In this photo: Stephen Irwin, Chris Radtke, Lauren Argo, Alice Stites, Cynthia Norton, Stephen Reily, Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, Carlos Gamez de Francisco, Daniel Pfalzgraf, Brad White, Bryce Hudson, Russel Hulsey, Tiffany Carbonneau, Shannon Westerman, Jake Heustis, Leticia Bajuyo, Aron Conaway, Jesse Levesque Bishop, Todd Smith, Anne Peabody, Travis Shaffer, Mary Carothers, Che Rhodes, Sarah Lyon (behind the camera), Letitia Quesenberry, Monica Mahoney, Joyce Ogden

Sarah Lyon, along with 23 other Kentucky artists, was nominated to participate in the nationally renowned Professional Development Program of the Creative Capital Foundation of New York. artwithoutwalls sponsored this weekend-long workshop for visual artists Friday November 19 through Sunday, November 21, 2010. Workshops, presentations, and related activities took place at 21c MuseumHotel (700 West Main Street, Louisville).

Founded in 1999, Creative Capital is a groundbreaking organization that gives substantial grants and guidance to artists pursuing adventurous projects in a range of media and practices. The professional development program, which has been presented in cities all over the United States, is designed to help artists learn how to manage their artistic careers, fund and market their work, communicate effectively, and develop sustainable practices. This is the first time a Creative Capital Professional Development Program has been presented in Kentucky.

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to providing integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Innovative Literature, and Performing and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital’s pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project’s success and foster sustainable practices for its grantees. In its first decade, Creative Capital has committed more than $20 million in financial and advisory support to 325 projects representing 406 artists, and has reached an additional 3,500 artists through its Professional Development Program. For more information, visit www.creative-capital.org.

November 12 to December 12
Wyatt Center for the Arts
Bellarmine University, 2001 Newburg Road, Louisville, KY
Gallery Hours 8am to 8pm daily

Opening Reception Friday, November 12, 5:30 to 7:30

Bellarmine University will host a photography exhibit featuring several local and regional artists, from November 12 to December 12 in the Wyatt Center for the Arts.

The free exhibit features the work of Michael Brohm, Mitch Eckert, Justin Chase Lane, Sarah Lyon, Jana McNally and Michael Winters. These artists were invited to display their work in Bellarmine’s first-ever Photography Invitational Exhibit.

Sarah Lyon was born in Louisville and received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Miami University of Ohio. Her self-published 2007, 2008 and 2009 “female mechanics” calendars have received great response in the United States and internationally as the first of their kind. Lyon’s “Camera Collection” series is among the work on exhibit at Bellarmine.

Her work has also been published in Esquire, Hutch, Trespass, Sustain, Bejeezus, Truckers News, Urban Moto, BMW Owners News, Curve, Today’s Woman, and Louisville Magazine. Lyon lives and works in Smoketown and taught black and white photography at Bellarmine from 2006 until 2009.

Thursday, October 14, 2010
7pm to All Night
233 West Broadway, Louisville, KY 40201
In the Saint Francis building, at the corner of 3rd and Broadway

Grand Opening:  Land of Tomorrow Gallery

Land Of Tomorrow

Image: Skate, Robbin's Roost

Louisville is the Land of Tomorrow launches the Louisville space featuring artwork from both emerging and established artists who have experienced the city of Louisville as a childhood home, a place to work and live, or merely as a playground.  Curated by Louisville’s Joey Yates, Louisville is the Land of Tomorrow will showcase artists from a variety of disciplines ranging from painting, photography, print, drawing, sculpture, music and video while tackling a wide range of technical skills and concepts. The show will blend the sensibilities that have nurtured one of the nation’s best skate parks, as well as one the most fertile music scenes in the country. This type of creative productivity has already spread to the visual arts and Land of Tomorrow is delighted to help take the city and its artists swiftly into the future.

Portrait from the 2009 Female Mechanics Calendar featured on the cover of My River Chronicles, by Jessica DuLong.   Published by Simon & Schuster, 2010.

http://www.jessicadulong.com/

Sarah Lyon of Louisville will participate in a one-week residency to create a book of photographs and text compiled from her travels documenting and interviewing women mechanics working in their shop environments. Through the community experience, she will share her work and get feedback from other artists who identify as feminist, social change artists.

The Kentucky Foundation for Women:
The mission of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to promote positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts.

The Hopscotch House Summer Residency Program is a special one or two-week opportunity for up to 10 feminist social change artists, which takes place every year, typically in late June and early July.

Snapshots from my stay at the Hopscotch House:

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 715 West Main Street, Louisville, Kentucky

An exhibit featuring nearly 30 vintage motorcycles from 1900 to 1970, with motorcycle related photography by Michael Lichter, Danny Lyon, and Sarah Lyon.

Sarah Lyon – Photographs of Female Motorcycle Mechanics

Star Ride, 40"x40" Archival Pigment Print

The Green Building Gallery

732 East Market Street, Louisville Kentucky

Through: August 28th, 2009
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-6pm
Opening: July 3rd, 2009 5-9pm

Louisville, KY- The Green Building Gallery is pleased to present a series of new work by local photographer Sarah Lyon. Debuting material prepared in 2009, the show features both black and white and color photography but goes beyond to explore bronze casting and installation.

Lyon’s fourth solo show in Louisville has her exploring everything from her city and country to the local Goodwill and a nearby foundry. Inspiration came from a challenge she gave herself to overcome distracting habits that had infringed upon her art making in the past. “It’s amazing how productive I realized I can be when every evening is not taken up by drinking,” says Lyon.

Lyon explored the lost wax casting process with a piece titled “30,000 miles”, a bronze casting of her old motorcycle boots which she wore throughout four cross-country motorcycle journeys starting in the summer of 2003. “During those motorcycle trips I pursued photography projects that established my identity as an artist. To express the enduring, personal influence of those journeys I created a manifestation to outlast me,”  Lyon says of the piece.

In another subject, Lyon hung a large map of Louisville on the wall and threw darts to determine where she would go to photograph. The result is a grid of 50 black and white photographs taken around the city. In deciding how to frame this project, she created “Somewhere Over the Framebow”, a contemporary assemblage of white-painted picture frames, ranging from whimsical to the ordinary, in which she explores feelings of nostalgia, emptiness, curiosity and playfulness.

The group of work will also include four large color prints of spaces around Louisville, a continuation of her “Louisville Portraits and Landscapes” series.

Lyon was born in Louisville and received her BFA from Miami University of Ohio. Her self published 2007, 2008 and 2009 Female Mechanics Calendars have received great response in the United States and internationally as the first of their kind. Her work has also been published in Esquire, Hutch, Trespass, Sustain, Bejeezus, Truckers News, Urban Moto, BMW Owners News, Curve, Today’s Woman, and Louisville Magazine. Lyon lives and works in Smoketown and teaches black and white photography at Bellarmine University.

Installation at the Green Building. Image by Ted Wathen/Quadrant