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November 2015
The Big Reveal
The night includes Exclusive Access to the New Speed. Food | Drinks | Live Music | Silent Disco and More Parking will be available at the Speed Art Museum Garage. You must be a Patron Circle Member to attend. Annual memberships start at $500 and benefits include two tickets per household to The Big Reveal and much more. Sign up online at www.speedmuseum.org/patroncircle.html or by phone at (502) 634-2717. Patron Circle members RSVP by Friday, October…
Find out more »March 2016
The Speed Opening Gala
The Speed Ball is the Speed Art Museum’s most significant fundraiser and is critical for the current, and future, success of the Museum. With the opening of the new Museum in March 2016, The Speed Opening Gala will serve as the 2016 Speed Ball, and will be the inaugural celebration for the new Speed Art Museum, having been closed since 2012 for a $60-million dollar renovation and expansion. The Speed Opening Gala will take place Saturday, March 5, 2016. Dress…
Find out more »Speed Art Museum – Public Opening!
Join the Speed Art Museum as we celebrate our long-awaited opening with 30 hours of non-stop events and activities, starting with a 10am ribbon cutting.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Young Poets of Louisville Presents Floetic Friday Youth Poetry Slam
Young Poets of Louisville will be having its final open slam of the season. The top six poets will represent Louisville as a youth poetry slam team at the Brave New Voices International Poetry Festival this summer in Washington, D.C. Join us for a night of poetry, music, and tea by Teas You. Event is free and open to the public.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Owsley Sundays: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Owsley Sundays: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »April 2016
Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Adult Workshop- Back to Basics: (Smartphone) Photography
Point, click, shoot! Today, nearly everyone carries a camera with them all the time. This photography workshop will focus (pun intended) on the art of smartphone camera use. Creating a composition, working with natural light, and other skills taught in this workshop will transform your daily snapping and casual photo-taking into works of art. BYOD – Bring your own device (any smartphone with a camera will do). Click here to register!
Find out more »Youth Workshop: Explore Art! Phone Art, Ages 13-17
Teens will work collaboratively to create one-of-a-kind artworks using nothing more than their smartphones. Learn essential photography skills and explore apps that will transform your photos and videos. BYOD – Bring your own device (any smartphone with a camera will do). Click here to register!
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Artist Lecture: Susan Philipsz
Susan Philipsz, one of the world’s most renowned sound artists, will lecture on her artwork Sunset Song in the Speed Art Museum’s collection as well as her recent projects. Known for her innovations in sound art, Philipsz’s installations have appeared throughout the world in exhibitions such as documenta, Skulptur Projekte Muenster, the Biennale of Sydney, and the Carnegie International. In 2013 Philipsz was included in Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the first-ever major exhibition of sound art at the Museum of…
Find out more »Owsley Sundays: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Preschool Drop-in Tour: Storytime Tour
Join Speed Art Museum educators for a literary adventure around the museum! This tour will link favorite children’s books with works in the museum’s collection to encourage language development and spark lively conversations. Free with admission.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Speed Cinema presents: Mustang
Directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven “A beautiful, quietly devastating and ultimately hopeful film.”—T’Cha Dunlevy, Montreal Gazette France’s entry for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, Mustang is a gripping tale of rebellion set in a rural seaside village in Northern Turkey. When five free-spirited teenage sisters frolic in the ocean with their male friends after school, the town is scandalized. The highly religious community chides the family and the girls are removed from school, locked down, and prepared for quick marriages…
Find out more »Owsley Sundays: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »2015-16 Global Speed Series – Italy
“Italian Futurism, 1909 – 1944: Reconstructing the Universe” The Speed Art Museum is pleased to announce the second talk in the series, featuring Vivien Greene, Senior Curator of 19th and Early 20th Century Art at the Guggenheim. Vivien Greene will give a comprehensive overview of Italian Futurism, one of Europe’s most important 20th-century avant-gardes. Until 2014, when the Guggenheim Museum showed 350 works by 80 artists in a multi-disciplinary exhibition, the historical sweep of Futurism had yet to be examined…
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Board of Trustees Meeting
All Board of Trustees meetings are held from 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
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Social Speed: Getting To Know You
Social Speed-April | Getting To Know You Come break the ice with us at our very first Social Speed as we welcome new and returning visitors! Enjoy an exciting night of games, art-making, drinks, and fun as you get to know the new Speed, its collection, and your Louisville neighbors. $15 | Members FREE Click here to register! Lecture by Matthew Moore | 6:30 pm in the Grand Hall Site-specific artist, Matthew Moore, will talk about his installation, Palaver, in…
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Preschool Drop-in Tour: Families Tour
This early learner tour will look at depictions of families in the museum’s collection. On it, we will think about how family life in the past was different from our life in the present. Free with admission.
Find out more »Words of Art: Stories at the Speed
Storyteller and musician Cynthia Changaris will be joining us for an imaginative hour of performances. Free with admission.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Owsley Sundays: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Preschool Drop-in Tour: Transportation Tour
Does your early learner love all things with engines, wheels, and wings? On this tour, we will travel the galleries together as we learn about different modes of transportation from around the world. Free with admission.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Owsley Sundays: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Educator Evening: Getting to Know You
Join the Speed for a lively evening of introductions, art-making, tools you can use in your classroom, and a preview of our all-new education programs. Collaborate in a hands-on exploration of works of art, get a taste of what our school tours have to offer, and learn how the Speed can serve you and your students in the year to come! Refreshments served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »May 2016
Owsley Sunday: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Oaks Brunch
Save the date for the Oaks Brunch at the Speed Art Museum! Enjoy brunch, an open bar, and entertainment at the Museum. Open seating is available between 9am and 1pm. Transportation to and from Churchill Downs will be provided. Click here to purchase tickets. Oaks Brunch Committee: Julia Carstanjen, Chair Karen Casi, Co-Chair Patrick McLane, Co-Chair Annette Adams Kelly Fleenor Rhonda Frey Debbie Huddleston Mitchell Connie Simmons Amy Streeter Andrea Yorgy Oaks Brunch Sponsors:
Find out more »Speed Art Museum Closed: Kentucky Oaks Day
The Speed Art Museum will be closed on Friday, May 6th for Kentucky Oaks Day, and Saturday, May 7th for Kentucky Derby Day. We will reopen on Sunday, May 8th. While the museum will be closed for general use, we invite you to join us on Friday for our Oaks Brunch. Click here to learn more about this event and to purchase tickets.
Find out more »Speed Art Museum Closed: Kentucky Derby Day
The Speed Art Museum will be closed on Friday, May 6th for Kentucky Oaks Day, and Saturday, May 7th for Kentucky Derby Day. We will reopen at 12:00 pm on Sunday, May 8th.
Find out more »Owsley Sundays: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Social Speed: Derby’s Done!
You survived Derby; now it’s time to focus on the other things that make Kentucky great! Celebrate our wonderful home-sweet-home by listening to Bluegrass music, learning about Kentucky’s diverse artistic styles, making your own art, and tasting the state’s finest bourbons. $15, Members FREE Click here to purchase tickets! Kentucky Blue Grass Music | 6:00 – 9:00 pm in the Grand Hall Come enjoy some of Kentucky’s best Blue Grass Music! 6-7 pm: Kentucky Blue Belles 7-9 pm: Relic…
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Youth Workshop: Explore Art! 3D Creations, Ages 5-7
Explore sculpture through this hands-on experience. Participants will find inspiration in the Speed’s collection of 3D art before they work together to construct temporary sculptures with larger-than-life building blocks. Then they will mix up their own batch of clay and create a 3D work of art to take home. Click here to register!
Find out more »Adult Workshop- Back to Basics: Mixed Media
Enjoy a guided tour of the Speed’s mixed-media works and find inspiration to create your own. We will create original works of art using a variety of materials and with a focus on textile applications. Try something new and see what happens! Click here to register!
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Owsley Sundays: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Preschool Drop-in Tour: Feelings Tour
On this tour, we will look at portraits in the museum’s collection to help us understand our own and others’ emotions. By exploring different types of emotions, we will think about what makes us feel a certain way. Designed to promote social-emotional development which is crucial for school readiness, this tour will encourage compassion, communication, and empathy in early learners. Free with admission.
Find out more »2015-16 Global Speed Series – Italy
Massimiliano Gioni is the Artistic Director of the New Museum in New York and the Director of the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in Milan. He has curated numerous international exhibitions and biennials including: Manifesta 5 (2004, with Marta Kuzma); the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006, with Maurizio Cattelan and Ali Subotnick); the 8th Gwangju Biennale (2010). In 2013 he curated the 55th Venice Biennial, of which he was the youngest director in its 110 years long history. Members FREE/Non-Members $10/Students $5 Click…
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Owsley Sundays: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Preschool Drop-in Tour: Storytime Tour
Join Speed Art Museum educators for a literary adventure around the museum! This tour will link favorite children’s books with works in the museum’s collection to encourage language development and spark lively conversations. Free with admission.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »River City Invitational Youth Poetry Slam
Join us for the River City Invitational Youth Poetry Slam, a competition between four teams: Young Poets of Louisville, Metaphorically Speaking (Dayton, OH), Word As Bond (Indianapolis, IN), and DePaul Cristo Rey (Cincinnati, OH). Hosted by Young Poets of Louisville, this is the first invitational youth poetry slam held in Louisville. Free and open to the public.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tours
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Owsley Sundays: Every Sunday is Free!
Thanks to a generous contribution from Brown-Forman, anyone can visit the Speed for free on Sundays through March 2021. The free Sunday admission is named in honor of the late Owsley Brown II.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »Collection Highlight Drop-in Tour
This interactive and engaging one-hour docent-guided tour will let you explore some highlights from the Speed’s collection. Free with admission. First come, first served.
Find out more »