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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 6.10.26

2026 Art[squared} at The LVA Gallery.

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WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: Elizabeth Foley recently wrapped up her Curate Purchase Inspire Fellowship through LVA, and she will join us this week to discuss her exhibit at St. Vincent de Paul Men’s Shelter. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.

THURSDAY/LVA Event: The 13th Annual art[squared Online Auction Fundraiser ends tonight with a party from 6 - 9 pm in the LVA Gallery. During this event, we will announce the winner of the 2026 Bill Fischer Award for Visual Art. Work from the 5 finalists will also be on display. This is a ticketed event.

FRIDAY: The 2026 Hite Institute MFA Graduates Exhibition will be on view at the Cressman Center June 12-July 3, 2026. A reception will be held tonight from 5-7 pm. Free and open to the public

SATURDAY: Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany opens a group exhibit, Gathered in the Garden, with a reception today from 4 - 7:30 pm.

Dobree Adams at Kleinhelter Gallery

SATURDAY: Open Air Media Festival (OAMF) is a traveling film/video art screening presented in three cities, the last of which is at The Big Four Bridge in Louisville tonight at 9 pm. OAMF is co-organized by Dana Potter, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the Hite Institute of Art + Design, University of Louisville,, and artists include Israel Lucius Barnes, Tiffany Carbonneau, Karl Erickson, Tyson Gentry, Laura Iancu, Sarah Lasley, Dwayne LeBlanc, Lex Leto, Song Lu, Maggie Murphy, Emily Sasmor, clay scofield, Eric Souther, Jenelle Stafford, Courtney Taniguchi, Roy Taylor, Michelle Trujillo, and Masha Vlasova.


LVA Event: Thaniel Ion Lee’s Six Sculptures and a Statement is open at the LVA Upstairs Project Space, 1538 Lytle St, Louisville.

Revelry Gallery opened UNABASHED RELICS: Queer Intimacies from the art of Alex Blom + Jack Manion.

Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery opened The Reluctant Resurrection, a solo show by Michael Toeniskoetter.

Pyro Gallery opened its Annual Invitational - 17 Members + 17 Guest Artists.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques, located at 157 E Main, New Albany, IN, is pleased to announce the upcoming art Exhibition, Queerly Beloved, a group show celebrating our LGBTQA+ artists.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery hosts "Recent Works" by Carol Brenner, Tobe & Stephen Forrester. The exhibit runs June 6 through July 18, 2026.

Kore Gallery opened 2 new exhibits: Confronting Beauty by Caron Maas Fausel, and Visceral Desires by Joshua Jenkins.

Garner Narrative opened, Manufactured Landscapes, new works by Stephen Dorsett.

Side by Side, a collaborative art show pairing young adults with disabilities with local working artists, opened at The Outsider Art Museum & Gallery. This is an annual program put on by Dreams with Wings.

Speed Museum hosts Eric N. Mack in the Gheens Court with RARE ESSENCE, a site-responsive arrangement of suspended textile paintings made from fabrics that are sheer, painted, dyed, patterned, and worn.

Wheelhouse Art LOU opened Patrick Smith: Full Size Big Work. There is also new work from Shawn Marshall.

The Floyd County Carnegie Cultural Arts Center is hosting REDEMPTION, featuring the works of artist Jaylin Monet' Stewart.

Preston Art Center opened Dips and Dunks, an exhibit of new work from Andrew Preston.

Artportal opened PORTALS: Art from the intervals of the Portal orbit, an exhibition showcasing all the artists who call PORTAL + ARTPORTAL home. 

The 849 Gallery at KyCAD opened the Senior Thesis Showcase featuring Madison Boone, Kerstin Imhoff, Asia Jewell, Beige Price, & Carol Ann Raby. On View: May 15 - July 31, 2026.

The Speed Art Museum opened Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Kentucky’s first exhibition devoted to Abstract Expressionism. This groundbreaking presentation celebrates the bold, innovative contributions of women who led the movement that transformed American art. .

Schneider Hall Galleries opened two exhibitions curated by Hite Institute CCS Students: A House that Watches Back,curated by Jacob Grant, and Between Flesh & Matter: Biomorphism in Analog Photography, curated by Amulya Priya Ankem.

MaybeItsFate opened two new exhibitions for the summer: With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, invites viewers to deepen their appreciation for insects — Earth's most diverse organisms and ecological cornerstone for over 350 million years — and to reflect on their critical role and increasing vulnerability in the Anthropocene era.

Conscious Collective: A Painter's View, curated by Aaron Lubrick, brings together a diverse group of artists united by their dedication to painting, exploring themes of shared humanity, interconnectedness, and optimism through deliberate, contemplative works that foster a sense of celebration and camaraderie within the broader community.

Seen in a Daydream: Art by Matt Tucker is on view in the WXOX Gallery at 515 West Breckinridge St. 20% of all proceeds benefit the nonprofit operations of WXOX 97.1 FM

Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations.

St. Matthew's Studios and Gallery opened Fascination!: a new crop of art and fascinators.

Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path is open in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.

The Paul Paletti Gallery opened Face It: A Portrait Show. Taken from the Paul Paletti collection (now numbering almost 2000 pieces) and curated by Gallery Assistant Sam Miller.

Celebrating the Black Experience opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Moremen Gallery hosts Natural Formations, sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone.

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster.

ZG|StudioWorkZ opened the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists.

vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?

Hannah DeWitt curated Art for Arthur Street. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Arthur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area..

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 6.03.26

Thaniel Ion Lee at The LVA Project Space

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: The 2026art[squared] Online Auction Party happens on June 11th, and featured artists, Justin Franklin Baldwin & Ann Klemwill be in the studio this week. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.

FRIDAY/LVA Event: Thaniel Ion Lee’s Six Sculptures and a Statement opens at the LVA Upstairs Project Space, 1538 Lytle St, Louisville, with a reception from 5 to 7 PM that will include a Q & A between the artist and Joey Yates from KMAC at 6 PM.

FRIDAY: Revelry Gallery opens UNABASHED RELICS: Queer Intimacies from the art of Alex Blom + Jack Manion, with a reception tonight from 6 - 9 pm.

FRIDAY:Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery opens The Reluctant Resurrection, a solo show by Michael Toeniskoetter, with an opening reception tonight from 6-8 pm.

FRIDAY: Pyro Gallery opens its Annual Invitational - 17 Members + 17 Guest Artists, with a reception tonight from 6-9 pm.

SATURDAY: Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques, located at 157 E Main, New Albany, IN, is pleased to announce the upcoming art Exhibition, Queerly Beloved, a group show celebrating our LGBTQA+ artists.

SATURDAY: Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery hosts the Opening Reception of "Recent Works" by Carol Brenner, Tobe & Stephen Forrester today from 1–4 PM. The exhibit runs June 6 through July 18, 2026.

SATURDAY: Kore Gallery opens 2 new exhibits: Confronting Beauty by Caron Maas Fausel, and Visceral Desires by Joshua Jenkins. There is a reception tonight from 6 - 8:30 pm.

SUNDAY: Garner Narrative opens, Manufactured Landscapes, new works by Stephen Dorsett, with a reception and artist’s talk today from 1 - 3 pm.

Side by Side, a collaborative art show pairing young adults with disabilities with local working artists, opened at The Outsider Art Museum & Gallery. This is an annual program put on by Dreams with Wings.

Jack Manion at Revelry Gallery


Speed Museum hosts Eric N. Mack in the Gheens Court with RARE ESSENCE, a site-responsive arrangement of suspended textile paintings made from fabrics that are sheer, painted, dyed, patterned, and worn.

Wheelhouse Art LOU opened Patrick Smith: Full Size Big Work. There is also new work from Shawn Marshall.

The Floyd County Carnegie Cultural Arts Center is hosting REDEMPTION, featuring the works of artist Jaylin Monet' Stewart.

Joyce Garner: it's still spring, is open at garner narrative,

Preston Art Center opened Dips and Dunks, an exhibit of new work from Andrew Preston.

Artportal opened PORTALS: Art from the intervals of the Portal orbit, an exhibition showcasing all the artists who call PORTAL + ARTPORTAL home. 

The 849 Gallery at KyCAD opened the Senior Thesis Showcase featuring Madison Boone, Kerstin Imhoff, Asia Jewell, Beige Price, & Carol Ann Raby. On View: May 15 - July 31, 2026.

The Speed Art Museum opened Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Kentucky’s first exhibition devoted to Abstract Expressionism. This groundbreaking presentation celebrates the bold, innovative contributions of women who led the movement that transformed American art. .

Schneider Hall Galleries opened two exhibitions curated by Hite Institute CCS Students: A House that Watches Back,curated by Jacob Grant, and Between Flesh & Matter: Biomorphism in Analog Photography, curated by Amulya Priya Ankem.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques, located at 157 E Main, New Albany, opened BLK & BRN Unbounded,. A group show celebrating African Americans and all people of color as artists and or subject matter, the gallery owner and artist Jes Allen curated it.

MaybeItsFate opened two new exhibitions for the summer: With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, invites viewers to deepen their appreciation for insects — Earth's most diverse organisms and ecological cornerstone for over 350 million years — and to reflect on their critical role and increasing vulnerability in the Anthropocene era.

Conscious Collective: A Painter's View, curated by Aaron Lubrick, brings together a diverse group of artists united by their dedication to painting, exploring themes of shared humanity, interconnectedness, and optimism through deliberate, contemplative works that foster a sense of celebration and camaraderie within the broader community.

Seen in a Daydream: Art by Matt Tucker is on view in the WXOX Gallery at 515 West Breckinridge St. 20% of all proceeds benefit the nonprofit operations of WXOX 97.1 FM

Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations.

Seen, Not Seen: New Work by Caroline Waite & Catherine Cornelius, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

St. Matthew's Studios and Gallery opened Fascination!: a new crop of art and fascinators.

Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path is open in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.

The Paul Paletti Gallery opened Face It: A Portrait Show. Taken from the Paul Paletti collection (now numbering almost 2000 pieces) and curated by Gallery Assistant Sam Miller.

Celebrating the Black Experience opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Moremen Gallery hosts Natural Formations, sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone.

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster.

ZG|StudioWorkZ opened the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists.

vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?

Hannah DeWitt curated Art for Arthur Street. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Arthur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area..

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

If you want to be added to future listings, submit your information using this ONLINE FORM. The deadline to be included in each weekly guide is Mondays at Noon.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 5.27.26

CFAC student Destini Gray at The LVA Gallery

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: The 2026art[squared] Online Auction Party happens on June 11th, and featured artists Douglas Miller, Uhma Janus, and Drew Scanlon will be in the studio this week. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.

SATURDAY: Speed Cinema presents Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo, directed by Ali Ray. Today and Sunday at 1 pm.

SUNDAY/LVA Event: There will be a reception today from 2 - 3:30 pm for the Children’s Fine Art Class Elementary Exhibition


Wheelhouse Art LOU opened Patrick Smith: Full Size Big Work. There is also new work from Shawn Marshall.

The Floyd County Carnegie Cultural Arts Center is hosting REDEMPTION, featuring the works of artist Jaylin Monet' Stewart.

Joyce Garner: it's still spring, is open at garner narrative,

Preston Art Center opened Dips and Dunks, an exhibit of new work from Andrew Preston.

Artportal opened PORTALS: Art from the intervals of the Portal orbit, an exhibition showcasing all the artists who call PORTAL + ARTPORTAL home. 

The 849 Gallery at KyCAD opened the Senior Thesis Showcase featuring Madison Boone, Kerstin Imhoff, Asia Jewell, Beige Price, & Carol Ann Raby. On View: May 15 - July 31, 2026.

Kerstin Imhoff at KyCAD’s 849 Gallery

Alana Fitzgerald opened her collaborative installation, Another Forest, in the LVA Project Space.

The Speed Art Museum opened Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Kentucky’s first exhibition devoted to Abstract Expressionism. This groundbreaking presentation celebrates the bold, innovative contributions of women who led the movement that transformed American art.

The 2026 Louisville Artisans Guild Showcase is now open at Kore Gallery.

Schneider Hall Galleries opened two exhibitions curated by Hite Institute CCS Students: A House that Watches Back,curated by Jacob Grant, and Between Flesh & Matter: Biomorphism in Analog Photography, curated by Amulya Priya Ankem.

Pyro Gallery is showing TIME ZONES, Paintings from the Road, Mary Farnum Burnley.

Revelry Gallery brings back their annual group show, ALT, for the 7th year! This show is an exhibition that requires artists to create work from alternative, unconventional materials. Featuring Ada Asenjo, Albertus Gorman, Autumn Fox, Brandon Kells, Eden Wray, Grace Henderson, Gretchen Leachman, Herb Bradshaw, Kelly Zellers, Kim Kelting, Lily Angeline, Makenna Schibler, Needa Hameed, Renee Golway, Sheila Fox, Teri Burt, and Tiny Art Lady

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques, located at 157 E Main, New Albany, opened BLK & BRN Unbounded,. A group show celebrating African Americans and all people of color as artists and or subject matter, the gallery owner and artist Jes Allen curated it.

Kore Gallery opened Tranimals, creations by Drew Scanion and Max Trumpower..

MaybeItsFate opened two new exhibitions for the summer: With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, invites viewers to deepen their appreciation for insects — Earth's most diverse organisms and ecological cornerstone for over 350 million years — and to reflect on their critical role and increasing vulnerability in the Anthropocene era.

Conscious Collective: A Painter's View, curated by Aaron Lubrick, brings together a diverse group of artists united by their dedication to painting, exploring themes of shared humanity, interconnectedness, and optimism through deliberate, contemplative works that foster a sense of celebration and camaraderie within the broader community.

Seen in a Daydream: Art by Matt Tucker is on view in the WXOX Gallery at 515 West Breckinridge St. 20% of all proceeds benefit the nonprofit operations of WXOX 97.1 FM

Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations.

Seen, Not Seen: New Work by Caroline Waite & Catherine Cornelius, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

St. Matthew's Studios and Gallery opened Fascination!: a new crop of art and fascinators.

Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path is open in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.

The Paul Paletti Gallery opened Face It: A Portrait Show. Taken from the Paul Paletti collection (now numbering almost 2000 pieces) and curated by Gallery Assistant Sam Miller.

Celebrating the Black Experience opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Moremen Gallery hosts Natural Formations, sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone.

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster.

ZG|StudioWorkZ opened the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists.

vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?

Hannah DeWitt curated Art for Arthur Street. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Arthur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area..

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

If you want to be added to future listings, submit your information using this ONLINE FORM. The deadline to be included in each weekly guide is Mondays at Noon.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 5.20.26

Jaylin Stewart at Floyd County Carnegie Cutlural Center

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: Joyce Garner has a new exhibit at garner narrative, and she will be in the studio this week. Tune into Artists Talk with LVAeach Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM/Artxfm.com.

THURSDAY: In conjunction with the LSA Reunion Show, Ed Hamilton, David Caudill, & Ken Reker are giving a gallery talkat Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery today from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

FRIDAY: Wheelhouse Art LOU opens Patrick Smith: Full Size Big Work with a reception tonight from 6 - 8 pm. There will also be new work from Shawn Marshall.

FRIDAY: Tonight, the Floyd County Carnegie Cultural Arts Center will be hosting an opening reception for REDEMPTION from 5-8 PM, featuring the works of artist Jaylin Monet' Stewart.

SUNDAY: Joyce Garner: it's still spring, is open at garner narrative, and there will be a reception with the artist today from 1-3 pm.

SUNDAY: Today at 2 pm, Preston Art Center opens Dips and Dunks, an exhibit of new work from Andrew Preston.

Patrick Smith at Wheelhouse Art LOU


Artportal opened PORTALS: Art from the intervals of the Portal orbit, an exhibition showcasing all the artists who call PORTAL + ARTPORTAL home. 

The 849 Gallery at KyCAD opens the Senior Thesis Showcase featuring Madison Boone, Kerstin Imhoff, Asia Jewell, Beige Price, & Carol Ann Raby. On View: May 15 - July 31, 2026.

Alana Fitzgerald opened her collaborative installation, Another Forest, in the LVA Project Space.

The Speed Art Museum opened Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Kentucky’s first exhibition devoted to Abstract Expressionism. This groundbreaking presentation celebrates the bold, innovative contributions of women who led the movement that transformed American art.

Caroline Waite will discuss her new work on view at Kleinhelter Gallery beginning at 2 pm today.  Seen, Not Seen continues until June 6.

The 2026 Louisville Artisans Guild Showcase is now open at Kore Gallery.

Schneider Hall Galleries opened two exhibitions curated by Hite Institute CCS Students: A House that Watches Back,curated by Jacob Grant, and Between Flesh & Matter: Biomorphism in Analog Photography, curated by Amulya Priya Ankem.

Pyro Gallery is showing TIME ZONES, Paintings from the Road, Mary Farnum Burnley.

Revelry Gallery brings back their annual group show, ALT, for the 7th year! This show is an exhibition that requires artists to create work from alternative, unconventional materials. Featuring Ada Asenjo, Albertus Gorman, Autumn Fox, Brandon Kells, Eden Wray, Grace Henderson, Gretchen Leachman, Herb Bradshaw, Kelly Zellers, Kim Kelting, Lily Angeline, Makenna Schibler, Needa Hameed, Renee Golway, Sheila Fox, Teri Burt, and Tiny Art Lady

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques, located at 157 E Main, New Albany, opened BLK & BRN Unbounded,. A group show celebrating African Americans and all people of color as artists and or subject matter, the gallery owner and artist Jes Allen curated it.

Kore Gallery opened Tranimals, creations by Drew Scanion and Max Trumpower..

MaybeItsFate opened two new exhibitions for the summer: With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, invites viewers to deepen their appreciation for insects — Earth's most diverse organisms and ecological cornerstone for over 350 million years — and to reflect on their critical role and increasing vulnerability in the Anthropocene era.

Conscious Collective: A Painter's View, curated by Aaron Lubrick, brings together a diverse group of artists united by their dedication to painting, exploring themes of shared humanity, interconnectedness, and optimism through deliberate, contemplative works that foster a sense of celebration and camaraderie within the broader community.

Seen in a Daydream: Art by Matt Tucker is on view in the WXOX Gallery at 515 West Breckinridge St. 20% of all proceeds benefit the nonprofit operations of WXOX 97.1 FM

Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations.

A Limited Time, A Pop Up Exhibition of Selected Works by Jacob Heustis, is open at 1226 Rowan Street (13th Street entrance). The exhibit runs through May 23.

Seen, Not Seen: New Work by Caroline Waite & Catherine Cornelius, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

St. Matthew's Studios and Gallery opened Fascination!: a new crop of art and fascinators.

Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path is open in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.

The Paul Paletti Gallery opened Face It: A Portrait Show. Taken from the Paul Paletti collection (now numbering almost 2000 pieces) and curated by Gallery Assistant Sam Miller.

Celebrating the Black Experience opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened The LSA Reunion Show, a special exhibition celebrating the legacy of the Louisville School of Art. Founded in 1909, LSA was Kentucky’s only four-year professional college of art, first located at the University of Louisville, then in Anchorage from 1969 to 1981, and finally at The Cloister in Louisville until 1985.

Moremen Gallery hosts Natural Formations, sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone.

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster.

ZG|StudioWorkZ opened the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists.

vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?

Hannah DeWitt curated Art for Arthur Street. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Arthur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area..

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

If you want to be added to future listings, submit your information using this ONLINE FORM. The deadline to be included in each weekly guide is Mondays at Noon.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 5.13.26

CFAC Student Addison Tucker at The LVA Gallery

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: KyCAD Seniors: Beige Price, Asia Jewell, Madison Boone, Carol Ann Raby, & Kerstin Imhoff are in the studio this week. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA.

THURSDAY: Artportal opens PORTALS: Art from the intervals of the Portal orbit, starting at 6 p.m. This exhibition showcases all the artists that call PORTAL + ARTPORTAL home. This will be followed by a concert featuring Pansy Division, Bev Rage and The Drinks, and Highway Eyes in the main music venue at 7:30 p.m. 

THURSDAY: In conjunction with the LSA Reunion Show, Ed Hamilton, David Caudill, & Ken Reker are giving a gallery talk at Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery today from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

FRIDAY: The 849 Gallery at KyCAD opens the Senior Thesis Showcase featuring Madison Boone, Kerstin Imhoff, Asia Jewell, Beige Price, & Carol Ann Raby. On View: May 15 - July 31, 2026, with an Opening Reception tonight from 5 - 7:30 pm. 849 S. 3rd Street, Louisville.

FRIDAY: QUILTS: Unconventional Kentucky Stitchwork at Outsider Art Museum & Gallery closes with a reception tonight from 5 to 8 pm.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY: Art Heist is back at KMAC. Interact with colorful characters, attend an artist talk, and – when the unthinkable happens, and an artwork is stolen – use your detective skills to determine the culprit! Tickets are available for May 15th AND May 16th, 6-9 pm.

SATURDAY/LVA Event: Alana Fitzgerald opens her collaborative installation, Another Forest, in the LVA Project Space, with a reception tonight from 6 - 8 pm.

SATURDAY: The Speed Art Museum opens Abstract Expressionists: The Women, Kentucky’s first exhibition devoted to Abstract Expressionism. This groundbreaking presentation celebrates the bold, innovative contributions of women who led the movement that transformed American art. There will be a guided tour today at 2 pm.

SATURDAY: Caroline Waite will discuss her new work on view at Kleinhelter Gallery beginning at 2 pm today.  Seen, Not Seen continues until June 6.

SUNDAY: Today at 1 pm, Speed Museum presents Chris Reitz, Director of the Hite Institute of Art and Design, giving a lecture connected to the exhibition Abstract Expressionists: The Women Abstraction Reconsidered: Terms, Histories, and the Women who Shaped Them, FREE.

SUNDAY/LVA Event:There is a reception today for Middle School students in the Children’s Fine Art Classes (CFAC), from 2 - 3:30 pm at The LVA Gallery.


The 2026 Louisville Artisans Guild Showcase is now open at Kore Gallery.

Schneider Hall Galleries opened two exhibitions curated by Hite Institute CCS Students: A House that Watches Back,curated by Jacob Grant, and Between Flesh & Matter: Biomorphism in Analog Photography, curated by Amulya Priya Ankem.

Pyro Gallery is showing TIME ZONES, Paintings from the Road, Mary Farnum Burnley.

Revelry Gallery brings back their annual group show, ALT, for the 7th year! This show is an exhibition that requires artists to create work from alternative, unconventional materials. Featuring Ada Asenjo, Albertus Gorman, Autumn Fox, Brandon Kells, Eden Wray, Grace Henderson, Gretchen Leachman, Herb Bradshaw, Kelly Zellers, Kim Kelting, Lily Angeline, Makenna Schibler, Needa Hameed, Renee Golway, Sheila Fox, Teri Burt, and Tiny Art Lady

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques, located at 157 E Main, New Albany, opened BLK & BRN Unbounded,. A group show celebrating African Americans and all people of color as artists and or subject matter, the gallery owner and artist Jes Allen curated it.

Kore Gallery opened Tranimals, creations by Drew Scanion and Max Trumpower..

MaybeItsFate opened two new exhibitions for the summer: With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, invites viewers to deepen their appreciation for insects — Earth's most diverse organisms and ecological cornerstone for over 350 million years — and to reflect on their critical role and increasing vulnerability in the Anthropocene era.

Conscious Collective: A Painter's View, curated by Aaron Lubrick, brings together a diverse group of artists united by their dedication to painting, exploring themes of shared humanity, interconnectedness, and optimism through deliberate, contemplative works that foster a sense of celebration and camaraderie within the broader community.

Joyce Garner: it's still spring , opens for viewing today at garner narrative, and a reception with the artist is scheduled for May 24 from 1-3 pm.

Seen in a Daydream: Art by Matt Tucker is on view in the WXOX Gallery at 515 West Breckinridge St. 20% of all proceeds benefit the nonprofit operations of WXOX 97.1 FM

Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations.

A Limited Time, A Pop Up Exhibition of Selected Works by Jacob Heustis, is open at 1226 Rowan Street (13th Street entrance). The exhibit runs through May 23.

Seen, Not Seen: New Work by Caroline Waite & Catherine Cornelius, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

St. Matthew's Studios and Gallery opened Fascination!: a new crop of art and fascinators.

Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path is open in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.

The Paul Paletti Gallery opened Face It: A Portrait Show. Taken from the Paul Paletti collection (now numbering almost 2000 pieces) and curated by Gallery Assistant Sam Miller.

Celebrating the Black Experience opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened The LSA Reunion Show, a special exhibition celebrating the legacy of the Louisville School of Art. Founded in 1909, LSA was Kentucky’s only four-year professional college of art, first located at the University of Louisville, then in Anchorage from 1969 to 1981, and finally at The Cloister in Louisville until 1985.

Moremen Gallery hosts Natural Formations, sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone.

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster.

ZG|StudioWorkZ opened the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists.

vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?

Hannah DeWitt curated Art for Arthur Street. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Artrhur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.

The Speed Museum has opened Your “Boy, Jack: Fluid Impressions of Lilian Miller.

Liz Price returns to WheelHouse Art, LOU, with her latest solo exhibition of new paintings, In the Shade

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

Art in City Hall Prospect opened. Fresh Art, an exhibit featuring professional and student artists (ages 18-30) working in fiber, glass, clay, paint, and mixed media. 

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

The Little Loomhouse opened, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area..

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, opens at MaybeItsFate on May 9th. Clare discusses her curatorial debut with Margaret Carreiro, Professor of Biology Emerita, University of Louisville. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

THURSDAY: In conjunction with the LSA Reunion Show, Buddy Colucci, Fred Maurer (Difrenzi), and Art Orr are giving a gallery talk at Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery today from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

THURSDAY: Tonight from 4 - 6 pm, Schneider Hall Galleries hosts the opening reception for two exhibitions curated by Hite Institute CCS Students: A House that Watches Back,curated by Jacob Grant, andBetween Flesh & Matter: Biomorphism in Analog Photography, curated by Amulya Priya Ankem.

FRIDAY: There will be an artist’s reception tonight, from 5:30-8:30 pm at Pyro Gallery for TIME ZONES, Paintings from the Road, Mary Farnum Burnley.

FRIDAY: Revelry Gallery brings back their annual group show, ALT, for the 7th year! This show is an exhibition that requires artists to create work from alternative, unconventional materials. Featuring Ada Asenjo, Albertus Gorman, Autumn Fox, Brandon Kells, Eden Wray, Grace Henderson, Gretchen Leachman, Herb Bradshaw, Kelly Zellers, Kim Kelting, Lily Angeline, Makenna Schibler, Needa Hameed, Renee Golway, Sheila Fox, Teri Burt, and Tiny Art Lady

FRIDAY/LVA EVENT: There is a reception tonight for students in The Academy at LVA, from 5 - 7 pm at The LVA Gallery.

SATURDAY: The Jasteka Cultural Center invites all who think, make, write, or speak creatively to Creatives Connect, a free program that includes a tour of the art on view at Jasteka, along with time to meet and mingle over snacks and a guided conversation about how we can make our creative community stronger. Free, with registration at jasteka.org today from 2 - 4 pm.

SATURDAY: Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques, located at 157 E Main, New Albany, opens BLK & BRN Unbounded, with a reception today from 1 - 3 pm. A group show celebrating African Americans and all people of color as artists and or subject matter, the gallery owner and artist Jes Allen curated it.

SATURDAY: Kore Gallery opens Tranimals, creations by
Drew Scanion and Max Trumpowe
r, with a reception tonight from 6 - 8:30 pm.

SATURDAY: MaybeItsFate opens two new exhibitions for the summer with a reception tonight from 5 - 8 pm: With Insects We Share the Same Light, curated by Clare Hirn, invites viewers to deepen their appreciation for insects — Earth's most diverse organisms and ecological cornerstone for over 350 million years — and to reflect on their critical role and increasing vulnerability in the Anthropocene era.

Conscious Collective: A Painter's View, curated by Aaron Lubrick, brings together a diverse group of artists united by their dedication to painting, exploring themes of shared humanity, interconnectedness, and optimism through deliberate, contemplative works that foster a sense of celebration and camaraderie within the broader community.

Drew Scanlon at Kore Gallery


STILL ON VIEW

Joyce Garner: it's still spring , opens for viewing today at garner narrative, and a reception with the artist is scheduled for May 24 from 1-3 pm.

Seen in a Daydream: Art by Matt Tucker is on view in the WXOX Gallery at 515 West Breckinridge St. 20% of all proceeds benefit the nonprofit operations of WXOX 97.1 FM

Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations.

A Limited Time, A Pop Up Exhibition of Selected Works by Jacob Heustis, is open at 1226 Rowan Street (13th Street entrance). The exhibit runs through May 23.

Seen, Not Seen: New Work by Caroline Waite & Catherine Cornelius, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

St. Matthew's Studios and Gallery opened Fascination!: a new crop of art and fascinators.

Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path is open in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.

The Paul Paletti Gallery opened Face It: A Portrait Show. Taken from the Paul Paletti collection (now numbering almost 2000 pieces) and curated by Gallery Assistant Sam Miller.

Celebrating the Black Experience opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened The LSA Reunion Show, a special exhibition celebrating the legacy of the Louisville School of Art. Founded in 1909, LSA was Kentucky’s only four-year professional college of art, first located at the University of Louisville, then in Anchorage from 1969 to 1981, and finally at The Cloister in Louisville until 1985.

Moremen Gallery hosts Natural Formations, sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone.

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster.

ZG|StudioWorkZ opened the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists.

vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?

Hannah DeWitt curated Art for Arthur Street. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Artrhur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.

The Speed Museum has opened Your “Boy, Jack: Fluid Impressions of Lilian Miller.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany, IN, opened Figuratively Speaking, a solo show by Louisville artist Heather Murray.

Liz Price returns to WheelHouse Art, LOU, with her latest solo exhibition of new paintings, In the Shade

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

Art in City Hall Prospect opened. Fresh Art, an exhibit featuring professional and student artists (ages 18-30) working in fiber, glass, clay, paint, and mixed media. 

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.

The Little Loomhouse opened, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 4.29.26

Mary Farnley Burnham at Pyro Gallery

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WHAT’S NEW

WEDNESDAY: Wheelhouse Art LOU opens In Good Company: Artists from the St. Matthews Studios and Gallery, at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville,, a group show featuring artists Lynn Dunbar, Teri Dryden, Jeanne Freibert, Julie Hohmann, Gretchen Treitz, and Page Penna, there will be a reception tonight from 6 - 8 pm.

THURSDAY: Albertus Gorman discusses G.W. Morrison, Artist: To a Finer Effect, the exhibit that he curated at the Cultural Arts Center. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

THURSDAY: In conjunction with the LSA Reunion Show, Jacque Parsley, Denise Furnish, & Brenda Wirth are giving a gallery talk at Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery today from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

FRIDAY: TIME ZONES, Paintings from the Road, Mary Farnum Burnley, opens for viewing today at Pyro Gallery. There will be an artist’s reception on May 8th, from 5:30-8:30 pm.

FRIDAY:Joyce Garner: it's still spring , opens for viewing today at garner narrative, and a reception with the artist is scheduled for May 24 from 1-3 pm.

Joyce Garner at garner narrative


STILL ON VIEW

Seen in a Daydream: Art by Matt Tucker is on view in the WXOX Gallery at 515 West Breckinridge St. 20% of all proceeds benefit the nonprofit operations of WXOX 97.1 FM

Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations.

A Limited Time, A Pop Up Exhibition of Selected Works by Jacob Heustis, opens tonight at 1226 Rowan Street (13th Street entrance). The exhibit runs through May 23.

Seen, Not Seen: New Work by Caroline Waite & Catherine Cornelius, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

St. Matthew's Studios and Gallery opened Fascination!: a new crop of art and fascinators.

Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path is open in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.

Schneider Hall Galleries, the Hite Institute of Art + Design opened the Spring 2026 BFA Thesis Exhibition, presenting the work of 13 students graduating with a degree in Fine Arts.

The Paul Paletti Gallery opened Face It: A Portrait Show. Taken from the Paul Paletti collection (now numbering almost 2000 pieces) and curated by Gallery Assistant Sam Miller.

Celebrating the Black Experience opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Kore Gallery opened Tyler Robertson, The Weight of Glory.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened The LSA Reunion Show, a special exhibition celebrating the legacy of the Louisville School of Art. Founded in 1909, LSA was Kentucky’s only four-year professional college of art, first located at the University of Louisville, then in Anchorage from 1969 to 1981, and finally at The Cloister in Louisville until 1985.

Ann Dawkins presents A Soft Landing, a pop-up exhibition of pastry paintings at MaybeItsFate Social, on view April 10–19, 2026. 20% of all sales will be donated to Feed Louisville, supporting efforts to address food insecurity within the local community.

Moremen Gallery hosts Natural Formations, sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone.

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster.

ZG|StudioWorkZ opened the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists.

vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?

garner narrative presents Abyssal, the first Louisville solo exhibition by Cuban-born painter Roberto Piloto Morciego.

Robert Lockhart, Conner Stephenson, & Chasson Higdon have new work on exhibit at Pyro Gallery.

Hannah DeWitt curated Art for Arthur Street. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Artrhur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.

The Speed Museum has opened Your “Boy, Jack: Fluid Impressions of Lilian Miller.

Doomscroll: A Group Art Show About Resistance, Grief & Resilience, opened at Grady Goods +Artpunk Gallery..

Revelry Gallery announces the return of their annual group Derby exhibit: Win, Place, Art Show, featuring Chad McConnell, Ewa Perz, Geran Thur, Isabella Siebert, Julio Cesar, Katherine Eldridge, Kevin Oeschli, Patrick Jilbert, Shae Goodlett, Sophia Fowler, Susan Howe, Tommy Rallis, Travis Strange, & Wylie Caudill.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany, IN, opened Figuratively Speaking, a solo show by Louisville artist Heather Murray.

Kore Gallery opened THE OTHER SIDEa show by female artists, featuring Tomisha Allen, Tonnea Green, Dessie Spears, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Sonja Brooks, Jabani Bennett, Kristie Berry, Jes Allen, Sabra Crockett, Nahla Muhamnad, Sheila Johnson, Elmer Lucille Allen, Clare Hirn, Cynthia Woolever, & Taylor Sanders.

Liz Price returns to WheelHouse Art, LOU, with her latest solo exhibition of new paintings, In the Shade

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

2801 Gallery Lou at 2801 S. Floyd St. is pleased to present Selected Works from the Undergraduate Sculpture Program at UofL Hite Institute of Art+ Design.

Art in City Hall Prospect opened. Fresh Art, an exhibit featuring professional and student artists (ages 18-30) working in fiber, glass, clay, paint, and mixed media. 

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Wheelhouse Art is showing ROBERT STAGG COLLECTIONS at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206.

Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.

The Little Loomhouse opened, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 4.22.26

Jim Cantrell at Lowber Gallery

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WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: Hannah DeWitt discusses her recently completed CPI Fellowship and the resulting exhibit, Art for Arthur Street. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

FRIDAY: Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations. There is an artist's reception today from 5:30 - 8:30 pm.

FRIDAY: A Limited Time, A Pop Up Exhibition of Selected Works by Jacob Heustis, opens tonight at 1226 Rowan Street (13th Street entrance) with a reception from 5 - 9 pm. The exhibit runs through May 23.

FRIDAY: The Speed Cinema will show Steal This Story, Please! a new documentary about Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! After the Saturday, April 25th, 6 PM screening, WXOX/Artxfm.com will host a live community discussion about the film and the radio program.

SATURDAY: Seen, Not Seen: New Work by Caroline Waite & Catherine Cornelius, opens today at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany, with a reception from 4.00 -7.30 pm


Caroline Waite at Kleinhelter Gallery

STILL ON VIEW

St. Matthew's Studios and Gallery opened Fascination!: a new crop of art and fascinators.

Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path, is open in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.

Schneider Hall Galleries, the Hite Institute of Art + Design opened the Spring 2026 BFA Thesis Exhibition, presenting the work of 13 students graduating with a degree in Fine Arts.

The Paul Paletti Gallery opened Face It: A Portrait Show. Taken from the Paul Paletti collection (now numbering almost 2000 pieces) and curated by Gallery Assistant Sam Miller.

Celebrating the Black Experience opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

The Hite Institute MFA Gallery opened Drew Scanlon's thesis exhibition tender fantasies. On view April 13-24.

Kore Gallery opened Tyler Robertson, The Weight of Glory.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened The LSA Reunion Show, a special exhibition celebrating the legacy of the Louisville School of Art. Founded in 1909, LSA was Kentucky’s only four-year professional college of art, first located at the University of Louisville, then in Anchorage from 1969 to 1981, and finally at The Cloister in Louisville until 1985.

Ann Dawkins presents A Soft Landing, a pop-up exhibition of pastry paintings at MaybeItsFate Social, on view April 10–19, 2026. 20% of all sales will be donated to Feed Louisville, supporting efforts to address food insecurity within the local community.

Moremen Gallery hosts Natural Formations, sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone.

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster.

ZG|StudioWorkZ opened the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists.

vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?

garner narrative LARGE presents Abyssal, the first Louisville solo exhibition by Cuban-born painter Roberto Piloto Morciego.

Robert Lockhart, Conner Stephenson, & Chasson Higdon have new work on exhibit at Pyro Gallery.

Hannah DeWitt curated Art for Arthur Street. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Artrhur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.

The Speed Museum has opened Your “Boy, Jack: Fluid Impressions of Lilian Miller.

Doomscroll: A Group Art Show About Resistance, Grief & Resilience, opened at Grady Goods +Artpunk Gallery..

Revelry Gallery announces the return of their annual group Derby exhibit: Win, Place, Art Show, featuring Chad McConnell, Ewa Perz, Geran Thur, Isabella Siebert, Julio Cesar, Katherine Eldridge, Kevin Oeschli, Patrick Jilbert, Shae Goodlett, Sophia Fowler, Susan Howe, Tommy Rallis, Travis Strange, & Wylie Caudill.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany, IN, opened Figuratively Speaking, a solo show by Louisville artist Heather Murray.

Kore Gallery opened THE OTHER SIDEa show by female artists, featuring Tomisha Allen, Tonnea Green, Dessie Spears, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Sonja Brooks, Jabani Bennett, Kristie Berry, Jes Allen, Sabra Crockett, Nahla Muhamnad, Sheila Johnson, Elmer Lucille Allen, Clare Hirn, Cynthia Woolever, & Taylor Sanders.

Liz Price returns to WheelHouse Art, LOU, with her latest solo exhibition of new paintings, In the Shade

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

2801 Gallery Lou at 2801 S. Floyd St. is pleased to present Selected Works from the Undergraduate Sculpture Program at UofL Hite Institute of Art+ Design.

Art in City Hall Prospect opened. Fresh Art, an exhibit featuring professional and student artists (ages 18-30) working in fiber, glass, clay, paint, and mixed media. 

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Wheelhouse Art is showing ROBERT STAGG COLLECTIONS at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206.

Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.

The Little Loomhouse opened, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 4.15.26

Lynn Dunbar at St. Matthews Gallery

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WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: Art Orr & Martin Rollins discuss The LSA Reunion Show opening at Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery on April 19th. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

THURSDAY: St. Matthew's Studios and Gallery opens Fascination!: a new crop of art and fascinators, with a reception tonight from 5 - 8 pm.

THURSDAY: There is an opening reception for Chasing the Shot: Travel Photography Off the Beaten Path tonight from 5-7 pm, in the Julius Friedman Gallery in Archives & Special Collections.

THURSDAY: Schneider Hall Galleries, the Hite Institute of Art + Design opens Spring 2026 BFA Thesis Exhibition, presenting the work of 13 students graduating with a degree in Fine Arts. There will be a reception tonight from 5 - 7 pm.

FRIDAY: The Paul Paletti Gallery opens Face It: A Portrait Show with a reception tonight from 5 - 7 pm. Taken from the Paul Paletti collection (now numbering almost 2000 pieces) and curated by Gallery Assistant Sam Miller.

FRIDAY: Celebrating the Black Experience opens tonight at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage with a reception from 6 - 9 pm.

FRIDAY: The Hite Institute MFA Gallery hosts the opening of Drew Scanlon's thesis exhibition tender fantasies. On view April 13-24, a reception will be held tonight from 6-9 pm.

FRIDAY: Sojourn Arts hosts a music experience and artist talk with Marianne Lettieri about her exhibit Wilderness Waiting, tonight at 7 PM. Doors open 7 -9 PM with the talk and music beginning at 7:30 PM.

Maria Gonzalez/Atherton H.S. at LVA GAllery

SATURDAY/ LVA EVENT: In the LVA Gallery,there will be a closing reception today at 2 pm for the JCPS All-City Student Art Show.

SATURDAY: Kore Gallery opens Tyler Robertson, The Weight of Glory, with a reception tonight from 6 - 8:30 pm.

SUNDAY: Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opens The LSA Reunion Show, a special exhibition celebrating the legacy of the Louisville School of Art, with a reception today from 1 - 4 pm. Founded in 1909, LSA was Kentucky’s only four-year professional college of art, first located at the University of Louisville, then in Anchorage from 1969 to 1981, and finally at The Cloister in Louisville until 1985.


STILL ON VIEW

Ann Dawkins presents A Soft Landing, a pop-up exhibition of pastry paintings at MaybeItsFate Social, on view April 10–19, 2026. 20% of all sales will be donated to Feed Louisville, supporting efforts to address food insecurity within the local community.

Moremen Gallery hosts "Natural Formations", sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone.

Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opened Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster.

ZG|StudioWorkZ opened the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists.

vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?

garner narrative LARGE presents Abyssal, the first Louisville solo exhibition by Cuban-born painter Roberto Piloto Morciego.

Robert Lockhart, Conner Stephenson, &.Chasson Higdon has new work on exhibit at Pyro Gallery.

Hannah DeWitt curated Art for Arthur Street. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Artrhur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.

The Speed Museum has opened Your “Boy, Jack: Fluid Impressions of Lilian Miller.

Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations. The exhibit is open, but the artist's reception will be on April 24th.

Doomscroll: A Group Art Show About Resistance, Grief & Resilience, opened at Grady Goods +Artpunk Gallery..

Revelry Gallery announces the return of their annual group Derby exhibit: Win, Place, Art Show, featuring Chad McConnell, Ewa Perz, Geran Thur, Isabella Siebert, Julio Cesar, Katherine Eldridge, Kevin Oeschli, Patrick Jilbert, Shae Goodlett, Sophia Fowler, Susan Howe, Tommy Rallis, Travis Strange, & Wylie Caudill.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany, IN, opened Figuratively Speaking, a solo show by Louisville artist Heather Murray.

Kore Gallery opened THE OTHER SIDEa show by female artists, featuring Tomisha Allen, Tonnea Green, Dessie Spears, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Sonja Brooks, Jabani Bennett, Kristie Berry, Jes Allen, Sabra Crockett, Nahla Muhamnad, Sheila Johnson, Elmer Lucille Allen, Clare Hirn, Cynthia Woolever, & Taylor Sanders.

Liz Price returns to WheelHouse Art, LOU, with her latest solo exhibition of new paintings, In the Shade

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

2801 Gallery Lou at 2801 S. Floyd St. is pleased to present Selected Works from the Undergraduate Sculpture Program at UofL Hite Institute of Art+ Design.

Art in City Hall Prospect opened. Fresh Art, an exhibit featuring professional and student artists (ages 18-30) working in fiber, glass, clay, paint, and mixed media. 

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Wheelhouse Art is showing ROBERT STAGG COLLECTIONS at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206.

Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.

The Little Loomhouse opened, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 4.08.26

Ceirra Johnson at Arthur Street Hotel

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WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: Jae Grady, Alexandra Rumsay, & Bearykah Shah, join us in the studio to discuss the Doomscroll exhibition at Grady Goods. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

FRIDAY: From 2 - 3 today, The Hite Institute hosts a Panel Discussion for MISSING, featuring Rich Colicchio, Judy Glantzman, and Anita Vitale. Moderated by Chris Reitz and Jennifer Sichel.

FRIDAY: Ann Dawkins presents A Soft Landing, a pop-up exhibition of pastry paintings at MaybeItsFate Social, on view April 10–19, 2026. The opening reception will be tonight from 5–8 PM. 20% of all sales will be donated to Feed Louisville, supporting efforts to address food insecurity within the local community.

FRIDAY:Moremen Gallery hosts the opening reception for "Natural Formations", sustainably made paintings and sculptures by Karen Boone. Tonight from 5:30–8:00 PM.

FRIDAY: Kentucky Fine Art Gallery opens Equus, a group show featuring the works of Jeaneen Barnhart, Jaime Corum, Susan Hackworth, Robert Halliday, and David O. Schuster. There will be a reception tonight from 5 to 7 pm.

FRIDAY/ LVA EVENT: LVA presents an exhibit of work by uhma janus at Kentucky Opera in conjunction with their production of Scalia/Ginsburg, opening tonight and running through April 17.

FRIDAY: ZG|StudioWorkZ opens the exhibition Here Be Dragons/The Studio Remix II, a mythical-creature-themed show featuring work from both StudioWorkZ and local artists. The Studio remix will be tonight from 6 - 9 pm.

FRIDAY: vanessa german returns to the Speed Art Museum to present the inaugural exhibition of the Sam Gilliam Visiting Artist Program (SGVAP), ...do you remember when you were the sky?

SATURDAY: garner narrative LARGE presents Abyssal, the first Louisville solo exhibition by Cuban-born painter Roberto Piloto Morciego. The artist’s reception will be tonight from 6 - 8 pm.

Ann Dawkins at MaybeItsFate

SUNDAY: Robert Lockhart, Conner Stephenson, &.Chasson Higdon has new work on exhibit at Pyro Gallery. The opening reception will be on April 12th.

SUNDAY/ LVA EVENT: Hannah DeWitt unveils Art for Arthur Street today at 2 pm. This is a permanent exhibit in the lobby of Artrhur Street Hotel resulting from her CPI Fellowship through Louisville Visual Art.

SUNDAY: There will be a closing reception today for Elle Hendrickson’s "They seemed neither, and yet both" at The Quonset Hut, from 6 -8 pm.


STILL ON VIEW

The Speed Museum has opened Your “Boy, Jack: Fluid Impressions of Lilian Miller.

Lowber Gallery is hosting the work of legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations. The exhibit is open, but the artist's reception will be on April 24th.

Doomscroll: A Group Art Show About Resistance, Grief & Resilience, opened at Grady Goods +Artpunk Gallery..

Revelry Gallery announces the return of their annual group Derby exhibit: Win, Place, Art Show, featuring Chad McConnell, Ewa Perz, Geran Thur, Isabella Siebert, Julio Cesar, Katherine Eldridge, Kevin Oeschli, Patrick Jilbert, Shae Goodlett, Sophia Fowler, Susan Howe, Tommy Rallis, Travis Strange, & Wylie Caudill.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany, IN, opened Figuratively Speaking, a solo show by Louisville artist Heather Murray.

Kore Gallery opened THE OTHER SIDEa show by female artists, featuring Tomisha Allen, Tonnea Green, Dessie Spears, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Sonja Brooks, Jabani Bennett, Kristie Berry, Jes Allen, Sabra Crockett, Nahla Muhamnad, Sheila Johnson, Elmer Lucille Allen, Clare Hirn, Cynthia Woolever, & Taylor Sanders.

Liz Price returns to WheelHouse Art, LOU, with her latest solo exhibition of new paintings, In the Shade

Stephanie Laporte Ferrer’s The Ghosts That Receive My Last Sigh MFA Thesisexhibition runs March 25-April 3, at the Hite Institute’s MFA Galleries in the Portland neighborhood.

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

2801 Gallery Lou at 2801 S. Floyd St. is pleased to present Selected Works from the Undergraduate Sculpture Program at UofL Hite Institute of Art+ Design.

Art in City Hall Prospect opened. Fresh Art, an exhibit featuring professional and student artists (ages 18-30) working in fiber, glass, clay, paint, and mixed media. 

Moremen Gallery presents selected works from Tim Harrier's An Emotional Journey.

Philip Campbell: Comfort is open at garner LARGE.

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Wheelhouse Art is showing ROBERT STAGG COLLECTIONS at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206.

Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.

The Little Loomhouse opened, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery hosts a new exhibition of works by Andie Davis and Larry Zoeller.

Expressions of a Dendrophile, paintings by Brenda Wirth, is open at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Drifting on a Memory, curated by Shauntrice Black, has opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 4.01.26

Chad McConnell at Revelry Gallery

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: Elle Hendrickson’s They seemed neither, and yet both, is on exhibit at The Quonset Hut, and this week they join us in the studio. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

THURSDAY: It’s opening day at The Speed Museum for Your “Boy, Jack: Fluid Impressions of Lilian Miller.

FRIDAY: Lowber Gallery is hosting legendary Kentucky artist Jim Cantrell: Architectural Paintings & Illustrations. The exhibit is open, but the artist's reception will be on April 24th.

FRIDAY: Doomscroll: A Group Art Show About Resistance, Grief & Resilience, opens at Grady Goods +Artpunk Gallery with a reception tonight from 6-10 pm.

FRIDAY: Revelry Gallery announces the return of their annual group Derby exhibit: Win, Place, Art Show, featuring Chad McConnell, Ewa Perz, Geran Thur, Isabella Siebert, Julio Cesar, Katherine Eldridge, Kevin Oeschli, Patrick Jilbert, Shae Goodlett, Sophia Fowler, Susan Howe, Tommy Rallis, Travis Strange, Wylie Caudill There will be a reception tonight from 6 - 9 pm.

FRIDAY: garner narrative contemporary presents Abyssal.The first Louisville solo exhibition by Cuban-born painter Roberto Piloto Morciego,. The artist’s reception will be on April 11th.

FRIDAY: Robert Lockhart, Conner Stephenson, &.Chasson Higdon has new work on exhibit at Pyro Gallery. The opening reception will be on April 12th.

SATURDAY: Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany, IN, opens Figuratively Speaking, a solo show by Louisville artist Heather Murray, with a reception today from 1 -m 3 pm.

SATURDAY: Kore Gallery opens THE OTHER SIDE, a show by female artists, featuring Tomisha Allen, Tonnea Green, Dessie Spears, Barbara Tyson Mosley, Sonja Brooks, Jabani Bennett, Kristie Berry, Jes Allen, Sabra Crockett, Nahla Muhamnad, Sheila Johnson, Elmer Lucille Allen, Clare Hirn, Cynthia Woolever, & Taylor Sanders. There will be a reception from 6 - 8:30 pm.

Roberto Piloto Morciego at garner narrative


STILL ON VIEW

Liz Price returns to WheelHouse Art, LOU, with her latest solo exhibition of new paintings, In the Shade

Stephanie Laporte Ferrer’s The Ghosts That Receive My Last Sigh MFA Thesisexhibition runs March 25-April 3, at the Hite Institute’s MFA Galleries in the Portland neighborhood.

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

2801 Gallery Lou at 2801 S. Floyd St. is pleased to present Selected Works from the Undergraduate Sculpture Program at UofL Hite Institute of Art+ Design.

Art in City Hall Prospect opened. Fresh Art, an exhibit featuring professional and student artists (ages 18-30) working in fiber, glass, clay, paint, and mixed media. 

Moremen Gallery presents selected works from Tim Harrier's An Emotional Journey.

Philip Campbell: Comfort is open at garner LARGE.

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Wheelhouse Art is showing ROBERT STAGG COLLECTIONS at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206.

Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.

Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery is showing If You Ain’t Right, Get Right!: Badasses of Kentucky Music- new works by father and son, Todd Fife and Malcolm Fife.

Kore Gallery opens two exhibits: Mason-Gianni Stone’s BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL, AND Alana Fitzgerald’s MFA thesis exhibition, Between Two Lights: Re-Worlding After Abstraction. Spanning across two galleries, there will be over 20 paintings exhibited, as well as drawings, sculptural installations, and a working interactive raft. 

The Little Loomhouse opened, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery hosts a new exhibition of works by Andie Davis and Larry Zoeller.

Expressions of a Dendrophile, paintings by Brenda Wirth, is open at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Drifting on a Memory, curated by Shauntrice Black, has opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Elle Hendrickson’s "They seemed neither, and yet both" opened at The Quonset Hut,

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Maureen Hagerman opened a show of new work at Lowber Gallery.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

If you want to be added to future listings, submit your information using this ONLINE FORM. The deadline to be included in each weekly guide is Mondays at Noon.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 3.25.26

Liz Price at Wheelhouse Art LOU

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WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: KMAC Couture is on March 28th, and this week, Malcolm Fife, Louis Taylor-Barks, & Jacob Grant will join us in the studio. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

THURSDAY: There will be a closing reception from 5-7 PM tonight for the Scholastic Silver Key and Honorable Mention exhibition at the University of Louisville’s Schneider Hall Galleries.

THURSDAY: The Quonset Hut hosts a Gallery Talk with Jenn Sichel & Joey Yates in conjunction with Elle Hendrickson’s "They seemed neither, and yet both".

FRIDAY: Liz Price returns to WheelHouse Art, LOU, with her latest solo exhibition of new paintings, In the Shade. There will be an opening reception from 6 - 8 pm, with a conversation with the artist at 7 pm.

SATURDAY: Brenda Wirth gives a gallery talk today at 2 pm for her exhibit, Expressions of a Dendrophile, now on view at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

SATURDAY: KMAC Couture is tonight, beginning at 7:15 pm.

SATURDAY: Stephanie Laporte Ferrer’s The Ghosts That Receive My Last Sigh MFA Thesisexhibition runs March 25-April 3, at the Hite Institute’s MFA Galleries in the Portland neighborhood. There will be a reception today from 6-9 pm

SUNDAY: The group show, Grounded, ends today at garner narrative, and there will be a closing reception with the artists from 1 - 3 pm.

SUNDAY: The Portland Museum hosts a closing reception and artist’s talk for RESIDUALS: Interiors and Exteriors by Dean Thomas, today from 2 - 5 pm.


STILL ON VIEW

KMAC opened Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Streetat The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street.

2801 Gallery Lou at 2801 S. Floyd St. is pleased to present Selected Works from the Undergraduate Sculpture Program at UofL Hite Institute of Art+ Design.

Art in City Hall Prospect opened. Fresh Art, an exhibit featuring professional and student artists (ages 18-30) working in fiber, glass, clay, paint, and mixed media. 

Moremen Gallery presents selected works from Tim Harrier's An Emotional Journey.

Philip Campbell: Comfort is open at garner LARGE.

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Wheelhouse Art is showing ROBERT STAGG COLLECTIONS at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206.

Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.

Revelry Gallery welcomes Lauren Hillerich for her debut gallery show, Hodge Podge.

Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery is showing If You Ain’t Right, Get Right!: Badasses of Kentucky Music- new works by father and son, Todd Fife and Malcolm Fife.

Kore Gallery opens two exhibits: Mason-Gianni Stone’s BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL, AND Alana Fitzgerald’s MFA thesis exhibition, Between Two Lights: Re-Worlding After Abstraction. Spanning across two galleries, there will be over 20 paintings exhibited, as well as drawings, sculptural installations, and a working interactive raft. 

The Little Loomhouse opened, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.

PYRO Gallery has opened RETRO: OLD AND NEW, with a special exhibit: C.J. Pressma's last work.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques opened The Matriarch Revolution: We Are Not Going Back, a celebration of female artists during Women’s History Month.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery hosts a new exhibition of works by Andie Davis and Larry Zoeller.

Expressions of a Dendrophile, paintings by Brenda Wirth, is open at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Drifting on a Memory, curated by Shauntrice Black, has opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Elle Hendrickson’s "They seemed neither, and yet both" opened at The Quonset Hut,

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

KMAC is once again honored to host the Gold Key and American Vision Nominees Exhibition.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Maureen Hagerman opened a show of new work at Lowber Gallery.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

Where Memory Lives: New Paintings by Nancy Wentzel & Charlotte Pollock, opened at The Meadows Gallery in The Masonic Home.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 3.19.26

Stan Squirewell at KMAC.

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WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: The 2026 LVA Honors is on March 20th, and this week, Education Honoree Ying Kit Chan will join us in the studio. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

THURSDAY: KMAC opens Stan Squirewell's new exhibition, Threads of Influence, tonight with a reception from 5-8 pm.

FRIDAY: The Hite Institute of Art + Design opens MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street at The Cressman Center. This exhibition returns to December 1985, when five New York artists traveled to Louisville to stage an unlikely show in a vacant building at 600 East Main Street. There will be a Lecture and Discussion with Mysoon Rizk from 3-4 pm, and a Reception from 5-7 pm.

FRIDAY: The 2026 LVA Honors Fundraiser is tonight at Mellwood Art Center. Listen to an interview with two of the honorees, Robyn Gibson & Tom Pfannerstill, on Artists Talk with LVA.

SATURDAY: 2801 Gallery Lou at 2801 S. Floyd St. is pleased to present Selected Works from the Undergraduate Sculpture Program at UofL Hite Institute of Art+ Design. There will be an opening reception tonight from 6-10 pm.

SUNDAY: Art in City Hall Prospect opens. Fresh Art, an exhibit featuring professional and student artists (ages 18-30) working in fiber, glass, clay, paint, and mixed media. The opening reception is today from 2 pm to 5 pm. 

Unknown Photographer, The Missing Children Show, 600 East Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky, 1985. Photo courtesy of the David Wojnarowicz Foundation.


STILL ON VIEW

Moremen Gallery presents selected works from Tim Harrier's An Emotional Journey.

Philip Campbell: Comfort is open at garner LARGE..

Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri is on exhibit at Soujourn Arts.

Wheelhouse Art is showing ROBERT STAGG COLLECTIONS at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206.

Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.

Revelry Gallery welcomes Lauren Hillerich for her debut gallery show, Hodge Podge.

Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery is showing If You Ain’t Right, Get Right!: Badasses of Kentucky Music- new works by father and son, Todd Fife and Malcolm Fife.

Kore Gallery opens two exhibits: Mason-Gianni Stone’s BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL, AND one part of Alana Fitzgerald’s MFA thesis exhibition, Between Two Lights: Re-Worlding After Abstraction. Spanning across two galleries, there will be over 20 paintings exhibited, as well as drawings, sculptural installations, and a working interactive raft. 

And the 2nd part of Alana’s exhibition can be found at theHite Institute of Art + Design's MFA Gallery at 1616 Rowan St..

The Little Loomhouse opened, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.

PYRO Gallery has opened RETRO: OLD AND NEW, with a special exhibit: C.J. Pressma's last work.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques opened The Matriarch Revolution: We Are Not Going Back, a celebration of female artists during Women’s History Month.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery hosts a new exhibition of works by Andie Davis and Larry Zoeller.

Expressions of a Dendrophile, paintings by Brenda Wirth, is open at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Drifting on a Memory, curated by Shauntrice Black, has opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Elle Hendrickson’s "They seemed neither, and yet both" opened at The Quonset Hut,

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

The Portland Museum opened RESIDUALS: Interiors and Exteriors by Dean Thomas.

KMAC is once again honored to host the Gold Key and American Vision Nominees Exhibition.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Maureen Hagerman opened a show of new work at Lowber Gallery.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

Wheelhouse Art opened Market Boom: Emerging Artists from Louisville’s East Market District 2000–2008, a group exhibition and the curatorial debut of artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Featuring art by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley, Tammy Burke, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Maiza Hixson, John King, Thaniel Ion Lee, Cynthia Norton, Letitia Quesenberry, Michael Ratterman, and Dmitry Strakovsky. Listen to an interview with Thaniel Ion Lee on Artists Talk with LVA.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

Hite Institute for Art has opened 2 exhibits at the Schneider Hall galleries: Little Fictions: Highlights from the University Art Collection, and Paired Influence: MFA Students’ Selections from the University Collection.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

Where Memory Lives: New Paintings by Nancy Wentzel & Charlotte Pollock, opened at The Meadows Gallery in The Masonic Home.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 3.11.26

Philip Campbell at garner LARGE

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: The 2026 LVA Honors is March 20th, and two of the honorees, Robyn Gibson & Tom Pfannerstill, join us in the studio.. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

FRIDAY: Moremen Gallery presents selected works from Tim Harrier's An Emotional Journey, with a reception tonight from 5:30 - 7:30 pm.

SUNDAY: Philip Campbell: Comfort is open at garner LARGE, and there will be a reception from 2-4 pm, including an artist talk at 3 pm.

SUNDAY:Wilderness Waiting by Marianne Lettieri, is on exhibit beginning today at Soujourn Arts.


STILL ON VIEW

Wheelhouse Art will host a reception tonight from 6 - 8 pm forROBERT STAGG COLLECTIONS, at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206.

Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opened at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.

Revelry Gallery welcomes Lauren Hillerich for her debut gallery show, Hodge Podge.

Marianne Lettieri at Sojourn Arts

Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery is showing If You Ain’t Right, Get Right!: Badasses of Kentucky Music- new works by father and son, Todd Fife and Malcolm Fife.

Kore Gallery opens two exhibits: Mason-Gianni Stone’s BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL, AND one part of Alana Fitzgerald’s MFA thesis exhibition, Between Two Lights: Re-Worlding After Abstraction, Spanning across two galleries, there will be over 20 paintings exhibited as well as drawings, sculptural installation, and a working interactive raft. 

And the 2nd part of Alana’s exhibition can be found at theHite Institute of Art + Design's MFA Gallery at 1616 Rowan St..

The Little Loomhouse opened,Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition.

PYRO Gallery has opened RETRO: OLD AND NEW, with a special exhibit: C.J. Pressma's last work.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques opened The Matriarch Revolution: We Are Not Going Back, a celebration of female artists during Women’s History Month.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery hosts a new exhibition of works by Andie Davis and Larry Zoeller.

Expressions of a Dendrophile, paintings by Brenda Wirth, opens today at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Drifting on a Memory, curated by Shauntrice Black, has opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Elle Hendrickson’s "They seemed neither, and yet both" opened at The Quonset Hut,

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

The Portland Museum opened RESIDUALS: Interiors and Exteriors by Dean Thomas.

KMAC is once again honored to host the Gold Key and American Vision Nominees Exhibition.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Maureen Hagerman opened a show of new work at Lowber Gallery.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

Wheelhouse Art opened Market Boom: Emerging Artists from Louisville’s East Market District 2000–2008, a group exhibition and the curatorial debut of artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Featuring art by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley, Tammy Burke, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Maiza Hixson, John King, Thaniel Ion Lee, Cynthia Norton, Letitia Quesenberry, Michael Ratterman, and Dmitry Strakovsky. Listen to an interview with Thaniel Ion Lee on Artists Talk with LVA.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

Hite Institute for Art has opened 2 exhibits at the Schneider Hall galleries:Little Fictions: Highlights from the University Art Collection, and Paired Influence: MFA Students’ Selections from the University Collection.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

Where Memory Lives: New Paintings by Nancy Wentzel & Charlotte Pollock, opened at The Meadows Gallery in The Masonic Home.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened,Maybe Kudzu Covering My Body: Camouflage in the South, at The Cressman Center. A group exhibition featuring work by borealis, Jacob Riddle, Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn, Max Trumpower, Elle Hendrickson, Raymond Thompson & more.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

KMAC Museum opened 2 exhibits: Trey Abdella “Bug Bites” & Crafting in Miniature.

ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Aflora We Flourish in the Midst of Chaos and Oppression, curated by Ada Asenjo and featuring the work of 17 Latinx artists, opened at The Frazier Museum.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 3.4.26

Alana Fitzgerald at Kore Gallery & the Hite MFA Gallery

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

WEDNESDAY: Wheelhouse Art will host a reception tonight from 6 - 8 pm for ROBERT STAGG COLLECTIONS, at The Wine Room at 2704 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY 40206.

THURSDAY: SXPF exhibiting potters Lindsey Oesteritter & Autumn McKay join us in the studio this week. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

THURSDAY: Chenoa Buster’s MA thesis exhibition, Life is Elsewhere: Social Surrealism in Kentucky Photography, opens tonight at ArtPortal in the Portland neighborhood. Listen to an interview with Chenoa on Artists Talk with LVA.

FRIDAY: The 2026 Southern Crossings Pottery Festival is happening tonight and Saturday at Ten20 Brewery.

FRIDAY: Revelry Gallery welcomes Lauren Hillerich for her debut gallery show, Hodge Podge, with a reception tonight from 6 - 9 pm.

FRIDAY: Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery hosts the opening reception of If You Ain’t Right, Get Right!: Badasses of Kentucky Music- new works by father and son, Todd Fife and Malcolm Fife. There will be a reception tonight from 6 - 8 pm.

FRIDAY: Kore Gallery opens two exhibits: Mason-Gianni Stone’s BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL, AND one part of Alana Fitzgerald’s MFA thesis exhibition, Between Two Lights: Re-Worlding After Abstraction, with a reception tonight from 6-8:30 Spanning across two galleries, there will be over 20 paintings exhibited as well as drawings, sculptural installation, and a working interactive raft. 

SATURDAY: And the 2nd part of Alana’s exhibition can be found at the Hite Institute of Art + Design's MFA Gallery at 1616 Rowan St., with a reception from 4-6 pm.

SATURDAY: The Little Loomhouse opens, Fashioned to Carry - A Handbag and Fiber Works Exhibition with a reception today from 2-4 pm. Free and Open to the Public.

SUNDAY: PYRO Gallery has opened RETRO: OLD AND NEW, with a special exhibit: C.J. Pressma's last work. There will be a reception today from 1-4 pm.

Malcolm Fife at Grady Goods Artpunk Gallery


STILL ON VIEW

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques opened The Matriarch Revolution: We Are Not Going Back, a celebration of female artists during Women’s History Month.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery hosts a new exhibition of works by Andie Davis and Larry Zoeller.

Expressions of a Dendrophile, paintings by Brenda Wirth, opens today at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany.

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Drifting on a Memory, curated by Shauntrice Black, has opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Elle Hendrickson’s "They seemed neither, and yet both" opened at The Quonset Hut,

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

The Portland Museum opened RESIDUALS: Interiors and Exteriors by Dean Thomas.

KMAC is once again honored to host the Gold Key and American Vision Nominees Exhibition.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Maureen Hagerman opened a show of new work at Lowber Gallery.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

Wheelhouse Art opened Market Boom: Emerging Artists from Louisville’s East Market District 2000–2008, a group exhibition and the curatorial debut of artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Featuring art by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley, Tammy Burke, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Maiza Hixson, John King, Thaniel Ion Lee, Cynthia Norton, Letitia Quesenberry, Michael Ratterman, and Dmitry Strakovsky. Listen to an interview with Thaniel Ion Lee on Artists Talk with LVA.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

Hite Institute for Art has opened 2 exhibits at the Schneider Hall galleries: Little Fictions: Highlights from the University Art Collection, and Paired Influence: MFA Students’ Selections from the University Collection.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

Wheelhouse Art presents an Elissa Rose Morley solo exhibition at The Wine Room.

Where Memory Lives: New Paintings by Nancy Wentzel & Charlotte Pollock, opened at The Meadows Gallery in The Masonic Home.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened, Maybe Kudzu Covering My Body: Camouflage in the South, at The Cressman Center. A group exhibition featuring work by borealis, Jacob Riddle, Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn, Max Trumpower, Elle Hendrickson, Raymond Thompson & more.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

garner LARGE has opened Erin McGee Ferrell: She Rides.

KMAC Museum opened 2 exhibits: Trey Abdella “Bug Bites” & Crafting in Miniature.

LaVon Van Williams Jr. - Everything Must Change is open at The Speed Museum.

ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Aflora We Flourish in the Midst of Chaos and Oppression, curated by Ada Asenjo and featuring the work of 17 Latinx artists, opened at The Frazier Museum.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

If you want to be added to future listings, submit your information using this ONLINE FORM. The deadline to be included in each weekly guide is Mondays at Noon.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 2.25.26

Kacie Miller at Chestnuts and Pearls

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: Chenoa Buster is an MA candidate in Curatorial Studies at the University of Louisville’s Hite Institute. She opens her thesis exhibit at Artportal on March 6 and joins us in the studio this week. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

FRIDAY: Speed Cinema is screening the 2026 Oscar Nominated Short Films through March 1.

SATURDAY: Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques opens The Matriarch Revolution: We Are Not Going Back, celebrating female artists during Women’s History Month. There is a reception today from 1 - 3 pm.

SATURDAY: Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery also hosts a reception from 1 - 3 pm for a new exhibition of works by Andie Davis and Larry Zoeller.

SATURDAY: Expressions of a Dendrophile, paintings by Brenda Wirth, opens today at Kleinhelter Gallery in New Albany with a reception from 3 - 7 pm.


STILL ON VIEW

Home Now is now open at Worldwide Showcase Gallery. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

Hiram Hdez at Worldwide Showcase Gallery

Drifting on a Memory, curated by Shauntrice Black, has opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Sarah Jane Castellon’s MFA Thesis Exhibition for the University of Louisville, Poke, is open at the MFA Gallery on Rowan Street.

Elle Hendrickson’s "They seemed neither, and yet both" opened at The Quonset Hut,

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

The Portland Museum opened RESIDUALS: Interiors and Exteriors by Dean Thomas.

KMAC is once again honored to host the Gold Key and American Vision Nominees Exhibition.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery opened Love Me / Love Me Not: the good, the bad, & the ugly of luv - works by William David Pollard.

Maureen Hagerman opened a show of new work at Lowber Gallery.

Revelry Gallery welcomes Imani Burns for her debut solo show, Nanigi, and is also featuring Tiny Art, Big Heart: the Fifth Annual Valentine’s Show.

Kore Gallery opened 2 exhibits: Geoff Crowe’s Steeped in Ash, and George McCracken’s By George.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

For February, garner narrative has opened a group show of gallery artists, including Stephen Dorsett, Erin McGee Ferrell, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner, Maureen Hagerman, Malynda Poulsen, Wendi Smith, Aleksandra Stone, & Mary Yates.

Wheelhouse Art opened Market Boom: Emerging Artists from Louisville’s East Market District 2000–2008, a group exhibition and the curatorial debut of artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Featuring art by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley, Tammy Burke, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Maiza Hixson, John King, Thaniel Ion Lee, Cynthia Norton, Letitia Quesenberry, Michael Ratterman, and Dmitry Strakovsky. Listen to an interview with Thaniel Ion Lee on Artists Talk with LVA.

Pyro Gallery opened Homegrown Stories, New Work by Terry Spangler Dunham, Sherrie Dunham, and Charlotte Pollock. Listen to an interview with Terry Spangler Dunham & Charlotte Pollock on Artists Talk with LVA.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

Hite Institute for Art has opened 2 exhibits at the Schneider Hall galleries: Little Fictions: Highlights from the University Art Collection, and Paired Influence: MFA Students’ Selections from the University Collection.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened Form in Flux, with works by Chad Balster & Dena Williams.

Landscapes and Backdrops: paintings by Katrina Johansen, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

Wheelhouse Art presents an Elissa Rose Morley solo exhibition at The Wine Room.

Where Memory Lives: New Paintings by Nancy Wentzel & Charlotte Pollock, opened at The Meadows Gallery in The Masonic Home.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened, Maybe Kudzu Covering My Body: Camouflage in the South, at The Cressman Center. A group exhibition featuring work by borealis, Jacob Riddle, Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn, Max Trumpower, Elle Hendrickson, Raymond Thompson & more.

Tori Christensen’s The Colors of Darkness, A Touchable Art Show, opened at The Little Loomhouse. Listen to an interview with the artist on Artists Talk with LVA.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

garner LARGE has opened Erin McGee Ferrell: She Rides.

KMAC Museum opened 2 exhibits: Trey Abdella “Bug Bites” & Crafting in Miniature.

LaVon Van Williams Jr. - Everything Must Change is open at The Speed Museum.

ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Aflora We Flourish in the Midst of Chaos and Oppression, curated by Ada Asenjo and featuring the work of 17 Latinx artists, opened at The Frazier Museum.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 2.18.26

Elle Hendrickson at The Quonset Hut

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WHAT’S NEW

WEDNESDAY: There is an Artist Talk with Visiting Artist Kristina Paabus today at 4:30 pm, at the Schneider Hall Galleries on the University of Louisville campus.

THURSDAY: The 2026 Art in City Hall exhibit has opened, and three of the artists, Dawn Della Bella, Tim O’ Connell, & Matthew Hagan, join us in the studio this week. Tune into Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

SATURDAY: Home Now opens at Worldwide Showcase Gallery today with a reception from 4 - 8 pm. The exhibit features the work of Cuban-born artists Andy Llanes Bulto, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Hiram Hernandez, Humberto Lahera, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, & Pedro Roque.

SATURDAY: Sarah Jane Castellon’s MFA Thesis Exhibition for the University of Louisville, Poke opens with a reception tonight from 5-8 pm at the MFA Gallery on Rowan Street.

SUNDAY: Elle Hendrickson’s "They seemed neither, and yet both" opens today at The Quonset Hut, with a reception from 4 - 6 pm.

SUNDAY: Tonight at 6 pm, Dimensions of Faith presents Bob Hower & Ted Wathen discussing the Kentucky Documentary Photographic Project at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church.

Sarah Jane Castellon at U of L’s MFA Gallery


STILL ON VIEW

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opened Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students.

The Portland Museum opened RESIDUALS: Interiors and Exteriors by Dean Thomas.

KMAC is once again honored to host the Gold Key and American Vision Nominees Exhibition.

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville. Listen to an interview with the curator on Artists Talk with LVA.

Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery opened Love Me / Love Me Not: the good, the bad, & the ugly of luv - works by William David Pollard.

Maureen Hagerman opened a show of new work at Lowber Gallery.

Revelry Gallery welcomes Imani Burns for her debut solo show, Nanigi, and is also featuring Tiny Art, Big Heart: the Fifth Annual Valentine’s Show.

Kore Gallery opened 2 exhibits: Geoff Crowe’s Steeped in Ash, and George McCracken’s By George.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

For February, garner narrative has opened a group show of gallery artists, including Stephen Dorsett, Erin McGee Ferrell, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner, Maureen Hagerman, Malynda Poulsen, Wendi Smith, Aleksandra Stone, & Mary Yates.

Second Skin, a solo exhibition by Kelsi Haberman, is open in the LVA 2nd-floor Project Space.

Wheelhouse Art opened Market Boom: Emerging Artists from Louisville’s East Market District 2000–2008, a group exhibition and the curatorial debut of artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Featuring art by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley, Tammy Burke, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Maiza Hixson, John King, Thaniel Ion Lee, Cynthia Norton, Letitia Quesenberry, Michael Ratterman, and Dmitry Strakovsky. Listen to an interview with Thaniel Ion Lee on Artists Talk with LVA.

Pyro Gallery opened Homegrown Stories, New Work by Terry Spangler Dunham, Sherrie Dunham, and Charlotte Pollock. Listen to an interview with Terry Spangler Dunham & Charlotte Pollock on Artists Talk with LVA.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany opened Oversharing, an exhibit by artist Jes Allen.

Marking It: A NACHMO Exhibition opened @ Artportal.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

Hite Institute for Art has opened 2 exhibits at the Schneider Hall galleries: Little Fictions: Highlights from the University Art Collection, and Paired Influence: MFA Students’ Selections from the University Collection.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened Form in Flux, with works by Chad Balster & Dena Williams.

Landscapes and Backdrops: paintings by Katrina Johansen, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

Wheelhouse Art presents an Elissa Rose Morley solo exhibition at The Wine Room.

Where Memory Lives: New Paintings by Nancy Wentzel & Charlotte Pollock, opened at The Meadows Gallery in The Masonic Home.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened, Maybe Kudzu Covering My Body: Camouflage in the South, tonight at The Cressman Center. A group exhibition featuring work by borealis, Jacob Riddle, Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn, Max Trumpower, Elle Hendrickson, Raymond Thompson & more.

Black Girls, Butterflies, & the Magic of Dreams opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Tori Christensen’s The Colors of Darkness, A Touchable Art Show, opened at The Little Loomhouse. Listen to an interview with the artist on Artists Talk with LVA.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

garner LARGE has opened Erin McGee Ferrell: She Rides.

KMAC Museum opened 2 exhibits: Trey Abdella “Bug Bites” & Crafting in Miniature.

Logan Street Gallery opened Apropos Photography: Works from the Brooks Smith Collection, featuring works by Kiah Celeste, Chagas Edson, Georges Rousse, Zed Saeed, San Samore, and Berndnaut Smilde, among others.

LaVon Van Williams Jr. - Everything Must Change is open at The Speed Museum.

ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Aflora We Flourish in the Midst of Chaos and Oppression, curated by Ada Asenjo and featuring the work of 17 Latinx artists, opened at The Frazier Museum.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

The Adele and Leonard Leight Glass Art Award – Artist Talk Speaker and Awardee: Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez is exhibiting at The Speed Museum.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

If you want to be added to future listings, submit your information using this ONLINE FORM. The deadline to be included in each weekly guide is Mondays at Noon.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 2.11.26

Dean Thomas at Portland Museum

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: Hite curatorial MA candidate Kathryn Brooks discusses their thesis exhibit at 21c, as part of Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

FRIDAY: Outsider Art Museum & Gallery opens Quilts, with work from Susan Zepeda, Denise Furnish, Sunshine Joe, Rebekah Seigel, Penny Sisto, Karen Abney, Janet Estes, Terri Burt, and UofL MFA Fiber students. There will be a reception from 5 to 8 pm.

FRIDAY: The Portland Museum is opening RESIDUALS: Interiors and Exteriors by Dean Thomas, tonight from 5 to 8 PM

FRIDAY: KMAC is once again honored to host the Gold Key and American Vision Nominees Exhibition for 2026 with a reception tonight from 5-7:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public.

FRIDAY: In conjunction with Kentucky Opera's production of Songbird, Louisville Visual Art is exhibiting Jessica Beel's Recycled Bird Project. The production runs February 13, 15, & 17 and will also be in place for the Kentucky Opera's fundraiser, the Opera Rhapsody Gala on February 20th.

SATURDAY: WXOX: A Decade on the Dial is tonight from 6 pm - 12 am. Returning to the historic Columbia Theater to celebrate 10 Years on 97.1 FM with a night of music, art, and entertainment that no one will forget! A ticketed event to benefit WXOX/Artfm.


STILL ON VIEW

Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity is at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville.

Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery opened Love Me / Love Me Not: the good, the bad, & the ugly of luv - works by William David Pollard.

Jessica Beels at Kentucky Opera

Maureen Hagerman opened a show of new work at Lowber Gallery.

Revelry Gallery welcomes Imani Burns for her debut solo show, Nanigi, and is also featuring Tiny Art, Big Heart: the Fifth Annual Valentine’s Show.

Kore Gallery opened 2 exhibits: Geoff Crowe’s Steeped in Ash, and George McCracken’s By George.

Preston Arts Center has opened a Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs.

A WATERCOLOR SHOW is open at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area.

For February, garner narrative has opened a group show of gallery artists, including Stephen Dorsett, Erin McGee Ferrell, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner, Maureen Hagerman, Malynda Poulsen, Wendi Smith, Aleksandra Stone, & Mary Yates.

Second Skin, a solo exhibition by Kelsi Haberman, is open in the LVA 2nd-floor Project Space.

Wheelhouse Art opened Market Boom: Emerging Artists from Louisville’s East Market District 2000–2008, a group exhibition and the curatorial debut of artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Featuring art by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley, Tammy Burke, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Maiza Hixson, John King, Thaniel Ion Lee, Cynthia Norton, Letitia Quesenberry, Michael Ratterman, and Dmitry Strakovsky. Listen to an interview with Thaniel Ion Lee on Artists Talk with LVA.

Pyro Gallery opened Homegrown Stories, New Work by Terry Spangler Dunham, Sherrie Dunham, and Charlotte Pollock. Listen to an interview with Terry Spangler Dunham & Charlotte Pollock on Artists Talk with LVA.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany opened Oversharing, an exhibit by artist Jes Allen.

Marking It: A NACHMO Exhibition opened @ Artportal.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

Hite Institute for Art has opened 2 exhibits at the Schneider Hall galleries: Little Fictions: Highlights from the University Art Collection, and Paired Influence: MFA Students’ Selections from the University Collection.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened Form in Flux, with works by Chad Balster & Dena Williams.

Landscapes and Backdrops: paintings by Katrina Johansen, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

Wheelhouse Art presents an Elissa Rose Morley solo exhibition at The Wine Room.

Where Memory Lives: New Paintings by Nancy Wentzel & Charlotte Pollock, opened at The Meadows Gallery in The Masonic Home.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened, Maybe Kudzu Covering My Body: Camouflage in the South, tonight at The Cressman Center. A group exhibition featuring work by borealis, Jacob Riddle, Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn, Max Trumpower, Elle Hendrickson, Raymond Thompson & more.

Black Girls, Butterflies, & the Magic of Dreams opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Tori Christensen’s The Colors of Darkness, A Touchable Art Show, opened at The Little Loomhouse. Listen to an interview with the artist on Artists Talk with LVA.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

garner LARGE has opened Erin McGee Ferrell: She Rides.

KMAC Museum opened 2 exhibits: Trey Abdella “Bug Bites” & Crafting in Miniature.

Logan Street Gallery opened Apropos Photography: Works from the Brooks Smith Collection, featuring works by Kiah Celeste, Chagas Edson, Georges Rousse, Zed Saeed, San Samore, and Berndnaut Smilde, among others.

LaVon Van Williams Jr. - Everything Must Change is open at The Speed Museum.

ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Aflora We Flourish in the Midst of Chaos and Oppression, curated by Ada Asenjo and featuring the work of 17 Latinx artists, opened at The Frazier Museum.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

The Adele and Leonard Leight Glass Art Award – Artist Talk Speaker and Awardee: Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez is exhibiting at The Speed Museum.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

If you want to be added to future listings, submit your information using this ONLINE FORM. The deadline to be included in each weekly guide is Mondays at Noon.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 2.04.26

Lori Larusso at 21c Museum

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: Aurora Noctua discusses their recent exhibit at Grady Goods on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

THURSDAY: Rescheduled from last week: Hite Institute at the University of Louisville hosts a Book Talk and Reception for Jennifer Sichel and her book, Criticism Without Authority: Gene Swenson's and Jill Johnston's Queer Practices. At the Schneider Hall Galleries with a reception from 5:30-6 pm, and a talk from 4:30-5:30 pm.

THURSDAY: Tonight from 6 - 8 pm, the opening of Hite Institute MA candidate Kathryn Brooks’ Thesis Exhibition After Precarity takes place at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville.

FRIDAY: Grady Goods + Artpunk Gallery hosts an opening reception of Love Me / Love Me Not: the good, the bad, & the ugly of luv - works by William David Pollard tonight from 6 -8 pm

FRIDAY: Maureen Hagerman opens a show of new work at Lowber Gallery tonight with a reception from 5:30-8:30 p.m.

FRIDAY: Revelry Gallery welcomes Imani Burns for her debut solo show, Nanigi, with a reception tonight from 6 - 9 pm.

Imani Burns at Revelry Gallery

SATURDAY: Kore Gallery opens 2 exhibits: Geoff Crowe’s Steeped in Ash, and George McCracken’s By George, with a reception from 6 - 8:30 pm.

SATURDAY: Revelry Gallery opens Tiny Art, Big Heart: the Fifth Annual Valentine’s Show tonight from 6 - 9 pm.

SATURDAY: Preston Arts Center today from 2-4, hosts the opening reception of their Teacher Show in their Gallery Upstairs. Twelve teachers will have their work on display and will likely be at the reception to speak to you about their process.

SUNDAY: A WATERCOLOR SHOW opens at the Roberta Marx Gallery, featuring 14 Watercolor Artists from the tri-state area,, with an opening beginning at 12:30 pm.

For February, garner narrative has opened a group show of gallery artists, including Stephen Dorsett, Erin McGee Ferrell, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner, Maureen Hagerman, Malynda Poulsen, Wendi Smith, Aleksandra Stone, & Mary Yates.


STILL ON VIEW

Second Skin, a solo exhibition by Kelsi Haberman, is open in the LVA 2nd-floor Project Space.

Wheelhouse Art opened Market Boom: Emerging Artists from Louisville’s East Market District 2000–2008, a group exhibition and the curatorial debut of artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Featuring art by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley, Tammy Burke, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Maiza Hixson, John King, Thaniel Ion Lee, Cynthia Norton, Letitia Quesenberry, Michael Ratterman, and Dmitry Strakovsky. Listen to an interview with Thaniel Ion Lee on Artists Talk with LVA.

Pyro Gallery opened Homegrown Stories, New Work by Terry Spangler Dunham, Sherrie Dunham, and Charlotte Pollock. Listen to an interview with Terry Spangler Dunham & Charlotte Pollock on Artists Talk with LVA.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany opened Oversharing, an exhibit by artist Jes Allen.

Marking It: A NACHMO Exhibition opened @ Artportal.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary show that brings together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

Hite Institute for Art has opened 2 exhibits at the Schneider Hall galleries: Little Fictions: Highlights from the University Art Collection, and Paired Influence: MFA Students’ Selections from the University Collection.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened Form in Flux, with works by Chad Balster & Dena Williams.

Landscapes and Backdrops: paintings by Katrina Johansen, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

Wheelhouse Art presents an Elissa Rose Morley solo exhibition at The Wine Room.

Where Memory Lives: New Paintings by Nancy Wentzel & Charlotte Pollock, opened at The Meadows Gallery in The Masonic Home.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened, Maybe Kudzu Covering My Body: Camouflage in the South, tonight at The Cressman Center. A group exhibition featuring work by borealis, Jacob Riddle, Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn, Max Trumpower, Elle Hendrickson, Raymond Thompson & more.

Black Girls, Butterflies, & the Magic of Dreams opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Tori Christensen’s The Colors of Darkness, A Touchable Art Show, opened at The Little Loomhouse. Listen to an interview with the artist on Artists Talk with LVA.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

garner LARGE has opened Erin McGee Ferrell: She Rides.

KMAC Museum opened 2 exhibits: Trey Abdella “Bug Bites” & Crafting in Miniature.

Logan Street Gallery opened Apropos Photography: Works from the Brooks Smith Collection, featuring works by Kiah Celeste, Chagas Edson, Georges Rousse, Zed Saeed, San Samore, and Berndnaut Smilde, among others.

LaVon Van Williams Jr. - Everything Must Change is open at The Speed Museum.

ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Aflora We Flourish in the Midst of Chaos and Oppression, curated by Ada Asenjo and featuring the work of 17 Latinx artists, opened at The Frazier Museum.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

The Adele and Leonard Leight Glass Art Award – Artist Talk Speaker and Awardee: Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez is exhibiting at The Speed Museum.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

If you want to be added to future listings, submit your information using this ONLINE FORM. The deadline to be included in each weekly guide is Mondays at Noon.

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LVA’s Weekly Gallery Guide: 1.28.26

Maiza Hixson at Wheelhouse Art

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For more details, including addresses, please visit the link in each listing.

WHAT’S NEW

THURSDAY: Thaniel Ion Lee will discuss their first curatorial exhibit at Wheelhouse Art on Artists Talk with LVA on WXOX 97.1 FM at 10 AM.

THURSDAY: Hite Institute at the University of Louisville hosts a Book Talk and Reception for Jennifer Sichel and her book, Criticism Without Authority: Gene Swenson's and Jill Johnston's Queer Practices. At the Schneider Hall Galleries with a reception from 5:30-6 pm, and a talk from 4:30-5:30 pm.

Terry Spangler Dunham at Pyro Gallery

FRIDAY: Second Skin, a solo exhibition by Kelsi Haberman, opens tonight from 6 - 8 pm in the LVA 2nd floor Project Space.

FRIDAY: Wheelhouse Art opens Market Boom: Emerging Artists from Louisville’s East Market District 2000–2008, a group exhibition and the curatorial debut of artist Thaniel Ion Lee. Featuring art by Matthew and Mitchell Bradley, Tammy Burke, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Maiza Hixson, John King, Thaniel Ion Lee, Cynthia Norton, Letitia Quesenberry, Michael Ratterman, and Dmitry Strakovsky. There will be a reception ton ight from 6:00 - 8:00 pm, with a curator's talk at 7:00 pm.

SATURDAY: Postponed from last week: Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany is opening Oversharing, an exhibit by artist Jes Allen, with a reception today from 1 -3 pm.

SATURDAY: Pyro Gallery opens Homegrown Stories, New Work by Terry Spangler Dunham, Sherrie Dunham, and Charlotte Pollock, with a reception from 5 - 8:30 pm. There will also be a Gallery Talk on Sunday at 1 pm.


STILL ON VIEW

Outsider Art Museum & Gallery is showing of Scott T. Anderson’s And Then The Wheels Fell Off.

Chestnuts and Pearls Art Gallery and Antiques in New Albany opened Oversharing, an exhibit by artist Jes Allen.

Marking It: A NACHMO Exhibition opened @ Artportal.

KyCAD’s Gallery 849 opened SNACKS, a solo exhibition by Lauren Gregory, a multidisciplinary exhibition bringing together contemporary quilting, painting, and animation, exploring storytelling and the space where tradition meets technology.

Hite Institute for Art has opened 2 exhibits at the Schneider Hall galleries: Little Fictions: Highlights from the University Art Collection, and Paired Influence: MFA Students’ Selections from the University Collection.

Bourne-Schweitzer Gallery opened Form in Flux, with works by Chad Balster & Dena Williams.

Landscapes and Backdrops: paintings by Katrina Johansen, opened at Kleinhelter Gallery.

21c Museum Hotel Louisville opened a new exhibition, Revival: Digging Into Yesterday, Planting Tomorrow. The exhibition features 70 works of art by 47 artists from around the world.

Wheelhouse Art presents an Elissa Rose Morley solo exhibition at The Wine Room.

Where Memory Lives: New Paintings by Nancy Wentzel & Charlotte Pollock, opened at The Meadows Gallery in The Masonic Home.

The Hite Institute of Art + Design opened, Maybe Kudzu Covering My Body: Camouflage in the South, tonight at The Cressman Center. A group exhibition featuring work by borealis, Jacob Riddle, Katie Hargrave & Meredith Laura Lynn, Max Trumpower, Elle Hendrickson, Raymond Thompson & more.

Black Girls, Butterflies, & the Magic of Dreams opened at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage.

Tori Christensen’s The Colors of Darkness, A Touchable Art Show, opened at The Little Loomhouse. Listen to an interview with the artist on Artists Talk with LVA.

Ad Astra Per Aspera Aurora Noctua's first solo show is now open at Grady Goods & ArtPunk Gallery.

Revelry Gallery opened Tattered: Tattooers Doing Art.

Kore Gallery opened two new exhibitions featuring artists Elizabeth Naiditch, Ron Anderson, Don Anderson, and Ian Anderson.

garner narrative is exhibiting Good Looking, the annual exhibit of gallery artists, looking back on 2025 and anticipating the new year. Artists include Erin McGee Ferrell, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner, Maureen Hagerman, Shawn Marshall, Wendi Smith, Aleksandra Stone.

The Cultural Arts Center in New Albany is showing Estuary: a Staff and Community Artist Showcase. This exhibit features the artwork of Floyd County Library and Cultural Arts Center staff artists Josh Bleecker, Al Gorman, Jessica Hartman, Bethany Parrish, and Daniel Vance, as well as Fred DiGiovanni, Hannah Durham, and Matt McDermott of the museum’s Artists Roundtable Feedback Group.

Lowber Gallery opened a show of new work by Tamara Scantland.

garner LARGE has opened Erin McGee Ferrell: She Rides.

KMAC Museum opened 2 exhibits: Trey Abdella “Bug Bites” & Crafting in Miniature.

Logan Street Gallery opened Apropos Photography: Works from the Brooks Smith Collection, featuring works by Kiah Celeste, Chagas Edson, Georges Rousse, Zed Saeed, San Samore, and Berndnaut Smilde, among others.

LaVon Van Williams Jr. - Everything Must Change is open at The Speed Museum.

ZG|StudioWorkZ presents The Color Show: a curated visual experience exploring the full color spectrum and featuring original works by 40+ artists across multiple media, arranged in chromatic sequence.

The Fall exhibit at AC Hotel is on display, featuring work by Joan Anderson, Whitney Arnold, Jennifer Baughman, Lilly Chodyniecki, Lakin Fain, Kristina Kleinert, & Richard Rink.

Aflora We Flourish in the Midst of Chaos and Oppression, curated by Ada Asenjo and featuring the work of 17 Latinx artists, opened at The Frazier Museum.

Paul Paletti Gallery is showing Sam Abell: Journey Through Continents and Decades.

The Adele and Leonard Leight Glass Art Award – Artist Talk Speaker and Awardee: Victoria Ahmadizadeh Melendez is exhibiting at The Speed Museum.

What We Need Now, a collection of outdoor installations curated by 2024 Curate Purchase Inspire (CPI) Fellow Lindsey Cummins at Louisville Grows. Featured artists are Azucena Trejo Williams & Nathaniel Hendrickson, Jessica Chao & Claire Krüeger, & Peter Price. New work by Claire Krüeger will be on exhibit inside.

Pathways to Presence is an installation of permanent outdoor sculptures by Jessica Beels, Casey Dressell, and Matt Weir, curated by Anne Borders for the Curate Purchase Inspire program through LVA, located at the Earth and Spirit Center. Listen to an interview with curator Anne Borders on Artists Talk with LVA.

Julia Youngblood’s Divergent Dreams exhibit for Dreams with Wings, a part of LVA’s Curate Purchase Inspire program, is at the Dreams with Wings location at 2106 Bardstown Road.

Bianca Vaughn’s permanent exhibit, Go Far, Go Together, is now at The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.

Ada Asenjo has curated Somos De Aquí y AFLORAMOS, a permanent exhibit for La Casita Center.

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