Hite Fall 2024 Exhibition Guide

Hite Institute of Art + Design

Fall 2024

Exhibition Guide

Cover Image: Letitia Quesenberry, Little Darling 215, series 2014-ongoing

At a Glance:

Fall Calendar of Exhibitions and Events Schneider Hall Exhibitions Not Yet / Always Been: An Archive of Queer Louisville | Gallery X Sept. 12 - October 31, 2024 Reception: Thursday Sept. 12 | 4-6pm Interventions: Alivia Blade, Ren Velez and J. Cletus Wilcox Belknap Gallery Sept. 12 - October 31, 2024 Reception: Thursday Sept. 12 | 4-6pm Fall 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition November 14 - December 6, 2024 Reception: Thursday Nov. 14 | 4-6pm

Cressman Center Exhibitions it was not written down: stephen irwin x letitia quesenberry August 21 - October 5, 2024 Reception: Friday August 23 | 5-7pm Open Studio Louisville October 18 - November 16, 2024 Closing Reception: Friday Nov. 15 | 5-7pm Lida Gordon: Process and Materials December 6 - February 28, 2025

Schneider Hall Galleries Not Yet / Always Been: An Archive of Queer Louisville Sept. 12 - October 31, 2024

Not Yet / Always Been emerges from the classroom and the archives. The exhibition is a product of collaborative discussions and debates that a mixed graduate and undergraduate seminar provides. It showcases the material stuff of the Williams-Nichols Collection, yet it also puts on display the affective and imaginative—our creative processes of discovering hope and belonging in the archive. This project is a collective enterprise to envision from Louisville’s queer past a future that complicates the normative scripts that dictate how a life should be lived.

Mining the past, we reimagine how desire, intimacy, family and community take shape and appear in both the public and domestic sphere.

Image: David Williams, “blessing party” from Lesbian Wedding series, 1986, William-Nichols Collection.

Images Right Page: Left: J. Cletus Wilcox, Mindy Best, mixed media; Right: Alivia Blade, Farewell (2024), Collage on glass with vintage picture frame, found images, gesso, fabric, vintage matchbooks, drinking glass, napkin & ashtray

Interventions: Alivia Blade, Ren Velez, and J. Cletus Wilcox Sept. 12 - October 31, 2024

In the practice of art making artists often reflect on the past to comment on their present. In Interventions, the participating artists use the past as a guide for the crafting of their work. Sometimes personal and invisible, othertimes broadly shared, each intervention offers a new, often more hopeful understanding of the past, and our relationships with identity, gender, race and queerness.

Fall 2024 BFA Thesis Exhibition November 14 - December 6, 2024

Our BFA Thesis Exhibition returns Nov. 14-December 6, 2024. The exhibition features the thesis projects of students who will be graduating with their BFA in Fall 2024. As always the exhibition features a remarkable display of work emerging from the Hite’s various artistic disciplines.

We welcome you to join us for the opening reception on Thursday Nov. 14 to see our student’s work and celebrate with our annual pizza party.

Cressman Center it was not written down Stephen Irwin x Letitia Quesenberry August 21 - October 5, 2024

Featuring Louisville-based artists Stephen Irwin (1959–2010) and Letitia Quesenberry (b.1971); it was not written down tells an unfinished story of longing and loss. Vestiges of the past become the substance of futures that may never materialize. Sparks still fly between friends.

Curated by Jennifer Sichel, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, this exhibition will coincide with the symposium Queer Art / Queer Archives. For more information on the symposium, visit our website.

Above Left: Stephen Iriwin, Untitled, (detail), 2009 and Above Right: Letitia Quesenberry, BLSH 22, series 2019-ongoing; Right Page: Lida Gordon, Aeon, mixed media on panel

Open Studio Louisville: Juried Exhibition October 18 - November 15, 2024

Our partnership with LVA for Open Studio Louisville returns for its 11th year! While artists across Louisville open their studios for art lovers around the region, our annual Juried Exhibition at the CCVA features some of the top particpating artists. Juried by regional curators, the exhibition offers a taste of what visitors may find as they browse local studios. Visit our website for more information on the exhibition and Open Studio event.

Lida Gordon: Process and Materials December 6 - February 28, 2024

Lida Gordon (b. 1949- d. 2021) was a beloved Louisville based fiber artist and long-time faculty member at the Hite. A contemporary artist coming of age in a postmodernist time, Gordon could not avoid the politics nor the poetics of fiber. She explored the transformation of women’s work through fiber art her entire career.

Lida Gordon: Process and Materials celebrates Gordon’s enduring legacy in the city of Louisville with an exhibition of her work—drawings, sculptures, and soft fiber forms. Using process and materials Gordon prompted a re-examination of a term pejoratively relegated in hierarchical context to craft to re-define it as contemporary, feminist, and high art.

Gallery Locations Schneider Hall Galleries Schneider Hall | University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40208 Cressman Center for Visual Arts 100 E Main St Louisville, KY 40202 MFA Galleries 1616 Rowan St Louisville, KY 40203 The Hite Institute of Art + Design has an active exhibition program with exhibits ranging from exhibitions of local, regional, national and international artists to exhibitions of student work from our BA, BFA, MA, and MFA programs. In addition to curatorial and exhibition preparation space, the galleries include approximately 3,300 square feet in Schneider Hall on Belknap Campus and approximately 2,100 square feet at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts in downtown Louisville.

Please visit our website for updated information on hours, events, and exhibitions. Galleries are closed during University Holidays and Breaks. https://louisville.edu/art/exhibitions/current