Title - Goose Family

Media - acrylic

Size - 19.5" x 25.5"

Adam Barmore is inspired by lines and the connection between earth and sky, shape and color. When he composes a scene, he first sketches out the main lines and then remove and disconnect as many lines as possible while retaining the integrity of the subject. What results is an elegant sketch of main lines and color. For this piece, Adam Barmore used minimum lines to depict a family of geese. Inspired by a photograph taken by the artist at Cave Hill Cemetery. Item is framed in natural wood with Danish oil finish.

Title - Flat-faced Cat with Bird

Media - found objects from the Falls of the Ohio

Albertus Gorman is an artist and art advocate. In addition to making and exhibiting his own artwork, he has an extensive background in the visual arts. Albertus Gorman's love for the natural world informs the art he makes. More than ever, he believes it is important to remind people that we are rooted in this physical environment which we are abusing at an unprecedented rate. Albertus Gorman uses the material culture that flows into the Falls of the Ohio State Park to discuss our relationship to nature. More than ever, Albertus Gorman becomes convinced that we are trading our birthright at "creators" to become "consumers". He finds the evidence of this all around.

Title - MIRAGE

Media - mixed, coffee, walnut ink, gel pen and archival ink on canvas

Size - 36" x 48"

Amber Estes Theineman is an artist and a musician - stating music has been a part of her life for as long as she can remember. She has described her art work as being disciplined with lines. The lines drawn over land, sea and space scapes create a dimensional effect that invites the viewer to explore different possibilities within each piece.

Title - River Vase Triptych

Media - clay

Amy Elswick's work is made from a stoneware clay body and fired to 2200F in an oxidation atmosphere. She makes all her glazes and the work is safe for its intended use, whether an outdoor house number plaque or a baking dish. This particular tryptic lines up to create the Kentucky border along the Ohio River. Amy loves having companion animals, kitties are awesome! She has been an active animal foster and volunteer with Shamrock Pet Foundation for many years.

Title - Motherhood

Media - oil on canvas

Size - 36" x 36"

Teaching Prosthodontics and practicing dentistry were Ann's primary responsibilities at the U. of Louisville School of Dentistry for 35 years before retiring. Art is a therefore a relatively new experience, only discovered after Ann Windchy retired.

This artwork was painted when Ann Windchy was conscious of what people do to protect their young from harm.

Title - Bull II

Media - ink on paper

AnnCharlotte Tavolacci works as a Fine Artist, Art Therapist in private practice, and Graduate Professor. Prior to opening her private practice, AnnCharlotte was the Fine Art Activist, Educational and Therapeutic Specialist at a government non-profit, serving homeless and mentally ill residents of NYC. As a graduate professor at Long Island University, she teaches courses, blending fine arts with psychology and arts community outreach.

Title - Bull I

Media - ink on paper

AnnCharlotte Tavolacci works as a Fine Artist, Art Therapist in private practice, and Graduate Professor. Prior to opening her private practice, AnnCharlotte was the Fine Art Activist, Educational and Therapeutic Specialist at a government non-profit, serving homeless and mentally ill residents of NYC. As a graduate professor at Long Island University, she teaches courses, blending fine arts with psychology and arts community outreach.

Title - Cotswolds 1-1-2015

Media - photography

Size - 18" x 14.5"

Arthur Turcotte is an amateur photographer. Arthur Turcotte lives in Santa Claus, IN and his work can be found in small private collections. He has been kind enough to donate his artwork to Art for the Animals on multiple occasions.

Title - Canyon Falls

Media - acrylic on canvas

Size - 22" x 28"

Barbara Tyson Mosley uses the canvas to express the beauty of landscapes and seascapes in abstract form. Her work vividly reveals changes in light and color as dawn breaks into day and the subtle shift as dusk slips into night.

Title - Cherokee View

Media - oil on board

Size - 17.5"H x 22"W

Beverly Bruntz's work dances between abstract and impressionist. Beverly's approach is characterized by a personal connection to nature. Being in awe of the one who created it all. She explores her work by combining realism with elements of fancy and abstraction. Sometimes the focus is the landscape and at other times she's drawn to motifs within the landscape. Created through delicate drawings and tactile textures. At once nostalgic and current. Somewhere between the fantasies of youth and the scientist documenting native species.

Title - Chicken

Media - hand carved wood

Size - 14" x 12" x 5"

Bill Kolok is a versatile sculptor whose work intrigues the public, enhances the garden or graces the home. His extensive experience with liturgical commissions has expanded into the healthcare field, though he is also sought by the private individual with an eye for the unique.

Title - It became clear, when Wendell pulled down his pants at an office meeting, that he needed to do #2

Media - oil pastel

For an artist renowned as a sculptor, Bob Lockhart's drawings have been described as determinedly two-dimensional. Lockhart is less interested in building form than in building dense layers of graphic constructions; bold, confident line and rich, saturated color.

Title - Bill Banbill

Media - pastel drawing

Size - 15.5" x 20.5"

Bob Lockhart is an award-winning sculptor whose work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, the Indianapolis Art Museum and many others. Descriptions of Lockhart's work range from reverent to elusive, sometimes absurd, and humorous.

Title - Winnie

Media - ceramic

Title - Cats on Chairs

Media - acrylic on wood

Size - 4' x 4'

Originally from North Carolina, Brian Buchanan has lived all over the country, working in historic preservation, scene painting, and carpentry. He is a muralist with over 20 years' experience; his company Art FX Murals creates large-scale commercial murals in New York and Los Angeles. Brian Buchanan sees his work as an invitation to look further and consider fresh perspectives-synchronous images, vibrations just outside a window, the humming engine of consciousness.

Title - Cats on Chairs

Media - acrylic on wood

Size - 4' x 4'

Originally from North Carolina, Brian Buchanan has lived all over the country, working in historic preservation, scene painting, and carpentry. He is a muralist with over 20 years' experience; his company Art FX Murals creates large-scale commercial murals in New York and Los Angeles. Brian Buchanan sees his work as an invitation to look further and consider fresh perspectives-synchronous images, vibrations just outside a window, the humming engine of consciousness.

Title - Kuniyoshi Cat

Caroline Garrett Hardy created this three-dimensional, cardboard paper doll like object of a cat playing a Japanese banjo (called a Shamisen) with a "pic" (called a bachi) wearing a kimono. Inspired by the late 18th - early 19th century Ukiyo-e artist, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, who was enamored of cats and drew them constantly, clothing them in all manner of Japanese kimonos.

Title - Unum

Media - blown glass

Size - 8" x 5" x 5"

Casey Hyland creates contemporary handblown glass objects for the everyday . . . and the days in between. This piece is edition 1 of 49.

Title - Sunshine & Roses

Media - acrylic

Size - 24" x 30"

Inspired by nature and a creative spirit within, Catherine is passionate about producing new ideas for her paintings. Her interpretation of the environment while painting "en plein air" energizes a powerful response of experience, portrayed in all her media, which includes oils, acrylics and encaustics.

Title - Fluffy

Media - paint, ink on digital print

Size - 15" x 12"

Catherine Rubin's abstract artwork beautifully marries the digital and physical modalities of creating mixed media artwork. Digital "brushstrokes" intermingle with oil paint on repurposed aluminum, canvas, and paper and keep you guessing in order to discover its secrets.

Title - Priscilla

Media - print on aluminum

Size - 16" x 20"

This limited-edition Charles Miller print is a series of mushroom cloud images.

Title - Benevolent She-Wolf No. 2

Media - charcoal on paper

Size - 63" x 44" x 3"

Title - Black Oak Tree

Media - acrylic on panel with vinyl album

Size - 22" x 22" x 3"

Album painting Ninnie Noises Nonesuch Farcical - from Cynthia Norton's Farcical Installation, 2017 (each painting individually titled by corresponding song and video). Each album painting has a double side lathe cut vinyl record on the shelf behind the panel.


Cynthia Norton is a politically conscious painter, sculptor, instrument builder and performance artist. Influenced by the folk aesthetic and history of the American South, she appropriates, manipulates, and re-purposes the material that surrounds her to create time-based works in performance, video and sound.

Title - Side eye Chimp

Media - acrylic paint on canvas

Size - 16" x 20"

Damon Thompson started drawing and painting as a teen, but only in the few years before the pandemic did he begin to experiment with spray paint and graffiti. Damon Thompson's mural of Woody Guthrie can be seen on the side of the Pearl Bar in Germantown; his portrait of actress of Carole Lombard is on a garage in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Thompson's portraits of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd grace the side of sculptor Ed Hamilton's studio in Louisville.

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Media - ceramic

Size - 16" round tray; 26" oblong platter

Renowned Kentucky artist David Mahoney, uses free-flowing brush strokes to create a sense of modern art in motion. As playful as it is artful, this pattern makes a beautifully dramatic statement in any decor. A simple green-and-white color scheme of the graffiti leaf pattern reinforces the overall look of contemporary sophistication.

Title - Purple Rain

Media - marbled paper

Size - 18" x 24"

"Marbling is a magical art form. Colors float on water and can be picked up by a single piece of paper. Of course, there's the science of the alum and the oxgall and the effect a drop of egg white mixed into the paint can have. There's experimenting with the paper and the pigments and a whole range of variables. But when it comes right down to it, it's magic."

Title - Man and His Dog

Media - printmaking

Size - 20" x 30"

Imagery is about what Deborah Stratford sees. She often looks around and think a long time about how her observations tell a story. This she tells with a collection of objects, places, people and animals printed. Deborah Stratford's hope is that her work encourages others to look deeper and longer at what surrounds them.

This is a linoleum print using three colors: blue, black and silver. The print conveys the peace that a forest can bring to us and the closeness of relationship between humans and animals. Both trees and animals are part of humanity.

Title - Owl Construction

Media - colored pencil, acrylic on paper

Douglas Miller is a professional artist whose drawings often deal with animals in an unfinished or altered state. Douglas Miller is quiet. At a recent opening he stood listening with his hands in his pockets and a pleasant smile on his face. His work that adorns the walls is a lot like him. No pretense just uncomplicated realness.

Title - Adytoni DREAMS

Media - PLA, acrylic

Size ~~ 3'

3D printed PLA, magnetized, breaks down into 3 pieces; reattaches with magnets. These twelve pieces took seven days to make.

Growing and flowing like a rhizome, Ezra Kellerman currently lives and works in his studio Cydonia, located in Louisville, KY.

Title - Tanner

Media - hat

"A hat can not only change your day, but it can also change your life!" - Jenny Pfanenstiel

Jenny Pfanenstiel is a world-renowned Milliner awarded for her skill of creating and sculpting hats by hand using the highest quality and rare materials from across the globe. She is recognized for her dedication to the craft and quality in her artistic creations.

Title - Air on Iron

Media - mixed

Gary Carpenter's Artist Statement:

I want the viewer to not think of my work as materials and shapes on paper or canvas but as forms that have nothing to do with paper, ink, wax, adhesives, color pencil, paint, and other wet and dry media that are alone prosaic.

Through the combination and manipulation of material, form, spatial manipulation of interior and exterior edges; the image exists because it has to. Anything else would be false. Anything else would be merely a product.

Title - Shadow's Grief

Media - mixed media painting, layering acrylic paint and charcoal

Size - 24" x 18"

Geoff Crowe began his formal training as a visual artist in Puerto Rico. The Latin influence of his early training continues in the often dramatic use of color and light. Geoff Crowe's exploration into how to express his art began with impression-like paintings. Most recently he began exploring abstract expressionism. He works in a variety of mediums including, acrylic, watercolor, dip ink pens, charcoal and sometimes a mix of these. Over the years, subjects have included figures, ballet dancers, horses, pets and other animals, cityscapes, and children's book illustrations.

Title - Elephant Majesty

Title - Flower by the Stream

Media - chalk pastel

Size - 26.5" x 35.5"

"My fingers take me to the moment where the lines, color and body meet. Out of the many possible, one image makes its way through. What makes this magic? I only know that it has moved me since shaping a bobby pin as young child."

Title - Free to a Good Home

Media - assemblage

In the approach of making art, Harlan Strummer Welch-Scarboro has a passion for the 3 R's; repurpose, recycle and reuse. Harlan receives inspiration from the assortment of materials on their eclectic palettes and create mixed media pieces. Harlan finds new life for old objects by utilizing various adhesives and hardware to join collectible bits and pieces that create surreal associations and dialog between objects. With an awareness of the important baggage certain items bring, he embraces symbolism and juxtapositions amid ingredients. His objects of choice range from vintage porcelain dolls, plastic action figures to animal taxidermy parts.

Title - King Macaw

Media - mixed, hand cut recycled beverage cans

Size - 35" x 23"

Herb Bradshaw is a self-taught recycle artist and a retired veteran. His mixed media art consist of recycled beverage cans, paper & wood. Herb Bradshaw does embossed detail and his technique brings his work to life with the movement of reflected light.

Title - Rub a Dub

Media - oil, charcoal and tape on paper

Size - 26" x 31"

Jacob Heustis uses painting, drawing, and installation to question and explore value and class systems, vanity and desire and the nature of art and aesthetics within the context of contemporary society. Heustis' large-scale works consist of a minimal but expressive application of medium and materials often combined with self-referential phrases and appropriated pop-culture lexicon in the form of hand-written text.

Title - "The Dog Family"

Media - collage/ assemblage

Size - 19" H x 9" W x 8" D

Using the flotsam and jetsam of everyday life, including a myriad of found objects, artifacts, ephemera, and vintage printed matter, Jacque Parsley presents an iconography that creates a dialogue between the permanent and the transient.

Title - Fire & Ice

Media - oil on canvas

Size - 30" x 30"

Title - Railbirds: A Day At The Track

Media - Ceramics

Size - 15 x 12

Jana John uses clay in an unusual way - to create colorful, whimsical, wacky masks and other pieces. Her subject matter often involves cats as they are fascinating creatures, and she tries to capture their personalities in artwork.

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Media - acrylic

Size - 38" x 40"

The distortion of light through movement and geometry. Made by using projections of cut out drawings and reflective objects, from personal studies inspired by light, movements and literature fundamentals. Sebastien Philippe is of Haitian descent and passionate about his art. He has been recently accepted to KYCAD.

Title - Horizontal Hands Study

Media - oil

Size - 19" x 34"

Like many of us, Jeanne Freibert is fascinated by animals! Their beauty, idiosyncrasies and personalities are amazing! Capturing aspects of animals' personas is a wondrous challenge. Texture and detail are also important elements in her work. Jeanne Freibert has always been obsessed with texture; and sought ways to increasingly incorporate it into her work. Likewise, she is simply unable to avoid extensive detail - utilizing both texture and detail to the point of abstraction. Veins in hands can turn into rivers. Layers of wrinkles may become landscapes.

Title - Black and Gold Collection

Broach and clip-on earrings

Mixed media bracelet and necklace

Title - Dog Quilt

Media - photography on metal

Size - 30" x 30"

Majoring in Drawing and Painting, John Nation received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Louisville. He began photography while he was in the U.S. Navy at NAS Pensacola's Naval School of Photography. For 30+ years, John Nation worked as a photographer for the Louisville Magazine. He also worked as a free-lance photographer during his time with the magazine. He has been published regionally, nationally and internationally in many magazines and books.

Title - Journey

Media - photography on metal

Size - 30" x 30"

Majoring in Drawing and Painting, John Nation received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Louisville. He began photography while he was in the U.S. Navy at NAS Pensacola's Naval School of Photography. For 30+ years, John Nation worked as a photographer for the Louisville Magazine. He also worked as a free-lance photographer during his time with the magazine. He has been published regionally, nationally and internationally in many magazines and books.

Title - Torch Song

Media - glass and stainless steel wire

Size - 6" x 56"

After a particularly vivid dream several years ago, Joy Lait, a longtime glass flameworker, began working on a series of glass and stainless steel wire sculptures. The dream included color and swirling forms. Joy Lait, as is her habit, woke up and drew something on the pad next to the bed. The next morning it was, "What the *&#%#$^# is that." After six months of experimentation, the work started to happen. With time, the work evolved to where it is today.

Title - Precious

Media - acrylics

Size - 20" x 16" x 1"

"I have completed many pet portraits in the past years and my favorite dog is the pug. So to put together my strengths and subject seemed to be quite the perfect match." Karl Anderson has also done scenic designer work for Actors Theatre, Stage One, Pandora Productions and the Louisville Ballet, to name a few.

Title - Rescue

Media - scratch board

Size - 14" x 11"

While obtaining an art degree at the Art Institute of Cincinnati, Kathleen (Kathy) Conroy learned the technique of scratchboard. It has become her favorite medium in that it allows a level of fine detail that can't be obtained with other mediums. She spends many hours photographing horses, birds, wildlife, trees, flowers and anything related to nature to use as subjects in her work.

Title - Look Back

Media - photography

Size - 19" x 13"

Keith Auerbach describes his creative process: "As a humanistic photojournalist, I look for the moment when I recognize that an image is ripe to tell the story of time and place. I try to photograph a genuine moment of human experience. I often have eye contact with my subject but I take the picture before people become self-conscious."

Title - "Nubble Light" York, Maine

Media - oil on linen canvas

Size - 19" x 22"

Like most endeavors in life, the joy of painting is in the journey. Every painting is a new adventure of learning with a constant striving to become better. It is Ken Boatright's hope that his paintings will somehow connect with you and bring you some joy.

Title - The Tin Man

Media - sculpture

Size - 45"

"I am a fourth-generation Montanan with a background in fine arts and design, including interior design and children's theater. Because of my background in scene and costume design, manipulating fabrics and found objects into sculptures comes second nature to me. They are each a piece of theatre and inspiration can come from anywhere. A name, a piece of fabric, or a discarded brooch can be the basis of a character. Next the skeleton is roughed out of electrical wire, stuffing, and wooden dowels. Bits and snatches of fiber, fabric and accessories are pulled together on a story board. Bit by bit the costume is fitted to the character and sometimes the body is fitted to the costume. Next I start the rehearsal process, with posing the character into his or her stance, adding a piece of jewelry, changing a hat, scuffing a boot. Last their face is created, hair and makeup applied appropriate to this new character. Each one has its own voice, its own story. Only from my patterns and designs can these characters come to life."

Title - Tuscan Landscape

Media - oil on canvas

Size - 29" x 35"

Kyle Bianconcini has a particular love of Italy, having met her husband, Giampaolo, there. Throughout the years Kyle has gone back to Italy and often paints where her heart lives. She co-founded the Plein Air Painters of Kentucky. You can see Kyle's work on display at Porcini restaurant in Louisville.

Title - Sunshower

Media - Acrylic

Size - 26.5" x 32.5"

Lauren Carney finds comfort in finding that sweet spot between fine art and the brain of a designer and continue to fill the voids with paintings, collages, carvings, textile works, and assemblages. Her fine art centers around how we interact with others in the world and deal with the challenges that life brings along with the ebbs and flows of the happenings of the days as they play out.

Title - little darlings #356

Media - panel, lacquer, photo, resin

Size - 6" x 5"

Through the play of material, process, surface and technology, Letitia Quesenberry creates hypnotic objects that extend the boundaries of visual perception. Her amalgamations contain layers of vibratory and translucent elements: paint, color correction film, tinted resin. She focuses on visibility, bewilderment, and the desire to celebrate uncertainty.

Title - Superstition Series 2003

• Umbrella 10/10
• White Sage 5/10
• Spilled Salt 4/10
• Wishbone 9/10
• Rabbits foot 10/10

Media - copper etchings on Rives BFK

Size - 6" x 7.5" (each print)

Media - jewelry

Green stone necklace, silver and pearl

Peridot earrings

Title - Little Sucker

Media - painted polymetal

Lori Larusso is an American visual artist working primarily with themes of domesticity and foodways. Her body of work encompasses paintings and installations that explore issues of class, gender, and anthropocentrism, and how these practices both reflect and shape culture. She embraces color as a carrier of spatial properties, and image as conduit for complex narratives. Visually rich elaborations of life-affirming subjects serve as purposeful symbols of specific time and place.

Title - Couple Cows

Media - oil on board

Size - 12" x 14"

Painting is Lynn Dunbar's self-described divine connection with the earth. These plein air studies are taken back to the studio where she applies the sense of light and color to her larger landscape and aerial work. Adventurous and a tad off kilter, sorta like her aerial oil paintings, is one way to describe Lynn. Color and composition fill her paintings.

Title - RAMEN at Mr. Taka

Media - digital print framed

Size - 14" x 14"

Matthew and Mitchell Bradley are artists, designers and identical twins born in Louisville, KY in 1972. In the late 1990's they graduated from Murray state university in Murray, KY with degrees in fine art. Returning to their hometown in 2000, they opened their first art space, museum 121 with partner and co-curator Mia Frederick.

Title - Inter-Be

Media - long leaf pine

This new series of sculptural wood carvings references the Buddhist term "Inter-Be" as it relates wholeness, emptiness, and interdependence. These pieces were created out of a need for Michael Ratterman to connect and contemplate thoughts of oneness, and continuance. This work was an opportunity to deeply dive into ideas of transformation; transformation of material, energy and the connectedness of that relationship.

Title - Cello

Media - Alabaster on Marble

Size - 9"H x 3.5"W x 4"D

Creating art has always been a necessity to Mike McCarthy. It provides an avenue to bring his ideas to life. In working through the creative process, the vision of those ideas takes form and develops into a solid structure. The development of that structure and the melding of the idea into a completed work is one of the most fulfilling activities in his life. While Mike McCarthy's subject matter varies, it is all influenced by artists such as Michelangelo Bernini and Da Vinci.

Title - #68

Media - painting

Mikki is no ordinary artist. Mikki is a 9,000-pound female African elephant who uses her trunk like a hand to hold a paint brush to create her masterpieces. Mikki came to the Louisville Zoo from a culling operation in Africa in 1987. This work of art was painted by Mikki in 2003.

Title - Mare and Foal

Media - graphite

Size - 30.5" x 20"

Monica W. Barnett's longtime passion has been drawing animals, especially all breeds of horses. While her work in graphite captures the finely detailed nuances of the animals, their boundless energy is conveyed in the brush strokes and colors of her paintings.

Title - Float & Floating

Media - fluorescent & glow in the dark acrylic paint on board

Size - (together) 9.75" x 11"

Monica Mohoney's floats float when viewed under black light with chromadepth lenses. They also glow in the dark once exposed to UV light.

Title - Pinewood Finch

Media - ink/ wax on board

Size - 13.5" x 14.5 "

Monique Motiff's rich, moody landscapes are executed using a combination of oil, tar and many layers of beeswax, a technique she has developed and perfected over many years. From a series of JJ Audubon birds Monique Motiff did in 2009 - this is one of about ten different bird paintings.

Title - Butterfly Undone

Media - collage - hand-stitched

Size - 11" x 14"

Natasha Sud is a collage artist who states: "I want my art to be aesthetically pleasing. Each piece is one-of-a-kind and tells some kind of story. I want you to lean in and connect to it. I always put a lot of love into them all. I want people to know how proud I am of them. How minimal images can have such a huge emotional impact."

Title - Green Obelisk

Media - blown glass

Size - 19" x 7"

What started as a college elective in 2001 has blossomed into a life rooted in blowing glass and in teaching others how to do the same. In that time, Nikolaj Christensen has helped start and run several public access studios that have brought the excitement of discovery and the thrill of mastering this challenging medium to literally thousands of people of all ages and interests.

Title - Phyllis & Spirit Guide

Media - dye sublimation print on aluminum

Size - 16" x 24"

Phyllis the groundhog was Patrick's muse and inspiration for the creation of the Mary Street Midden Project, a future museum of culture and history in Germantown. Learn more at: https://groundhogarcheology.com/

Patrick Donley is a painter, sculptor, musician, and now accidental archeologist, who has made his reputation with his colorful, abstract paintings and quirky found object sculpture.

Title - Makers White

Media - acrylic

Size -29"H x 21"W

Title - He's Got High Hopes

Media - acrylic

Size - 30" x 24"

Art never fit into Penny Hundley's schedule in high school or college. Passing art rooms with windowsills lined with jars of paint brushes and walls covered with drawings and paintings created a desire that was not fulfilled until years later. Finally, Penny realized that her love of color needed to be expressed, so she made a commitment to daily artistic endeavors. Art is all around us if we are aware. . . Colors, shapes, patterns, repetition, moods. My pieces are not planned, they emerge and evolve with an energy of their own. Penny Hundley is merely a willing and enthusiastic conduit.

Title - Euler

Media - acrylic on canvas

Size - 60" x 30"

Petersen Thomas paints in different styles, but his heart is perhaps most in abstract expressionism. Petersen Thomas is sometimes described as a lawyer who became an artist. This is not entirely true. Thomas was an artist before he became a lawyer. He was an artist while he was a lawyer. Now he just happens to be an artist who is no longer a lawyer.

Title - Language Nest

Media - oil on canvas

Size - 20" x 16"

Rachel Kessler is a painter whose work spans multiple visual media including animation, visual design for performance, and writing.

Title - Oliver Lewis

Media - charcoal

This work was created as part of Black Heritage in Racing: Community Art Contest & Exhibition at the Kentucky Derby Museum.

Oliver Lewis (1856-1924) was an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.

On May 17, 1875, Lewis won the very first Kentucky Derby aboard Aristides. The pair won by a reported two lengths, setting a new American record time for a mile-and-a-half race.

Title - Frederick Law Olmsted

Media - plaster

Size - 15" high

The Louisville landscape is dotted with Raymond Graf pieces honoring Louisville greats - Pat Day at Churchill Downs, Al Schneider at the Galt House, urban planner Tom Simons on Fourth Street, waving across to his fri/files/storyimages/J. Graham Brown. Raymond Graf graduated from Murray State University with a background in sculpture, ceramics, drawing, printmaking, and stone carving. During his career, however, Raymond Graf has focused on cast-bronze sculpture and portraiture. Frederick Law Olmsted is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the United States.

Title - Flutter

Media - woodcut, vinyl and resin

Size - 12" x 13"

Rebecca Norton's aesthetic infuses the hard-edge play of Op art with complex figure/ground relations. Think Bridget Riley painting Giacomo Balla's leashed dog's feet as the starting point for an idea about painting. That kind of fluidity of movement in a speculative time-space often serves as a conceptual foundation for her studies.

Title - Mountains of Vietnam Revisited

Media - mixed

Size - 48" x 28"

Rex Lagerstrom is a Louisville-based artist who combines drawing, painting, linocut printing, and encaustic in his works. He wants his art to convey a sense of peace and comfort.

Title - Aries

Media - pen and ink

Size - 16" x 20"

For most of his life, Richard Payton has created drawings, paintings, cartoons, and elaborately illustrated sketchbooks. Although he sometimes makes detailed realistic portraits, much of his work flows ceaselessly between representation and abstraction, words giving way to shapes and figures becoming language.

Title - Race Horse #4

Media - oil on board

Size - 24 x 36

Richard Sullivan is an artist and former professional baseball player with the Atlanta Braves. Born and raised in Louisville, KY, he studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) where he received a BFA in Illustration. He had the opportunity to play baseball at SCAD and to continue his interest in art and illustration. In 2008, Richard was drafted by the Braves in the 11th round as a junior and played 6 years of minor league baseball. He returned to SCAD in 2014 to finish his degree and focus exclusively on his artwork.

Title - Shadows VI

Media - oil on canvas

Size - 19" x 30"

"Artistically, my concentration is in creating original acrylic or oil paintings, with mixed media. My work has evolved from rural landscapes to abstraction over the years. Nature still influences my work, however, the overlaying of color transparencies is my main focus. Simply stated, I create abstract art focused on color relations and their contrasts."

Title - Glory

Media - acrylic, goldleaf on canvas

Size - 18" x 24"

"In my Aviary series, I have observed the movements and expressions of songbirds, ravens, crows, and owls of North America. My paintings capture textures like the oiliness of a Raven's wing or the downy feel of a Barred Owl's chest. They also capture facial expressions and the body language of a bird's stance.

The birds are removed from their natural environment. They deserve center stage, because they are entertaining performers that exhibit a wide range of emotions. It is vital that these somewhat mundane and overlooked creatures are elevated to the realm of importance."

Title - Quiet

Medium - Oil

Size - 30 x 48

Sandy Kimura began painting at a young age and her work as an architectural illustrator began more than two decades ago. Today her work has evolved into many facets of art ranging from designing restoration projects and color scheming on new buildings to mural painting, trompe l'oeil, and canvas painting in oils or acrylic.

Title - Brasil Philo and Purple Cat

Media - acrylic on wood

Sarah Tidwell is an artist, wife and mother residing in an artistically renovated warehouse in Louisville, KY with her pack of 7 dogs and modest flock of chickens. Sarah Tidwell's art grew up alongside her love for animals, hand in hand with her love of the outdoors. That same love carried Sarah into being a veterinary technician for seven years, during which she sated a thirst for knowledge of all things exotic and wild.

Title - Round and Round

Media - mixed on canvas

Best known as the frontman of the band King Horse, Sean Garrison is an interdisciplinary artist based in Louisville. His visual work has been shown at various galleries including Cinderblock, Craft(s), and Surface Noise. Sean Garrison says he paints pictures for the same reason he watches cartoons - it makes him laugh. His cluelessness about the meanings and intentions of his creations is a situation he is completely comfortable with, and the only possible insight he can offer is that when he paints, he is searching for the state of mind the Japanese call Mushin, which is a state where decisions are automatic, and all sense of time and space disappears. In essence, he is trying to hit the target before he looses the arrow. The only way he can be sure if this happens is if he starts laughing.

Title - The Offering

Media - mixed on panel

Size - 24" x 24"

Sean Garrison paints pictures for the same reason he watches cartoons - it makes him laugh. His cluelessness about the meanings and intentions of his creations is a situation he is completely comfortable with, and the only possible insight he can offer is that when he paints, he is searching for the state of mind the Japanese call Mushin, which is a state where decisions are automatic, and all sense of time and space disappears. In essence, he is trying to hit the target before he looses the arrow. The only way he can be sure if this happens is if he starts laughing.

Title - Origin

Media - ink on paper

Size - 18" W x 22" H

Shane Nearman is best described as a creator. Art is powerful, and Shane creates art that captures the viewer - to pause and reflect deeper on life, mortality, death, existence, beauty and transcendence - to see the invisible.

Title - Suddenly Last Summer

Media - mixed media

Size - 20" x 20"

Sue Schofield creates one-of-a-kind leather bags, belts, guitar straps, and more. Each item is made from predominantly re-purposed leather so they are environmentally and animal friendly. Besides the ethical perks, these are great because each item is one of a kind. Sue adds special character and designs to each item while still making them very functional and fun to wear!

Sue has creating a fabulous one of a kind bag for our auction - a large keyhole clutch with an optional crossbody strap. It has a tooled cheetah wrist strap and is lined with leopard print re-purposed lambskin. The bag has an adjoining pouch. Just wait until you see this stunner in person!!

Title - Life in Death

Media - oil pastel

Size - 27" x 33"

The study of the effects of light and color on Susan E. Brooks' subjects are an endless source of inspiration for her as an artist. "Life in Death" is from a beautiful dead tree Susan E. Brooks saw while traveling to Colorado. This pastel painting was chosen for the Open Studio Louisville juried exhibition at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts in 2022.

Title - Praying Mantis

Media - acrylic

Size - 33" x 24"

"Art is what awakens me in the middle of the night. It is the combination of all my senses, dreams, beliefs, joys and nightmares. It is my history of self and fixes inside what is broken. It explains the unexplainable and defines the indescribable in the only way I know how. I express myself in color, textures and line using paint, thread, paper and pencil-yet never limiting myself to any one medium. My art is escapism in its finest form and freedom in its highest degree. It's the closest I will ever get to working next to God."

Title - Working Dog #1

Media - mixed

Tad DeSanto, 76, is an artist from Louisville, Kentucky, who came to art later in life and is thriving. To create his art, Tad DeSanto uses found materials - and isn't opposed to a little dumpster diving. His "paintings" are mixed media: oil sticks, house paint, cardboard, acrylics, markers, pencils, cheesecloth, Kraft paper, images from magazines, etc. The final piece is mounted on masonite and usually "back framed" for hanging.

Title - Working Dog #2

Media - mixed

Tad DeSanto, 76, is an artist from Louisville, Kentucky, who came to art later in life and is thriving. To create his art, Tad DeSanto uses found materials - and isn't opposed to a little dumpster diving. His "paintings" are mixed media: oil sticks, house paint, cardboard, acrylics, markers, pencils, cheesecloth, Kraft paper, images from magazines, etc. The final piece is mounted on masonite and usually "back framed" for hanging.

Title - packing materials in natural light

Media - acrylic

Size - 18" x 22"

Tammy M. Burke is an interdisciplinary artist who imports instances from life's material experiences into her work. She has been incorporating commercially produced fabric in her work since 1995. Burke often creates multiples and points at the seductive nature of products, consumption, and the concept of the self constructed through possessions.

Title - Untitled

Media - oil on board

Size - 20" x 21"

Thea Lura received her Bachelor in Fine Arts in painting and printmaking from the University of South Dakota. Her solo show, "Kneel Before Gaud," was at Swanson Reed Contemporary. She has also shown her work at New Center for Contemporary Art, Gallery Nulu, and Ground Floor Gallery in Louisville, as well as various galleries in Omaha, NE and South Dakota.

Title - Magic Still Life

Media - acrylic on wood and mixed media

Size - 14.5" x 13" x 2.5"

Tom Pfannerstill created a small 3D still life in an ornate frame that is magical in that the apple floats mysteriously above its draped table to become a work of art (floats up to frame).

Title - Variation on a Sunflower

Media - oil on canvas

Size - 36" x 36"

Valerie Timmons' genre-spanning work includes landscape, portraiture, still life, minimalism and geometric abstraction. While her paintings may vary wildly in style and even mood, their unifying tonal element is a rich emotional resonance that finds as much beauty in the turbulence of a non-representational tempest of form and color as it does in the clean-lined serenity of a still life.

Title - Saint Petersburg Marina

Media - oil on canvas

Size - 9" x 12"

A passionate Plein Air painter Valtcho Tonov can be seen painting around Kentucky, Indiana, Florida and Bulgaria. He is a member of the Plein Air Painters of KY. As full time painter his repertoire includes landscapes, still life, abstract, sporting and figurative. Valtcho Tonov refers Alla Prima approach mostly from life with oil paint, transforming the outdoor studies into bigger paintings in the studio, with attention to expressive brush strokes, light and edges.

Title - The Seeker

Media - mixed -- paint, watercolor, pencil, paper

Size - 31" x 25.5"

Title - Bob Ross - The Art Whisperer

Media - clay pottery sculpture

The seeds of Wayne Ferguson's lifelong love of pottery were planted early, playing with modeling clay at the kitchen table with his brother as a child. When he reached high school, Wayne was able to take some clay and pottery classes. After graduating in 1965, Wayne Ferguson served in the USAF during the Vietnam era. Most of his work would be classified as holloware. These are vessels for things like water, grain, seeds, spices, or anything else you would want to store and keep pests out of. Wayne noted that his pieces are meant more for decoration rather than storage. Many of the pieces Wayne Ferguson makes are considered effigy pots, vessels which take the shape of animals or people. Various cultures in the Americas have made such pots, and they each tell a story. Wayne's work is no different, as his effigy pots often delve into political satire or commentary.

Title - Skull Jug

Media - clay pottery sculpture

The seeds of Wayne Ferguson's lifelong love of pottery were planted early, playing with modeling clay at the kitchen table with his brother as a child. When he reached high school, Wayne was able to take some clay and pottery classes. After graduating in 1965, Wayne Ferguson served in the USAF during the Vietnam era. Most of his work would be classified as holloware. These are vessels for things like water, grain, seeds, spices, or anything else you would want to store and keep pests out of. Wayne noted that his pieces are meant more for decoration rather than storage. Many of the pieces Wayne Ferguson makes are considered effigy pots, vessels which take the shape of animals or people. Various cultures in the Americas have made such pots, and they each tell a story. Wayne's work is no different, as his effigy pots often delve into political satire or commentary.

Grab this one of a kind cat chateau for your furry friend(s)! Your cat will feel ever so regal as they play, climb, scratch, and lounge on this fantastic cat treehouse made by Alex Heintzman.

Title - Eldon

Media - ceramic

Bob Lockhart is an award-winning sculptor whose work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, the Indianapolis Art Museum and many others. Descriptions of Lockhart's work range from reverent to elusive, sometimes absurd, and humorous.

Title - Welcome Center

Media - mixed

Size - 20" x 20"

Title - Primary Geometry

Media - gouache, water color, colored pencil on handmade paper

Size 11" x 16"

Enjoy 12 of Louisville's finest restaurants, with options from breakfast through dinner. This item is valued at over $1500!

Are you an early riser? Enjoy bagels from Payne Street Bakery or a Kouign Amann at Blue Dog Bakery. For lunch, why not sample Mesh, the Gralehaus, August Moon, the Cafe, or Red Hog? For dinner, treat yourself and friends to an evening at Paseo or Jack Fry's or Ruth's Chris Steak House. Or if you are in the mood for a more international feel, try Cuban fare at La Bodeguita de Mima or creative farm-to-table Latin cuisine at the Mayan Cafe. With all of these offerings to choose from, you can most certainly expand your culinary horizons, and a quick trip across the river to Brooklyn & the Butcher will give you a taste of the new New Albany!

Take home this fabulous bourbon:

Elmer T Lee Single Barrel Sour Mash

Take home this fabulous bourbon:

Weller 12 Year Old

Take home this fabulous bourbon:

Thomas H. Handy Sazerac Straight Rye Whiskey

Plan a pampered staycation with this sumptuous gift basket.

Spend the night at the Bellweather Hotel and arrange for private early morning Pilates session at Core Fluency with owner Laura Porter Blackburn. Go shopping at Scout and Louisville's Stoneware & Co., but don't forget to schedule a relaxing float and infrared sauna session at the Weightless Float Center afterwards. Keep that wellness momentum going with a Reiki session and tarot reading with Ali Longmire, and facial care products from Magna Pharmaceuticals.

Is there a better way to appreciate bourbon and art in Kentucky than a trip to the Maker's Mark Distillery on Star Hill Farms?

You and five of your friends will enjoy a private, one-of-a-kind, 90-minute tour that dives into the world class art and design around the Maker's Mark Campus. Your guide will describe over 20 original art pieces and structures and share information about each artist. The tour begins with a welcome cocktail, and finishes with a pour of Maker's Mark Private Selection to enjoy under an iconic piece by Dale Chihuly.

We will make sure your appreciation only grows by sending you home with 12 exquisite signature glasses by Hyland Glass of Louisville and a Cellar Aged bottle of Makers Mark, valued at $150.

Enjoy a Morpheus8 treatment at LouWellSpa! Morpheus8 is a microneedling device that utilizes radiofrequency energy to contour the face and body, stimulate collagen production, tighten the skin, and smooth wrinkles. This treatment penetrates deep into the skin and fat for a more polished appearance. Morpheus8 typically lasts between 1-3 years and is most commonly used on areas like the neck, face, and abdomen.

The 2023 Woodford Reserve Kentucky Derby 149 bottle is a limited edition bourbon whiskey. It's a commemorative bottle that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Secretariat's 1973 Derby win. This bottle features the artwork of Kentucky native Jaime Corum, known for her stunning horse portraits. Her painting captures Secretariat in the Winner's Circle at Churchill Downs, entitled "Secretariat - Still the Greatest". This very special bottle is signed by jockey Joel Rosario and trainer Claude R. "Shug" McGaughey III and includes a certificate of authenticity.