First Friday Trolley Hop

June 1, 2007

The June First Friday Trolley Hop includes everything from a sneak preview of the Dragons exhibit at The Frazier History Museum at one end of Main Street to an interactive art event at St. John UCC at the other end of Market Street, and plenty more in between, like one of a kind fiber art at the Mary Craik Gallery and the Embroiderers' Guild, oil, textile, photography, mixed media, and more. National City and Woodford Reserve present a sneak peek of the Francisco's Farm Arts Festival at 106 S. Fourth St. As an added bonus, many venues serve free refreshments, so grab a Trolley and Hop on over to the gallery scene. It's the in thing to do!

St. John United Church of Christ,
637 E. Market,
will be hosting The Sidewalk Show: an interactive art event outside the St. John Renaissance Theatre. This event was created to unite artists and their community in a participatory experience with art and music. The show will demonstrate that simple enjoyment and positive acts can help build strong bonds in our community.

Anyone wanting to create music with the group, please bring an empty, lidded, coffee can (or another non-breakable hand sized container) to the event. Inside the sanctuary, organ music will be played.

Mary Craik Gallery,
815 E. Market St.

New contemporary quilted wall hangings, art to wear, jewelry, pottery and hand made note cards.

Embroiders' Guild of America
426 W. Jefferson Street
The artists of Fiber Revolution invite you to view and enjoy their work at the opening during the Trolley Hop, June 1, from 5-8 pm. Fiber Revolution is a network of professional textile artists combining their knowledge and experience in marketing to exhibit and sell their artwork. Fiber Revolution's goal is to provide greater visibility for our art while educating the public about fiber art as an exciting art form. Although the art is constructed from fabric, it is not meant to lie at the foot of the bed, but rather to hang on the wall like an oil or watercolor painting. The artists use fiber as their medium dying it, painting it, cutting it, tearing it, stamping it, fusing it and embellishing it. The final step, stitching through the layers of fabric, brings a dimensional depth to the artwork that mere paint cannot.

'Sneak Peak’ at Francisco’s Farm Arts Festival , 106 South Fourth Street
      National City and Woodford Reserve present a one-night-only Preview of Francisco’s Farm Arts Festival at Midway College, June 1, from 5-10pm.
      More than fifty fine visual and craft artists are represented in this event – a combination Gallery Hop and Celebration. Hors d‘oeuvres are provided courtesy of Midway’s Famous Holly Hill Inn - Cash Bar.
     Experience Midway Hospitality in the big city, and see what’s in store for you at the Festival – June 16 & 17 on the beautiful campus of Midway College. Only an hour from Louisville, this AmericanStyle Magazine ‘Top Ten Art Festival’ features 140 artists from 14 states, Francisco’s Gallery artist Dan Neal Barnes, live music, children’s art activities, and a 100% passerby-created public art project. Visit www.franciscosfarm.org to see all the artists.

	Garner-Furnish Studio 642 East Market Street Large-scale oil paintings and textile art. Open Wednesday-Friday 12-5 and Saturday 12-3, by appointment or catch us at work! Denise Mucci Furnish Loss/Gain Yoyo series textile collage on canvas 31" x 31" detail

Gallery NuLu, 632 East Market Street, is proud to announce the opening of Tom LeGoff’s latest exhibition, “In

Retrospect: 20 Years In and Out of the Movies”, June 1st, from 6-9 pm. A widely accomplished photographer, Mr. LeGoff’s work spans the creative, commercial, and instructional spectrums. A freelance photographer living in New York City, he is a significant artist in advertising, print, film still, and portrait photography. With an impressive list of clients, including MGM, HBO, Simon and Schuster, Getty Images, Rolling Stone, Elle Magazine, and Entertainment Weekly, Mr. LeGoff’s work record and expertise speak for themselves. His portfolio boasts over 20 Oscar nominees and a notable list of celebrities including Robert Altman, John Waters, Christina Ricci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Spike Lee, and Julianne Moore.Mr. LeGoff’s has exhibited his work throughout the country and abroad, including The Screening Room and Staley/Wise Gallery in New York City, the Miami Beach Cinematheque in Miami, and the American Museum of Moving Image, where his work is displayed in the permanent collection. This latest exhibition examines two decades of photographic experience, with prints by Union Editions in NYC.

Please join us to celebrate and enjoy Tom LeGoff’s first Louisville show!

Unabomber

815 E. Market St. Upstairs
Mason Maxey and Bobby Clifton rub your face in the snow once again at UNABOMBER. More plates with ironic and juvenile images juxtaposed haphazardly along side "Corporate Guns and Logos". Currently in the new "Pitch" www.pitchmagazine.org/, Kentucky's Art and Culture Magazine in which editor, Scott Rodgers refered to the young lads as "the best artists in Louisville" and in a recent article The Courier Journal's, Diane Heilenman deemed as "irrereverant".
"We want to eat your children"
Mason Maxey and Bobby Clifton mm-bc.org

Carr+Waite Studios, 221 S. Hancock St. , is exhibiting the works of Geoff Carr, Caroline Waite and Julius Friedman for the 2007 Photo Expo Biennial.

PYRO Gallery, 624 West Main St.

"Elements and Icons," a New Member show featuring fiber artist Melinda Snyder and painter Debra Lott, will hold a First Friday reception to be held Friday June 1st from 5:00-9:00 P.M. during the Trolley Hop.
Three of Snyder's pieces incorporate a painted acrylic background. Snyder then uses a sewing machine to translate designs inspired by her students' mark-making into intricate, embroidered, threaded line and shadow in her canvases.
Stretched and mounted on frames, these 18 x 28" pieces read like art and artifact simultaneously, the embroidery a careful representation of nature and the natural forces of the mind in the creation of the art object.

Lott's large scale oil paintings are culled from two series. Her "Elderly Women Series" and "Mannequin Series" both highlight differing aspects of womanhood as experienced by our culture. The intention of the "Elderly Women" series is to reveal and explore the inner beauty of women of advanced age. In a society that tends to disregard the elemental and spiritual aspects of beauty incurred by experience and knowledge, Lott reveals the fragile, luminous skin, surfaces marked by work and experience. Eyes and faces much larger than life reveal a history of expression that is truly beautiful and deeply moving.

The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 715 W. Main St., is pleased to present the first exhibition in the 2007 Kentucky Artist Series sponsored by Anthem, Dancing with Galileo: A Photographic Exhibition by Barbara Houghton. The opening reception will be Friday, June 1st from 5-9pm in conjunction with the First Friday Trolley Hop. The show will remain on display at the Museum through July 21, 2007.
This body of work is inspired by the genius of Galileo and Filippo Brunelleshchi. It comes from a long term research project but mostly from Barbara’s love affair with Galileo. She read many of his writings, but it seemed the more she found out, the less she understood.
“This historic figure led me on a journey to find out who he was as a man,” explains Barbara. “I traveled to the places where he lived, and tried to find out where he stood and what he saw. He became human with flaws, but I still found I wanted to dance with him. However, I found myself dancing alone...”
Barbara has a friend in Florence who allowed her to visit the last residence of Galileo where he was held under house arrest until the end of his life. The house is in Arcetri near Florence, and some photographs in the exhibit were made in the room in which he died.

	Zephyr Gallery 610 E. Market St. The 1st Friday work at Zephyr is “Iconic Males” by Robert Mitchell and “Mandalas” by Wendi Smith. Both are mixed media shows.
	<-- Sea Turtles: Acrylic on canvas, fabric, beads, floss, wooden sticks 15" x 13" each
	Color print and mixed media -->

FREE parking is available at the Riverside lot, 113 E. Market Street next to the White Castle; 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.