Mark your calendars for Saturday April 18th! Join us at the neighborhood’s own Portland Museum anytime 10:00am – 5:00pm for our community art festival, CeLOUbrate Print, before your Thunder Over Louisville plans. CeLOUbrate Print is our annual celebration of local printmaking, featuring hands-on activities, art exhibitions, and local art booths. As usual, all are welcome at this FREE, family-friendly event. We welcome seasoned artists, curious beginners, and every printmaker in between!
The steamroller returns for more woodblock printing for the full duration of the event. B.Y.O. “woodcut” (a large wooden stamp) to print with us or visit one of our free pop-up wood-carving workshops leading up to the event to make your own! Be sure to visit our other stations, where you can support local artists and learn about printing through free hands-on activities, like botanical cyanotypes, letterpress printing, silkscreen, and more!
After learning all about printing techniques, you can head inside the Portland Museum to see how artists utilize those processes in our exhibitions Press On and Human, Too. Press On features brand new artworks produced by local printmakers specifically for this exhibition, responding to the theme of “adventure and discovery” in their own style and perspective.
Our second exhibition, Human, Too, features artworks produced and curated by the artists of Chance 4 Change, a substance abuse recovery program, during their incarceration at Louisville Metro Department of Corrections. This monochromatic exhibition is centered around the artists’ material reality and embodied experience as communicated in paper, including hand-made books and prints.
Many thanks to steamroller collaborator UofL Professor Rachel Singel (who you will see driving for us!) and to our sponsor Nucor who covered our steamroller rental both this year and last! Thanks as well to Fund for the Arts for funding our woodcut workshops, making this event possible! Finally, we want to extend appreciation to the contributing artists of both exhibitions and to LMDC’s Chance 4 Change coordinators Iyan Wickel and Kelsey O’Neal who supported our collaboration.
For more details and updates, follow @CeLOUbratePrint on Instagram or visit the Portland Museum’s website: https://portlandky.org/events-programs/celoubrateprint26/
