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2022 Fall BFA Thesis Exhibition

November 17 - December 14, 2022
2022 Fall BFA Thesis Exhibition

2022 Fall BFA Thesis Exhibition | Schneider Hall Galleries
November 17- December 14, 2022
Reception: Thursday Nov. 17 | 5-7 PM

The Hite Institute of Art + Design is excited to announce our Fall 2022 BFA Thesis Exhibition. Featuring the work our eight graduating BFA Students, the exhibition is an opportunity for our BFA Studio students to present their final thesis exhibitions to the community and celebrate the completion of their degrees. With work ranging in media from photography, printmaking, painting, and digital drawing, each of our students has created a unique and cohesive body of work that represents their individual artistic practices and theoretical interests. The completion of their thesis exhibitions is a testament to the dedication and hard work over the course of their undergraduate careers and a glimpse of their future art careers!

We hope you will join us on Thursday November 17 for the opening reception of the Fall BFA Thesis Exhibition. This event is free and open to the public!

The Schneider Hall Galleries are open Monday-Friday 9am-4:30pm and Saturday 11am-4:00pm. 

 

2022 Annual Student Exhibition

December 2-January 6, 2023
2022 Annual Student Exhibition

Annual Student Exhibition
December 2-January 6, 2023
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
Reception: Friday Dec. 2 | 5-8 PM

The Hite Institute of Art + Design is pleased to present this year’s Annual Student Exhibition. Featuring 15 students currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Hite, the exhibition serves to highlight the Hite’s disciplinary range from painting to printmaking, photography to glass, sculpture and ceramics. Participating students were selected by their professors for their outstanding work and creativity to represent each studio area and highlight the conceptual and stylistic diversity of our talented students.

Visually this year’s selection ranges from intricate line drawings, high-contrast photographs and fluid paintings, along with soft sculptures and vibrant fiber creations, with themes that explore fantasy, nostalgia, identity, and personal struggle. For audiences, the exhibition offers a rich aesthetic experience that is complemented by each student’s individual thematic research.

We are also excited to share that this year, in addition to our BFA students, we will be joined by a small  group of students from the UofL Department of Theatre Arts who have spent the Fall semester designing and creating costumes which will be displayed alongside our student’s work.

The Annual Student Exhibition will be on view at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts from Friday December 2-through Friday January 6, 2023. A reception will be held on Friday Dec. 2 from 5-8 PM. This event is free and open to the public!

Students participating this year include: Amaiya Crawford, Raurey Sh, Claire Vicars, Mahika Gupta, Emerson Hardin, Hevin Ramsey, Sophia Fowler, Lilly Weakley, Lauren Sanderfer, Alena Kraus, Calista White, McKinney Meek, Sam Wilding, Patrick Berry, Kimberley Wang, Aniyah Adams, Megan Burns, Samantha Greer, Maddie Cornett, Madelyn Cornett, and Professor Zhanna Goldentul

Images: Left: Claire Vicars; Top Right: Calista White; Bottom Right: Lily Weakley

 

2022 Open Studio Juried Exhibition

October 7 - November 19, 2022
2022 Open Studio Juried Exhibition

Open Studio Juried Exhibition
Oct. 7 - Nov. 19, 2022
Reception: Friday October 7 | 5-8 PM
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main St. Louisville, KY 40202

The Hite Institute of Art and Design is excited to announce this year’s Open Studio Louisville Juried Exhibition at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts. On view from Oct. 7 to Nov. 19, the exhibition features 32 local artists selected by this year’s jury panel.

 This year marks the 9th annual Open Studio Event and is an opportunity for collectors, art enthusiasts, and fellow artists to get a behind the scenes look at the creative processes of Louisville’s professional artists. For this year’s juried exhibition, our two jurors: Mallory Feltz, Director of Exhibitions and Public Art, Kennedy Heights Arts Center, Cincinnati, and Aaron Reynolds, Gallery Director and Curator of Collections Georgetown College, reviewed over 70 applications to  select the artists for this year’s exhibition. Thanks to their efforts, this year’s exhibition stands out as one of our most beautiful yet and features a wide range of media, styles, and content.

 A reception for the Open Studio Juried Exhibition will be held on Friday October 7 from 5-8 PM. This event is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served!

 For more information on how you can participate in this year’s Open Studio Event please visit LVA’s website.

 The artists participating in this year’s juried exhibition include: Amy Finder, Ann Klem, Brennen Cabrera, Clare Hirn, Claudia Hammer, David Metcalf, Debra Lott, Donna Charging, Dru Pilmer, Elizabeth Bizianes, EVPL, Geoffrey Crowe, James Russell May, John Day, Joy Lait, Julio Cesar Rodriguez, Kara Bubenchick, Katherine Cox, Katie Burke, Kelly McCarthy, Kevin Rose Schultz, Mike McCarthy, Patrick Owen, Ruth Goldstein, Sabra Crockett, Sandra Charles, Shane Nearman, Steve Heine, Susan E. Brooks, Susie Byerley, Suyun Son, Tom Cannady.

Images: Kevin Schultz, The Handkerchief, 2022, Cyanotype Print on Cotton, Patrick Owen, Tiny Hands Cannot Hold this World, 2019, found object assemblage;  and Sandra Charles, Artist Statement, 2022 Oil on canvas

The Cressman Center is open Wednesday-Thursday 11am-6pm, Friday 2-6:00 and Saturdays 11am-2:30 pm

Images 1-3: Installation images; Image 4: work by Susan Byerley; Images 5-8: Installation images; Image 9: Work by Mike McCarthy; Image 10: Work by Joy Lait.

Lesch | Oldham Needlework

January 13 - March 11, 2023
Lesch | Oldham Needlework

Lesch | Oldham
Needlework
Jan. 13- March 11, 2023
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main St. Louisville, KY 40202

The Hite Institute of Art and Design is pleased to present “Lesch | Oldham: Needlework,” a two-person exhibition featuring Alma Lesch (1917-1999) and Elsa Oldham (b. 1983). Originally installed for a short duration in Fall 2022 to coincide with the annual meeting of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT), (a global consortium founded by Harald Szeemann, designed to offer a novel approach to art that is both nationally oriented and locally grounded) the show is back by popular demand and has returned to the CCVA for a full 8 weeks. 

Lesch and Oldham are fiber and needle-based artists who work with material and cultural vernacular from Kentucky. But both artists also work at the intersection of representational-visual art and novel (sometimes even bewildering) technology in ways that are decidedly engaged with the most pressing visual problems of their moment. The exhibition thus begins to answer a question posed by the IKT conference: What might constitute art of “Global Appalachia.”  

The Cressman Center is Open Wed: 11-2 pm; Thursday 11-6 pm; Friday 11-5; and Saturday 11-2:30.

Images:  Left: Alma Lesch, Southern Gothic, 1973, fiber collage, 26” x 38”; Right, Elsa Hansen Oldham, Facing Ali (detail), 2017, silk and velvet hand embroidery on linen, quilted on cotton, 21” x 32”, Image courtesy the artist and Dickinson Gallery, New York

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2022 St James Court Scholarship Foundation's HS Scholarship Competition

September 9 - 21, 2022
2022 St James Court Scholarship Foundation's HS Scholarship Competition

St James Court Scholarship Foundation's HS Scholarship Competition
Sept. 9 - 21, 2022
Schneider Hall Galleries | University of Louisville

We are excited to again be hosting the St James Court Scholarship Foundation's HS Scholarship Competition. Open to area HS students pursuing a degree in Fine Arts, the competition offers students a chance at a scholarship to attend the University of Louisville. This is the 50th year since the first scholarship was awarded by the St. James Court Association and it continues to grow to help young adults achieve their goals in the arts.

The St. James Court Association established the scholarships in 1978 with one $1,000 art scholarship. In 1981 a $500 scholarship was added, and in 1985 a third scholarship was started thanks to contribution from the Fourth Street Association. Since 1978, more than half a million dollars in scholarships has been awarded to high school art students. 

For additional details on the scholarship and St James Art fair please visit: http://www.stjamescourtartshow.com/scholarship-program/


Banner Image: left: Sunny Edgar, top middle: Emma Davis; bottom middle: Georgia Barnick, right: Maya Yussman

Art from the Collection of Dario and Madeline Covi

September 30-November 5, 2022
Art from the Collection of Dario and Madeline Covi

Art from the Collection of Dario and Madeline Covi
Sept. 30 - November 5, 2022
Schneider Hall Galleries | University of Louisville
Closing Reception: Saturday Oct. 22, 2022 | 1-4 PM

Press Release

The Hite Institute of Art and Design is honored to announce our upcoming exhibition Art From the Collection of Dario and Madeline Covi, on view in the Schneider Hall Galleries from September 30-November 5, 2022. This exhibition  honors the legacy of Dr. Dario Covi whose leadership and dedication to the Hite Institute of Art and Design, and College of Arts and Sciences has had a profound impact on the College's faculty, staff, and students. Featuring nearly 50 artworks from the Covis' personal collection, the exhibition will showcase the artwork of many of  Dr. Covi’s former students and colleagues as well as personal drawings and paintings created by Dr. Covi himself. 

The breadth of work presented is a testament to the Covis' commitment to and love of the arts—several of the pieces by former students and colleagues contain personal dedications and notes to the Covis', for example -- but also serves as a fascinating representation of the artists who pushed, challenged, and developed Louisville’s art scene over the last 50 years. 

Additionally, the Hite is pleased to share that many of the works on view will become part of the University’s Art Collection thanks to a generous gift from the Covis. Other works from their collection will be available in an online auction later this year. Proceeds from the auction will be used for the conservation of works in the University's collection.

On Saturday Oct. 22, a closing reception will be held in the Schneider Hall Galleries from 1-4 PM. Refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public.



Sites and Sights of Work

May 27 - August 27, 2022
Sites and Sights of Work

Sites and Sights of Work
May 27-August 26, 2022
Schneider Hall Galleries

The Hite Institute of Art and Design presents Sites and Sights of Work, an exhibition that explores printmaking from the 19th to 21st century as both sites of artistic labor and depictions (“sights”) of modern work. The prints expose shifting perceptions of labor. The artworks ask us: what is, and what should be, defined as labor? Prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which radically disrupted daily work routines, this exhibition provides a lens through which to interpret the fluid state of labor.

Sites and Sights of Work is on view at the Schneider Hall Gallery from May 25th until August 26th. This exhibition is curated by Abby Briney, Nicole Clay, Danielle Deeley, Hollister Doty-Griner, and Lucy Wedding. A Closing Reception will be held on Thursday August 25th from 5-7 PM. This event is free and open to the public.

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Shawnee Boys and Girls Club Art

Thursday May 19 5-7 PM
Shawnee Boys and Girls Club Art

Shawnee Boys and Girls Club Art
Taught by Recent MFA Graduates Erica Lewis & Jingshuo Yang
Thursday May 19 | 5-7 PM
MFA Gallery

The Hite Institute of Art & Design is excited to display the artwork of the Shawnee Boys and Girls Club, from a class taught by recent MFA graduates Erica Lewis and Jingshuo Yang. Stop by the MFA Gallery, 1606 Rowan St. on Thursday May 19 for the opening reception from 5-7 PM. 

Erica Lewis (2022) and Jingshuo Yang (MFA 2022) worked with the Shawnee Boys & Girls Club during this past spring semester, teaching art mediums like painting and relief printmaking. Students were taught about silkscreen by printing their own t-shirts with the Boys & Girls Club logo. Their weekly classes consisted of 5-20 kids of various ages, all working together to complete different projects, both abstracted and representation. 

Alumni Exhibition

April 15-May 27, 2022
Alumni Exhibition

Alumni Exhibition
April 15-May 27, 2022
Reception: Friday April 15 | 5-8 PM
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main St. Louisville, KY
Press Release

The Hite Institute of Art and Design is thrilled to announce our 75th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition. On view April 15 through May 27, 2022, the exhibition features 36 Hite alum who graduated with a BFA, MA, or MFA and spans the graduating years of 1987-2021.

The alumni invited to participate in the exhibition were selected by Hite Faculty to represent each of the Hite’s Fine Art specializations, including painting, sculpture, glass, and photography as well as graphic design and printmaking. The exhibition highlights the successes of our former students many whom have gone on to become professional artists, educators, and designers while offering the community an opportunity to see how Hite graduates have succeeded in and contribute to the artistic dialogues of our region.

Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri. 11am-6pm; Saturday 11am-3pm


Artists participating in the Alumni Exhibition include: Sandra Charles, Tammy Burke, Bette Levy, Katlyn Brumfield, Sharon Scott, Michael Kellner, Sara Olshanksy, Mary Clore, Katherine Knudsen, Jackson Taylor, David Shiner, Katherine Watts, Aaron Raymer, Jesse Gibbs, Megan Bickel, Benjamin Cook, Courtland Mead, Morgan McGill, Irene Mudd, Claire McMahon, Jennifer Marvaillas, Dona Wong, Jelly Helm, Mike Slone, Nathan Feld, Laura Hartford, James Robert Southard, Gwendolyn Kelly, Deborah Levine, Arin Ashley, Jackson Hawkins, Whitney Olsen, SaraBeth Post,  Mitch Noah, KCJ Swedzynski,  Carolyn Spears and Elmer Lucille Allen.


Banner Images from left to right: Laura Hartford, Lacock Abbey, 2015, Archival inkjet print from calotype paper negative; Katlyn Brumfield, Funeral for Green, 2021, Birch tree, eggshells, quilting thread, antique buttons, coal dust; Carolyn Spears, Traces, 2020, cast glass, organic material, steel Brent Dedas, Ritual Geography, detail, (left side), 2020, Cyanotype on paper and Gwendolyn Kelly, Querent, 2010, Boot pellon, fabric, beads, buttons, mirrors, embroidery floss, mardi gras beads


Spring 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

Spring 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibitions

Every Summer, The Hite Institute of Art and Design highlights our graduating MFA Candidates in our annual MFA Graduates Exhibition at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts. The exhibition is an opportunity to share the accomplishments of our most recent MFA Graduates with the community and offer the public a chance to see work from their Thesis Exhibitions together in one place!

This year's exhibition features the work of: Jingshuo YangEVPL, and Xin Chen. 
For an appointment to view the exhibition please email: Jessica.Oberdick@louisville.edu

First Row Images: MFA Installation at Cressman Center; Second Row: Images 1-3 work by Xin Chen, Images 4-5 work by EVPL, Image 6, work by Jingshuo Yang


Jingshuo Yang: Transformation: Finding the Inner World
Jingshuo Yang Artist Statement:

My paintings are like a diary, recording my growth and perception of life. Many times our habits and ways of thinking become subtle customs that control our behavior without being noticed. We become numb, insensitive, habitually living, working, playing, even our joys and sorrows are secretly controlled. Sometimes I know I feel bad, but I do not know why, and I do not want to dig deeper emotionally. Why is there such a moral code, why are there such customs? Are they right? If not, how can we change them?

I am constantly trying to abandon my own inherited concepts and observe society and people's lives without myself, seeking to face real life instead of what the media, the government or books want me to see. Of course, in this process, I once lost myself. Many social phenomena and the stories and emotions of the people I observed had a great impact on my emotions and my life. So, I began to rebuild myself. My art reflects my observations of real life, and based on my understanding of reality, I ask myself what I want to be the real me, not the controlled me and the me expected by others. Maybe life makes me helpless. It is out of control. But, my inner world which I create through my art is the only one I can completely control. It is free, safe, peaceful and beautiful. It allows me to be awake and independent, without the pain of losing myself.


Betty Álvarez

di•as•po•ra: 
displaced not erased

Artist Statement: I work within multiple mediums to create works that aim to resurrect pieces of my culture that are slowly being forgotten or left behind due to assimilation. I accomplish this through revisiting and reinterpreting these traditions. My goal is to bring awareness of the Latin experience in a racially divided United States through artistic expression and my own personal experiences. I want people who feel kept out of these predominantly white spaces to feel seen and heard in my works, to see a piece of themselves reflected in a space we are largely unwelcome in. My works are made to feel whimsical and playful, but carry a deep, meaningful message. The colors envelop each artwork to create a lighthearted approach in conveying the heavy burden of passing down cultures while fighting to be seen. There is a call for change that demands attention. Every piece of art working together to create an environment that viewers can feel encompassed in. Each work calls upon a certain part of my culture & heritage, leading to my own personal awakening with both concepts. 


Xuanyi WangBETWIXT & BETWEEN

Artist Statement: As a transnational artist, my imagery is motivated by how womanhood is defined here in the United States versus China. I grew up in a Chinese family, formed by a strict, traditional Chinese culture. Since I have come to the United States, I have experienced a more liberal society. The cultures of the East and West have now become intertwined in my persona.

My work utilizes ornamentation and my own body to bridge intangible consciousness and tangible beauty. In my paintings, my form is altered through the addition ornamental patterns, becoming a visual manifestation of my inner being and spirit. These works reveal an individual’s ability to adapt to their surroundings. Throughout the process of fusing of my physical form with various patterns, I am relating European culture to Chinese culture and examining the impact of this environmental change on my identity. The changing patterns are tangible, and they also represent the attendant cultural philosophies. Multi-national patterns and my figure are intertwined in my work, as if I existed in both Eastern and Western cultures. I am not truly part of American culture and am slowly disconnecting from the current Chinese culture. I have become an independent, in-between being.

Xin Chen: Meat the Future


Artist Statement: My research focuses on the subtle relationship between human life, the environment, and other animals that we live among everyday. Under the mainstream social background of capitalism and a commodity economy, animals are the victims of constant consumption and exploitation. However, meat is a basic substance for human nourishment, especially in certain cultures. As a result, meat becomes an important part of the commodity economy in capitalist societies, wherein the supply must be filled to accommodate society’s demand. My exhibition uses glass and ceramic satirical artwork using a playful tone to offer a crucial alternative: how to help build a sustainable society that is more friendly to animals and the environment by enhancing awareness of human impact on both, thus, promoting the protection of those with whom we share the Earth.

Bio: Xin Chen, originally from China, earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in glass and ceramics in 2017 from Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. Xin then moved to the United States to work before attending the University of Louisville in 2019 in pursuit of her Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art & Design, which she will earn this spring. Xin uses glass and ceramics as her main creative materials, while incorporating others to open further possibilities and avenues of exploration with the medium. Among other awards, Xin has won the Gold Award and was selected for the China Hejian 2018 Lampwork Glass Art Exhibition.


EVPL
It’s All Fun And—
A Rhetorical Analysis of Space in the Pandemic
Reception: Friday, April 15, 5-9 PM

 

Artist Statement: The pandemic has rippled into nearly every space within our lives, expanding the virtual realms we inhabit and the duration for which we inhabit them, while recontextualizing shared intimacies in our daily life. In the same interaction, I can get a deeply personal glimpse into someone’s home living space through a video call, while abruptly confronting the fact that I had all but forgotten what their face looked like outside of a mask. 

Masks semiotically have become blended with how we recognize others outside of private spaces. The materials I have used and referenced throughout this exhibition conflate these distinctions between public and private interactions—such as a spatially intimate game like Twister being composed of social distancing stickers—examining the spaces in which we are either recognized with or without masks and which objects surround us in each context to rhetorically construct said spaces.

The title of the exhibition reflects the pandemic’s interruption—of time, of space, of norm—as if the inner dialogue of the thought “It’s all fun and games” was itself interrupted, taken from the mouth and left silently within the internal space of implication. Games thematically punctuate the concepts addressed within this exhibition, as games are rhetorically associated with social interaction, shared spaces, and domestic nostalgia. Further, games function as micro-systems in which we do not make, but do agree to play by the rules, even though the rules often cater to some and blatantly exclude others. Games carry with them a risk-free sense of frivolity that I have satirically employed here in examination of how people chose to treat one another during the pandemic, wherein risks and privileges were quite tangible. 

Physical spaces have altered—and maybe for some, this was merely a game that is nearly won—but for others, much has been lost, and physical space itself will always remain a bit more distant. All the while, our empathetic spaces have dwindled, and we see less of ourselves in one another, occupying a smaller field of a common ground, constricted more still by our now more visibly broken systems.

The game is rigged. 

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In 2019, Lewis graduated from the University of Montevallo with a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, concentrating in both Drawing and Printmaking. This spring, they will graduate from the University of Louisville in Kentucky with a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art & Design. In the fall, Lewis will continue their education at the University of Louisville to pursue a Ph.D. in Comparative Humanities on the Public Arts & Letters track with plans to teach at the university-level after graduating.


Spring 2022 BFA Thesis Exhibition

April 7-May 20, 2022
Spring 2022 BFA Thesis Exhibition

Spring 2022 BFA Thesis Exhibition
April 7-May 20, 2022
Reception: Thursday April 7, 2022 | 5-7 PM
Schneider Hall Galleries

The Hite Institute of Art and Design is excited to announce our Spring 2022 BFA Thesis Exhibition. This annual exhibition presents the artwork of our graduating BFA candidates who work across the department’s multiple programs. From painting, sculpture and photography to drawing and glass our annual BFA Thesis Exhibition allows our students to celebrate their hard work and dedication to their art practice, while offering the community the opportunity to see the incredible new talent emerging from the Hite Institute.

This semester, our BFA candidates includes: Jill Gries, Hannah Weisenberger, John Clay, Abigale English, Jonathan Loyd, Brooklynn Collier, Amany Ismail, and Diamond Wade.

The Hite Institute invites you to join us on Thursday April 7, from 5-7 PM, in our Schneider Hall Galleries for the opening reception of our Spring Thesis Exhibition. This event is free and open to the public!

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Recreational Meeting at UofL

Thursday March 3, 2022
Recreational Meeting at UofL

Recreational Meeting & Artist Talk
Moving Image with Eduardo Williams
Thursday March 3, 2022
5:30-7:30

The Hite Institute of Art and Design is excited to host our first Recreational Meeting, a project by Stephen Kwok. Recreational Meetings invite participants to reimagine digital platforms and social formats through experimental and experiential exercises. Held on commonplace platforms such as Zoom, Facetime, and Google Drive and developed by Stephen Kwok in collaboration with creative practitioners from diverse fields, Recreational Meetings explore how distance may enable, rather than limit, engagement with our surroundings, ourselves, and each other.

For his virtual visit to UofL, Stephen Kwok will facilitate Recreational Meetings: Moving Image, a meeting developed in collaboration with experimental filmmaker Eduardo Williams. This walking, phone-based meeting, invites participants to explore and capture their surroundings in response to a series of creative prompts, a process that produces a collaborative multi-channel film.

 A screening and artist talk with Kwok will take place after the meeting. This Recreational meeting is limited to 30 participants, however the artist talk and screening are open to all! To register please visit this link

Schedule of Events

Recreational Meeting: 5:30-6:15
experiential exercise 30 minutes
15 minute break

Artist Talk & Screening: 6:15


Recreational Meetings was piloted at Dia Art Foundation and is currently a member of NEW INC. Clients include Away Travel, The Canadian Centre for Architecture, Center for the Humanities, and Transart Institute.

Stephen Kwok makes experimental events that incorporate sculpture, live performance, digital media, and text. He holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in business administration from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He was an artist-in-residence at Delfina Foundation’s Performance as Process program in London. Kwok has exhibited at Seoul Museum of Art; Surplus Space, Wuhan; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn; Julius Caesar Gallery, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; and Lawndale Art Center, Houston.

Eduardo Williams was born in 1987 in Argentina. He studied at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires before joining Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing, France, in 2012. Williams’s short films Pude ver un puma (2011) and Que je tombe tout le temps? (2013) premiered at Cannes Film Festival, and T i qu n rồi! (2014) at FID Marseille. His first feature, El auge del humano (2016), won the Golden Leopard award at the 2016 Locarno Film Festival. His most recent short film, Parsi (2018), premiered at the TK date Berlinale, and has since been shown at Tate Modern, London; Lincoln Center, New York City; and other festivals and museums.


New Recruits

February 25- April 8, 2022
New Recruits

 

 New Recruits
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main Street Louisville, KY 40202
Reception: Friday February 25, 2022

The Hite Institute of Art and Design is excited to announce New Recruits, an exhibition highlighting the art and research of our newest faculty members: Kat Cox (Fibers & Ceramics), Samuel Swope (New Media & Installation) and Dr. Jennifer Sichel (Contemporary Art & Theory).

The material that composes this exhibition is as varied and provocative as the artists and thinkers who produced it. As a whole, however, the show investigates our increasingly hybrid lives, prodding and manipulating the various in-between spaces that make up modern life, spaces between self and other, human and non-human, art and archive, work and critique. New Recruits will be On view at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts from Feb. 25-April 8, 2022. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Feb. 25 from 5-8 PM. This event is free and open to the public.

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Above Images: Left: "An Archive of Queer Research" Selection of Vintage Newspapers archived by Dr. Jennifer Sichel; Right: Kat Cox, River, 2022, ceramic, wool, needle felted wool, fabric,  7" x 5" x 5"

2022 Silver Key and Honorable Mention Exhibition

February 8-March 11, 2022
2022 Silver Key and Honorable Mention Exhibition

Scholastic Art Awards-2022 Silver Key and Honorable Mention
February 8-March 11, 2022
Reception: Thursday Feb. 10, 5-8 PM
Schneider Hall Galleries

Presented by the nonprofit organization, the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the country's longest-running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative students in grades 7–12. The University of Louisville Hite Institute of Art and Design is excited to once again host this year's Silver Key and Honorable Mention Exhibition. A reception for the event will be held on Thursday Feb. 10, from 5-8 PM.

The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards are the nation’s longest running and most prestigious scholarship and recognition program for creative teens. Presented by the nonprofit Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, in the 2021 program year the Awards recognized nearly 2,000 works of art and writing on the national level, out of nearly 230,000 submissions to regional programs, and distributed more than $300,000 in scholarships and millions in tuition support. The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards have fostered creativity and talent since 1923 for millions of students and feature a notable list of alumni who received recognition through the program as teens, including Amanda Gorman, Stephen King, Sylvia Plath, and Andy Warhol.  

Asia in Motion

January 14-February 18, 2022
Asia in Motion

Image Credits: Top left: Jingshuo Yang, Butterfly Dream 3, ink and watercolor; Bottom left: Moon-He Baik, Together I, 100% Korean vintage silk. Top Right: Shachaf Polakow, Untitled, Digital Photograph; Middle: Xuanyi Wang, Cat’s Cradle; Bottom: Suyun Son, Han (Hunminjeongeum 1). 

Asia in Motion
January 14-February 18, 2022
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202

The Hite Art Institute is pleased to present Asia in Motion an exhibition of contemporary work from students and faculty of the Hite Art Institute. Presented in Partnership with the 2022 Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, the artwork in Asia in Motion presents the wide range of media and conceptual topics currently being explored by artists of Asian descent within the Hite Art Institute. We hope you will join us for the opening reception on Friday January 14 from 5-8 PM.

Students participating in Asia in Motion include Jonathan Loyd (BFA), Xin Chen (MFA), Xuanyi Wang (MFA), Yuran Seo (BFA), Suyun Son (MFA) Shachaf Polakow (MFA) and Jingshuo Yang (MFA).Faculty participating include Ying Kit Chan, Moon-He Baik, Dimitri Kim, and Delin Lai

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Gallery Hours: Due to Covid 19 we are currently operating on limited hours
Reception: Friday January 14, 5-8 PM
Saturday January 15, 4:30-6:30 PM
Thursday Jan 20, 1-6PM
Friday Jan. 21, 1-6PM
Thursday Jan 27, 11AM-6PM
Friday Jan 28, 1-6PM
Friday Feb. 4, 1-6PM
Thursday Feb 17 11AM-6PM
Friday Feb. 18, 1-6PM

 


 


Catalog: New Work from the. Printmaker's left

December 3-January 7, 2021
Catalog: New Work from the. Printmaker's left

Catalog: New Work from the Printmakers Left
Cressman Center for Visual Arts
100 E Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202
December 3-January 7, 2022
Gallery Hours: Thursdays 11 am-6 pm | Fridays 1 PM-6pm
Make a reservation Here.

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The Hite Art Institute is pleased to present Catalog: New Work from the Printmakers Left. On view at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts December 3-January 7, 2022. Catalog brings together the most recent work from The Printmakers Left, a collaborative team working together for twenty years on a series of exhibitions, publications, and installations. Having published the book Hinterlands in 2015—a work which examines our vast, expanding, and strangely overlooked human spaces and landscapes of the 21st century—as a field guide of sorts, The Printmakers left now present their fieldwork: deep studies and sensory explorations of landscape, plant behaviors, native pigments, and the unobvious complexities of the natural and built worlds around us. The work is not about efficiencies or extraction of resources—real and imagined—but rather an inquiry meant to uncover clues, prompts, and guides for how to  navigate future environments and extremes.

An opening reception for Catalog will be held Friday December 3, from 5-8 PM at the CCVA. This event is free and open to the public. We hope you will join us!

Artists participating in Catalog include: Anne Beck; David Bendernagel; Berenika Boberska; Maggie Booth; Dana Giacofci Clark ; Patrick Costello; Joshua Dailey; Dean Dass; Kate Daughdrill; Lydia Diemer; Dana Giacofci; Jenny Harp; John Hastings ; Kirsten Hemrich; Emma Lappalainen; John Leahy; Rachel Livedalen; Jyrki Markkanen; Lydia Moyer; Akemi Ohira; John Schulz; Rachel Singel; Marc Snyder; Randall Stoltzfus; Maggie Sullivan; Barbara Campbell Thomas; Christopher Thomas; Annu Vertanen; Adam Wolpa

Images: top: Lydia Diemer, Twin Cinema, collage on found paper, bottom left: the Unmoored Lab installation, bottom right: Christopher Thomas, Maximal Marginalia I, 2019, ink on paper


Acknowledgements:

The fabrication of the Fugitive Botany Laboratory was made possible with the generous support of Professor Cassandra Fraser and the UVa Page Barbour FUGITIVE Workshop, and the National Science Foundation.

The laboratory glassware was kindly gifted by Professor Paul Freedman of UVa.[1]

Finally, The Printmakers Left would like to recognize Lyn Bolen Warren, founder and director of Charlottesville, Virginia’s contemporary art gallery Les Yeux du Monde, for her decades of thoughtful and steadfast support of the arts and of artists. Thank you, Lyn.


[1] From the collection of his grandfather, David Perlman, who was a professor of chemistry from the 1930s through the 1960s at City College, New York, and whose research in isolating, identifying and applying certain medicinally valuable by-products of vegetable-oil refining led to several patents.


Fall 2021: BFA Thesis Exhibition

November 18- January 28, 2021
Fall 2021: BFA Thesis Exhibition

Fall 2021 BFA Thesis Exhibition
November 18-January 28, 2021
Schneider Hall Galleries

The Hite Art Institute is excited to announce our Fall 2021 BFA Thesis Exhibition. The exhibition will display artwork in a variety of media from students graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Louisville’s Hite Art Institute. The Fall 2021 BFA Thesis Exhibition will take place November 18-January 28, 2021. An opening reception will be held on Thursday November 18, from 5-7 PM. This event is free and open to the public. 

Read the students Artist Statements Here

This semester’s BFA candidates include: Anatéa Cahill, Lou Conley, Bethany Figueroa, Samuel Lawson, Andrea Mackin, Michael McDonald, and John Ricketts.


Open Studio Louisville

OSL October 9, 15, 23, & 30 Juried Exhibition: October 15-November 19, 2021
Open Studio Louisville

OSL Juried Exhibition
October 15-November 19, 2021
Cressman Center for Visual Arts

The annual OPEN STUDIO Louisville is a landmark event when artists across Louisville Metro open their work spaces to the public. It’s a prime opportunity for fans, collectors, fellow artists, or those just curious about Louisville’s bustling scene to get behind-the-scenes views of creative processes, learn about new artists in the area, and take advantage of studio sales. This is the ninth year the University of Louisville Hite Art Institute is partnering with LVA to bring this event to fruition. For the first time Open Studio Weekend will take place over four Saturdays in October--giving artists and patrons ample time to see all their favorites. 

For the juried exhibition this year our jurors included: Maria Seda-Reeder, Director of Exhibitions and Artist Support Initiatives Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati; Anthony Mead, Director of Morlan Gallery at Transylvania University. Joshua Bennet, Independent curator and Gallery Manager of Tinney Contemporary in Nashville. This year’s team selected 29 artists to participate in the juried exhibition from a pool of 49 talented artists. 

We invite the public to join us for the opening reception of the juried exhibition on Friday October 15, 2021 from 5-8 pm at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts. This event is free and open to the public. 

CCVA Gallery Hours: Fridays 1PM-6PM
Make a reservation here

 


 

Farmworkers in South Africa: 2013-2014

October 7-November 7, 2021
Farmworkers in South Africa: 2013-2014

Farmworkers in South Africa: 2013-2014
Photographs by Shachaf Polakow
Press Release

This series of photographs by Shachaf Polokow documents the lives of farmworkers living in South Africa. Started in the beginning of 2013, Polakow documented farmworkers outside of Cape Town who were on strike and protesting demanding better conditions and higher pay. The strike was met with police violence that left at least one person dead, and many others injured by rubber bullets. As a result of the raid and attacks on communities the strike ended not long after the clashes with a small raise to $10 a day. 

For the next year, Polakow joined the farmworker’s union organizers and documented their lives. “The generosity and welcoming of these farm workers never ceased to amaze me and I will forever be thankful to them for inviting me into their houses, often under the threat of punishment by the farm owners.” Says Polakow. Farmworkers in South Africa will be on view in the Schneider Hall Galleries between Oct. 7 and November 5. An opening reception will be held on Thursday October 7 from 5-7 pm. This event is free and open to the public. 

The Schneider Hall Galleries are open Mon-Fri 9am-4:30 pm. 


St James Court Scholarship Competition

September 10-September 24, 2021
St James Court Scholarship Competition

The Hite Art Institute is pleased to host the 2021 St. James Court Scholarship Foundation’s Highschool Scholarship Competition. Open to area HS students pursuing a degree in Fine Arts, the competition offers students a chance at a scholarship to attend the University of Louisville. 

This is the 49th year since the first scholarship was awarded by the St. James Court Association and it continues to grow to help young adults achieve their goals in the arts. The 2021 competition total awards are $45,000.00

The Exhibition will be on view through September 24, 2021. The Schneider Hall Galleries are open Monday-Friday 9am-4:30 pm.