![]() ![]() She said has received support for the LADC from residents and city staff. “The timing is critical and the momentum is critical.” “This is the ripe time and the right time (to launch the district),” Russell said. Businesses in that block and others close by are teaming up to promote the arts in Louisville - and that means arts of all kind including the visual and performing arts. into the Louisville Arts District Consortium. Russell and a board of five are turning the 900 block of Main St. ![]() 5.Īs if expanding one store and running two shops aren’t enough, Russell is leading the way to forming Louisville’s first arts district. Construction on a back entrance will begin Wednesday, Oct. Part of Russell’s expansion includes space dedicated for art classes and that area will open to an alley that backs the building where the ArtUnderground is located. ![]() Friesth has taught art classes at pARTiculars and said she is considering teaching at Creative Framing in Louisville. Russell opened a satellite framing shop inside pARTiculars, 401 S. I’m usually at home painting in secret,” she said. “I’m just excited about being in public and having (customers) see it in progress. It’s changed what I do,” Sliz said, explaining that working in her former “studio” meant setting up an easel in her living room and painting as she finished housework or to-do lists.įriesth, who is a founding member of Lafayette’s pARTiculars art gallery and teaching studio, in Old Town Lafayette, said she looks forward to sharing the Louisville studio with her fellow resident artists and adjusting to painting as customers walk in and out of the shop. “I’d always painted but I’d never done anything for the public, ” she said Tuesday. Now Sliz’s paintings take up a couple walls in the in-store studio and she has sold 37 piece through Creative Framing - and more through the store’s website in the last year. Sliz, who painted for fun in her home, showed Russell one of her Aspen trees paintings last October and Russell began showing Sliz’s work two months later. Jackie Friesth and Monika Edgar, both of Louisville, and Tamoria Sliz, of Lafayette, have set up their studios inside Creative Framing. The gallery owner also has created a studio space where she houses three resident artists as of Tuesday, Oct. Grassi moved out of that space so Russell could expand. Louisville Downtown Business Association board member Ronda Grassi owns the building and the space in which Russell expanded her store used to house Grassi’s business, CADCO, Inc. ![]()
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