This collaborative exhibition highlights the diversity and creativity of the Paducah art scene. LowerTown artists will be selectively collaborating with other artists to create an exciting evening of art. The artists may choose to jointly create new work, or work individually sharing a common theme or subject. The new 2016 Paducah Creative Collaborations event series promotes growth and awareness of Paducah's local creatie industry. Each event is free to the public and will provide participants a unique art experience.
Paducah’s rivers will be the inspiration for the art that will be exhibited in the galleries and studios of the LowerTown artists. Each artist will be unveiling his or her interpretation of the theme in this first of its kind event in the LowerTown Arts District. There will be nineteen venues of the LowerTown galleries and studios participating in this one of a kind event. The new 2016 Paducah Creative Collaborations event series promotes growth and awareness of Paducah's local creatie industry. Each event is free to the public and will provide participants a unique art experience.
An exhibition of commissioned graphic design, photographs and other original works by world-renowned graphic designer David Carson. Part of the March 31, 2016 opening celebration for PSAD’s new 30,000-square-foot 2D and Graphic Design Building at 905 Harrison Street in LowerTown Paducah, Ky. The exhibition reception and opening celebration will be from 5 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. The Carson exhibition will remain on view through May 6, 2016. To complement the exhibition, David will be giving an artist’s talk at 6 p.m. on April 1, which is also free and open to the public.
Paducah becomes a mecca for fiber artists each spring when 30,000 international and domestic quilters make the pilgrimage to attend AQS Quiltweek - Paducah.
Internationally recognized juried fiber art exhibition features a compelling mix of traditional and non-traditional works created using natural or synthetic fibers in an array of processes including quilting, weaving, embroidery, basketry and more. One of Yeiser’s most engaging, innovative and colorful annual exhibitions, Fantastic Fibers is an inspirational “must see” for quilters, artists and art enthusiasts.
DEADLINE TO ENTER: JANUARY 31, 2016
$1,750 will be awarded.
Yeiser Art Center is now accepting entries for the FANTASTIC FIBERS 2016 international juried exhibition. One of Yeiser Art Center’s most engaging and innovative international exhibitions, FANTASTIC FIBERS seeks to showcase a wide range of outstanding contemporary works related to the fiber medium.
Nosferatu Cine-Concert
Original score written and performed by Teddy Abrams, Louisville Orchestra Music Director
Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 7:00p
St. John’s United Church of Christ in NuLu
Tickets: $10 Member/$15 Non-Member/$5 Student
Fulvia Zaninelli
M.A. in the History of Art, University of Florence
M.A. in Art Business, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
“Old Masters across the Pond: Samuel H. Kress (1865–1955) and the Kress Collection Provenance Research Project”
» Members may reserve their FREE tickets by calling the Kentucky Center box office at 1.800.775.7777. General admission tickets can be purchased for $10 each at the Kentucky Center box office or http://www.kentuckycenter.org/all-shows/samuel-h-kress.
Spalding University’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program joins the Speed Art Museum for “Spalding at the Speed: A Third-Friday Writers’ Gala,” a monthly reading series that showcases short readings by Spalding MFA students, alumni, staff, and faculty, as well as writers from the local literary community. The evening opens with “Jump Start,” an open-mic session for 1 to 2 minute readings of works in progress. Attendees are invited to bring unfinished works to read. Free and open to the public.
The Speed Art Museum 2015–16 Concert Series presents Mother Falcon & Ben Sollee: The Fall Migration
In collaboration with the Kentucky Center
Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 7:00pm
W.L. Lyons Brown Theatre—315 West Broadway
Tickets: Member $20.00 / Non-Member $25.00
Art in the Park Picnic
Sunday, September 13, 2015, Noon–3:00pm
Hogan’s Fountain, Cherokee Park, 745 Cochran Hill Road
Bring your lunch and lawn chairs for the Speed Art Museum’s second annual Art in the Park Picnic! Come out and join the pARTnership for this FREE family event and concert!
Show your membership card for a free gift!
Art and Activities
Crafts, inflatable obstacle course, badminton and more!
Live Music
Free concert featuring RELIC Bluegrass, and Mick Sullivan with Joe Watts.
Food and Drinks
This exhibition celebrates the picturesque city views and pastoral landscapes of Maxime Lalanne and Adolphe Appian, two artists of the French etching revival. In their delicately rendered prints, Lalanne and Appian document historic neighborhoods, witness changes to the urban landscape, and offer nostalgic representations of an idyllic countryside. From City to Country: Nineteenth-Century French Prints will be on display at Local Speed August 7, 2015–January 2, 2016.
From City to Country
Opening Night:
Friday, August 7th, 5–10pm
The Home of the Innocents is a private, non-profit agency in Louisville that provides the skills and opportunities by which vulnerable children and their families may improve their lives. Through their facilities and resources, the Home is able to offer many services, including a crisis shelter, residential care, and a therapeutic, loving foster care program. The Speed Art Museum partnered with the Home to create The Color of My World, the next Wall Together exhibit at Local Speed.
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which teams are challenged to make a movie. All writing, shooting, editing and scoring must be completed in just 48 hours.
On Friday night, you are assigned a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre that must be included in your movie. 48 hours later, you must submit your film. Next? Your masterpiece will be shown on the big screen at Maiden Alley Cinema.
The Speed Art Museum is pleased to present the third art talk in the 2014–15 Global Speed Series: The United Kingdom. This event is FREE to Museum members and University of Louisville students, faculty, and staff.
Spalding University’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program joins the Speed Art Museum for “Spalding at the Speed: A Gathering of MFA and Community Writers," a monthly reading series that showcases short readings by Spalding MFA students, alumni, staff, and faculty, as well as writers from the local literary community. The evening opens with “Jump Start,” an open-mic session for 1 to 2 minute readings of works in progress. Attendees are invited to bring unfinished works to read. Free and open to the public.
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