Presenting Sponsor:
August 7 , 2009 First Friday Trolley Hop
Our big news is that Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC has signed on as our Presenting Sponsor for the remainder of 2009!

There is so much going on for this month's Trolley Hop that you'd better plan to start early and stay late!
Trolley Hop Night featuring Country Line Dancing with Texas Roadhouse
Friday, August 7, 5 to 9 p.m. FREE; Join us for line dancing lessons outside of the Louisville Science Center.
Stay to enjoy the Science Center’s new IMAX film, “Country Music: The Spirit of America,” featuring rare and historical footage and performances by some of country music’s biggest stars, including Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Lee Ann Womack, Lyle Lovett, Vince Gill, Alan Jackson and many more! The event is part of the First Friday Trolley Hop. Admission to the “Country Music” IMAX film is only $5 per person after 5 p.m.


Louisville Science Center, 727 West Main St.
Frazier International History Museum, 829 W. Main St.
First Friday Trolley Hop, 8/7/2009 5 to 9 p.m.
Join us on Friday, August 7 for the First Friday Trolley Hop! SemiCIRCUS rocks 70s and 80s-era pop, along with current artists to round out a danceable mix that anyone can groove to. While you're here, stop in the Fontaine Ferry exhibit and say "hello" to Sam and Sue and try your hand at skee ball. Admission is free. Light appetizer and cash bar are provided.
River Bend Winery, 120 S. 10th St.

We have a big event on Aug 7th!

The Blues and Wine Festival is River Bend Winery's way of celebrating the last Trolley Hop of the summer! Come down for outdoor entertainment, indoor entertainment, food, wine, and music. See the Predators, Blues town, Big Poppa Stampley, Sheryl Rouse, DJ Nigel and others perform while you experience wine made from Kentucky's finest grapes. Over 5 bands and dozens of vendors to entertain you. Starts at 6 pm and goes until the patrons stop dancing! Cosponsored by the Kentuckiana Blues Society, Natural Awakenings, and River Bend Winery.

See new art available for sale on our walls from the Tim Faulkner Gallery.
Print off this message for a big discount on entrance into the VIP room.


Mary Craik Gallery, 815 East Market St.

I will be showing my quilted wall hangings, art to wear, note cards, gift certificates, glass art, and jewelry.
The Bodega at Felice, 829 E. Market St.

The Bodega will be open late serving dinner, wine and beer. Stop in, join us and enjoy live music on the patio.

St. John’s United Church of Christ, 637 East Market (corner of Clay and Market), will host the Studio2000 Summer Youth Art Sale from 4-8:00 pm during the Trolley Hop. Mediums include ceramics, pottery, paintings, prints, drawings, fiber art and more.

The Youth Sale will be in the Parish Hall located next door to the Church and on the sidewalk in front of the building.

Studio2000 is the Louisville Metro Office of Youth Development’s summer art program for students. This summer’s master artist is Steve Hammer who has been with the program for several years and is a ceramics teacher with St. Patrick’s School.

The Office of Youth Development created Studio2000 to connect teens that have a passion for art with professional artists. Since its inception, Studio2000 teachers have provided artistic and career direction to more than 350 high school students. Prices range from $10 to $300. Proceeds benefit Studio2000 and are reinvested in art supplies and educational materials.



Tim Faulkner Gallery is presenting " Perdido En Demencia " new paintings by Edward Santiago Friday, Aug 7th from 5-11pm


Please note: the gallery has moved from 815 E Market St to 632 E Market St.
Felice Vineyards, 829 East Market Street

Felice Vineyards will be hosting a jazz trio with a vocalist on August 7 th for First Friday.
 
We will also be having an art show by Chris Mozier with pieces in ceramics and drawings.

 Come join us this Friday! 

Puddle, Molly Rucks
Zephyr Gallery is exhibiting
Photo Biennial –Molly Rucks/Robert Mitchell

First Friday Trolley Hop, August 7

To view more photos by these and other artists, visit the Zephyr Gallery website

Untitled, Robert Mitchell

Beef Salbutes
The Mayan Cafe proudly serves the essential ingredients & flavors of Mayan cooking - dishes rich with chilies, roasted peppers, pumpkin seeds, oil infusions & roasted meats.

Our food is paired with complementing wines & beers and served to our guests in an atmosphere of simple elegance.
Trolley Hoppers – visit us at Cake Flour and load up on scones, coffee drinks, select teas and sweet treats made with the finest quality organic & natural ingredients found in the world and right here in Kentucky. We never use artificial dyes or sweeteners, hydrogenated oils, or preservatives that increase shelf life while decreasing yours. Go ahead. Indulge. It’s real food! Make the trip to see us. We’re east of the corner of Campbell and E. Market, 909 E. Market Street, suite 100. You’ll be glad you did. Special orders for special occasions and events, call 502.719.0172. Visit us www.cakeflouronmarket.com or sign up for our daily special tweets on Twitter http://twitter.com/CakeFlour.

The Green Building Gallery, 732 E. Market St.

Sarah Lyon Debuts New Work wi th Solo Show

Opening: July 3rd, 2009 5-9pm  Through: August 28th, 2009
The Green Building Gallery is pleased to present a series of new work by local photographer Sarah Lyon. Debuting material prepared in 2009, the show features both black and white and color photography but goes beyond to explore bronze casting and installation. Lyon’s fourth solo show in Louisville has her exploring everything from her city and country to the local Goodwill and a nearby foundry. Inspiration came from a challenge she gave herself to overcome distracting habits that had infringed upon her art making in the past. “It’s amazing how productive I realized I can be when every evening is not taken up by drinking,” says Lyon. Lyon explored the lost wax casting process with a piece titled "30,000 Miles", a bronze casting of her old motorcycle boots which she wore throughout four cross-country motorcycle journeys starting in the summer of 2003. “During those motorcycle trips I pursued photography projects that established my identity as an artist. To express the enduring, personal influence of those journeys I created a manifestation to outlast me”, Lyon says of the piece. In another subject, Lyon hung a large map of Louisville on the wall and threw darts to determine where she would go to photograph.
The result is a grid of 50 black and white photographs taken around the city. In deciding how to frame this project, she created “Somewhere Over the Framebow”, a contemporary assemblage of white-painted picture frames, ranging from whimsical to the ordinary, in which she explores feelings of nostalgia, emptiness, curiosity and playfulness. The group of work will also include four large color prints of spaces around Louisville, a continuation of her “Louisville Portraits and Landscapes” series. Lyon was born in Louisville and received her BFA from Miami University of Ohio. Her self published 2007, 2008 and 2009 Female Mechanics Calendars have received great response in the United States and internationally as the first of their kind. Her work has also been published in Esquire, Hutch, Trespass, Sustain, Bejeezus, Truckers News, Urban Moto, BMW Owners News, Curve, Today's Woman, and Louisville Magazine. Lyon lives and works in Smoketown and teaches black and white photography at Bellarmine University.
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-6pm
PYRO Gallery. 624 West Main St, will be open from 11am-9pm Friday, August 7th for the First Friday Trolley Hop.
Keith Auerbach’s “Illusion of Certainty” is currently on exhibit at PYRO Gallery, 624 West Main Street, , as part of the Louisville Photo Biennial and Visual Art Festival. The exhibit, which opened July 10th, will remain on display until August 15, 2009.
Auerbach is known for his award-winning black and white photographs of people and animals, such as those currently on exhibit in Weber Gallery’s “Art From the Heart.” In “Illusion of Certainty,” however, Auerbach uses colorful, abstract images to address the emotions and feelings central to his art-making. As the artist explains, “I make visible that which is invisible [… ] the secrets of our hearts.” While the artist intends to invoke feelings of empathy, kindness, vulnerability and acceptance in viewers, he purposefully keeps his iconography and titles abstracted so that the viewer is encouraged to construct their personal meanings of each piece.
Apart from these two simultaneous solo exhibitions, the artist’s photography can be found in the Guilda Club of Louisville’s permanent collection, and in The Photographic Humor0 of Keith Auerbach (which received both the Book of the Year award from the Independent Publisher’s Association and The International Photography Awards/Lucie Award). The book is available for sale at PYRO Gallery throughout the exhibition.

Lost Enough to Find Yourself

Illusion of Certainty

Night Tenderness

Small Glimpses Small Room

Hints, Intutions
Yellow Submarine
WILD WHEELS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY CONVERGE ON MAIN STREET
8th Annual Kentucky Art Car Weekend, August 6 - 8, 2009
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, with support from the International Contemporary Art Foundation, will host the 8th Annual Kentucky Art Car Weekend from Thursday, August 6 through Saturday, August 8, 2009. Art Car guru Harrod Blank will bring 3 cars from Art Car World, a museum he founded in Arizona that is dedicated entirely to the celebration and preservation of this popular mobile art form, and give a lecture about his most recent film Automorphosis. The event will showcase over 40 art cars in total from around the country, including the world famous Camera Van and the California Fantasy Van.
The weekend will kick off with a drive-in movie at the Waterfront Wharf, located next to Joe’s Crab Shack, on Thursday, August 6th beginning at 7:00pm. Several cars will be on display as the Wharf will become a full-fledged drive-in movie theatre, complete with a concession stand and a radio transmitted sound. The feature film, Automorphosis, will begin at 9:00pm.
Beginning at 9:00am on Friday, August 7th, art cars from around the country will arrive and park along the 700 block of West Main Street. The cars will remain on display through the First Friday Trolley Hop for a block party that includes an art car wig contest, artist demonstrations and live music by DJ Jason Clark. At 9:00pm the cars will go on an illuminated cruise to Lynn’s Paradise Café, located at 984 Barret Avenue.
At 9:00am on Saturday morning, the cars will return to the 700 and 800 blocks of West Main Street where the block party continues. The public is invited to vote for their favorite art car, and from 10:00am-1:00pm the Museum will host a free workshop where children can build their own mini art car. At noon, Harrod Blank and Bonnie Blue will give lectures in the Street Gallery at the Museum. Beginning at 2:00pm, the cars will embark on the art car parade, traveling down Market Street to Bardstown Road, circling the Douglass Loop and then culminating in the parking lot of the Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church where they will remain on display until 5:00pm.
A Barn Dance will be held in the lot behind 21C beginning at 6:00pm on Saturday with live music from The Smacks, The Flying Carpets and Ultra Pulvarize. A dinner buffet will be provided by Proof and available to the public for $$$. The party is free and open to the public.
The Kentucky Art Car Weekend is sponsored by the International Contemporary Art Foundation, 4th District Council Member David Tandy, Louisville Metro Government, the Main Street Association, Heine Brothers Coffee, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Joe’s Crab Shack, the Waterfront Development Corporation, and Lynn’s Paradise Café.
About the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft is a nonprofit organization founded in 1981. Its mission is to promote and support art and craft excellence in Kentucky. The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Museum is also supported in part by the Fund for the Arts. It is open Monday through Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or by appointment. Admission is $5 for adults, free for KMAC members, students and children under 12. For more information, please call 502.589.0102 or log on to www.KentuckyArts.org.

Harlan

Guitars not Guns
The 21c Museum will be open during Trolley hop, but will be in the process of swapping out exhibitions. Instead of mentioning that, you may be interested in our Sunday Summer Series: SUNDAY SERIES: CABARET LIFE DRAWING & YOGA WITH ART Every Sunday through September 20th, 4:30pm Yoga with Art and Cabaret Life Drawing alternates every week In the downstairs galleries Yoga: $5, Drawing: $10 ($5 students)Join 21c this Sunday, August 9 for Cabaret Life Drawing, an evening of provocative inspiration. An array of models – from burlesque starlets to ballerinas, magicians to fetish models, circus contortionists to costumed showgirls – will perform and pose for the audience to sketch. Just $10 at the door, attendees should being their own easel & drawing board with sketchbook and drawing supplies. Charcoal is recommended. Space is limited, so arrive early to ensure your spot. Please bring exact change.The following Sunday, August 16, in Gallery 3 at 4:30pm you’ll need to BYOM (bring your own mat) for Yoga with Art. Flex those creative muscles as you work through a variety of ancient poses. Sessions are just $5 at the door and feature special guest instructors each week. Attendees should bring their own mat or towel and water and arrive early to ensure a spot because space is limited.For the full summer schedule visit www.21cmuseum.org/events
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21c Museum Shop August Featured Artist: Kelli Pope
Kentucky native Kelli Pope may have defected to Southern Indiana, but her inspired jewelry designs are sure to make Louisvillians claim her as our own. Interested in a variety of artistic pursuits from a very young age, the love of making jewelry started rather unglamorously: laboring to repair a flawed store-bought piece. Inspired by her newfound talent, that single piece fueled a desire to create affordable, artistic jewelry. Pope's pieces continue to evolve as she perfects her craft with new metal smith techniques and creative designs. Each piece is one of a kind, and custom orders are welcomed. Meet the artist during Trolley Hop, Friday, August 7, 2009 from 5pm-9pm.
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Proof on Main Cool off with Homemade Italian Goodness from Proof on Main
The Proof Gelato Cart will be street side offering Trolley Hoppers tasty treats. Visit https://twitter.com/proofgelato to stay tuned for flavors and location.
New Exhibition at Proof on Main: Greg Gossel, Recent Work
Currently on display in the second dining room (aka "The Goat Room") of Proof on Main is recent work by Minneapolis-based artist Greg Gossel. Using a combination of silkscreen technique, collage, and other mixed media, Gossel appropriates pop culture images and symbolism collected from old comic books, magazines, newspapers, and paperbacks. Said Gossel during a mid-2009 exhibition, "many of the pieces incorporate this ongoing theme of a fall from grace, pieces of our collective history which were not the storybook endings that are so often portrayed in mass media." ------


Flame Run
Flame Run contemporary art glass studio will be celebrating its 5th anniversary in an exhibit this July 31 – September 25. The studio has invited a host of past exhibitors, showcasing a multitude of glassmaking styles and backgrounds. The photo of new vessels is by Brook Forrest White, Jr.
VONFIRE Gallery at Louisville Glassworks
815. West Market (502.584.4510)FRIDAY, AUGUST 7TH EVENTS:VONFIRE Gallery Opening Reception (6-9pm)
Gallery Talk w/ artists at 7:30; free.Hot Glass Demonstration: THORYN ZIEMBA, EVERETT HIRCHE, & ANDREW NAJARIAN
(Appalachian Craft Center, Smithville, TN)
Thoryn Ziemba will be making a one-of-a-kind work, in a newly developed series titled: Aperions. The series is based on the work of pre-Socratic philosopher Anaximander, whose belief in an indefinable yet central form that brought all others into existence. Glassworks Rooftop Concert: D RIDER, THE INVADERS, AND BUFFALO BILL
Doors open at 7pm, music starts at 8; $7; full cash bar; sponsored by Cumberland Brews
FREE parking is available at Slugger Field on Main Street at Jackson, and in the 4th St. Live Garage after 6 p.m.
Free parking is also available on the street after 6:00 p.m.


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