First Friday Trolley Hop

March 7, 2008 First Friday Trolley Hop

You will have to begin early and stay late if you plan on getting around to all of the galleries open during this month's Hop. Exhibits range from a Fiber Forum at the Embroidery Museum and Resource Center to the grand opening of the Vonfire Gallery at Glassworks.

If you decide to stay after the Hop and eat at one of downtown's restaurants, please consider patronizing our sponsors: The Jazz Factory, The Mayan Cafe, The Bristol, The Bodega, Felice Vineyards, Park Place on Main and Brownings, RIVUE or Jockey Silks Club at the Galt House.

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Frazier International History Museum
829 W. Main Street

Join the fun as the Frazier Museum kicks off March with the 2nd Annual Taste O' Ireland!

Celebrate the Emerald Isle with a taste of Irish whiskey & music from Guilderoy Byrne, playing traditional & contemporary Irish favorites on a variety of acoustic, folk instruments.

Admission is Free and our galleries will be open – including our temporary exhibits A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie and Women’s Work: The Paper Doll Quilts of Rebekka Seigel.

For More Information:
Paddy DeGeorge
Exhibits and Program Coordinator
pdegeorge@fraziermuseum.org
Phone: (502) 753-1683

Mary Craik Gallery, 815 E. Market St.
4th Annual Women of Wisdom , sponsored by Project Women art exhibit showcases talented women artists with ties to Kentuckiana. All art is for sale, with proceeds benefiting Project Women and their mission to help educate and empower single mothers.

Estella Majajo Studio, 2nd Floor, will have poetry reading by Sharonda Holmes and James K.

Garner-Furnish Studio
642 E Market @ Clay

Denise-594-2039

Joyce-641-8086

Catch us at work
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Lionheart Gallery (in the Hyatt Regency Hotel) 313 South 4th Street

We are very excited to be having our first ever wearable art show featuring :

Denise Shardlow's bamboo clothing,

Barbara Hampton's handmade jewelry

and Shickley Design of Louisville's derby hats.

Also, classical guitarist, Tom Stevens will be entertaining us!

Show ends April 2.

Cressman Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville, 100 E. Main Street
The Hite Art Institute will present: America’s Favorite Architecture (AIA Traveling Exhibition)February 22 – March 29, 2008. Reception: Friday, March 7, 6 – 9 p.m. This traveling exhibition is organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) to help celebrate its 150th anniversary. It features photographs by Carol M. Highsmith of 150 works of architecture—buildings, bridges, monuments, and memorials—selected by a public poll conducted by the AIA and Harris Interactive.
Images, survey methodology, and the results can be found at:http://www.favoritearchitecture.org/
Gallery Hours: Wed. - Fri., 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sat., 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.; & 1st Fri., 11 a.m. - 9 p.m.
All Cressman Center events are free and open to the public.
For more information on Hite Art Institute exhibitions and events, including our lecture series, go to: www.art.louisville.edu

Ron Isaacs, Wallflower

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 715 W. Main St.
KMAC is pleased to present Made to Deceive: The Art of Trompe L’oeil, sponsored by Phillip S. Cooke and Daniel D. Maye, with support from the Goldstein Family Foundation. This show will be on display through May 24, 2008. Trompe l'oeil is an art technique that involves using an extremely realistic image to create the optical illusion that the object really exists, instead of being a mere representation. The name is derived from the French for "trick the eye." The works in this exhibition are masterpieces of illusion, and they highlight the artists’ exquisite control over both materials and colors.
KMAC also is pleased to present New Blue: New and Emerging Kentucky Artists, sponsored by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Fund. This show will be on display through May 24, 2008.This show launches the first of what will become a biennial exhibition at KMAC. With the advice of a select group of advisors from around the Commonwealth, the Museum has gathered together a group of artists whose work represents fresh, creative and bold interpretations of art and craft media.
The KMAC Gallery Shop will be featuring Judy Baum as the Artist of the Month. This up and coming Louisville painter created bold and energetic large-scale pieces inspired by spring botanicals from Cherokee Park.

Shelley Lee, Body of Water

Francis x Pavy, Crown

Swanson Reed Contemporary
638 East Market Street

Francis x Pavy with lacy Stinson & David Alpha

three Louisiana artists in an exhibition and fundraiser
MAKE IT RIGHT: REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS
free gumbo provided by Cafe Lou Lou
benefit concert by Noisy Crane at 10 PM, $5 at the door
a share of all the profits go to the Make it Right foundation which is using innovative and sound architectural ideas to rebuild after the hurricane.
Francis X Pavy has exhibited though out the country, Europe, and Asia and has been collected by patrons such as Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Tom Brokow, Walker Percy, Loren Michaels, Ron Howard, plus many more public and private organizations.

www.fpavy.com
www.noisycrane.com

St. John United Church of Christ, 637 E. Market

Dinner & A Show!

Join us Friday, March 7th at 6:00 pm for our Lenten Fish Fry in the Parish Hall.

Then at 7:00 pm, St. John hosts Pipes Spectacular. This organ concert, sponsored by the Louisville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, will feature Metro area organists playing our Steiner organ.

If you haven’t experienced a Trolley Hop night, this would be a great first time for you to attend!

Gallery NuLu
632 East Market St., Second Floor

Gallery NuLu proudly announce their latest show, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs’ “Boys Don’t Cry”!
Opening: March 7th, 2008
Through: March 29th, 2008
Described as a “prominent video artist” by Julien Robson, The Speed Museum's Curator of Contemporary Art , Fuchs offers her first soloexhibition in five years. Fuchs has exhibited her work throughout the US, including Louisville’s 21C and Speed Museums, twice at the Santa Barbara Center for Contemporary Art, and several galleries in Chicago. Fuchs has also shown her work abroad, most recently in Estonia at the Parnu Film and Video Festival, as well as in Austria and Serbia.
Fuchs is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, multiple Artist Enrichment Grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and a grant from the Sony Corporation. In 2003, she won a Prague Quadrennial Award for Video Design. In 2005, the Louisville International Airport commissioned the creation of her ‘Zero to Sixty’ project, on permanent display in the terminal.

She received a Bachelors in Architecture from the University of Kentucky, and her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her latest collection offers several new video pieces, as well as other works.

Glassworks Gallery, 815 W. Market St.
is holding the VONFIRE Gallery Grand Opening
featuring Glassworks Artists:

Casey Hyland,
Chad Balster,
Mark Payton,
David Harpe,
Jonathan Swanz,
Ken Moore,
Lori Beck,
Ken vonRoenn,
Clair Raabe,
and Mary Dennis Kannapell

Music by Blue Murphy & the Doghouse Serenaders

Paul Paletti Gallery, 713 E. Market St.,
is pleased to present “H20”, the stunningly beautiful color images of ballerinas, models, and acrobats from Cirque du Soleil, all photographed underwater. This exhibit of work by Howard Schatz, in conjunction with the publication of his new book, “H20,” will be on display from December 1, 2007-March 31, 2008. Ethereal and elegant, Schatz’s clothed and nude figures soar, twist, and plunge in the invisible weightless underwater world of a slow motion dance. These large scale, vibrantly colored photographs are a celebration of beauty, brilliance, form, and movement. Howard Schatz began photography as a hobby while in medical school. Formerly a nationally recognized ophthalmologist, Schatz started experimenting with underwater photography in 1992 after a friend offered the use of an indoor pool, and he became inspired to photograph ballet dancers after one posed in his underwater studio. He exploded onto the photography landscape with the publishing of two underwater photography books: Waterdance (1995); and Pool Light (1998). For the past decade he has sustained himself solely as a photographer, with exhibitions in museums and photography galleries internationally, and a substantial corporate clientele ranging from Nike and Reebok to Sony, Finlandia Vodka, MGM Grand Hotel, Virgin Records, Pantene, and Mercedes-Benz.Schatz's work has been published in magazines around the world, including Time, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, The New Yorker, Life, Black/White, and American Photo, and has been featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America, NPR, Fox Sports Network, the Discovery Channel and widely in Europe. He has published seventeen books, including the newly published H20 (Nov. 2007). Howard Schatz currently lives in New York City with his wife and business partner, Beverly Ornstein.

The Gallery at Actors Theatre, 316 W. Main St.,

Exhibit 1:
PADUCAH'S LOWERTOWN ARTISTS
Exhibit of mixed media including paintings and sculpture from artists in Paducah, Ky.

Art in all of its many forms thrives in Lowertown, the fastest developing arts district in the nation.

Studios and galleries of resident artists line the streets of the Lowertown Fine Arts District, located in Paducah's oldest neighborhood and the center of its cultural rebirth. This exhibit celebrates Lowertown's creative diversity.

The Gallery at Actors Theatre, 316 W. Main St.,

Exhibit 2: GIBBS ROUNSAVALL

March 7 - May 30, 2008
A solo show in the Victor Jory Theatre Lobby.
Earning his B.F.A. in illustration from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.A.T. in art education from University of Louisville, Rounsavall has shown in New York at the Museum of Contemporary Diasporan Art, in Ohio and throughout Louisville.
" This exhibit is a comprehensive collection of works that offer insight into my creative process. Each piece starts with a basic element or building block, such as a line, shape or color. I twist, turn, bend and stretch these elements searching for their hidden potential, similar to the experience of teaching oneself how to play a musical instrument. After a time of experimentation, I eventually feel equipped to play this 'instrument' and being the process of composing."
–Gibbs Rounsavall

Zephyr Gallery
610 E. Market St.

presents “the new big empty”, new works by Letitia Quesenberry

Carr-Waite Studios
221 S. Hancock Street

Opening Friday, March 7, 6-9 p.m.

Embroidery Museum and Resource Center
426 West Jefferson

Fiber Forum: Juried Exhibition

Opening Reception Friday, March 7, 5-7 p.m.

The Mayan Cafe, 813 E. Market Street

Stop by the Mayan Cafe this Friday to taste the flavors of the Yucatan peninsula! Our specials for the evening include : a veal pupusa with arugula salad as well as a pan-seared red snapper in a pistachio sauce paired with chayote squash stuffed with spinach & manchego cheese.

FREE parking is available at Slugger Field, Main Street at Jackson, and the 4th St. Live Garage after 6 p.m. Free parking is also available on the street after 6:00 p.m.