April 4, 2008 First Friday Trolley Hop

Don't miss the Trolley Hop this month! All of the galleries have pulled out all the stops to make up for the snowed-out Hop last month. Come early, stay late!

If you decide to stay after the Hop and eat at one of downtown's restaurants, please consider patronizing our sponsors, 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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THOUSAND POETS : April 2008
Celebrating Louisville’s Constellation of Poetry!
Thousand Poets is an assemblage of events slated for April, National Poetry Month, intended to
• bring together disparate local poetry scenes
• connect poetry to other forms of art
• and invite Every Citizen to engage their inner poet!
Organized by Spalding University’s BFA in Creative Writing and by Well Lit Press, Thousand Poets will kick-off during the First Friday Trolley Hop on April 4th with a mix of poetry, visual art, and indie music (and with the support and sponsorship of the East Downtown Business Association). As the month unfolds, expect to find poets everywhere—reading their work and from poetry’s “greatest hits”!
Why poetry and why the need for these connections? Festival organizers understand that Louisville is fertile ground for poets and that poetry is experiencing a renaissance in our city. Thousand Poets seeks to support this burst of creativity and growth and to illustrate the natural connections among poets, visual artists, and musicians. Thousand Poets also strives to bring the “citizen in the street” closer to the grit, soul, and rapture of poetry.
See www.thousandpoets.org for the ever-evolving calendar of April events!
Click on the poster to the left to view a full-size PDF file (it may take a few seconds to open).
PYRO Gallery, 624 W. Main Street
Garden: an exhibition by PYRO artists and invited guests
April 4, 2008 - May 10, 2008
Opening at Pyro Gallery First Friday April 4, 2008 with a reception 6-9 pm.
This exhibition features the work of Pyro member artists and their guests as they interpret “the garden” from wide ranging points of view. The artworks illustrate how this long human tradition can fulfill our needs for both beauty and sustenance. From abstract and whimsical to concrete and practical, the approaches to this theme are as varied as the types of gardens we cultivate. The participating artists represent a broad range of media including ceramics, textiles, painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. Some pieces are designed to be installed in an outdoor garden environment, while others bring the inspiration of a garden to interior space.Participating Pyro Artists are: Ann Stewart Anderson, Keith Auerbach, David Caudill, Emily Detrick, Melissa Flautt, Kim Huber, Mary Dennis Kannapell, Christine Kuhn, Bette Levy, Debra Lott, Collis Marshall, Shawn Marshall, John McCarthy, Susan Moffett, Corie Neumayer, C.J. Pressma, Melinda Snyder, Marilyn Whitesell.Invited guest artists are: Sarah Hall, Seamus McCoy, Jo Ann Prosser, Steve Reeves, Peggy Thieneman, Gayle Williamson, Mary Zena
Hours: Thursday – Saturday, 11 am – 6 pm or by appointment. 502-587-0106, www.PYROgallery.com

Full Moon in the Garden - Kuhn
Green is the color of spring - Snyder
Scratch and Sniff Day Lily - Neumeyer
Italian Garden - Auerbach

Frazier Museum, 829 W. Main St.

"Swing into Spring" during Late Night at the Frazier Museum on April 4 from 5 to 9 pm!
Enjoy live music provided by Lamont Gillespie and the Blues Band throughout the night and a cash bar featuring the drink of the night-Mojitos!!

And don’t miss one of your last opportunities to see “Women’s Work: The Paper Doll Quilts." Inspired by the paper dolls she played with as a child, Rebekka Seigel. In vibrant colors and fabric, the stories of Ella Fitzgerald, Lucille Ball, Eleanor Roosevelt and 10 other women come to life. These quilts tell the stories of these famous women through the use of garments worn at defining moments in their lives.

This is a must see exhibit for anyone who loves quilts and is a great way to celebrate the accomplishments of women.
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!

Lionheart Gallery also will have glassblown hats by Berni of Hawks View which are being auctioned (silent) to benefit CASA.

St. John United Church of Christ,

Join St. John United Church of Christ in their post-Lenten Fish Fry at 6:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall. The Sanctuary is open to guests and will feature organ music. Outside, enjoy musical drumming guest Terry Birkhead.

St. John is also hosting The Thousand Poet's opening event at 8 p.m. upstairs in our Renaissance Theatre. Enjoy poetry with Erin Keane and Adam Day, followed by The Big Time Band and finally a musical performance by Brett Eugene Ralph. For more information, visit thousandpoets.org.

 Mary Craik Gallery, 815 E. Market St.
Closing Reception of Women of Wisdom Show at the Mary Craik Gallery. This is your last chance to purchase beautiful art work done by women artists in this area.

Fifty percent of all sales are donated to Project Women, a program that provides housing and support for homeless mothers so they can earn a degree at the University of Louisville.
The Bodega at Felice, 829 E. Market St.
The Bodega will be sampling Derby entertaining ideas and Ky Ale products.

As part of Poetry Month, there will be poetry readings at The Bodega during the Trolley Hop.

The Gallery at Actors Theatre, 316 W. Main St., will feature work by Paducah’s Lowertown Artists (March 6 – May 11) in an exhibit of mixed media including painting and sculpture. These artists are part of Paducah’s flourishing Artist Relocation Program, which offered unique financial and cultural incentives for them to relocate to the city’s historical downtown district. This program, now a national model for using arts as economic development, enables them to have gallery/studio, restaurant/café, and living space all under one roof. Several of the artists will be on hand for the first Friday Trolley Hop on April 4.
The Museum Plaza Sales & Design Center
707 W Main Street

The Sales & Design Center for Museum Plaza is now open. Call 502.638.4922 to schedule an individual appointment.

Stop by during the Trolley Hop on Friday, April 4, until 9pm.

Get a sense of what life at Museum Plaza will be about – luxury, convenience, breathtaking views, and contemporary art in all its expression and form.
The Mayan Cafe, 813 E. Market St., is happy to introduce our New Spring Menu! From our Mexican Salad with pomegranate seeds, Oaxaca cheese & grilled cactus to our Black Bean Cakes served in a creamy avocado sauce to our Escabeche Shrimp served in a pickled lime sauce, the theme at the Mayan Cafe this season is FRESH! Sit out on our patio and enjoy a glass of our Spring Special wine, the Mul-Derbosch Rose of Cabernet from South Africa and take in the night. Call 566.0651 for reservations.
Carr-Waite Studio , 221 S. Hancock

Recent work by Caroline Waite and Geoff Carr. Opening April 4, 6-9 pm
Zephyr Gallery, 610 E. Market St.,
will exhibit Compositions of Symmetry, artwork by Louisville artists Michelle Amos and Brenda Wirth from April 2nd -May 10th.

An artist’s reception and First Friday Gallery Hop will be held on April 4th 6-9pm at the gallery, 610 East Market.

The May First Friday Gallery Hop will be held on May 2nd 6-9pm. Gallery hours are Wednesday- Saturday from 11am- 6pm and by appointment.
Gallery NuLu, 632 E. Market St. 2nd floor, proudly announces their latest show, Leah Tinari’s “These Squares Certainly Sabotage the Stereotype”! Opening: April 4th, 2008 from 5-8 pm tThrough: May 31s t, 2008.
Brooklynite and celebrated New Yorker illustrator Leah Tinari makes her first trip
to Louisville with her outrageous, sumptuous paintings. Tinari celebrates and puts her personal touch on the everyday snapshot by turning it into art, permanently recording her boisterous nights out and family gettogethers in our ‘snap it, delete it, and retake it’ society.
Tinari’s illustrations regularly accompany The New Yorker’s Goings On Around Town Section, putting her touch on bands like The Faint and Supergrass. Her work has also snagged the cover of the UK’s Adbusters, as well as coverage in Elle, Lucky, Spin, and The New York Times Magazine. She teaches a drawing and painting class at Parsons School of Design as well.
Whitney May of The New York Arts Magazine sums it up: “Here, youth, laughs, tequila, and a digital camera are everything; neither politics nor the rest of society pose any significant roadblock.”
The KMAC Gallery Shop, 715 W. Main St., will host a reception for the April Artist of the Month – Bruce Frank. Frank is a photographer who uses his background in graphic design to create images that generally feature a central flower or leaf pattern, with an enhanced background or border. Frank scans his photographic negatives into a digital format, then uses programs like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter, employing pressure-sensitive paintbrushes to draw-in features that "transport them to a different setting ... for a new way of looking at the subject." The effects are sophisticated and striking. He calls his work contemporary botanical art.

The Museum will also unveil the 2008 Derby couture! Wearables include: Hats by Angie Schultz, Polly Singer, Jill Henning, Leigh Magar, Fleur de Paris, C.K. Nobles, Donita Cherry and Ann deVuono; Jewelry by Summer Eliason and Kara Nichols; Sunglasses by iWOOD Eco Designs; and Neckware by Bird Dog Bay and Judy Kushner.

Denise Furnish, Nude
Garner-Furnish Studio
642 E Market @ Clay

Large-scale oil paintings and textile art.
Open Wednesday-Friday 12-5
and Saturday 12-3,
by appointment, or catch us at work!
641-8086 or 594-2039

Joyce Garner, Canis Major Ascending a Staircase
Cressman Center for Visual Arts Gallery, 100 E. Main Street
Traces of Memory
Nicholas Croghan & Carolyn Kimball - M.A. Thesis Exhibition Cressman Center for Visual Arts Gallery
April 4 - May 10, 2008
Reception: Friday, April 4, 2008, 6 - 9 p.m.
Memory. Forgetting. History. Both
Nicholas Croghan and Carolyn Kimball contemplate time, our perceptions of it, and our responses to it. Driving by the site of the single bloodiest day in American history, the Civil War battlefield of Antietam, Kimball is struck by how people, today, can pass by the site and not really care about what happened there. One series of her colored etchings portrays this landscape. Her concerns are with both “the exterior and interior landscapes of memory.”Croghan, when rock climbing, sees evidence of the Earth’s vast geologic history contained within the stone. Similar qualities are evoked in his artwork, he layers images, usually mechanical systems (pulleys, tackles, etc.), and builds up various strata of washes and marks using a wide variety of drawing and painting media, including silverpoint, prismacolor pencils, and acrylic paint. In a few instances, he opts to work directly on the surfaces of stones he has acquired while climbing or on other outdoor adventures.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.


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

The latest works from members of Louisville Clay will be unveiled at the group’s fourth annual sale April 4, Friday, 5 p.m. – 9 p.m. and April 5, Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Glassworks, 815 W. Market St.

FLAME RUN, 828 East Market Street

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Cobalt Artworks, 614 West Main Street
Internationally acclaimed artist LeRoy Neiman’s dynamic image of Secretariat, the 1973 Kentucky Derby-winning super horse, has been selected as the official artwork for the Secretariat 35th Anniversary Edition poster. The artwork is available for sale at Cobalt Artworks. In addition to the poster, Neiman’s Secretariat image will also adorn the limited release bottle of Woodford Reserve which commemorates the 2008 Kentucky Derby.

Neiman’s vibrant, colorful image captures the speed, beauty, and grace of the great Secretariat running down the stretch of Churchill Downs en route to a record final time of 1:59 2/5 for the celebrated 99th Run for the Roses, a track record that still exists.

The official Secretariat 35th Anniversary Edition prints will be available beginning April 1, while supplies last, at Cobalt Artworks in Louisville and online at www.cobaltartworks.com and www.secretariat.com. The prints range from $40 for an Official Edition poster to $250 for a Commemorative Foil-Stamped Edition signed by the artist himself, Secretariat’s owner Penny Chenery, and jockey Ron Turcotte. A percentage of the proceeds from the art sales will be donated to The Secretariat Foundation, whose mission is to assist and support various charities and causes within the thoroughbred racing community. Neiman’s Secretariat image is published by special arrangement with Knoedler Publishing, the prestigious New York publishing house that has been Neiman’s exclusive art publisher for over 30 years.
Cobalt Artworks will have a public signing with Mr. Neiman and Secretariat’s owner Penny Chenery on Thursday May 1 from noon to 1:30pm at the gallery.


FB3 Development, 624 E. Market St.
Exhibits by three artists: Paul Harshaw, a figurative painter; Carlos C Chang, a digital sculpture; and Bobby
Clifton/Mason Maxey, ceramicists.

It should be quite an intriguing and contemporary show with 3 different mediums represented, each one pushing the edge of conventional art.
FREE parking is available at Slugger Field on 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.