Hannah DeWitt

CPI Fellow, 2025-2026 Cohort

Art for Arthur Street Hotel

Hannah DeWitt is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans studio work, performance, and interactive experiences. Her work often embraces the personal and confessional, breaking down barriers and creating moments of connection between herself and her audience. Alongside her artistic practice, Hannah has gained curatorial experience as the former curator of the Chateau Gallery, an underground artist-run space in an abandoned Old Louisville mansion, and through projects such as her high school senior exhibition at the Kentucky Fine Art Gallery, which raised funds for art workshops she organized at the Kentucky School for the Blind.

For her CPI project, Hannah has partnered with the Arthur Street Hotel, a hotel-style transitional housing facility that provides safe, free housing and holistic support to its guests. Since opening in 2022, Arthur Street Hotel has helped more than 260 formerly unhoused individuals transition into permanent housing while also offering resources such as medical and mental health care, pet care, harm reduction, and assistance with securing essential documents. Hannah’s connection to the space grew out of a recognition that it is a place deserving of beauty, dignity, and art.

Her project, Art for Arthur Street Hotel, will be a permanent installation of commissioned works by local artists united under the theme of mutual aid and the guiding sentiment that “no one saves us but us.”

Curatorial Statement

Art for Arthur Street Hotel is a permanent installation of artworks in a local hotel-style transitional housing service for unhoused people. The project seeks to cultivate a positive environment of artistic stimulation for residents—one that offers moments of reflection, recognition, and warmth within their daily surroundings.

The works are thematically connected through the principle of mutual aid: the practice of people supporting one another through community-led systems of care. Mutual aid, unlike charity, is non-hierarchical and decentralized, working in a horizontal (or rhizomic) power structure in which all participants benefit from the betterment of the community. It can be as complex as a housing facility that provides wraparound support, or as simple as saying: “You have a wound, I have a bandage.”

The artists included in this installation were selected with consideration for both their artistic practices and their lived experiences. This project prioritizes artists who maintain meaningful connections to issues such as homelessness, food insecurity, and the medical or social challenges associated with low income—whether through firsthand experience or through sustained, care-centered community engagement. Brought together in this shared space, artists from a wide range of personal histories are united by an ethic of care, emphasizing connection, dignity, and person-to-person solidarity.

Elizabeth Foley

CPI Fellow, 2025-2026 Cohort

“From Which Your Life Flows”

Elizabeth Foley is an accomplished artist and educator whose career spans over twenty-five years of artmaking, teaching, and arts leadership. Her work has been exhibited regionally and is part of collections at 21c Museum Hotel Lexington, UK Chandler Medical Center, May Department Stores, and KentuckyOne Healthcare Network. Alongside her studio practice, she has taught art for two decades, including fifteen years at Sayre School in Lexington and now at Assumption High School in Louisville. Foley is also a founding member of the Bluegrass Printmakers’ Cooperative, where she served as Executive Director for ten years. A member of the Kentucky Crafted Program and the Kentucky Arts Council’s Artist in Residence Program, she was also part of the 2017–18 Hadley Creatives cohort and received a Kentucky Foundation for Women Artist Enrichment Grant in 2020. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Washington University in St. Louis, and both an MFA in Printmaking and an M.Ed. in Secondary Education from Ohio University.

For her CPI project, Elizabeth partnered with St. Vincent de Paul’s Ozanam Inn Men’s Emergency Shelter in Louisville’s Shelby Park neighborhood. Ozanam Inn provides emergency housing and supportive services for single men and veterans, helping individuals move toward long-term stability. Following recent renovations to the facility, Elizabeth saw an opportunity to further enhance the space by introducing artwork that reflects care, dignity, and hope.

Curatorial Statement

“So, dear Sir, I can’t give you any advice but this: to go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its source you will find the answer to the question of whether you must create. Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it. Perhaps you will discover that you are called to be an artist.

—Letter 1, Letters to a Young Poet; Rainer Maria Rilke

Where you live shifts the flow of life. It can assist in the growth process by providing a space of secure balance. Where you live can nurture you to move forward with your life. Perhaps it can be a space for dreaming about where life can take you.

Wherever you live, there should be art. Art gives a sense of belonging or familiarity that creates that safe space… that space to thrive. The title of this collection, From Which Your Life Flows, comes from a letter written by Ranier Maria Rilke to a young poet. He writes about discovering who you are. To move forward in life, it requires creative inspiration.

This collection of art provides that inspiration: a positive sense of place for clients and staff. The criterion for the chosen art was to evoke happy memories, contemplation, freedom, and laughter. Their purpose is to encourage becoming who you are meant to be.

The participating artists are Martin L. Benson, Kofi Darku, Tad DeSanto, Sebastian DuVerge, Marcia Holloway Ross, Lori Larusso, Shawn Marshall, Cynthia Molinari, Lance Newman, Lisa Schooling, and Jen Walters.

Reception for From Which Your Life Flows

Louisville Visual Art invites the public to celebrate the installation of From Which Your Life Flows, curated by Elizabeth Foley as part of the Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) program.

Monday, June 1, 2026
St. Vincent de Paul Ozanam Inn
2:00pm-3:30pm

Light refreshments and snacks will be provided.

RSVP Here →https://secure.qgiv.com/for/cpievents/event/cpi-ozanam/