Signs of Life: Subcultures of New Orleans Post-Katrina
Signs of Life: New Photographs from New Orleans 2008 by Charles Silver, a photo exhibition documenting the post-Katrina revival of New Orleans' cultural traditions, is on display in the gallery at the Cressman Center for Visual Art, 100 E Main St. through Aug. 11. Photographer
Charles Silver has spent the last year shooting this documentary project to help preserve and celebrate the cities' minority subcultures that have suffered in this disaster but which now are working hard to rebuild their communities.
July 4 - August 9, 2008
Reception: Friday, April 4, July 11, 6-8 p.m.
Film screening: All On A Mardi Gras Day, by Royce Osborn
August 1 (First Friday Trolley Hop) 7 P.M - Free
Revolutionary Voices: Cultural Revolution Posters from the Crane House
Curated by
Youn Ju Yu •
May 16 – June 28, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, May 16, 6-8 PM
Gallery talk:
Dr. Yuxin Ma, University of Louisville History professor at 6:30 PM
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Film Screening in conjunction with Revolutionary Voices:
To Live. The story of a Chinese family who triumph over political and physical
hardships, Filmed in Shaanxi & Shandong Provinces, China. Zhang Yimou, Director.
Saturday, June 14, 2 PM @ The CRESSMAN CENTER for Visual Art
MA Thesis Exhibitions
Carolyn Kimball &
Nicholas Croghan
April 4 – May 10, 2008
Reception: Friday, April 4, 6-9 pm
America’s Favorite Architecture (AIA Traveling Exhibition)
February 22 – March 29, 2008
MA Thesis Exhibitions
November 30 – January 5, 2008
ReSOURCE
January 16 – February 16, 2008
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.
