Art+God=?
About a year ago I taught a painting class at a high school in Louisville’s South End. One of my most dedicated students was a shy 18-year-old girl. She has since taken to sending me email updates from her freshman … Continue reading
Author: jleidner
Bio: Julie Leidner is an artist, arts writer, and cave lover from Louisville, Kentucky. Julie earned an MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and has been a guest critic and art instructor for schools such as Carnegie Mellon University, MassArt, and the Louisville Visual Art Association.
Articles by jleidner
Todd Smith & the Bernheim Forest Artist Residency
Sculptor and current Bernheim Forest Artist-In-Residence Todd Smith may be the only man in Louisville who can claim to have been mistaken for a bird.
Powered by the Past
Ohio Valley Creative Energy plans on turning Garbage into art “It’s been done before.” Are there any words more discouraging to an aspiring young artist? So much value is placed on originality—of subjects, ideas, concepts, and techniques—that “the anxiety of … Continue reading
Louisville’s Next Top Neighbor
If anyone deserves to have his face immortalized on the side of a building in the 9th District of Louisville, it is probably local resident Steven Bobbi.
Ephemeral Creativity
Revisiting the Creativity Rising Public Art Project. One of the most memorable works of art I’ve ever seen was inside a sweaty boxing gym in Brooklyn.
Makin’ Art in the Streets
Residents of Portland Avenue between 15th and 22nd were having a problem with their neighbors dumping trash along the sidewalk
Garden of Optimism
Lindsey Ofcacek is a person whom you could safely call an authority on the so-called “farm-to-table” movement
Send me a Postcard
There is a larger-than-life envelope hanging on the side of Zeppelin Café on Burnett Avenue, and it wants to hear from you.