Kentucky Events
Arts and Crafts
See our Arts Links page for links to Kentucky arts organizations, performing companies, and venues.
Downtown Gallery Hop | |
| Sponsored by Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, Gallery Hop is a cooperative effort among commercial galleries, nonprofit arts groups, and private artists’ studios. More than 30 sites are free and open to the public. | |
| DATES: | Nov. 20, 5-8 pm ET |
| LOCATION: | Participating galleries throughout Lexington |
| INFO: | (859) 255-2951 |
What Would the Community Think? | |
| Free. Includes recent acquisitions from John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, whose work focuses on creating cast sculptures of people in their community; and from Louisville photographer Sarah Lyon. | |
| DATE: | Nov. 25-March 1 |
| LOCATION: | Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 634-2700 |
Recent Works by Sarah Gutwirth and Mary Jane Littleton | |
| Features more than 50 pieces including ceramics, paintings and drawings. | |
| DATES: | through Nov. 29 |
| LOCATION: | Janice Mason Art Museum, 71 Main St., Cadiz |
| INFO: | (270) 522-9056 |
Don Lambert: Supernova Terra Firma | |
| DATE: | through Nov. 29 |
| LOCATION: | Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati |
| INFO: | (513) 639-2995 |
Suzanne Edds and Gary Bell | |
| Edds will be showing her ceramic and paper sculptures and Bell will be featuring paintings. | |
| DATE: | through Dec. 2 |
| LOCATION: | Liberty Tattoo and Art Parlor, 2801 S. Third St., Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 637-4777 |
Artist Dialogues: Creative Practice and Process | |
| Free. Artists include Sarah Lyon, Letitia Quesenberry, Russel Hulsey,and Joyce Ogden. Moderated by Suzanne Weaver, curator of contemporary art. | |
| DATE: | Dec. 3, 6 pm ET |
| LOCATION: | Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 634-2700 |
University of Kentucky Art Department Open Studio | |
| Free. Contributions of $5 requested. Includes food, music and the Carrie Ellis Juried art exhibition of the UK Art Department’s graduate and undergraduate student work. Most of the artworks will be for sale. Also includes creative activities for kids developed by art education students, ceramics production demonstrations, and metal casting. | |
| DATE: | Dec. 4, 6-10 pm ET |
| LOCATION: | University of Kentucky Reynolds Building, Scott Street and Broadway, Lexington |
8th Annual Martinis and Mistletoe | |
| Admission is free for KMAC members and $20 for non-members. Includes Finlandia martinis, appetizers, live music, a jewelry trunk show by Rebecca Hook, and a selection of artwork for sale from the Holidazzle and Holidazzle Clay exhibitions and the gallery shop. | |
| DATE: | Dec. 10, 5-8 pm ET |
| LOCATION: | Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 589-0102 |
Driftwood Instruments with Greg Acker | |
| Cost is $45 for museum members, $50 for non-members. Driftwood pieces from the Falls of the Ohio will serve as resonating boards for homemade zithers, harps, and “Driftars.” | |
| DATE: | Dec. 12, noon-4 pm ET |
| LOCATION: | Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 589-0102, email danewaters@kentuckyarts.org |
Quilt Making Through the War Years 1941-1945 | |
| DATE: | Dec. 15 |
| LOCATION: | National Quilt Museum, 215 Jefferson St., Paducah |
| INFO: | (270) 442-8856 |
Artist in Residence at Work | |
| Mixed media artist and sculptor Alice Stone has been selected by the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft to participate in the fall 2009 Artist-in-Residency Program. Stone will have use of studio space and tools at the museum through Dec. 17, where she will create a new body of work. Museum visitors can watch the artist at work in her studio, which is located in the third floor Education Department. | |
| DATE: | through Dec. 17 |
| LOCATION: | Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 589-0102 |
Water Quilts: From the Collection of John Walsh III | |
| The exhibition is being held in honor of the 14th Annual Festival of Faiths, themed “Sacred Water: Sustaining Life,” which runs Nov. 5-14. The exhibit will feature 21 quilts from the collection of John Walsh III, a collector of contemporary art quilts that date back to the early 1990s. Because Walsh runs a water treatment business and owns property with a waterfall he has loved since childhood, quite a few of the quilts in his collection have water themes. | |
| DATE: | through Dec. 19 |
| LOCATION: | Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 589-0102 |
Exploring the American West: Karl Bodmer and George Catlin | |
| Admission is $8 general public/$5 senior citizens. All students and UK faculty, staff, and alumni are admitted free. The exhibition is also open for free on Friday nights from 5 until 8 pm. Features more than 50 works from 1839 to 1844 capturing the land, appearance, and customs of dozens of native peoples of the West including the Mandan, Crow and Blackfeet. | |
| DATE: | through Dec. 20, noon-4 pm ET |
| LOCATION: | Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington |
Creating Identity: Portraits Today | |
| DATES: | through Dec. 31 |
| LOCATION: | 21C Museum, 700 W. Main St., Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 217-6300 |
Holidazzle 2009 and Holidazzle Clay | |
| Holidazzle 2009 features hand-crafted fine art, including works in jewelry, ceramics, wood, glass, fiber and more. The Holidazzle Clay exhibit will feature a wide variety of ceramic styles and techniques, from vessels to sculpture, hand-built to wheel-thrown, traditional to avant-garde, by Louisville’s most accomplished clay artists. Every item is for sale, with prices ranging from $15–$1,500. | |
| DATE: | through Dec. 31 |
| LOCATION: | Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 589-0102 |
Roaring Tigers, Leaping Carp: Decoding the Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting | |
| DATE: | through Jan. 3 |
| LOCATION: | Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati |
| INFO: | (513) 639-2995 |
English Silver in the Age of Matthew Boulton: The James C. Codell Jr. Collection | |
| DATE: | through Jan. 3 |
| LOCATION: | Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 634-2700 |
Famous Faces, Average Joes: The Work of C.F. Payne | |
| DATE: | through Jan. 10 |
| LOCATION: | Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati |
| INFO: | (513) 639-2995 |
2007 Morgan Aero 8 | |
| DATE: | through Jan. 11 |
| LOCATION: | Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati |
| INFO: | (513) 639-2995 |
Painting in Europe, 1600-1800 | |
| DATE: | through Jan. 24 |
| LOCATION: | Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 634-2700 |
The British Are Coming! Discover the New English Art Club | |
| Admission is $8 general public/$5 senior citizens. All students and UK faculty, staff, and alumni are admitted free. The exhibition is also open for free on Friday nights from 5 until 8 pm. Examines the establishment and evolution of the New English Art Club, which was founded in 1886 by John Singer Sargent. Contemporary artists of the New English Arts Club, among them John Ward, Tom Coates, Ken Howard, Leslie Worth, Peter Brown, Lionel Edwards, and Sir Alfred Munnings, will be featured in this exhibition. | |
| DATE: | Jan. 24-April 11 |
| LOCATION: | Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington |
Winter Photography Weekend | |
| Evening shows/presentations will feature the work of John Snell of Lexington. Photographers must be registered before beginning to shoot for the competition. Advanced registration is recommended. Official registration and sign-in will be conducted from noon-9:00 pm ET on Jan. 29. All CDs containing competition entries must be turned in at the Lower Lodge Lobby by 5 pm Jan. 30. Bring your own laptop computer with appropriate image evaluation and adjustment software to prepare your images for entry into the competition and copy them to CD before submission. The park will not provide computers for participant use. | |
| DATES: | Jan. 29-31 |
| LOCATION: | Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Pineville |
| INFO: | (606) 337-3066 |
A Book of Prayers: The Medieval Bestseller | |
| DATE: | through Feb. 14 |
| LOCATION: | Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 634-2700 |
Hattie Bishop Speed: Founder and Collector | |
| DATE: | through March 7 |
| LOCATION: | Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 634-2700 |
Hattie Bishop Speed: A New Museum for Louisville | |
| DATE: | through March 14 |
| LOCATION: | Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 634-2700 |
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft Raffle | |
| Art-glass lovers can purchase a chance to win a piece of blown glass, valued at $35,000, that was created by Venetian glass artist Lino Tagliapietra. From the BORNEO series, the elegant piece is a tour-de-force example of Venetian cane work and measures 18 inches tall x 9 1/2 inches wide x 6 1/2 inches in diameter. Tickets are $35 each and only 1,500 tickets will be available for purchase. Proceeds benefit the museum’s educational and exhibition programming. | |
| DATE: | Tickets available through June 11 |
| LOCATION: | Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville |
| INFO: | (502) 589-0102 |
See our Arts Links page for links to Kentucky arts organizations, performing companies, and venues.
