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The LexArts Artist Registry is a directory of artists residing throughout Kentucky. It specifically focuses on artists in visual and performing arts. The registry includes a diverse range of artists, from emerging self-taught creators to professional career artists.

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Artist Opportunities

Call for Art: Choosing Home: Dispatches from Lexington, KY.

Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2025

 

LexArts and the Lexington Pride Center are proud to announce Choosing Home: Dispatches from Lexington, KY. Inspired by the creative ways that LGBTQ+ people define, envision, and choose family, our exhibition will document the complex, vibrant, and queer homes we build and lives we live in Central Kentucky today. The show aims to celebrate Lexington’s rich LGBTQ+ histories by focusing on the triumphs, possibilities, and challenges of our queer present.

 

Got any questions? Email: lexpridearts@lexpridecenter.org

 

Submission Guidelines
  • Theme: All submitted artworks must relate to the LGBTQ+ Culture and experience in Lexington
  • Mediums Accepted: We welcome a variety of mediums, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media, and digital art.
  • Artist Statement: Each submission must include an artist statement (up to 300 words) detailing how the piece is related to the LGBTQ+ Community. This statement should provide insight into the inspiration behind the work and its connection to the theme.
  • Submission Format: Digital images of the artwork should be submitted in high resolution (300 dpi) along with the artist statement. Please include the title, medium, dimensions, and year of creation for each piece.
  • Number of Submissions: Each artist may submit up to three artworks. A series of work may be submitted and will count as a single submission.
Eligibility

Artists must be 18 years of age or older, may work in any medium, and claim a personal connection to both Lexington, KY (now or in the past) and an LGBTQ+ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, non-binary, aro/asexual, queer, and more). We welcome emerging and established artists.

 

We are committed to a policy of providing opportunities to people regardless of economic or social status and will not discriminate based on race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, age, veteran status, or physical disability.

Important Dates
    • Submission Deadline: January 30, 2025
    • Notification of Selection: February 28th, 2025
    • Artwork delivered to ArtsPlace: May 2nd – May 7th, 2025
    • Reception: June 2025 (date to be decided)
    • Gallery Hop: May 16, 2025
    • Artwork Pickup: June 30th – July 5th, 2025
About the Juror

Bio: Wylie Caudill is a Lexington-based visual artist and member of the LGBTQ+ Community in Lexington. Caudill is best known for his mural work and his floral designs. Caudill is recognized locally as the official artist of the 2024 Kentucky Derby, and through his collaboration with the University of Kentucky. Caudill was recently featured in a solo show at LexArts titled “Patterns in Bloom” in September 2024.

https://www.wyliecaudill.com

About Lexington Pride Center

Mission: The Lexington Pride Center’s mission is to celebrate and empower the intersectional lives of LGBTQIA+ Kentuckians.

Vision: The Lexington Pride Center envisions a world free of marginalization, where every LGBTQIA+ person is safe to be who they are and love who they love.

Learn More https://www.lexpridecenter.org/

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Open Call | John G. Irvin Gallery

Lexington, KY

The John G. Irvin Gallery was created to promote Kentucky’s visual artists and opened in March 1987. The creation of the gallery was a labor of love and a passion of the late Irvin, a Lexingtonian and former employee of Central Bank. Over the years the gallery has hosted exhibitions by Kentucky’s finest artists, as well as new and emerging artists exhibiting for the first time. Inquiries to David Goodman, dgoodman@centralbank.com.

Deadline: Rolling

Learn More

For additional information contact Nathan Zamarron or call 859.255.2951 ext. 109.

 

Job Openings

Lexington Children’s Theatre

Marketing and Sales Director

 

Please find the job description here.

Interested applicants can send a resume and cover letter to lct.hiring@gmail.com or apply through Indeed

LexArts Inc,

Development Director

 

Position Description

LexArts is a non-profit organization that works for the development of a strong and vibrant arts community as a means of enhancing the quality of life in Central Kentucky. As the local arts council, LexArts provides a wide range of programs designed to integrate the arts into our daily lives, including Gallery Hop, LexArts Gallery at ArtsPlace and public art projects, and offers affordable creative and performance space for artists and organizations. As the united arts fund of Central Kentucky, LexArts has raised millions of dollars in support of local arts through its annual Fund for the Arts Campaign and other fundraising efforts. With these funds LexArts provides general operating support for multiple organizations and offers competitive grants for community arts development programs and projects.

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