the Cressman Center for the visual art
Cressman Center Gallery
100 East Main Street
Phone: 502.852.0288
Exhibition Schedule Fall 08
JOYCE OGDEN : [de]hydration
sculpture exhibition
8/14 - 9/20
Cressman Center Galleries
Reception:
Friday, September 5, 2008 • 6-9 pm
FIVE FROM FOUR
International Calligraphy Invitational
Monica Dengo (Arezzo, Italy), Laurie Doctor (Louisville)
Maya Huber (Darmstadt, Germany)
Yves Leterme (Bruges, Belgium)
and Steven Skaggs (Louisville)
9/25 - 11/1
Cressman Center Galleries
Reception: Friday, October 3 • 5:30-7:30pm
Download the 24-page exhibition catalogue [pdf 11MB]
The Art of Experience
Fluxus Works from the Klosterman/Lowe Collection
Exhibition Date: 11/7 - 1/3
Reception: Friday, November 7, 2008 6–9 pm
Download Printable Flyer [pdf]
Sutherland Endowed Chair in Glass
The Sutherland Endowed Chair in Glass Arts brings some of the world’s most important artists working in glass to the University of Louisville each year. Made possible by the generosity of the Sutherland Foundation and a matching grant by the Commonwealth Research Challenge Trust Fund, the Sutherland Chair hosts artists exploring all aspects of contemporary glass. We are pleased to be able to share these artists’ work and their unique insights with the Louisville arts community through demonstrations and lectures open to the public.
All events will be at the
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 East Main St, Downtown
502-852-0288
October: Hot Glass Event
Jessica Julius and Erica Rosenfeld —
Burnt Asphalt
Oct 8, 6:30 pm
November: Glassblowing Demonstration
Nancy Callan
Nov 22, 1 pm
December: Demonstration
Richard Jolley
Dec 2, 6:30 pm
Download flyer of Sutherland Glass Lectures [pdf]
Exhibition Schedule Spring 09
NEW GLASGOW BOYS
Traveling Exchange
Contemporary Scottish Art
1/8 - 2/8
JOHN KINGERLEE
Touring Exhibition
Paintings & Drawings
1/16 - 2/28
Cressman Center Galleries
MA THESIS EXHIBITIONs
Studio and Curatorial
3/6 - 4/11
Cressman Center Galleries
HOKES ARCHIVES
Beauvais Lyons, curator
4/17- 5/23
Cressman Center Galleries
Mission
The Department of Fine Arts and the Hite Art Institute are committed to furthering the mission of the University of Louisville to become a preeminent urban research university through the establishment of a visual arts center in downtown Louisville. The opening in November, 2006 of the Cressman Center for Visual Arts located at the corner of First and Main Streets in the heart of downtown is the first step in this process. The Cressman Center will expand the department's studio art and exhibition programs and provide an educational focus for the visual arts within the urban center of the city. Covering 12,000 square feet, the Cressman Center is the home of the department's glass program featuring a hotshop and cold working studios, sculpture studios and shops, seminar room and galleries.
The mission of the Cressman Center for Visual Arts is to educate, engage and excite the community through the visual arts. The Center will function as a space where practice and theory; artists and the public intersect. The Cressman Center will accomplish its mission to ...
• educate our students and the public by providing an educational focus for the visual arts within the urban center of the city. A downtown university-run visual art center will forge a connection between the public and the University through the visual arts. This space will expand the University's outreach; attracting visitors, creating new audiences, and recruiting prospective students from the region and nationally.
• engage our students and the public by expanding the University's studio art capabilities. The Cressman Center adds much needed space for its studio arts program and in particular programs in 3-D studios, including the areas of glass and sculpture. The Cressman Center, with its open design, will engage students and allow them to work in a truly interdisciplinary manner exploring a variety of sculptural media.
• excite our students and the public by creating a unique environment for interactive fine arts experiences. Visitors will be able to see faculty and students at work in various sculptural media in open studios, and at the same time be able to view exciting exhibitions in the galleries, attend lectures and special events, and meet visiting artists and scholars — all in one space. The Cressman Center for Visual Arts will be a destination for the public where they can experience firsthand the art making process.
The Department of Fine Arts is the largest and most comprehensive art program in the state. Its active and productive faculty composed of artists and scholars form the core of scholarship and research from which the Cressman Center will build, but perhaps the most important strength that will ensure the success of the Cressman Center is the cultural wealth of the city of Louisville, and the desire of the University to make a greater contribution to the growth and well-being of the city.
The Belknap Gallery, Covi Gallery and Gallery X are on the second floor of Schneider Hall on the Belknap Campus. The Cressman Center is located in downtown Louisville on 1st and Main streets.
Image above of Cressman Center: Photograph by David Harpe.
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