Featured Artist, July 28-August 4: Ira Langdon
About the artist:
Ira Langdon is a junior artist practicing woodwork, print, and civic arts. They seek to make art that engages the viewer with oft neglected facets of life and use their background in science to do so. They lead flag redesign efforts for their hometown of Midway and the state capital of Frankfort. Currently, they are working on making a mini gallery similar to The Redbud on the campus of Georgetown College.
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Artists of all ages, experience levels, and walks of life are encouraged to apply. No previous gallery experience is necessary.
Email amy.talbott.draws@gmail.com for more information.
Featured Artist, July 21-28: Val
About the artist:
Val is a printmaking hobbyist from central Kentucky, currently based out of Cincinnati, OH. They are interested in mediums that allow them to carve material away, primarily making eraser stamps and linocut prints, but they are excited to try any printmaking medium available to them. When they aren’t playing with their printmaking supplies, they can be found seeking local coffee shops, oddly themed festivals, and vinyl to add to their collection.
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Social media:
Instagram: @midwestmotelklepto
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Artists of all ages, experience levels, and walks of life are encouraged to apply. No previous gallery experience is necessary.
Email amy.talbott.draws@gmail.com for more information.
Featured Artist, July 14-21: Aunt Mitty
Artist bio:
From and live on the “wrong” side of Dixie Highway. Avid Iroquois Park enthusiast, aka Skeeter the Skunk (mascot for Friends of Iroquois Park). Currently an adjunct communications professor at Ivy Tech. Love to work with all mediums with a fondness for clay and mixed media.
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Social media:
Instagram: @auntmitty
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Artists of all ages, experience levels, and walks of life are encouraged to apply. No previous gallery experience is necessary. Email amy.talbott.draws@gmail.com for more information.
Featured Artist, July 7-14: Hannah Durham
Artist’s statement:
I am a mixed media artist and stay at home mom of three from Floyds Knobs, IN. I enjoy working with watercolor, acrylic, oil pastels, and dimensional fabric paint. I love exploring all kinds of topics and trying new things through my creative practice. Being curious and creating through play is a core element of my process. Creating art has been transformational and necessary as I navigate motherhood.
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Social media:
Instagram: @hoosiermagpieart
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Artists of all ages, experience levels, and walks of life are encouraged to apply. No previous gallery experience is necessary. Email amy.talbott.draws@gmail.com for more information.
Featured Artist, June 30-July 7: Chelsea Adams
About the artist:
Chelsea Adams is an abstract and mixed media artist based in Lexington, Kentucky. She works primarily with spray paint to create her pieces. She is also a proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community and her identity plays a crucial role in her creative process.
Find out more:
Website:
https://cadams-art.myshopify.com/
Social media:
Instagram: @c.adams.art
Be our next featured artist!
Artists of all ages, experience levels, and walks of life are encouraged to apply. No previous gallery experience is necessary. Email amy.talbott.draws@gmail.com for more information.
Featured Artist, June 23-30: Claire Krüeger
About the artist:
Claire Krüeger has been a Beechmont resident since 2021. She studied art and anthropology at New College of Florida and received an MFA in Photography & Film at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013.
Artist statement:
When hope is lost, I turn to the earth. I investigate natural processes shaping our world and portray ecological phenomena with a mix of natural fibers and dyes, which fade over time, and synthetic materials, which remain static. Through this, we see differences in how humanity and nature perceive time and the clash of natural and manufactured worlds.
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Website:
Social media:
Instagram: @ClaireLKrueger
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Artists of all ages, experience levels, and walks of life are encouraged to apply. No previous gallery experience is necessary. Email amy.talbott.draws@gmail.com for more information.
Featured Artist, June 16-23: Mark Mattes/Hot Brown Press
About the artist:
I founded Hot Brown Press in 2023. In part, HBP supports my work as an English professor at the University of Louisville, where I teach courses about how histories and technologies of "the book" shape literature. Many of my prints are about my interests in reading, writing, and bookish things. I also use Hot Brown Press to engage with communities that I deeply admire and to make fun stuff about cool things around town.
About the featured art piece:
"The Author & Her Books" is a letterpress print inspired by the poetry of Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson. Using a quill ornament as the central building block for the parent bird and a book ornament as the central building block for their chicks, the work elaborates a bird-and-her-brood metaphor for authorship. The alphabetic elements accentuate the generational relationships of the metaphor, with uppercase letters used for the parent and lowercase letters used for the chicks.
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Website:
Social media:
Instagram: @hotbrownpress / Bluesky: @markalanmattes.bsky.social
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Artists of all ages, experience levels, and walks of life are encouraged to apply. No previous gallery experience is necessary. Email amy.talbott.draws@gmail.com for more information.
Featured Artist, June 9-16: Gabby Wagers
About the artist:
Gabby Wagers is a Louisville-based cartoonist and self-taught printmaker who loves to tinker, explore, and push the limits of bold, playful design.
Look for a rotating selection of Gabby’s prints and print blocks in the gallery throughout the week!
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Artists of all ages, experience levels, and walks of life are encouraged to apply. No previous gallery experience is necessary. Email amy.talbott.draws@gmail.com for more information.
Featured Artist, June 2-9: Felicia Flesch
Artist’s Statement:
Hi! I’m Felicia, a fiber and ceramic artist living in Beechmont. I was born in northern Ohio and moved to Louisville about three years ago. I earned my Studio Art degree from Berea College in 2017, and when I’m not working on my art, I’m the Museum Educator at a contemporary art museum. My job allows me to help kids see the world through an artistic lens and watch them develop a lifelong appreciation for the creative process.
My work blends traditional craft with a contemporary twist, and I’m always exploring new ways to bring texture, color, and pattern into my pieces. In my spare time I enjoy reading on a blanket in the park, riding around on our tandem bike with my partner, or snuggling with my sweet cat, Ellie. I also love experimenting with new craft techniques and doing puzzles when I need a break from creating.
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Artists of all ages, experience levels, and walks of life are encouraged to apply. No previous gallery experience is necessary. Email amy.talbott.draws@gmail.com for more information.
Featured Artist, May 26-June 1: Leah Hughes
About the artist:
Leah Hughes is a lifelong South End resident, multimedia artist, licensed clinicial social worker, and political researcher.
Her works explore the intersection of conceptual art history, building construction and historic preservation, and working class narrative themes.
She has been creating sketchbooks by hand for almost 20 years for collecting bits of trash, drawings, notes, and other ephemera.
This sketchbook was created with scraps of plexiglass, hemp binding, and alternating pages of bristol paper and translucent mylar in each signature to enable layering of textures and images.
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Artists of all ages, experience levels, and walks of life are encouraged to apply. No previous gallery experience is necessary. Email amy.talbott.draws@gmail.com for more information.