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21c Museum Hosts Creativity Rising Project, A Neighborhood Public Art Project

Tuesday, August 10th
7:00 - 8:30pm
Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public

Join us for a panel discussion, artists' talk, and presentation of Creativity Rising, Louisville's most recent public art project located in the Phoenix Hill neighborhood. Learn about the project's history and inception, discover how Creativity Rising has impacted the Phoenix Hill neighborhood and hear about the curatorial considerations that came into play. Each artist will present slides and discuss their work, the project, and their inspiration.

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21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

July 26, 2010, 7:30pm
Joel Brouwer and Wendy Rawlings

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Opening Reception with Artist Simen Johan in conjunction with First Friday Trolley Hop

Friday, July 2, 2010
6-8:00pm
Street Level Gallery
Free and open to the public

Join 21c for an Opening Reception with Artist Simen Johan, in conjunction with First Friday Trolley Hop, on Friday, July 2.

Until the Kingdom Comes is a ten-year survey of photographer and sculptor Simen Johan's work. The exhibition includes 22 works, three of which will be making their public debut in Louisville.

Johan has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally with over fifteen solo exhibitions including the Frist Center, Nashville, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, and Kunstnernes, Oslo. The New York-based Norwegian artist has been the recipient of distinguished Fellowships such as the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2009) and the MacDowell Foundation (2009 and 2003).

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21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

June 28, 2010, 7:30pm
Robin Behn and Michael Rerick

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21c presents KREL2go in conjunction with the Fifth Annual Pajama Party

June 10-12, 2010

In conjunction with the Fifth Annual Pajama Party, 21c presents KREL2go. Designer Karelle Levy will be on-hand crafting "quickie couture," made to order products ranging from sweaters, dresses, skirts, scarves, to the all-important PJs. Orders may be placed daily and will be produced on-site in time for the Fifth Annual Pajama Party.

Based in the beauty of "toobular" knit design, KRELwear is a one of a kind line that embraces originality and organic methods. Both elegant and funky, KRELwear knit garments have been spotted on fashion's top trendsetters including Cameron Diaz, Pink, Christina Ricci and Alanis Morrissete.

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Introducing Women Walking, New works by Monica Mahoney

Opening Reception
Sunday, June 6, 2010
2:30-4:30pm

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21c Museum presents Wheel of Fortune a site-specific installation by artist Anne Peabody

Unveiling and Artist Reception
21c Museum Atrium Gallery
Friday, June 4, 2010
6-9pm

Commissioned in conjunction with the 2010 Glass Art Society Conference, Peabody’s Wheel of Fortune is a monumental tornado constructed of thousands of silvered glass and gilt hand-carved wooden objects, inspired from the artist's memory of the tornado that leveled much of Louisville on April 3rd, 1974.

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21c Museum & Production Simple Present Eluvium

Wednesday, May 26, 8pm
Doors 7pm
in the Atrium Gallery
$10 in advance, $12 at the door
Cash bar
Tickets available at ear X-tacy, Wild and Woolly, and online at Ticket Web

21c Museum & Production Simple welcome Louisville's own Eluvium, aka Matthew Cooper, in concert. Currently residing now in Portland, Oregan, Cooper is a prodigy of ambient recording – taking the dense layers of guitars and painos, Eluvium gives his audience an elegnat noise in the style and spirit of Brian Eno's most accomplished masterpieces.

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21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

May 24, 2010, 7:30pm
Allison Stine and Merle Bachman

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21c Museum and Kentucky School of Art Present Artist Talk with Judy Pfaff

Monday, May 17, 2010, 6:00pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Meet and greet to follow lecture
Free and open to the public

A pioneer of installation art in the 1970s, Pfaff synthesizes sculpture, painting, and architecture into dynamic environments in which space seems to expand and collapse, fluctuating between the two- and three-dimensional. Pfaff's site-specific installations pierce through walls and careen through the air, achieving lightness and explosive energy. Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making, Pfaff creates exuberant, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave landscape, architecture, and color into a tense yet organic whole.

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21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

April 26, 2010, 7:30pm
Brian Barker and Nicky Beer

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21c & LFS Present Visiting Filmmaker tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE

Tuesday, April 20, 8pm
In Gallery 2
Q&A to follow films
Free & Open to the Public

You read correctly, this month's visiting filmmaker legally changed his name to tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE in 1976. Self-described as a Mad Scientist, Sound Thinker, Thought Collector, and Low Classicist among many others, filmmaker and conceptual artist tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE has made 344 movies. The films have covered a broad range of genres: 'materialist', documentary, experimental, structuralist, narrative, multi-projection, and many more.

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About LFS
21c is proud to partner with the Louisville Film Society in the continuing Monthly Film Series since August of 2007. LFS is a publicly supported non-profit organization. Support comes from memberships, event admission, advertisement, contributions, donated materials, and services. For more information about the LFS, please visit visit www.louisvillefilm.org.

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Artist talk with Mel Chin
Followed by the collection of Fundred Dollar Bills at 21c Museum

Tuesday, April 13
Artist Talk and Performance Lecture: 6:00pm
Gallery 3
Fundred Dollar Bill Collection for Louisville: 7:00pm
7th Street, in front of 21c Museum Entrance
Both are free and open to the public

To celebrate the official collection of the Fundred Dollar Bill Project in Louisville, 21c Museum will host Mel Chin for a discussion of his work in his professional career. The Louisville collection of Fundreds will occur immediately following the talk. At 7pm, the veggie-oil powered armored truck will collect all the bills that the Louisville community has made and be on its way towards Congress. A printable bill with instructions is available here, make a Fundred now and bring it to the artist talk!

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21c Presents We All Owe: Roberto Lange, Julianna Barwick, & Jonathan Dueck

Thursday, April 8

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm
in the Atrium Gallery
$8 in advance, $10 at the door
Cash bar

In a blending of art and music, 21c hosts the We All Owe: Lange, Barwick, Dueck 2010 Tour – a one night exhibition of music and film that blurs the division between the studio, stage, touring, and recording. Two musicians, Roberto Lange (of Epstein and Helado Negro) and Julianna Barwick, will create new work with each live performance on the tour in addition to playing recent material. The evening will feature Epstein, Helado Negro, Barwick, and short films by Jonathan Dueck in a listening room environment.

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Docent Tours and March Artist Discussion Series

21c offers free Guided Docent Tours each week,
Friday and Saturday evenings at 5:00pm & 5:30pm

This March, in celebration of Creating Identity: Portraits Today, 21c welcomes four special guests to the tours. Local artists – Lindsey Cameron, Julius Friedman, Russel Hulsey, and Leslie Lyons – will put a face behind the portraits, hosting weekly informal discussions of their work at the 5:30 Docent Tours.

21c Museum and LFS Monthly Film Series Present Sita Sings the Blues

Tuesday, March 16, 8:00pm
In Gallery 3, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public

Featured this month for 21c & LFS's continuing series is Sita Sings the Blues by Nina Paley, a personal interpretation of the Indian epic The Ramayana. Using Flash animation, the film depcits the Indian gods Sita and Rama who share familiar struggles with the artist's own troubled relationship.

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Sollee & Martin Moore "Dear Companion" Tour AFTER PARTY featuring The Seedy Seeds

Friday, Feburay 26, 2010
Starts at 9pm
Free and open to the public
Donation benefit EDGE Outreach's effort in Haiti

On Friday, Feb 26th, Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore will be performing with Cheyanne Mize and Dan Dorf celebrating the release of their new record, "Dear Companion" at Brown Theatre at 8:30pm. After the performance, join Ben, Daniel and company for an AFTER PARTY at 21c Museum featuring a musical performance by Cincinnati's The Seedy Seeds.

The Seedy Seeds make pop music, sure. Most importantly, they make pop music exciting. Always melodic and upbeat, yet always eclectic, The Seedy Seeds are more than happy to write concise material that moves far outside convention – be it a banjo juxtaposed against an electroclash rhythm, or acoustic drums beside synth beats, or accordions and mandolins laid on top of booty bass. While The Seedy Seeds’ influence may be all over the map, the thread that binds everything together include the consistent warmth of Margaret Darling and Mike Ingram’s vocal interplay and the driving, freewheeling, playful songs.

This concert is a benefit for Louisville-based EDGE Outreach, who are currently operating in Haiti providing disaster victims with access to clean water. Donations are suggested.

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21c, UK College of Design, & AIA Central KY Chapter Present Robert Ivy, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
in the Atrium Gallery
6pm reception
7pm discussion

21c Museum, the UK College of Design and AIA/CKC are honored with the opportunity to bring such an important speaker to Kentucky. Since 1996, Robert Ivy has been the Editor in Chief of Architectural Record, the world's most widely read architectural journal. Throughout his career Ivy has delivered keynote speeches and moderated discussions at U.S. and international events such as the Library of Congress, the National Building Museum and the Monterey Design Conference.

21c Museum and LFS Monthly Film Series Present The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Tuesday, February 16, 8:00pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Žižek, named "the most dangerous philosopher in the West" by The New Republic. In this unique and rare film, Žižek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves. Whether he is untangling the famously baffling films of David Lynch, or overturning everything you thought you knew about Hitchcock, Žižek illuminates the screen with his passion, intellect, and unfailing sense of humor.

"Slavoj Žižek's method of thinking is exciting because it's always building. Things relate forwards and backwards and interconnect into a mind-altering network of ideas. The film's title is something of a McGuffin - just a way to get you into this network."
—Director Sophie Fiennes

Featuring clips and analysis of such films as The Birds, Duck Soup, The Exorcist, The Matrix, The Piano Teacher, Alien, Muholland Drive, The Conversation, City Lights, Stalker and many more.

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21c and LFS Present Monthly Film Series and Q&A with Nathan Salsburg

Tuesday, January 19, 7:30pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public
Cash bar

For this month's screening, two recently-released documentaries will be shown followed by a Q&A with Nathan Salsburg. Salsburg is an archivist for Alan Lomax Archive, an occasional LEO contributor, and the curator for Twos & Fews – a recording imprint company whose second release is the subject for the film Ouled Bambara: Portraits of Gnawa (Caitlin McNally, 2009, 35 minutes). Jeremy Robins' The Other Side of the Water (2009, 60 minutes) will also be featured, both films explore different cycles of music in the African diaspora.

Ouled Bambara: Portraits of Gnawa is set in Morocco, among the descendants of sub-Saharan slaves, synthesizing West African animist traditions with classical Sufi Islam in the form of the Gnawa trance healers. The other film The Other Side of the Water, is set among Haitian immigrants to Brooklyn who have recreated the tradition of the rara processional - part street parade, part marching band, part vodou ritual, and part political action.

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21c and LFS Present Monthly Film Series with Visiting Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 8pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public
Cash bar

Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret concludes 21c &' LFS' presentation of the The Al Smith Fellowship Filmmaker Tour this December with a screening of Stranger with a Camera (2000). The film follows the story of Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor who went to Central Appalachia in 1967 to document poverty. A local landlord, who resented the presence of filmmakers on his property, shot and killed O'Connor, in part because of his anger over the media images of Appalachia that had become icons in the nation's War on Poverty.

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Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) in a partnership with 21c Museum present:
Wendell Berry, Erik Reece and Rebecca Howell will talk about their contributions to the book
Plundering Appalachia followed by Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket

Sunday, December 6, 2009, 5pm – 6pm
Private reception: $150 in advance
Tickets still available at the 21c Front Desk and online at kftc.org/21c
Limited to first 90 guests, includes a signed copy of Plundering Appalachia and entrance to event following (6-9pm)

Sunday, December 6, 2009, 6pm – 9pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Tickets: SOLD OUT

An effort to raise funds for and awareness of the effects of coal mining via mountain-top removal.

21c and LFS Present Monthly Film Series with Visiting Filmmaker Mimi Pickering

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
7pm: Chemical Valley (1991, 58 mins.) & Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (work in progress, 20 mins.)
9pm: Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (2000, 60 mins.)
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public

The Al Smith Fellowship Filmmaker Tour continues in November with three films by award-winning documentary filmmaker and director of Appalshop's Community Media Initiative (CMI), Mimi Pickering. Pickering's documentaries often feature women as principle storytellers, focus on injustice and inequity, and explore the efforts of grassroots people to deal with community problems and work for positive solutions. The stories are told primarily through the voices and images of those most directly involved or affected by the issues.

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The Osso Quartet at 21c with a Screening of Sufjan Stevens' The BQE

Monday, November 2, 2009
Doors 7:30, Show 8:00pm
$10 advance, available at 21c Front Desk & ear X-tacy (cash only), or online via PayPal
$12 day of show, at the door

The Osso Quartet, makes an unexpected tour stop at the 21c Museum for their most recent album Run Rabbit Run, the first full-length album composition by Sufjan Stevens in four years. Ranked a 7.7 by Pitchfork Magazine, Osso’s Run Rabbit Run enlists an array of New York composers who arranged oft-collaborator Stevens’ Enjoy your Rabbit for a traditional string quartet. The evening will feature works from the album as well as a special screening of Stevens’ The BQE - a cinematic suite inspired by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Hula-Hoop.

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Museum Shop: October Featured Artist

Designer Biz Ruby of BRB Label

Louisvillian Biz Ruby has a keen ability to integrate fashion design and lifestyle branding into her BRB Label. With American women as inspiration, Ruby's belts are crafted by hand and with a creative practicality unlike any other in the marketplace. Her impeccable standards show in finest leather and custom finished buckles. BRB is committed to producing high-quality, American-made goods and proudly display the "Made in the USA" stamp on all works. To learn more about the collection, visit www.bizruby.com.

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21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

October 26, 7:30pm
Jericho Brown & Matt Hart

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21c & LFS present Monthly Film Series with visiting filmmaker Sean Anderson

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
7pm: ...damn bad oyster: The Time of William Goebel, Governor (2007, 58mins.)
9pm: Rock that Uke (2003, 62mins.)
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public

Kicking off the Al Smith Fellowship Filmmaker tour, 21c and LFS will screen two films by Lexington-based filmmaker Sean Anderson. ...damn bad oyster: The Times of William Goebel, Governor deals with one of the most powerful leaders in the Kentucky legislature who has become an obscurity in history despite the impact he had during one of the state’s most contentious periods. While Rock That Uke explores the world of punk rock ukulele and the variety of people who express their hopes, fears, yearning, anger, dissatisfaction, joy, and art through a very small sound hole.

About Sean Anderson
While attending the documentary film program at Stanford University, Sean Anderson made short films about a race horse trainer struggling along with a single, very mediocre horse and a Russian expatriot attempting to teach American children something about life by teaching them chess: a sometimes thankless job but never a hopeless one.

Anderson grew up in Pikeville, Ky. and graduated from the University of Kentucky. After living in Washington, D.C. and Oakland, Calif., he now lives in Lexington, Ky. where he works as a filmmaker.

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The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, supports this screening of the Al Smith Fellowship Filmmaker Tour with federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

21c Presents Hear + Now Music Series

Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Doors 7pm
Atrium Gallery
$10 advance, available at 21c Front Desk
& EarX-tacy (Cash only)
$11 advance online, via PayPal (includes $1 convenience fee, tickets purchased via PayPal will be available the day of the show at Will Call)
$12 day of show, at the door
Percentage of the ticket sales go to supporting Hear + Now series
Cash Bar available

To kick off Louisville's new composers series, 21c presents Hear + Now. The evening will feature the album release of Book of Leaves by Rachel Grimes, followed by Chamber and Electronic works by Daniel Gilliam, Lou Moseson, Sara MacLean, Malcolm Turner, and Jacob Gotlib.

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21c & UofL Hite Institute present Nineveh: a sculptural installation by Ezra Kellerman

October 2, 2009
5:30pm Discussion with artist
Prior to First Friday Trolley Hop
Center offering extended hours until 9pm

The Cressman Center for Visual Art, September 16 – October 17, 2009
100 East Main Street, Phone: 502-852-0288
Gallery Hours: W-F, 11-6pm; Saturday 11-3pm; 1st Friday, 11-9pm

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Museum Shop: September Featured Artist

Textile Artist Suzanne Major Spence

Louisville interior designer Suzanne Major Spence began working with silk paints and dyes three years ago. She uses the ancient Japanese art of Shibori (meaning compressed cloth) to create vibrant one of a kind scarves. See her unique pieces and meet the artist during Trolley Hop, Friday September 4, 2009.

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21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

September 28, 7:30pm
Jane Gentry Vance

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Invitation to participate in artist project! In conjunction with the Idea Festival '09

Thursday, September 24, 2009
9am–7pm
in the Video Lounge
21c Museum
700 W Main St
Louisville, KY 40202
Free and open to the public

Local photographer Leslie Lyons will be onsite in the 21c Museum Video Lounge to photograph individuals who wear statements on their t-shirts. The public (you) are welcome and encouraged to partake in this project!

One image will be chosen for the artist's exhibition this fall at the Art Directors Club in New York and will also be included in a future exhibit at 21c Museum.

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21c Presents Akron/Family with Special Guests Jeffrey Lewis and Slaraffenland

Sunday, September 20, 2009
Doors: 8pm
Atrium Gallery
$12 advance, available now at 21c Front Desk
& EarX-tacy (Cash only)
$13 advance online, via PayPal (includes $1 convenience fee, tickets purchased via PayPal will be available the day of the show at Will Call)
$15 day of show, at the door

Wrapping up their lengthy US and Canadian tour of their May release album Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, the Akron/Family comes to 21c with guests Jeffrey Lewis and Slaraffenland.

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21c and UK College of Design present discussion with Sam Jacob and Michael Speaks

Thursday, Sept 17th, 2009
in the Atrium Gallery
Discussion: 6-7pm
Q&A: 7-7:30pm
Free and open the public

Partnering with the UK College of Design, 21c presents internationally-acclaimed architect Sam Jacob. Jacob is one of the founding directors of Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT). Established in 1995, FAT is a London-based practice driven by a desire to expand current conventions and methodologies in favor of inclusive architecture, responsive to contemporary culture.

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21c & UofL Hite Institute present Nineveh: a sculptural installation by Ezra Kellerman

September 16, 2009
Opening Reception: 6-8pm

The Cressman Center for Visual Art, September 16 – October 17, 2009
100 East Main Street, Phone: 502-852-0288
Gallery Hours: W-F, 11-6pm; Saturday 11-3pm; 1st Friday, 11-9pm

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2nd Annual Kentucky Short Film & Video Showcase

Presented by Louisville Film Society & 21c Museum

Tuesday, September 15

Doors open at 7pm, films start at 8pm
System Parking Garage, 705 W Market St
The garage is on corner of Market and 7th, adjacent to 21c
The event is free and open to the public
Beer & Gumbo available for purchase (cash only)

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Public Reception for Creating Identity: Portraits Today
Honoring Local Artists Ben Durham, Gaela Erwin, Letitia Quesenberry and Chris Radtke

Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 5:30pm
in the Street Level and Atrium Galleries
Free and open to the public

Please join us for a special opening reception of 21c's newest exhibition Creating Identity: Portraits Today, an examination of portraiture in the 21st Century.

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Museum Shop: August Featured Artist

Jewelry Artist Kelli Pope

Kentucky native Kelli Pope may have defected to Southern Indiana, but her inspired jewelry designs are sure to make Louisvillians claim her as our own. Interested in a variety of artistic pursuits from a very young age, the love of making jewelry started rather unglamorously: laboring to repair a flawed store-bought piece. Inspired by her newfound talent, that single piece fueled a desire to create affordable, artistic jewelry. Pope's pieces continue to evolve as she perfects her craft with new metal smith techniques and creative designs. Each piece is one of a kind, and custom orders are welcomed.

Meet the artist during Trolley Hop, Friday, August 7, 2009 from 5pm-9pm.

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21c and LFS Monthly Film Series: Until I Am Naked, a documentary about James Baker Hall

Tuesday, August 18, 7 & 9 pm
Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public
Cash Bar

Join us this month for the premiere of Until I Am Naked, a documentary about James Baker Hall coinciding with the final days of his exhibition at 21c Museum. The 70 images in Photo/Synthesis are a survey of over 30 years of work that reflect Hall's fascination and experimentation with photography.

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21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

July 27, 7:30pm
Ross Gay & Tom Hunley

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21c and LFS Monthly Film Series Present Visiting Filmmaker Tony Balko

Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 7pm & 9pm
In Gallery 4
Free and open to the public
Cash bar: 6:30-9:30pm

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21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

June 29, 7:30pm
Blas Falconer & Paul Guest with Sarah Elizabeth

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Fourth Annual Pajama Party

Friday, June 12, 2009

Street Celebration
6:30 - 8:30pm
7th & Main Streets
RSVP for tickets at pjparty@21cmuseum.org

After-Party
9:00pm – late
21c Museum's Atrium Gallery
Donation to local nonprofit required

Each year the International Contemporary Art Foundation hosts its only annual fundraiser, the always outrageous Pajama Party. As one of Louisville's most exciting charitable events, the Pajama Party is a night of spectacular entertainment, outstanding cuisine, and great fun. In the spirit of collaboration, this year ICAF is embracing our local arts community and sharing the spotlight with six local organizations, specially chosen for their unique enrichment to our community.

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Buy Your Portrait or Someone Else Will

All auction proceeds benefit the International Contemporary Art Foundation

Shayne Hull Proof 100 Portraits Series Silent Auction
March-June 2009

Commissioned in 2006, the 100 Portraits Series, currently on view in Proof on Main, includes local celebrities such as boxing legend Muhammad Ali, Mayor Jerry Abramson, artist Ed Hamilton, and other longtime supporters and friends of 21c. Staring now, you can head to the Proof on Main bar and see who you'd like to take home with you – tell the bartender that you'd like to bid in the silent auction, and he or she will get you covered.

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Reception & Discussion with the UK College of Design in Conjunction with the Exhibition

May 27, 2009
Reception: 5pm
Discussion: 6pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Visiting architects: Gary Bates, Julien De Smedt, Jason Scroggin and Joshua Prince-Ramus

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21c Monthly Poetry Series with Sarabande Books: Leigh Anne Couch & Young Smith

Monday, May 25, 7:30pm
In Gallery 3, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public
Cash bar

21c is partnering with Sarabande Books for a new and continuing 21c Monthly Poetry Series. On the last Monday of each month, 21c Museum will host an evening of live music, followed by Sarabande authors reading their work. This month, Leigh Anne Couch and Young Smith will be featured.

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21c & LFS Monthly Film Series present Premiere of Beyond a Shadow of the Moon: Illusions and Achievements from the Golden Age of The Space Race

Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 7pm & 9pm
21c Museum Garage Gallery on 7th Street
Free and open to the public
Cash bar: 6:30-9:30

Please join us for an open-air viewing of this month's film Beyond a Shadow of the Moon by Louisville filmmaker Ryan Daly. Each screening will be on 16mm film.

Beyond a Shadow of the Moon: Illusions and Achievements from the Golden Age of the Space Race combines science fact with science fiction, a 73-minute compilation film examines the limits of fantasy and the reality of illusion. Contrasting the instructive mission of NASA films with the absurdity of science fiction films and comparing the sales pitch of industrial films with exposition of newsreel journalism, this exploration of outer space illustrates a world where fantasy and reality collide, compliment, and compete for the future of mankind.

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Museum Shop: April Featured Artist

Master Milliner Paris Kyne

As 21c gears up for our Derby celebration, the Museum is featuring an exhibition of Australian designer Paris Kyne's work. A special selection of hats will also be available for purchase through the 21c Museum Shop. As a rare treat, those who purchase a hat can have their one-of-a-kind piece custom fitted and altered by the Master Milliner himself at a daily workshop the week leading up to Derby.

Trolley hoppers will have the opportunity for a sneak preview on Kyne's work on Friday, April 4th. Free guided docent tours of the Museum Galleries will also be available, on the half hour at 6:30pm, 7:30pm and 8:30pm.

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Workshop and Exhibition with Master Milliner Paris Kyne

The Colour of Racing Exhibition
April – May 2009
in the Garage Street Level Gallery

Workshop
Monday, April 27 – Friday, May 1, 2009
12-4pm each day
Free and open to the public

In conjunction with the exhibition The Colour of Racing, Australian Master Milliner Paris Kyne will be at 21c for a workshop the week prior to the Kentucky Derby. The exhibition features work that was inspired by the sea of color and dynamic movement the designer saw at the 2007 Derby. In addition to the exhibition, a selection of similar hats will be available for purchase through the 21c Museum Shop. Those who purchase these one-of-a-kind pieces can be custom fitted and have alterations made during the daily workshop the week prior to Derby.

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21c & LFS Celebrate National Poetry Month with Film

Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 7 & 9pm
Gallery 2
Free and open to the public
Cash bar 6:30-9:30pm

In recognition of National Poetry Month, LFS will showcase short films traversing a drove of poets, a concourse of poems, and a swarm of 16mm film prints. Featuring Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, George Barker, James Broughton, Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Jack Hirschman, Etheridge Knight, Ezra Pound, and many others.

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To Celebrate the Final Weeks of the Exhibition Photo/Synthesis: James Baker Hall and National Poetry Month

Poetry Reading with Special Guests: Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Brett Eugene Ralph, and Richard Taylor

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
7pm Reception
7:30-8:30pm Readings
in the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

To commemorate National Poetry Month 21c has invited two of Kentucky's most celebrated literary presses to present works by Kentucky authors Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Brett Eugene Ralph, and Richard Taylor. Both Sarabande Books (founded 1994) and Larkspur Press (founded 1974) allow authors an alternative to mainstream publishing where an emphasis is placed on design in addition to the quality of the literary word. While publishing some of the best authors regionally, these two companies stand out amongst many others in their dedication to give importance and worth to the printed word and the authors who create it.

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Museum Shop: March Featured Artist

W & M Custom Jewelry

Louisville-based, W & M Custom Jewelry is a designer of handcrafted, unique and one-of-a-kind necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. W & M Custom Jewelry focuses on providing special gemstones and vintage pieces combined with the highest quality of sterling and vermeil findings. Their designs can be found in several exclusive boutiques. The company was founded by Megan Walz and Becky McClellan, who strive to make elegant companions for casual and sophisticated attire. The artists will be on hand during Trolley Hop, Friday, March 6, 2009 from 5pm - 9pm. Custom orders are readily available upon request.

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Lecture with Dan Cameron presented by the Mayor's Advisory Committee on Public Art (MCOPA) and 21c

Saturday, March 28, 2009, 6pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

Dan Cameron will speak about his past and recent curatorial projects, including Prospect.1, the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States.

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Artist Talk & Demonstration with Beth Cavener Stichter

Artist Talk & Reception
Friday, March 27, 6pm
21c Museum, Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

Artist Demonstrations
Friday, March 27, 10am-4pm AND Saturday, March 28, 10am-5pm
Hite Art Institute, Ceramics Department (location below)
Free and open to the public

Co-sponsors U of L Hite Art Institute, Louisville Clay Organization, and 21c Museum host Beth Cavener Stichter for an artist talk and workshop demonstration. Beth Cavener Stichter, living and working in the Seattle area, received her MFA from Ohio State University in 2002 and following an American Crafts Council Emerging Artist Grant in 2003, has come to produce quite a substantial body of work.

The artist demonstrations will be held at the University of Louisville Hite Art Institute, HPES/Studio Arts Building, 2314 S. Floyd St, 40292. Inquiries for the demonstration can be directed to Todd Burns at 852-6796.

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Chin Chin in concert with Liberation Prophecy and Sandpaper Dolls

Wednesday, March 18, 2009, Doors open at 7pm
in the Atrium Gallery
$10 in advance, $12 at the door
Tickets available at ear-X-tacy and 21c Museum Hotel Front Desk

Brooklyn-based Chin Chin comes to 21c to celebrate their new album released on March 10th Chin Chin includes Louisville brothers Torbitt Schwartz and Wilder Zoby and combines elements of jazz, funk, disco, contemporary R&B, rock, and electro. With this eclectic fusion are smart lyrics, powerful horn arrangements, great showmanship, and a taste for partying.

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21c and LFS Monthly Film Series presents Les Blank on Werner Herzog: Burden of Dreams

Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 7 & 9pm
Gallery 2
Free and open to the public
Cash bar 6:30-9:30pm
16mm in color, running time: 94 minutes

Burden of Dreams (1982) is a chilling but finely balanced account of what might ordinarily be considered artistic folly: German filmmaker Werner Herzog's obsession to complete the painfully plagued jungle shooting of Fitzcarraldo. Disaster after disaster befalls Herzog's tale of a penniless, opera-mad dreamer (Klaus Kinski) who risks everything to build a grand opera house in the jungle river port of Iquitos. Blank's film grows into a fascinating (and highly controversial) record of an obsessed genius and his battle to finish his project in the face of plane crashes, torrential rains, attacks by armed, hostile Indians, the loss of several leading actors, and the eruption of a full-fledged border war around him. The utmost irony running through Burden of Dreams is that creating the movie Fitzcarraldo proved just as dubious and perilous an enterprise as the story on which it was based.

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21c Monthly Film Series is funded by:

21c Hosts the Post-Show Party for the Kentucky Center's Varla Jean Merman with Louisville's Own Dementia

Friday, March 13, 2009, 10pm
Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Cash bar, hors d'oeuvres

After you've seen the Kentucky Center for the Arts A Little Off Center series performance, The Very Worst of Varla Jean Merman, get out your drag and stop by 21c for a scandalous soiree featuring host Louisville-based performance artiste host Dementia.

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Museum Shop: February Featured Artist + Limited Edition Prints

Hound Dog Press

Also, while they last, select limited edition prints are available in the Museum Shop:

Russel Hulsey (Louisville-based)
"Song to Whitman" Verses No. 1, 2008
"Song to Longfellow" Versus No. 3, 2008
"Song to Thoreau" Versus No. 5, 2008
Charcoal, graphite, acrylic on paper

Nick Owens (Louisville-based)
McSurgency, 2008
Phasers on Stun, 2008
Archival inkjet prints

Paper size: 24" x 36"
All printed by Art Ecology Gallery, Louisville, KY
www.artecologyllc.com

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Presentation and reception with Bernheim's new Executive Director, Mark Wourms Ph.D.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 6pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

21c Museum will host an evening with the new Executive Director of Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. Mark Wourms, Ph.D. will give a short slide presentation and discuss the rich history and future possibilities of art at Bernheim Arboretum.

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21c and LFS present an evening with multimedia artist Martha Colburn: recent film projects followed by Q&A

Tuesday, February 17, 8 pm
Cash bar open from 7:30-9:30
Free and open to the public

For February's Monthly Film Series, New York based artist Martha Colburn will present a selection of new and old works as well as an opportunity for questions following the screenings. Born in Pennsylvania in 1971, Colburn works in a variety of media including installation, painting, and printmaking in addition to being a self-taught filmmaker. Using this diverse background of techniques, she has completed over 40 films since 1994 with successive screenings at Sundance, Rotterdam, and New York Film Festivals and was also featured in the Fortnight of New Directors at Cannes Film Festival 2005.

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21c is proud to partner with the Louisville Film Society in the continuing Monthly Film Series since August of 2007. LFS is a publicly supported non-profit organization. Support comes from memberships, event admission, advertisement, contributions, donated materials, and services. For more information about the LFS, please visit visit www.louisvillefilm.org.

21c Monthly Film Series is funded by:

21c Museum presents Larkin Grimm in concert with Louisville's Sandpaper Dolls and projections by Cinemanonymous

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
in the Atrium Gallery
Doors open at 7pm
Cash bar

$8 in advance and $10 at the door
Tickets available at the 21c Hotel Front Desk and ear-X-tacy
Percentage of the proceeds benefit International Contemporary Art Foundation

An artist of diverse background, Larkin Grimm comes to 21c for a special musical performance. A former member of the Dirty Projectors, Grimm has released 3 solo albums to date: Harpoon (Secret Eye, 2005), The Last Tree (Secret Eye, 2006), and Parplar (Young God Records, 2008). The opening performance will consist of Louisville's own Sandpaper Dolls with 16mm film projections by Cinemanonymous.

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Museum Shop: February Featured Artist: Hound Dog Press

Friday, February 6, 2009

Located in Louisville's own Mellwood Arts Center, Hound Dog Press specializes in custom stationary, announcements, greeting cards, and posters designed, set, and pressed by hand. Stop by 21c for the First Friday Trolley Hop on February 6th from 5pm-9pm to meet the artists and watch them demonstrate their craft. Their original works will also be available for purchase all month long in the 21c Museum Shop—just in time for Valentine's day goodies!

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21c and LFS Monthly Film Series: Woody Allen's What's Up Tiger Lilly?

Tuesday, January 20, 7 and 9 pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Cash bar open from 6:30-9:30

Come join us as we celebrate the directorial debut by one of America's most talented comic writers. In the mid-sixties American International Pictures (AIP), acquired the rights to Kokusai Himitsu Keisatsu - Kagi No Kagi (literal English title: International Secret Police: Key of Keys). After initial test screenings failed to generate interest, AIP head Henry Saperstein came up with a way to save his investment: re-do the film and make it intentionally funny. Established comic and emerging playwright Woody Allen was given the job.

21c Museum and LFS: Rare Screening of Charlie is My Darling

Tuesday, December 16
7pm and 9pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Cash bar
Running time of the film is 60 minutes

Please join us this coming Tuesday for a rare chance to see Charlie is My Darling. This legendary film premiered at the Mannheim Film Festival in 1966 and only received brief screenings in Europe during that same year - to date, only low-quality VHS bootleg copies have surfaced en masse. So please come and enjoy this film as it was meant to be seen: on 16mm. Each screening will last approximately 60 minutes.

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First Annual 21c Museum Shop Artist Market

In conjunction with the First Friday Trolley Hop

Friday, December 5, 5pm – 11pm
Atrium Gallery
Free and Open to the public
Complimentary hot apple cider, cash bar available

Featuring music by the
Down by the Wayside Choir
6pm - 9pm

Your lists? Made.
Your checks? Twice.

Reward that ingenuity and hard work by skipping the malls and by kicking back with your friends at 21c. The first annual 21c Museum Shop Artist Market is this Friday and the cider and good cheer will be flowing. Get all your shopping done in one stop with our 21 picks for the season.

Dreaming of a green Christmas? Fill those stockings with the wares of local artists. We've invited some of the areas most talented craftsman to join in our festivities. iWood, Lindsay Moremen, Crit Rawlings, Architype, John & Nicole Wheeler, and W&M Custom Jewelry will be on-hand, offering their wares, with the Down by the Wayside providing a spirited soundtrack for the evening.

Founded in 2000 at Wayside Christian Mission, the Down by the Wayside Choir is a twenty-four person gospel choir is composed of members recovering or recovered from drugs and/or alcohol.

Vetiver in Concert with Special Guests King's Daughters & Sons

Thursday, December 4, 8pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Doors open at 8pm
Cash bar

$10 in advance and $12 at the door
Tickets available at the 21c Front Desk and ear-X-tacy
Percentage of ticket proceeds to benefit International Contemporary Art Foundation

Celebrating their third major studio release, Vetiver will be taking a break from their national tour with the Black Crows to give a special performance at 21c Museum. Vetiver's new album, Thing of the Past, breaks from the traditional covers album by paying tribute to little-known songs by little-known musicians who influenced band leader Andy Cabic. California-based, Vetiver is no stranger to experimentation and has shared the stage with Joanna Newsom, The Shins, Colm O'Ciosoig of My Bloody Valentine, and Bright Eyes. Perhaps Vetiver is best described by occasional collaborator Devendra Banhart as an "impossibly ethereal yet terrestrial songwriting."

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Museum Shop: November's Featured Artist

ARCHITYPE

ARCHITYPE is a locally owned and operated design house, specializing in leather bags and accessories. Drawing inspiration from architecture, science, history, and all aspects of culture and using rich and vibrantly colored leather, their designs merge form and function to create products that are both beautiful and useful.

ARCHITYPE strives to uphold the principles of sustainability and responsible manufacturing to create a prosperous business that also benefits the environment and local economy. Leather is a renewable, durable, and biodegradable resource. ARCHITYPE uses quality leathers from the USA, and recycled end-lots that may be discarded as waste from large products, and they employ regional artisans to handcraft their designs.

Stop by during Trolley Hop on Friday, November 7th (from 5pm – 9pm) to meet the artists. Located on Seventh Street in between Main and Market.

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21c Museum and LFS presents Nanook of the North with a live, improvised soundtrack from Sapat

Tuesday, November 18, 8pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Running time of the film is 79 minutes

21c & LFS Monthly Film Series has decided not only to screen what is considered the first full length documentary, but to host Louisville's own Sapat to make an original soundtrack specially for the viewing. This month, there will only be one screening at 8pm, so please get your refreshments early and claim your seat.

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International Contemporary Art Foundation Welcomes Architect Deborah Berke

Thursday November 13, 2008
Book-signing from 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public

Noted architect.
Acclaimed designer.
Inspiring educator.

Deborah Berke can now add literary muse to her long list of credentials.

We're excited to play host to the woman behind 21c's design as she celebrates the release of her new book, DEBORAH BERKE. Written by Tracy Myers, this release marks the first time ever Yale University Press has published a book on a contemporary architect and it offers readers provocative insight into the process behind Berke’s genius. Whether one peruses the nearly 250 images or dives head-first into the engaging essays, the book reveals how Berke conceives of and approaches her projects – both those that have made her famous and the many that the public has never seen before.

Join us for a book-signing with Berke on Thursday, November 13th. Refreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase for $65 each. As an added treat, book-signing attendees will be allowed a rare glimpse in the private owner’s apartment atop 21c. With its sweeping views of downtown and stunning collection of contemporary art, this space truly showcases some of the finest work of the modern genius that is Deborah Berke.

21c Museum special exhibition: Día de los Muertos: Day of the Dead

Saturday, November 1 to Sunday, November 9
in Gallery 4, off the Street Level Gallery

For this special exhibition and collaboration with the University of Louisville, 21c Museum is displaying a collection of site-specific altars that interpret these celebratory reliquaries in a contemporary context.

Please join us on November 7 for the First Friday Trolley Hop as we open the doors of the exhibition gallery to commemorate this day with the public. The gallery will feature drink specials as well as festive music.

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Museum Shop: October's Featured Artist

Emily Maynard

Since 2003 Elva Fields Jewelry has been the outlet of Emily Maynard's dual fascination, both academic and artistic, with jewelry design. Starting with degrees in both French and Art History, Maynard quickly discovered a passion for the history of jewelry during her graduate work at The Bard Graduate Center for Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture in New York City. Her Masters thesis explored the relationship between Italian Renaissance and ancient Greek and Roman jewelry, which inspired a semester at the Jewelry Arts Institute in Manhattan. Here, she acquired metalworking skills in the ancient tradition and, simultaneously, a recognition that it might be possible to combine interests in the study of jewelry and the creation of it.

As owner and designer, Maynard now scours local and far-flung markets, auctions, and shops for unusual vintage and antique pieces to use in all three of the Elva Fields lines—Elva, June, and Deb—which are named for the artist's great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother, respectively. The treasured finds are then reconfigured and incorporated in unexpected, timeless designs. One might find a strand of old paste pearls with an antique carved ivory brooch as its pendant, or a 1930s Bakelite belt buckle clasping glittering chains from just a decade later. Elva Fields Jewelry, made in the designer’s home studio in Kentucky, can be found in boutiques throughout the United States.

In the spirit of the women who inspired Elva Fields Jewelry and its namesake lines, a percentage of all jewelry proceeds will be donated to selected non-profit agencies, including the Younger Woman's Club of Louisville, the ChezPanisse Foundation, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Stop by on Friday October 3rd during Trolley Hop (from 5pm - 9pm) to meet the artist.

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21c Museum and LFS presents 100 Proof and Q&A with Producer and KY Native George Maranville

Tuesday, October 21, 7pm
Tuesday, October 21, 9pm
Free and open to the public
In Gallery 3, off the Atrium Gallery
a Q&A will follow each screening

Inspired by a true story, this independent drama records one especially bad day in the lives of Rae and Carla, two tough women living in a small Kentucky town. 100 Proof debuted at Sundance Film Festival and received strong reviews for its grim, but true-to-life atmosphere and lead performances. The film features Lexington native Jim Varney (otherwise known as Ernest P. Worrell) as Rae's fearsome and intense father.

The film runs approximately 94 minutes; Kentucky filmmaker George Maranville, editor and producer, will present the film and answer questions following each screening.

21c Monthly Film Series is funded by:

Artist Tax Seminar with Q&A

Intro to what artists need to know about financial planning

Thursday, October 9 at 7-8pm
in the Atrium Side Galleries
Please RSVP to kgetsinger@21cmuseum.org
The event is free and open to the public

CPA Michelle Musacchio will hold a hands-on seminar to discuss what many artists may not know in starting their own business. The formal program will be focused on financial planning, self-employment, and tax breaks specific to artists. A Q&A will follow and offer guests the chance to better understand how they can benefit from such planning ideas.

Michelle Musacchio is the president of Fit Money CPA which serves the needs of individuals and small businesses in the Louisville area. Musacchio also teaches Taxation at Spalding University and instructs the Becker CPA Review program, she was recognized as an Honorary Volunteer Recipient of the Bell Award in both 2002 and 2004 as well as being honored with the receipt of the Outstanding Chair award of the Kentucky Society of CPA's in 2008.

21c Museum, International Contemporary Art Foundation, and the Kentucky Center Host the Wau Wau Sisters Post-Show Reception and Party

Friday October 3rd, 2008
Atrium Gallery with musical guest The Blue Umbrellas
The event is free and open to the public
Cash bar with drink specials

NYC's bravest and bawdiest duo are back with two performances at the Kentucky Center for the Arts Bomhard Theater. Following the show, head to 21c to meet the Wau Wau Sisters at the reception and afterparty with live entertainment by The Blue Umbrellas.

"Take two dirty-talking New Yorkers, throw in some impressive circus tricks, a string of lewd jokes, a bit of burlesque titillation and you have one very cheeky night out." - The Sunday Times (London)

Tickets for the Wau Wau Sisters performance are $27.50. For more information, please visit: The Kentucky Center and the Wau Wau Sisters.

Helvetica Film Screening and Vice Presidential Debate Watching Party

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Mingling begins at 6pm, Film begins at 7pm
in the Atrium
Free and open to the public
Cash bar

The Louisville Graphic Design Association (LGDA), the UofL Hite Art Institute, and the Louisville Film Society, in conjunction with the International Contemporary Art Foundation, will present a free screening of Gary Hustwit's independent documentary film, Helvetica, on Thursday, October 2 in the Atrium at 21c. Mingling will begin at 6:00pm, and the film screening will begin at 7:00pm, lasting 80 minutes. This event is free and open to the public. A cash bar will be available.

Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica was released in September of 2007, and has been screened at film festivals, museums, design conferences, and cinemas worldwide.

Immediately following the film, there will be a debate watching party.

Museum Shop: September's Featured Artist

Alicia White

After growing up surrounded by her mother, a textile artist, and her grandfather, a silversmith and jewelry producer, its no surprise that Louisvillian Alicia White adopted the family trade. Bitten by the art show bug very early in life, White began showing her wares at local art shows as a teenager. Now a mother herself, White focuses on creating knitted necklaces made from fine wire and pearls. Her pieces are hand-woven with hundreds of delicate stitches in a uniquely adapted knitting technique and sometimes incorporate fused glass pieces. They're destined to become heirlooms, so like Alicia, you can keep it in the family.

Arriving to the 21c Museum Shop on September 5th for a limited time. Stop by during Trolley Hop to meet the artist.

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International Contemporary Art Foundation Sponsors Arne Quinze for the IdeaFestival 2008

Friday, September 26, 10am
Kentucky International Convention Center
At the corner of 4th and Market Streets
Free and open to the public, but a pass is required
Please visit www.ideafestival.com for reservation details

At the 2008 Idea Festival, Quinze will present a fascinating overview of his work in art, design, and interventions in the contemporary urban landscape. For Quinze, the future is today, and the seemingly impossible is what he pursues as the inevitable. His presentation will offer a truly innovative vision of how and where we live, and will include a proposal for a transformative project on Louisville's waterfront.

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Mark Beasley of Creative Time to Speak at the IdeaFestival 2008

Thursday, September 25, 11:30am
Kentucky International Convention Center
At the corner of 4th and Market Streets
The lecture is $18.00 and includes lunch, please read below for registration information
Please visit www.ideafestival.com for registration details

Mark Beasley makes a special appearance at the IdeaFestival for a lecture that explores art in the public realm and its role, influence, and importance in the future of cities and urban life. Beasley is a curator with Creative Time in New York that is a cutting edge organization with an international reputation for working with artists such as Jenny Holzer, Vito Acconci, Shirin Neshat, David Byrne, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Red Grooms.

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Grant Information Session: for visual, media, performing, and literary artists with Creative Capital Foundation

Wednesday, September 24 at 4pm
Private Dining Room in Proof on Main
Please RSVP to kgetsinger@21cmuseum.org
The event is free and open to the public

Creative Capital Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing adventurous and imaginative work in the performing and visual arts, film/video, innovative literature, and emerging fields. Far from a traditional funder, Creative Capital is committed to working in long-term partnership with the bold and groundbreaking artists that they fund by making a multi-year financial commitment as well as providing advisory services and professional development assistance.

This is a free session to hear about Creative Capital's many services and to ask your questions in person!

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21c and LFS Monthly Film Series: Local Talent on the Rooftop

Tuesday, September 16 at 8:30pm
System Parking Garage, 705 W Market St
The garage is on corner of Market and 7th, adjacent to 21c
The event is free and open to the public

Be prepared to bring your lawn chair and blankets because this month the 21c & LFS Monthly Film Series will be held on the garage rooftop. 21c and LFS will highlight some of Louisville's own: Hallie Jones, Pam Swisher, Archie Borders, Joey Yates, Jason Noble, and many more!

The screenings will take place on the roof level of the System Parking Garage rooftop behind 21c Museum. The garage is located at the corner of 7th and Market, parking is available inside for $3.00 cash.

21c is proud to partner with the Louisville Film Society in the continuing Monthly Film Series since August of 2007. For more information about the LFS, please visit visit www.louisvillefilm.org.

Guerra de la Paz artist talk hosted by 21c and UofL Hite Art Institute

Thursday, September 11, 6-7pm, followed by Q&A
Elaine Chao Auditorium
University of Louisville Ekstrom Library, 2301 S. 3rd St 40292
The event is free and open to the public

Neraldo de la Paz and Alain Guerra will give a presentation on past and current work from their collaboration as Guerra de la Paz. The Cuban born artists were recently featured in 21c's Tangled Up in You exhibition and were one of six donating artists to the International Contemporary Art Foundation's Third Annual Pajama Party. The Family, featured in the exhibition, uses discarded garments as conceptual DNA that peer into the stereotypical traits of the typified family. The artists have exhibited through¬out the US and are in significant collections and museums such as the Sattchi Collection in London and more recently the University of Louisville Collection. The talk is co-sponsored by the University of Louisville. Visit the 21c Museum website soon for updated information.

Photographic Survey of James Baker Hall

Opening reception Thursday September 4, 6pm
Exhibition running September 2008 - March 2009
in the Atrium, Gallery 1 and 3

21c Museum is proud to present Photo/Synthesis: James Baker Hall, the first survey of photographic work by James Baker Hall. Hall's photographs explore the extremes of landscape and the creative personalities of his native Kentucky. 21c has worked closely with the artist to realize an ambitious exhibition of 70 images comprising nearly five decades of photographic pursuits. A reception will be held Thursday, September 4 at 6pm.

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Museum Shop: August's Featured Artist

John and Nicole Wheeler

No need to worry about blood diamonds from these two – they're all local. Sharing a mutual love of metal, the Wheelers create stunning handmade pieces from silver or copper. John's work highlights an interest in mechanical design, often using moving parts and complex shapes, while Nicole relies on simple shapes to create intricate designs with clean lines. Enamel, found objects, and semi-precious stones highlight their metal craftsmanship. The pieces are contemporary and unique – just like you. Arriving at the 21c Museum Shop on August 1st for a limited time.

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21c and LFS Monthly Film Series: First Timers

First time flicks by noted directors: Scorsese, Polanski, Henson, and more!

Tuesday August 19, 2008, 7pm
Tuesday August 19, 2008, 9pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

This month for the Film Series, 21c and LFS invite you to see the First Timers: from Academy Award Winners to unknown filmmakers. Whether you’re familiar or not with such regarded and perhaps infamous directors as Martin Scorsese, Roman Polanski, or Jim Henson, seeing a prominent filmmaker’s first short movies often reveal early stylistic choices and experimentation that would later set them apart as the icons of cinema.

Included amongst these distinguished filmmakers are short films of those who pursued other careers, such as designers Charles and Ray Eames who experimented with cinema in conjunction with their design work. Come join us for a rare chance to see the unknown work of all-too-well-known auteurs.

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21c Presents Kelley McRae with special guest Lauris Vidal

Monday, August 4, 2008, 8PM
Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Cash bar

A Southern artist now living in Brooklyn, Kelley McRae "moves effortlessly from the mournful tones of the plantation to the celebratory swing of the salon, from songs of loss and decay to hymns of love and grace" (PASTE magazine). With her debut album Never Be receiving 4 stars in PASTE and other glowing reviews from the Nashville Scene and Time Out NY, her late August release of Highrises in Brooklyn produced by Brian Deck (Iron and Wine, Modest Mouse, and Josh Ritter) has fans waiting with much anticipation. Joining Kelley will be Florida-based musician Lauris Vidal who fuses innovative folk music with dark undertones.

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21c Museum presents Sandpaper Dolls with 16mm film projections by Cinemanonymous:

Open-Air Garage show in conjunction with First Friday Trolley Hop

Friday, August 1, 2008, 9-10:30PM
Garage Gallery 4
Free and open to the public
Cash bar with drink specials

21c invites you back for another Garage Gallery concert to experience the eclectic style of one of Louisville's newest ensembles, the Sandpaper Dolls. This a'cappella trio of Suki Anderson, Rebecca Dennison, and Amber Estes rely on their voices to conduct a unique musical experiment. You may recognize these three from such varied projects as a.m. Sunday, Liberation Prophecy, and the Jamie Barnes Band. As a voice ensemble, Rebecca, Amber, and Suki are currently working with Nathan Salsburg and Jacob Duncan on upcoming projects.

Also during the evening, special guest Cinemanonymous will present experimental 16mm film projection during and after the trio's performance. And to ease the summer heat, enjoy the only kind of drink specials suited to partying in a garage: cold, canned, and cheap.

Help us win "America's Best Restroom VII"

Voting is open until Thursday, July 31, 2008

When the New York Times raves that you gotta check out a bathroom, you should listen. It looks like the fine folks at Cintas Corp., who sponsor "America's Best Restrooms VII," have been reading our reviews because they've nominated us and our ... ahem ... "facilities" this year.

Help crown us King of all Thrones at www.bestrestroom.com. Our competition is nothing to sniff at (Grand Central Terminal in NYC, The Signature Room at the 95th in Chicago, and Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, MA, just to name a few), so vote early and often.

In case your visit to our loo was preceded by a few too many martinis at Proof, it features a video installation by artist Sean Bidic and some one-way mirror trickery that is always good for a laugh. Feel free to stop in to see what all the stink is about.

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21c is official registration and drop-off location for the 48 Hour Film Project 2008

Friday July 18th 6-7pm
Sunday July 20th 7:30pm deadline
in the Atrium Gallery

21c will be hosting the official registration and drop-off for production teams competing in the 48 Hour Film Project of 2008. The event starts at 6pm where registered teams draw a genre for the movie that they must complete within 48 hours. At 7:30pm Sunday, all teams must turn in their finished movie to be considered for the Best 48 Hour Film of Louisville.

Filmmakers from all over the Louisville area will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world for the title "Best 48 Hour Film of 2008".

Please direct all inquires about the event to 48 Hour Film Project. Information on the 48HFP website also includes event details, production teams, and showtimes for completed films.

21c and LFS Monthly Film Series Present: Jack Chamber's Hart of London

July 15, 7pm
July 15, 9pm
Gallery 2, off the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

This rarely screened film by Jack Chambers is regarded as one of cinema's strangest masterpieces, which received divided opinion even amongst critics interested in non-narrative, experimental film. The 1970 film mixes news-reel footage, natural landscapes, urban settings, and staged scenes, an effect which both invites and repulses.

The title, actually referring to London, Ontario, depicts the urbanized province that seems to have turned its back on nature. Regarded as "perceptual realism," Chambers' film is perhaps an intentional contradiction, one that seeks to depict the external world accurately as seen through the filmmaker's perspective, ultimately looking for "an intuitive but mediated response to the unity underlying all things" (Kathryn Elder).

21c is proud to partner with the Louisville Film Society in the continuing Monthly Film Series. LFS is a publicly supported non-profit organization; support comes from memberships, event admission, advertisement, contributions, donated materials, and services.

For more information please visit the Louisville Film Society at www.louisvillefilm.org or contact Ryan Daly at ryan@louisvillefilm.org.

International Contemporary Art Foundation’s 3rd Annual Pajama Party

A benefit for the International Contemporary Art Foundation and the 21c Museum

Friday, June 20, 2008, 7:00pm

The evening will be a fantastical and astounding mélange of live entertainment, culinary art with dinner donated by Proof on Main, and many more surprises. Acts include performance art from the 2008 Whitney Biennial, a unique pas de duex by Pilobolus, and a "Bedtime Story" by a special mystery guest.

Tickets for the event are $500, and may be purchased by calling Christy Bramble at (502) 582-5000 or e-mailing cbramble@21chotels.com. Proceeds will benefit the International Contemporary Art Foundation and 21c Museum in its goal to continue bringing different forms of artistic expression to the public. Special room rates at 21c Museum Hotel will be available for Pajama Party guests.

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21c and LFS Monthly Film Series present Extraordinary View of an Ordinary World:
Short Films of George Kuchar

Tuesday June 17, 2008
7pm and 9pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

George Kuchar (born in 1942) is an American film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic, playful use of no-talent actors, plotless plots, and themeless themes. Beloved by filmmakers such as John Waters, Todd Solondz and Atom Egoyan, George Kuchar has been working with the moving image for nearly half a century producing over 200 films and videos.

In the 1950s, Kuchar and his twin brother Mike began producing ultra-low-budget underground versions of Hollywood genre films, with names like I Was a Teenage Rumpot and The Devil's Cleavage. These 8mm kitchen-sink masterpieces bore the distinctive marks of what Susan Sontag called "camp," and positioned the Kuchar brothers as the Bronx's answer to the downtown underground filmmaking scene, which quickly adopted the Kuchars as their own, and in the work of Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, and others, showed their influence.

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Open-Air Garage Show: featuring musical guests the Photographic and experimental films by Greg King

In conjunction with First Friday Trolley Hop

21c Museum: Gallery 4
Located on 7th street in between Main and Market
Friday June 6, 9pm
Free and open to the public

Jumpstart your summer with an old school garage party at 21c. Drop by after Trolley Hop as 21c opens its exhibition gallery doors to the downtown air and lets the ambient sounds and visual images of the Photographic fill the urban streets. Immediately following the band, catch several short films by New York based artist Greg King. Stop by and enjoy the best kind of beer - cold and cheap - or, for the concert goer with a more refined palate, a fine Rosé, the garage party wine du jour. The show is free and open to the public.

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21c Museum and LFS Monthly Film Series Present a Double Feature and Q&A with Dennis Nyback

THE EFFECT OF DADA & SURREALISM ON HOLLYWOOD CINEMA IN THE 1930s
Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 7PM
HILLBILLIES IN HOLLYWOOD
Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 9PM
Gallery 2 (off of 21c's Atrium Gallery)
The event is free and open to the public

For the Monthly Film Series in May, 21c and LFS will host Dennis Nyback for a double feature and Q&A with the filmmaker. Considered a "found footage film maker," Nyback creates feature-length films out of collected material purchased anywhere from other film collectors to Ebay and personally travels the world to show his work.

At 7pm, May 20, The Effect of Dada & Surrealism on Hollywood Cinema in the 1930s will be screened followed by Hillbillies in Hollywood. The Effect of Dada... shows the process of how Hollywood took the artistic movements of Dada and Surrealism and dumped them into American movies without any explanation. Hillbillies in Hollywood gives a panorama of the performers of the rockabilly genre who transgressed into the Hollywood scene: Bob Willis, Jimmie Rogers, Spike Jones, just to name a few. Nyback will be present for each showing and have a Q&A after each film.

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Blue Apple Players and 21c Museum Join Together for Student Drama Performance
and Exhibition of Living Pictures May 13th - July 8th

Opening Reception and Performance
Tuesday, May 13th, 6:00pm
Performance by Western Middle School Students
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public

21c Museum is proud to present its second collaboration with Blue Apple Players and their most recent drama and photographic project with Western Middle School students. Blue Apple Players has guided 100 sixth and seventh grade Western Middle School students through a creative and educational drama workshop, with a specific focus on the tableau vivant art form. Photographed by Patrick Pfister of Pfoto.com, the photo project will be displayed at the 21c Museum until July 8th. To mark the opening of this special project, a select group of students will share a short demonstration of drama skills, and some will be available to answer questions about the process of creating the photographs.

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Artist and Curatorial Talk with Werner Reiterer

Wednesday, April 16, 6pm
Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

In conjunction with Raw Loop, Werner Reiterer’s first solo exhibition in the United States to open at the Speed Art Museum on April 22nd, 21c Museum will host an informal discussion with the exhibition’s curator, Julien Robson, and the artist. The evening’s discussion will offer an insight into the humor and irony that Reiterer uses in his work to question our perceptions of art’s relationship to everyday reality. Through drawings, objects, and installations, he engages the viewer and forces us to re-examine the nature of everyday experiences.

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21c and LFS Monthly Film Series present a Double Feature and Q&A
with Kentucky Native and acclaimed film filmmaker Allison Anders

BORDER RADIO: Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 7PM
GAS FOOD LODGING: Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 9PM
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public

For this Month’s Film Series, 21c and LFS bring you a special double feature of the Kentucky-born, Los Angeles-based filmmaker Allison Anders with a Q&A immediately following each showing. 21c and LFS will show Border Radio (1989) and Gas Food Lodging (1992), two early films by Anders that gave her critically-acclaimed status in American independent film.

An evocative 16mm black and white film, Border Radio is a post-punk diary in which a singer-songwriter goes missing, leaving his wife, a no-nonsense rock journalist to track his whereabouts. Gas Food Lodging depicts a blue-collar mother with two diametrically opposed daughters who try to live a normal life in their whistle-stop desert town in New Mexico. While one escapes in romantic melodramas of Mexican cinema, the other throws herself into meaningless relationships with men. Please join us for this special evening for two exceptional films and a chance to meet such a celebrated filmmaker.

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Reception and After-Party for the Kentucky Premiere of FLOW: For Love of Water

Please join us in celebrating the Kentucky premiere of the acclaimed documentary FLOW: For Love of Water

Meet the Director Irena Salina and Co-Producer Gill Holland
Friday, March 21, 10pm until Late
Atrium Gallery
with DJ Jesse Jamz
Free with Ticket Stub or Donation to the Foundation
Cash Bar

The film was a co-production of Louisville-based The Group Entertainment, Executive Produced by Louisvillian Augusta Brown Holland and co-produced by her husband Gill Holland, and is directed by French filmmaker Irena Salina. The movie will be screened at Baxter Theater starting March 21st. Please check your local listing closer to the date for show times.

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21c Museum Foundation's Monthly Film Series with LFS Presents Frederick Wiseman's Titicut Follies

Tuesday, March 18, 7pm
Tuesday, March 18, 9pm
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public

Total running time: 84 minutes. Film will be screened on 16mm prints.
Please note that due to its documentary nature, this film contains adult content.

Titicut Follies
Frederick Wiseman made his documentary debut with this controversial 84-minute survey of conditions that existed during the mid-'60s at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Made in 1967, the film was subjected to a worldwide ban until 1992 because the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that it was an invasion of inmate privacy.

The film goes behind the walls to show stark and graphic images exposing the treatment of inmates by guards, social workers, and psychiatrists. The title refers to a musical revue staged by inmates and guards. The documentary was cited as the "Best Film Dealing with the Human Condition" at the 1967 Festival Dei Popoli (Florence) and also honored as the "Best Film" at the 1967 Mannheim International Filmweek. The story behind the complicated legal issues raised by this film and the attempts to suppress it are detailed by Carolyn Anderson and Thomas W. Benson in their book, Documentary Dilemmas: Frederick Wiseman's "Titicut Follies" (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991).

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California Guitar Trio Makes a Special Appearance at the 21c Museum

Portion of the proceeds to benefit 21c Museum Foundation and Ohio Valley Creative Energy

Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 8pm, doors at 7:30pm
Atrium Gallery
$10 in advance and $12 at the door
Cash bar
Tickets are available at ear-x-tacy and the 21c Hotel Front Desk

The California Guitar Trio
The internationally acclaimed California Guitar Trio comes to the 21c Museum for a special performance of stunning guitar talent. Fusing styles of classical, rock, blues, jazz, world music, progressive, as well as the quintessential California musical genre surf music, the eclectic Trio has toured extensively both nationally and internationally. The members of the Trio first met in England at one of Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft Courses in 1987 and toured together with Fripp’s League of Crafty Guitarists. Not wishing to disband after the League had run its course, the CGT officially formed in Los Angeles in 1991, honing their intricate original compositions and classical re-workings. To date, the CGT has shared the stage with musicians such as King Crimson, Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman, John McLaughlin, John Scofield, Tito Puente, Taj Mahal among many others and has been featured at every Olympic Games from 1998 to 2004. More information, as well as streaming audio, is available at the California Guitar Trio’s website.

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21c Museum Foundation and the Louisville Film Society's Monthly Film Series:
Shorts by Apparatus Productions

Tuesday February 19th, 2008, 7pm
Tuesday February 19th, 2008, 9pm
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public

Total running time: 92 minutes. All films will be screened on 16mm prints.

Apparatus Productions
The now defunct, non-profit Apparatus Productions was co-founded by Todd Haynes, Barry Ellsworth and Christine Vachon. Set-up to channel grants to emerging film-makers who were not well served by the traditional funding sources, Apparatus Shorts dealt with gay themes, women's issues, and African-American life. As Haynes comments, "we wanted to preserve the form of short film-making & make it something really exciting that wasn't just a stepping stone for feature film-making." Under Apparatus, several films which directly question narrative & cinematic convention were completed.

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21c Museum Foundation and the Kentucky Center Host the Wau Wau Sisters Post-show Reception and Party

Saturday February 16th, 2008, 9:30pm
Atrium Gallery
with DJ Jesse Jamz
The event is free and open to the public
Cash bar with drink specials

After the performance of the Wau Wau Sisters at the Kentucky Center for the Arts Bomhard Theater, meet the Wau Wau Sisters at 21c for the reception, after party, and live entertainment by DJ Jesse Jamz. If you'd like to stay the night at 21c Hotel, please call 502.217.6300 and ask about the special Valentine's Weekend offer.

Tickets for the Wau Wau Sisters performance are $25. For more information, please visit: The Kentucky Center and the Wau Wau Sisters.

21c Museum Foundation Presents Dan Dutton's The Faun

The Faun Dance Performance
Thursday January 31st, 2008, 8pm
Friday February 1st, 2008, 2pm
Friday February 1st, 2008, 8pm
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public, limited seating
Performance lasts about 55 minutes

The poet-artist with the barefoot mind returns to the 21c Museum to portray the myth of The Faun. Heralding from classical fables and fantasies, The Faun is a dance performance-installation based on the Greek myths of Pan and the nymphs. This performance in particular will be his "Club Faun" which incorporates a cross between a Japanese tea house, a Noh theater stage, and an electronic dance club. The lyrics are adaptations from the sagas of Nonnus, Ovid, Sappho, and the Homeric Hymn to Pan wherein the dance and music emanate from the sculptural stage. The performance consists of 11 short parts and will be accompanied by original electronic music recordings.

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21c Museum Foundation Presents Artist Talk with Anthony Goicolea

Thursday January 24, 2008
Informal Artist Talk 6pm
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public

We are excited to welcome Anthony Goicolea back to 21c Museum to discuss his more recent body of work, The Septemberists Series and video currently on display in Proof on Main and the 21c Video Lounge. Goicolea will also speak to the excited new work to be showcased in the coming year at multiple venues across the US, Europe and Asia. He will have solo exhibitions with Aurel Scheibler Gallery in Berlin in March, then again in Vancouver with Monte Clark Gallery in April, then in September an exhibition in LA with Sandroni Rey Gallery, then a show in NY with Postmasters in November and lastly in February 2009 in Seoul, korea with Galerie Hyundai. Also on the books for Anthony is a career survey in 2010 at the NC Museum of Art.

The current exhibition of Goicolea’s The Septemberists, shot on location on a Massachusetts farm, portrays a group of boys in a dream-like landscape reminiscent of an old Southern plantation that chronicles the preparations and processes associated with traditional ritualistic ceremonies. Similar to Goicolea’s earlier work, the artist invites the viewer into his fantastical realms with images inspired by fairy tales, mythology, adolescent rituals, and science fiction.

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21c Museum Foundation and the Louisville Film Society Present Taste of Cherry by Abbas Kiarostami

Tuesday January 15, 2008, 7pm and 9pm
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public

The entire program is about 95 mins. All films will be screened on 16mm prints.

Synopsis
A sublime and deceptively simple parable, Abbas Kiarostami's Palme d'Or winner follows a middle-aged man who has decided to end his life. Driving through the hilly outskirts of Tehran in search of someone who will bury him if he succeeds or rescue him if he fails, he meets an assortment of different characters, each with their own reason to turn down the task.

Voting "Taste of Cherry" the best film of the year in the international edition of Time magazine, Richard Corliss wrote: "The film's artful simplicity, its respect for each speaker's beliefs, its refusal to sentimentalize: all underline the director's strategy of art. Let the rest of the film world ride a rocket to excess; Kiarostami will find a quiet place and listen to a man's heart, right up until it stops beating. And then he will listen some more." © (Zeitgeist Films Ltd.)

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21c Museum Foundation Presents Squallis Puppeteers

in the Atrium Gallery
January 3, 11am
Free for the public
Limited Seating, 100 seats available
Register by emailing elizabeth.hurst@21chotel.com

11:00am - 11:40 Squallis Puppeteers will perform "Li'l Horse's Big Adventure" (perfect for 3-8 year olds)
11:40am - refreshments served (cookies, juice & fruit)
Immediately following refreshments there will be a finger puppet workshop.
Children will have the opportunity to make their own finger puppets.

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Ben Sollee Album Debut Performance
Ben Sollee Celebrates Release of Learning to Bend with an Evening of Music and Dance

in the Atrium Gallery
November 16th & 17th, 8pm
Tickets: $10 available at 21c at the show
Tickets will also be available at ear-X-tacy, Quills Coffee & Books, & Sunergos Coffee

Celebrating his debut release of Learning to Bend, Ben Sollee will return to 21c Museum Foundation to perform his unique musical style. For these exclusive evenings, he will not only be playing new compositions, but will direct a performance that combines music, dance, and photography.

This special event will feature the choreography of David Ingram, of empujon dance company, as well as Delilah Smyth, formerly of Louisville Ballet. Performing to the music will be Erica De La O and Kristopher Wojtera, two “First Soloist’s” dancers from the Louisville Ballet. In addition, the photographic work of Mickie Winters, a project realized in collaboration with Sollee, will be exhibited at 21c in a series inspired by the movement of dance.

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21c Museum Hotel and the Louisville Film Society Presents a festival of films by the Brothers Quay

Tuesday October 30th, 7pm and 9pm
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public.

The entire program is about 96 mins. All films will be screened on 16mm prints.

The Brothers Quay
Identical twins, the extraordinary Brothers Quay have been blurring the boundary between miniature puppetry and live action with their innovative short films since the late 1970s. On their exquisite handcrafted sets they have conjured up an unforgettable world, suggestive of a landscape of long repressed childhood dreams.

The following films will be screened:

REHEARSALS FOR EXTINCT ANATOMIES
THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH
THE CABINET OF JAN SVANKMAJER
NOCTURNA ARTIFICIALIA
ANAMORPHOSIS
The Quays' interest in esoteric illusions finds its perfect realization in this fascinating animated lecture on the art of anamorphosis. This artistic technique, often found in 16th- and 17th-century paintings, utilizes a method of visual distortion which plays mischievously with the relationship between the eye and what it sees.
STREET OF CROCODILES
The Quays' masterpiece, STREET OF CROCODILES is adapted from a short story by Bruno Schulz, and was their first film shot on 35mm. A museum keeper spits into the eyepiece of an ancient peep-show and sets the musty machine in motion, plunging the viewer into a nightmarish netherworld of bizarre puppet rituals among the dirt and grime.

For more information please contact:

George P. Parker, Jr. - Executive Director
george@louisvillefilm.org
Louisville Film Society
www.louisvillefilm.org

Helen Pickett: One on One

in the Atrium Gallery
October 16, 7:30 pm
Free and open to the public (limited seating)

The Louisville Ballet and 21c Museum Foundation will host an evening with choreographer Helen Pickett on Tuesday, October 16th at 7:30 pm in the Atrium. This informal dialogue with Pickett will explore her choreography, her dance and acting careers, and her approach to tapping into personal activity.

Helen Pickett is one of three choreographers chosen for the Louisville Ballet's Visionary Forces on November 2nd and 3rd. One of Dance Magazine's 2007 Ones to Watch, Helen Pickett is far more than a dancer or choreographer. This former principal dancer with Ballet Frankfurt (under the direction of William Forsythe) has developed a successful career as dancer, choreographer, actor (film and stage), writer and teacher. Helen Pickett has participated in several films by such noted directors as Eve Sussman, whose work was well received in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Pickett has also acted in Sussman's more recent project Rape of the Sabine Women recently acquired by 21c Museum.

Special Offer: Hotel and Dance Package

For the event Visionary Forces, 21c Museum Hotel will offer a $221.00 Package that includes a deluxe king bedded room and two tickets to the Louisville Ballet's performances of Visionary Forces on either Friday, November 2nd at 8 pm or Saturday, November 3rd at 2 pm or 8 pm in the Whitney Hall at The Kentucky Center.

Please call 21c Museum Hotel at 502-217-6300 for reservations. Deadline for reservations is October 24, 2007. Offer is based upon availability.

› www.louisvilleballet.org
› www.helenpickett.com/cho.html
› Read the press release
› Read Helen Pickett's editorial

Specific Gravity Theater Performances

September 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, 8:00 pm
September 23, 30, 5:00 pm

Tickets: $15 general / $12 students / $10 groups of 10 or more
Location: 21c Museum Hotel, 700 W. Main Street in Louisville
For reservations call 502.384.2SGE (2743) or visit www.specificgravityensemble.com

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TURN THAT OLD MUSICAL INSTRUMENT INTO AN INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE

Thru September 21, 2007

Donate Your Used Musical Instruments to the Instruments A Comin’ program, and Help Make Life in the Big Easy a Little Easier. Katrina swept away the music! Instruments A Comin’ is bringing much-needed musical instruments back to New Orleans. This program is part of the Tipitina’s Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Louisiana’s unique musical culture survive the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The 21c Museum Foundation is proud to support the Tipitina’s Foundation as part of our ongoing efforts to encourage the understanding and appreciation of art in all its forms. All donations are tax deductible.

Bring donations by September 21 to the following locations:

For more information on Instruments A Comin’, visit TipitinasFoundation.org.

Louisville Design Association Lecture Series

September 20, 6:00 pm

Artists lecture: Gary Baseman. Presented by 21c Museum Foundation and Louisville Graphic Design Association September 20, 2007 doors at 6:00 pm lecture at 7:00 pm cash bar.

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Idea Festival Think Tank at 21c

September 14, 15 and 16

More details coming soon.

Second Annual 21c Museum Foundation Pajama Party

September 7, 6:00 pm

21c Museum Foundation is a nonprofit organization that operates the Galleries within 21c Museum Hotel. The Foundation relies on a variety of funding sources for its activities, the largest of which is the Annual Pajama Party. Proceeds from the party benefit the Museum's general operating fund and allow 21c to continue to share its collection and programs free of charge with the community and beyond.

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Roy “Futureman” Wooten & The Black Mozart Ensemble

September 8

More details coming soon.

› www.youtube.com/watch?v=nypsluYXIyI
› www.myspace.com/futuremanmusic

Artist Talk and Lunch-Time Tour

August 23, 7:00 pm

Please join us for an evening lecture with artist Marc Swanson. Swanson‘s work is currently featured in 21c Street Level Gallery exhibition, Marc Swanson: Beginning to See the Light.

Marc Swanson: Beginning to See the Light, comprises artwork made for several different exhibitions over the last five years, reuniting in this context to present a broad overview of the artist‘s œuvre. Swanson‘s sculptures, paintings, installations, and video projects combine disparate references to art history, music, mythology, and his own personal lore, providing a body of work that explores ongoing themes such as autobiography, duality, and desire. For this exhibition, Swanson has embarked on a meditative process that is not merely a nostalgic portrait, a history, or a looking back, but a contemporary struggle forward to know one‘s self, presenting us with an exquisitely vulnerable portrait of an artist.

Miki Garcia, Curator of Marc Swanson: Beginning to See the Light, will also be giving a free lunch-time tour at noon on August 23.

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Moving Pictures: Dance/Film

August 18, 8:00 pm

The Louisville Ballet, the Louisville Film Society and 21c Museum Hotel present Moving Pictures: Dance/Film, a film series exploring the intersections of these two art forms. This unique look at the world of dance seen through the cameras lens debuts with Guy Maddins Dracula: Pages from a Virgins Diary (2002). The screening of this full-length film, based on the ballet by Mark Godden, will be on Saturday, August 18 at 8:00 pm at 21c Museum Hotel, 700 West Main St. All screenings in the Moving Pictures series are free and open to the public.

› View the Save the Date card
› www.louisvilleballet.org
› www.louisvillefilm.org

Neva Geoffrey with Justin Craig and Ben Sollee with special guests

August 3rd, 2007
in the Atrium Gallery
8:00 pm to Late
Performances Are Free to the Public
Cash Bar

See what the critics are saying about Neva Geoffrey‘s music:

"Sensual indie pop that is warm and visceral, complete with vivacious melodies fit for a full orchestra." —Smother magazine
"With moving piano ballads, modest pop numbers and jazzy torch songs, this young American is an exceptional talent." —Clt. Alt. Country
"Beautiful, catchy as hell songs that fall somewhere between Norah Jones and Cat Power." —Hanx

Neva Geoffrey‘s performances tells a story of her travels. She sings whimsical melodies over a playful piano or an airy guitar. Residing in Lexington, KY, Geoffrey has spent the last few months sharing her debut album, "The Days are Rolling," through extensive touring. She has been compared to mind folks in the likes of Andrew Bird and Cat Power, but her songwriting has an ethereal voice all its own.

Born and raised in Kentucky, 23-year old cellist and singer Ben Sollee has spent his young life marinating in traditions of Appalachian, folk, R&B, and classical music. Ben is developing a reputation for his fresh approach to the cello, accompanying his soulful singing with a unique, three-finger plucking style.

› www.myspace.com/nevageoffrey
› www.myspace.com/bensollee
› www.bensollee.com

Neva Geoffrey and Tyrone Cotton

July 6th, 2007
in the Atrium Gallery
7:30 pm to Late
Performances Are Free to the Public
Cash Bar

21c presents the talented young songwriter out of Lexington, Neva Geoffrey, for a special solo performance. Then taking us into the evening, also for the first time at 21c, Louisville native Tyrone Cotton will perform songs from his recently released album on the In Room One label.

See what the critics are saying about Neva Geoffrey‘s music:

"Sensual indie pop that is warm and visceral, complete with vivacious melodies fit for a full orchestra." —Smother magazine
"With moving piano ballads, modest pop numbers and jazzy torch songs, this young American is an exceptional talent." —Clt. Alt. Country
"Beautiful, catchy as hell songs that fall somewhere between Norah Jones and Cat Power." —Hanx

Tyrone Cotton has moved audiences in every size venue from New York University to the Kyoto International Folk Festival in Japan, where he has toured four times. After opening for Rahn Burton, former pianist for jazz legend Rasahn Roland Kirk, Burton said, "Tyrone can play his music anywhere in the world. If it were not true I would not say it." After a Louisville performance, Beat-legend Lawrence Ferlinghetti approached Cotton to tell him, "You‘re the real thing." Historian Douglas Brinkley was blown away by Cotton‘s performance at an INSOMNIACATHON music and poetry Festival. And legendary composer, musician, author David Amram, who has heard Cotton several times, said in his usual animated manner, "He‘s amazing!"

Cotton‘s style, in part, was born while studying classical guitar in college. Also around this time he began playing blues and folk blues in coffee shops and small venues, mixing blues with classical. He employed classical techniques such as a right hand classical finger style, playing arpeggios of chords instead of strumming. He also began to sing. He developed a love for words, especially the work of Langston Hughes, and began to realize their power. The desire to play music, to sing, and to tell a story was born.

› www.myspace.com/nevageoffrey
› www.tyronecotton.com

Ben Sollee and Abigail Washburn Performance

June 1, 7:30pm
in the Atrium Gallery

21c presents a unique musical performance with Abigail Washburn and Ben Sollee. The duo will be joined by a rare performance by the international award winning throat singers from Tuva, the Alash Ensemble.

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Empujón‘s New Works Performance

May 24 and 25, 7pm
Performances Are Free To The Public (limited seating)

Louisville‘s foremost contemporary dance project, Empujón, will be returning to 21c Museum Hotel following their standing room only performance in 2006 to bring an evening of original premiers Thursday May 24th and Friday May 25th 2007. The evening will consist of new works by choreographer and Empujón Creative Director David Ingram as well as new works by Philadelphia‘s Ashley Suttlar and Louisville‘s Mikelle Bruzina, Delilah Smyth, Theresa Bautista and new Louisville resident Pete Lay. Also new this year to Empujon is video art design by Louisville based artist Valerie Sullivan Fuchs.

Empujón is the vehicle of choreographer / dancer David Ingram. Upon graduating from Butler University with a B.F.A. in dance performance, David went on to study dance and choreography with numerous schools, companies and summer programs across the U.S. David currently dances with North Carolina Dance Theatre, but Louisville audiences will recognize David as a former member of the Louisville Ballet.

It is most important that you see that all movement is beautiful, and that all movement is art. If, after having watched Empujón, you look at yourself and see how beautiful you are when you move then we as Empujón have accomplished something wonderful.

› www.empujon.com
› www.valeriefuchs.com

Blue Apple Players, St. George‘s Community Center and 21c Museum Hotel Join Together for St. George‘s Community Center Drama Club Students

May 22, 6pm

The Blue Apple Players have been leading a unique 10-week theater program involving a group of students from St. George‘s Community Center. The 21c Museum Hotel graciously invited the students to the museum and provided an opportunity for the St. George drama students to see and explore the museum. During this project, the group visited the museum and then chose a piece of art he/she liked. The students used drama techniques to create a short performance piece inspired by the work of art they chose.

These performance pieces will be shared in an informal presentation at the 21c Museum Hotel on Tuesday, May 22nd at 6:00 p.m. For more information, please call Blue Apple Players at 502-587-7990.

› www.blueappleplayers.org

Past Events

21c Museum Hosts Creativity Rising Project, A Neighborhood Public Art Project

Tuesday, August 10th 7:00 - 8:30pm Gallery 2, off the Atrium Free and open to the public

21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

July 26, 2010, 7:30pm Joel Brouwer and Wendy Rawlings

Opening Reception with Artist Simen Johan in conjunction with First Friday Trolley Hop

Friday, July 2, 2010 6-8:00pm Street Level Gallery Free and open to the public

21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

June 28, 2010, 7:30pm Robin Behn and Michael Rerick

21c presents KREL2go in conjunction with the Fifth Annual Pajama Party

June 10-12, 2010

Introducing Women Walking, New works by Monica Mahoney

Opening Reception Sunday, June 6, 2010 2:30-4:30pm

21c Museum presents Wheel of Fortune a site-specific installation by artist Anne Peabody

Unveiling and Artist Reception 21c Museum Atrium Gallery Friday, June 4, 2010 6-9pm

21c Museum & Production Simple Present Eluvium

Wednesday, May 26, 8pm Doors 7pm in the Atrium Gallery $10 in advance, $12 at the door Cash bar Tickets available at ear X-tacy, Wild and Woolly, and online at Ticket Web

21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

May 24, 2010, 7:30pm Allison Stine and Merle Bachman

21c Museum and Kentucky School of Art Present Artist Talk with Judy Pfaff

Monday, May 17, 2010, 6:00pm in the Atrium Gallery Meet and greet to follow lecture Free and open to the public

21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

April 26, 2010, 7:30pm Brian Barker and Nicky Beer

21c & LFS Present Visiting Filmmaker tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE

Tuesday, April 20, 8pm In Gallery 2 Q&A to follow films Free & Open to the Public

Artist talk with Mel Chin Followed by the collection of Fundred Dollar Bills at 21c Museum

Tuesday, April 13 Artist Talk and Performance Lecture: 6:00pm Gallery 3 Fundred Dollar Bill Collection for Louisville: 7:00pm 7th Street, in front of 21c Museum Entrance Both are free and open to the public

21c Presents We All Owe: Roberto Lange, Julianna Barwick, & Jonathan Dueck

Thursday, April 8 Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm in the Atrium Gallery $8 in advance, $10 at the door Cash bar

Docent Tours and March Artist Discussion Series

21c offers free Guided Docent Tours each week, Friday and Saturday evenings at 5:00pm & 5:30pm

21c Museum and LFS Monthly Film Series Present Sita Sings the Blues

Tuesday, March 16, 8:00pm In Gallery 3, off the Atrium Free and open to the public

Sollee & Martin Moore "Dear Companion" Tour AFTER PARTY featuring The Seedy Seeds

Friday, Feburay 26, 2010 Starts at 9pm Free and open to the public Donation benefit EDGE Outreach's effort in Haiti

21c, UK College of Design, & AIA Central KY Chapter Present Robert Ivy, Editor in Chief of Architectural Record

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 in the Atrium Gallery 6pm reception 7pm discussion

21c Museum and LFS Monthly Film Series Present The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

Tuesday, February 16, 8:00pm In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Free and open to the public

21c and LFS Present Monthly Film Series and Q&A with Nathan Salsburg

Tuesday, January 19, 7:30pm In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Free and open to the public Cash bar

21c and LFS Present Monthly Film Series with Visiting Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 8pm In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Free and open to the public Cash bar

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) in a partnership with 21c Museum present: Wendell Berry, Erik Reece and Rebecca Howell will talk about their contributions to the book Plundering Appalachia followed by Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket

21c and LFS Present Monthly Film Series with Visiting Filmmaker Mimi Pickering

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7pm: Chemical Valley (1991, 58 mins.) & Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (work in progress, 20 mins.) 9pm: Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (2000, 60 mins.) In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Free and open to the public

The Osso Quartet at 21c with a Screening of Sufjan Stevens' The BQE

Monday, November 2, 2009 Doors 7:30, Show 8:00pm $10 advance, available at 21c Front Desk & ear X-tacy (cash only), or online via PayPal $12 day of show, at the door

Museum Shop: October Featured Artist

Designer Biz Ruby of BRB Label

21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

October 26, 7:30pm Jericho Brown & Matt Hart

21c & LFS present Monthly Film Series with visiting filmmaker Sean Anderson

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 7pm: ...damn bad oyster: The Time of William Goebel, Governor (2007, 58mins.) 9pm: Rock that Uke (2003, 62mins.) In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Free and open to the public

21c Presents Hear + Now Music Series

21c & UofL Hite Institute present Nineveh: a sculptural installation by Ezra Kellerman

Museum Shop: September Featured Artist

Textile Artist Suzanne Major Spence

21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

September 28, 7:30pm Jane Gentry Vance

Invitation to participate in artist project! In conjunction with the Idea Festival '09

Thursday, September 24, 2009 9am–7pm in the Video Lounge 21c Museum 700 W Main St Louisville, KY 40202 Free and open to the public

21c Presents Akron/Family with Special Guests Jeffrey Lewis and Slaraffenland

Sunday, September 20, 2009 Doors: 8pm Atrium Gallery $12 advance, available now at 21c Front Desk & EarX-tacy (Cash only) $13 advance online, via PayPal (includes $1 convenience fee, tickets purchased via PayPal will be available the day of the show at Will Call) $15 day of show, at the door

21c and UK College of Design present discussion with Sam Jacob and Michael Speaks

Thursday, Sept 17th, 2009 in the Atrium Gallery Discussion: 6-7pm Q&A: 7-7:30pm Free and open the public

21c & UofL Hite Institute present Nineveh: a sculptural installation by Ezra Kellerman

2nd Annual Kentucky Short Film & Video Showcase

Presented by Louisville Film Society & 21c Museum

Tuesday, September 15 Doors open at 7pm, films start at 8pm System Parking Garage, 705 W Market St The garage is on corner of Market and 7th, adjacent to 21c The event is free and open to the public Beer & Gumbo available for purchase (cash only)

Public Reception for Creating Identity: Portraits Today Honoring Local Artists Ben Durham, Gaela Erwin, Letitia Quesenberry and Chris Radtke

Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 5:30pm in the Street Level and Atrium Galleries Free and open to the public

Museum Shop: August Featured Artist

Jewelry Artist Kelli Pope

21c and LFS Monthly Film Series: Until I Am Naked, a documentary about James Baker Hall

Tuesday, August 18, 7 & 9 pm Gallery 2, off the Atrium Free and open to the public Cash Bar

21c & Sarabande Books Monthly Poetry Series

July 27, 7:30pm Ross Gay & Tom Hunley

21c and LFS Monthly Film Series Present Visiting Filmmaker Tony Balko

Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 7pm & 9pm In Gallery 4 Free and open to the public Cash bar: 6:30-9:30pm

Tuesday, August 10th
7:00 - 8:30pm
Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public

July 26, 2010, 7:30pm
Joel Brouwer and Wendy Rawlings

Friday, July 2, 2010
6-8:00pm
Street Level Gallery
Free and open to the public

June 28, 2010, 7:30pm
Robin Behn and Michael Rerick

Opening Reception
Sunday, June 6, 2010
2:30-4:30pm

Unveiling and Artist Reception
21c Museum Atrium Gallery
Friday, June 4, 2010
6-9pm

Wednesday, May 26, 8pm
Doors 7pm
in the Atrium Gallery
$10 in advance, $12 at the door
Cash bar
Tickets available at ear X-tacy, Wild and Woolly, and online at Ticket Web

May 24, 2010, 7:30pm
Allison Stine and Merle Bachman

Monday, May 17, 2010, 6:00pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Meet and greet to follow lecture
Free and open to the public

April 26, 2010, 7:30pm
Brian Barker and Nicky Beer

Tuesday, April 20, 8pm
In Gallery 2
Q&A to follow films
Free & Open to the Public

Artist talk with Mel Chin
Followed by the collection of Fundred Dollar Bills at 21c Museum

Tuesday, April 13
Artist Talk and Performance Lecture: 6:00pm
Gallery 3
Fundred Dollar Bill Collection for Louisville: 7:00pm
7th Street, in front of 21c Museum Entrance
Both are free and open to the public

Thursday, April 8

Doors 7pm, Show 7:30pm
in the Atrium Gallery
$8 in advance, $10 at the door
Cash bar

21c offers free Guided Docent Tours each week,
Friday and Saturday evenings at 5:00pm & 5:30pm

Tuesday, March 16, 8:00pm
In Gallery 3, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public

Friday, Feburay 26, 2010
Starts at 9pm
Free and open to the public
Donation benefit EDGE Outreach's effort in Haiti

Wednesday, February 17, 2010
in the Atrium Gallery
6pm reception
7pm discussion

Tuesday, February 16, 8:00pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public

Tuesday, January 19, 7:30pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public
Cash bar

Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 8pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public
Cash bar

Kentuckians For The Commonwealth (KFTC) in a partnership with 21c Museum present:
Wendell Berry, Erik Reece and Rebecca Howell will talk about their contributions to the book
Plundering Appalachia followed by Yim Yames of My Morning Jacket

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
7pm: Chemical Valley (1991, 58 mins.) & Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (work in progress, 20 mins.)
9pm: Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (2000, 60 mins.)
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public

Monday, November 2, 2009
Doors 7:30, Show 8:00pm
$10 advance, available at 21c Front Desk & ear X-tacy (cash only), or online via PayPal
$12 day of show, at the door

October 26, 7:30pm
Jericho Brown & Matt Hart

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
7pm: ...damn bad oyster: The Time of William Goebel, Governor (2007, 58mins.)
9pm: Rock that Uke (2003, 62mins.)
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public

September 28, 7:30pm
Jane Gentry Vance

Thursday, September 24, 2009
9am–7pm
in the Video Lounge
21c Museum
700 W Main St
Louisville, KY 40202
Free and open to the public

Sunday, September 20, 2009
Doors: 8pm
Atrium Gallery
$12 advance, available now at 21c Front Desk
& EarX-tacy (Cash only)
$13 advance online, via PayPal (includes $1 convenience fee, tickets purchased via PayPal will be available the day of the show at Will Call)
$15 day of show, at the door

Thursday, Sept 17th, 2009
in the Atrium Gallery
Discussion: 6-7pm
Q&A: 7-7:30pm
Free and open the public

Tuesday, September 15

Doors open at 7pm, films start at 8pm
System Parking Garage, 705 W Market St
The garage is on corner of Market and 7th, adjacent to 21c
The event is free and open to the public
Beer & Gumbo available for purchase (cash only)

Public Reception for Creating Identity: Portraits Today
Honoring Local Artists Ben Durham, Gaela Erwin, Letitia Quesenberry and Chris Radtke

Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 5:30pm
in the Street Level and Atrium Galleries
Free and open to the public

Tuesday, August 18, 7 & 9 pm
Gallery 2, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public
Cash Bar

July 27, 7:30pm
Ross Gay & Tom Hunley

Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 7pm & 9pm
In Gallery 4
Free and open to the public
Cash bar: 6:30-9:30pm

June 29, 7:30pm
Blas Falconer & Paul Guest with Sarah Elizabeth

Shayne Hull Proof 100 Portraits Series Silent Auction
March-June 2009

May 27, 2009
Reception: 5pm
Discussion: 6pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Visiting architects: Gary Bates, Julien De Smedt, Jason Scroggin and Joshua Prince-Ramus

Monday, May 25, 7:30pm
In Gallery 3, off the Atrium
Free and open to the public
Cash bar

Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 7pm & 9pm
21c Museum Garage Gallery on 7th Street
Free and open to the public
Cash bar: 6:30-9:30

Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 7 & 9pm
Gallery 2
Free and open to the public
Cash bar 6:30-9:30pm

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
7pm Reception
7:30-8:30pm Readings
in the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

Saturday, March 28, 2009, 6pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

Wednesday, March 18, 2009, Doors open at 7pm
in the Atrium Gallery
$10 in advance, $12 at the door
Tickets available at ear-X-tacy and 21c Museum Hotel Front Desk

Tuesday, March 17, 2009, 7 & 9pm
Gallery 2
Free and open to the public
Cash bar 6:30-9:30pm
16mm in color, running time: 94 minutes

Friday, March 13, 2009, 10pm
Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Cash bar, hors d'oeuvres

Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 6pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public

Tuesday, February 17, 8 pm
Cash bar open from 7:30-9:30
Free and open to the public

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
in the Atrium Gallery
Doors open at 7pm
Cash bar

$8 in advance and $10 at the door
Tickets available at the 21c Hotel Front Desk and ear-X-tacy
Percentage of the proceeds benefit International Contemporary Art Foundation

Tuesday, January 20, 7 and 9 pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Cash bar open from 6:30-9:30

Tuesday, December 16
7pm and 9pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Cash bar
Running time of the film is 60 minutes

Friday, December 5, 5pm – 11pm
Atrium Gallery
Free and Open to the public
Complimentary hot apple cider, cash bar available

Featuring music by the
Down by the Wayside Choir
6pm - 9pm

Thursday, December 4, 8pm
in the Atrium Gallery
Doors open at 8pm
Cash bar

$10 in advance and $12 at the door
Tickets available at the 21c Front Desk and ear-X-tacy
Percentage of ticket proceeds to benefit International Contemporary Art Foundation

Tuesday, November 18, 8pm
In Gallery 2, off the Atrium Gallery
Free and open to the public
Running time of the film is 79 minutes

Thursday November 13, 2008
Book-signing from 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Atrium Gallery
The event is free and open to the public

Saturday, November 1 to Sunday, November 9
in Gallery 4, off the Street Level Gallery

Tuesday, October 21, 7pm
Tuesday, October 21, 9pm
Free and open to the public
In Gallery 3, off the Atrium Gallery
a Q&A will follow each screening

Thursday, October 9 at 7-8pm
in the Atrium Side Galleries
Please RSVP to kgetsinger@21cmuseum.org
The event is free and open to the public