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| November 7, 2008 First Friday Trolley Hop If this e-newsletter was forwarded to you by a friend, sign up here to receive your own Hop e-news every month so you don't miss out on what's coming up. |
In response to the businesses on Third Street in downtown, the Fourth Street Trolleys will be running a special Trolley Hop circuit on Friday, Nov. 7 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. The Fourth Street trolleys will be free and will make a south/north loop from Market Street to Broadway to include additional businesses along Third and Fourth Streets. This route will travel east on Market to Third Street, south on Third to Broadway then north on Fourth Street to the regular Fourth Street route. Some of the businesses that will be open are the Urban Design Center, StudioWorks, The Spaghetti Factory, Kentucky Backroads Gallery, Riteway BBQ, the Gallery at the Brown Hotel, Personal Image, Raw, Angel Rockbar, Tengo Sed Cantina, Maker's Mark, Borders Books & Music, and more. Please stop in and visit them. |
| November 21c Museum Shop featured Artist: ARCHITYPE 21c Museum Shop, Located on Seventh Street in between Main and Market  ARCHITYPE is a locally owned and operated design house, specializing in leather bags and accessories. Drawing inspiration from architecture, science, history, and all aspects of culture and using rich and vibrantly colored leather, their designs merge form and function to create products that are both beautiful and useful. ARCHITYPE strives to uphold the principles of sustainability and responsible manufacturing to create a prosperous business that also benefits the environment and local economy. Leather is a renewable, durable, and biodegradable resource. ARCHITYPE uses quality leathers from the USA, and recycled end-lots that may be discarded as waste from large products, and they employ regional artisans to handcraft their designs. Stop by during Trolley Hop on Friday, November 7th (from 5pm – 9pm) to meet the artists. Think Global. Shop Local. Visit the Museum Shop. |
 GALLERY AT ACTORS THEATRE, 316 W. Main Street SOME LIKE IT HOT 3 artists from Flame Run Gallery Nov 2 - Dec 13, 2008 Sara Shallenberger Brown and Mezzanine Lobbies Flame Run's goal is to share the endless possibilities of contemporary glass art with the public. From our art glass studio and art glass gallery tours, hot glass demonstrations, contemporary glass art exhibitions, and community classes to visiting artists’ workshops, Flame Run has put Louisville on the map as a destination for contemporary glass artists, educators and collectors. Flame Run is about seeing, feeling and experiencing the passion of our glass artists. At Flame Run the focus is glass. Brook Forrest White, Jr., co-owner of Flame Run Glass Studio in Louisville, invests himself in the magic and mystery of hot glass. He creates colorful, seductive forms with patterning that takes the viewer to another dimension. Susie Slabaugh White’s work explores the coupling of seductive form and radiant color with narrative images of her life. She use a collaboration of methods in an inventive way to get the desired results. Through this process, the energy trapped in the glass is fused with her energy found deep within. From sweat to substance, it is both meditative and exciting. Anessa Arehart's Beauty Paintings are loosely based on lessons learned from her Grandmother, Lena. Balanced with a good dose of modern practicality and a bit of humor, Anessa strives to keep a few basic rules alive in regards to Lena's personal standards of beauty, charm and poise. She believes it doesn't hurt to give a little nod of respect to tradition now and again and encourages a wee bit of decorum while swinging from the chandelier. Or at the very least, to be wearing a proper slip when doing so. |
| SCOUT will reopen for the November Gallery Hop! Stop in to see all of our new merchandise. |
| Cobalt Artworks will be offering 25% off all Ryder Cup framed and unframed artwork for the gallery hop, including our Triple Signed Edition signed by Ryder Cup Captains Paul Azinger and Nick Faldo. |
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Now the First Friday Trolley takes you right to the front door of The Galt House Hotel & Suites! Stop in to enjoy the art and entertainment, then take advantage of the specials on food and drink. This is also a great time to visit the retail shops:
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ART ECOLOGY, Louisville's newest addition to the arts community, will exhibit the first of 4 installations of drawings by Russel Hulsey titled “The Verses Series”. Each installation of the series consists of 5 large charcoal / paint portraits on heavy paper of Poets from a literary movement. The Exhibition will open with a reception on November 7th and will hang until the December gallery hop. ART ECOLOGY is at 224 South Clay Street unit #110 at the new Gallery Square development. ART ECOLOGY brings a twist to the “gallery” concept by offering reproductions of the original work with their in house printing capabilities. They offer the work on any type of paper, on aluminum, photo panels, ceramic and glass tiles, and will offer limited edition signed copies of the Verses series. ART ECOLOGY also has an existing digital catalog of their artists work and offers prints of their work as well, not to mention offering the same print services to you for your art or photographs. A very holistic 21st century arts company. |
An exhibition of recent works by Melinda Snyder and Cindy Rollins opens at Pyro Gallery on October 3rd during the First  Friday Trolley Hop, from 6:00 to 9:00 PM. A First Friday Trolley Hop reception will be held Friday, November 7th. The show runs from October 3rd through November 8th. Melinda Snyder is a fiber artist who has been creating quilts for more than twenty-five years. During art school and after, she concentrated on machine embroidery, using the sewing machine as a way of drawing on fabric. Freed from the constraints of traditional stitching, she stitched freeform all over the surface of the canvas.Snyder's recent work draws from many influences. She is inspired by the graphic patterns and color combinations of West African culture, which she studies with elementary students as an art teacher. She is also influenced by antique Early American crazy quilts and the piecing techniques they utilize. Key to Snyder's work are the color relationships she develops through the process of dying fabric, piecing it together, and finishing the cloth with rows of quilting stitches. For Snyder, the surprises of color and texture she discovers as she works, and the process of cutting, piecing, and finishing the piece, are what make quilting so rewarding. Cindy Rollins is a painter who focuses largely on landscapes, drawing upon experiences of the places she has visited in her personal travels. She edits and synthesizes the characteristics she has observed to create dynamic images rich in color and texture.   In her recent works, she has included both imaginary and real visions of the earth, sky and the loneliness of the deep space where the two meet. It is in this space that she finds balance between dynamic and static, fantastic and real, light and dark. In this space she imagines all people are connected, and dreams are made and realized. The paintings in this body of work are reinterpretations of drawings, photographs, and notes from places she has visited, from the mountains of Montana to the beaches of North Carolina. She paints what she sees with her eyes, her mind, and her heart.Pyro Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday 11 am to 6 pm, and by appointment. Pyro is located at 624 W. Main St. in Louisville, KY. Call (502) 587-0106. |
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Mary Craik Gallery, 815 E. Market St. |
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| The Museum Plaza Sales & Design Center 707 W Main Street Regular Hours: M - F 10am – 6pm, Weekends by appointment 502.638.4922 www.museumplaza.net Museum Plaza is a 61-story multi-use skyscraper being built in downtown Louisville. It will be a dynamic cultural center – a new model for combining culture and commerce -- focused on the art of the present. The Sales & Design Center, located at 707 W Main Street, will be open for Trolley Hop until 9pm. View works by contemporary artists such as Kehinde Wiley, Sam Taylor-Wood, Vik Muniz, and Alfredo Jaar and learn more about the project and its various commercial and residential uses – luxury condominiums, office space, retail, hotel, education, and art spaces. MUSEUM PLAZA 707 W Main Street / Louisville, Kentucky 40202 / T: 502 638 4922 / F: 502 638 4926 / www.museumplaza.net |
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 21c Museum & Proof On Main, 700 W. Main St. 21c Special Exhibition: El Día de los Muertos: The Day of the Dead The Day of the Dead celebration runs Saturday, November 1 to Sunday, November 9 in gallery 4, off the street level gallery For this special exhibition and collaboration with the University of Louisville, 21c Museum will display a site-specific altar by Lexington-based artist Robert Morgan and three altars by professors and students at the University. Dr. Christopher Fulton, Gabrielle Mayer, and Che Rhodes worked with students from their classes to make unique altars each with a specific theme. In addition, silk paintings by Luci Mistratov and her University class also decorate the installation space.The exhibition will be open for the First Friday Trolley Hop on November 7. |
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The Bodega at Felice, 829 E. Market St. The Bodega will be open late for dinner.
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Late Night at the Frazier Museum with Johnny Berry 829 W. Main St. 11/7/2008 5-9 pm Come home to the Frazier Museum with Johnny Berry! Enjoy Louisville's own Johnny Berry, as he fills the galleries with the sounds of honky-tonk during the November Trolley Hop. This event is FREE! |
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Paul Paletti Gallery, 713 E. Market St. Kenro Izu: Photographs of Angkor Wat and other sacred places: A percentage of proceeds from gallery sales related to the Izu show will benefit the nonprofit organization Friends Without A Border and Angkor Hospital for Children |
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Photography Exhibit by John Sodrel Rural Kentuckiana scenes and Images from Jiujiang, China (Louisville's Sister City) October and November
Special "Meet the Artist" receptions with food, drinks, and music on October 3 and November 7 as part of the First Friday Trolley Hop. |
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Cressman Center for Visual Arts Gallery, 100 E. Main Street The Art of Experience: Fluxus Works from the Collection of Michael Lowe November 7, 2008 – January 3, 2009 Reception: Friday, November 7, 6 - 9p.m. – First Friday Trolley Hop The exhibition will feature over 60 exemplary Fluxus pieces owned by Cincinnati art collector Michael Lowe. Fluxus was a dynamic network of international visual artists, composers, and poets who collaborated beginning in the early 1960s. They created individual and collective artworks that emphasized elements of chance, economy (both in materials and presentation), experiential engagement, humor, play, and a democratization of media that combined poetry, theater, music, and art. Out of these interests, Fluxus artists invented such forms as the Event score and Fluxkit multiples, in addition to the terms Concept Art and Intermedia. The working dates for the most prominent activity by original Fluxus artists are 1962-1978, and their work has influenced everything from conceptual art and mail art to performance and postmodernism. Founding Fluxus artists continue to create, perform, and publish to this very day, inspiring new generations of artists who have unabashedly adopted the Fluxus name and its principles. Fluxus artists represented in the exhibition include: Yoko Ono, George Brecht, George Maciunas, Bob Watts, Takako Saito, Robert Filliou, Ben Vautier, Henry Flynt, Nam June Paik, Ay-O, and Wolf Vostell. |
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The Mayan Cafe, 813 E. Market St., Trolley on down to Shelby St. where the Mayan Cafe is located and enjoy our delicious, authentic, Mayan cuisine. If you've never had Mayan food before, this is your opportunity! Our dishes are rich, flavorful, and exotic. |
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Carr-Waite Studios, 221 S. Hancock Street Join us this First Friday for show of recent work. I have an ongoing photographic series of artist portraits in their studios and Caroline's recent work juxtaposes human elements with vintage and Victorian items in playfully surreal assemblages. |
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The Green Building Gallery, 732 East Market, announces their inaugural show, featuring new work by Louisville's own Cynthia Reynolds. Opening: November 7, 5-9 pm during the Trolley Hop. The Green Building Gallery is located in Louisville's first commercial building anitcipatin platinum LEED certification. Renovations are nearly complete in the 110-year old former dry goods store, which will house a contemporary art gallery, office space, event spaces, and a restaurant. |
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