Join us for the Louisville Grows 15th Anniversary + the Re-Opening of the Louisville Grows Healthy House Gallery

Showing the work of Karen Boone & Rachel Singel

“The guidelines for the honorable harvest are not written down, or even consistently spoken of as a whole. They're reinforced by small acts of daily life. But if you were to list them it might l ok something like this. Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them. Introduce yourself, be accountable as the one who comes asking for life. Ask permission before taking, abide by the answer. Never take the first. Never take the last. Take only what you need. Take only that which is given. Never take more than half. Leave some for others. Harvest in a way that minimizes harm. Use it respectfully, never waste what you have taken. Share. Give thanks for what you have been given, give a gift for what you have taken, sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever.”

― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Art as artifact of performance

the performance being an intangible, ritualistic commitment to a sustainable, reciprocal relationship with the natural world

The performance within a process of sourcing and breaking down found organic material

an intentional act of care

one that requires and prompts reflection

and initiates a reverence toward all the world offers to us

and that we may harvest without transaction

“Hello, house”

“Hello, Levi (House)” 

“House hold” is an exhibition of work by Kentucky artist Levi River House, shown (maybe not so) coincidentally in our house. In his paintings, Levi reflects on relationship to place, how it shapes us and how we shape it. Most especially, his work considers the places we are asked to, want to, should, or do call Home. Playing with the tension of “Home” as both a material object as well as an ever-shifting idea, his paintings create a dialogue with the places in his life that have become, for him, monumental sites of reflection. In his work, flatness true to a folk-art style and depth vary, allowing structures to fluctuate, to become embodied and hollowed out. His scenes creep beyond the traditional four walls, including other residential actors like telephone poles, electrical wires, lawns, and front porches. House writes of the electrical poles unconnected to each other as “Communal and necessary,” interlinking place to place and person to person so tightly that they begin to “fold in on themselves.” In the work, we never extend too far beyond the facade of the House, but its variances act like tricky book covers, bearing hints at what might lie within the Home. Levi conjures the phrases he scribes along the edges of the paintings just as he writes poetry - guided by intuition, led on by remembrances, and intentionally void of editing. As they flow through him they flow to us, small moments of being and learning at the forefront of his work. 

Kith and Kin: Things Well Known is an exploration into the collective significance of interpersonal relationships and their connection to place within the Ohio River Valley region. In the works of artists Rachael Banks and Kacey Slone, concerns surrounding family, home, folklore, and the passage of time find resonance in ephemeral and ordinary moments. Personal reflections become stories through which the two artists imagine and reimagine states of belonging.

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Printed Edition III launch
Showcasing 7 of this edition’s top-voted artists at the Outsider Art Museum

“Signs of the Times” is an art exhibition showcasing hand-painted Louisville 2020 protest signs by Jesse Gordon.

Protest signs compiled into a zine with a removable poster, printed by Lake Tracy / Gasoline Press.

All zine proceeds beyond material costs will be donated to Change Today Change Tomorrow & Play Cousins Collective.

DJ: Funeral Party Records

Kith and Kin: Things Well Known is an exploration into the collective significance of interpersonal relationships and their connection to place within the Ohio River Valley region. In the works of artists Rachael Banks and Kacey Slone, concerns surrounding family, home, folklore, and the passage of time find resonance in ephemeral and ordinary moments. Personal reflections become stories through which the two artists imagine and reimagine states of belonging.

Learn more