s work bridges traditional distinctions between craft and art. Although there is little functionality in the work, they began as toys but were almost never vessels or implements, it always expressed the naivete often associated with folk art, with a balance of rustic imagery and polished finish that enabled him to be embraced as easily by the fine art culture. The bright patterns of color were also seen as evocative of West African art, a connection to ancestry that is another important thread found in most Folk Art.

Today, Finn’s inspiration continues unabated, as many Louisville art teachers’ curriculum includes a ”Marvin Finn” project, most often in which children make their own brightly painted cut out birds.

(1) (2) marvinfinnweebly.com

Written by Keith Waits. Entire contents copyright © 2018 Louisville Visual Art. All rights reserved. In addition to his work at the LVA, Keith is also the Managing Editor of a website, Arts-Louisville.com, which covers local visual arts, theatre, and music in Louisville.

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#folk art #African American artists #Louisville artists