The 930 is pleased to welcome back Louisville’s Interstates and their new 5-piece lineup for a free show in conjunction with a gallery opening. Louisville’s Fork In Socket opens.

After quickly winning over Louisville music lovers, Interstates has signed with the Kansas City, MO label The Record Machine. Fresh off the heels of their newly released debut album Run, Run, Interstates is ready to take their unique, stirring live show to audiences near and far. They deliver everything from ambient soundscapes to delay-heavy synth patterns to everyone who enters their wall of sound.

The 930 is glad to welcome back Matthew Perryman Jones with special guest Kim Taylor.

Ambition is evident in Matthew Perryman Jones’ third record, but first proper release [Swallow The Sea]… this record is the sound of Jones simultaneously putting his neck on the line and shedding musical inhibitions, and finding his voice in doing so. “I’m a product of the 80’s and my musical taste was shaped largely by bands like The Pixies, REM, U2, Echo and the Bunnymen and other underground bands of that time. It was the era of epic art-rock and smart pop. I ate it up. This record certainly nods to my influences without apology.”

Listen here.

Kim Taylor’s connections to fellow Ohioans Over the Rhine are hard to ignore: The singer/songwriter has performed with the band on tour and her sultry voice is a dead-ringer for OTR’s Karin Bergquist. But lately Taylor has been hiding out in a barn in Indianapolis, recording a new album and perfecting a style uniquely her own. -Paste Magazine

‘Prayer and Wisdom’ is an art exhibit featuring two collaborative projects led by the Visual Arts Group of Sojourn Community Church. These projects grew out of a desire to respond visually to the rich texts found in the Bible. While the works resulting from these two projects differ greatly, they were grown from a common desire to work out the illumination of holy scriptures in our contemporary context.

The ‘Prayer’, or Psalms, portion of the exhibition features more than twenty large and small-scale installation projects conceived and created by Sojourn Visual Arts. Over the course of several months, a team of roughly fifteen visual artists spent time studying, discussing and reflecting on the heights and depths found in the book of Psalms. While recognizing both the enormous challenge of creating visual representations of the scriptures and the dizzying volume of the songs found in the ancient book, Sojourn Visual Arts used these discussions as a platform for creating the work found in the exhibit.

These works are at times simple, and at times complex. Reflecting the very nature of the Psalms themselves, the works occupy a visual space that is at once both literal and metaphoric. Feathered wings hanging from the ceiling cast a shadow inviting reflection on both celestial beings and the bone structure of nature’s aviators. A bed cloaked in astro-turf at once invites comfort and questions our modern attempts to harness and recreate nature’s ubiquitous forms. “Questioning Clocks” use simple icons to reflect universal questions constant from ancient minds to modern times.

As the Psalms were a response to God within the emotional and physical context of the original psalmists, the work here is also a response to God and a response to those ancient emotions captured by the psalmists’ verses. The Psalms often became a conversation between the fallen writer and his perfect, holy God. And so, recognizing the limitation of visual representation, these works are a conversation, a conversation about the scriptures, informed by the scriptures, toward the scriptures.

The ‘Wisdom’, or Proverbs portion of the exhibit features more than 100 illustrations of biblical proverbs.  Sojourn Visual Arts invited individual artists, classes, and churches around the country to explore the rich wisdom of the proverbs and respond by making images on 4×6 project panels. The entries are displayed together in the gallery to demonstrate the diversity of topics in proverbs and the diversity of responses to its wisdom. These illustrations were completed by children and adults.

All together, these two projects encouraged the dozens of collaborators who made this artwork to encounter the biblical texts in a creative, new way.

02.26.10 DIRT POOR ROBINS with DAVE MOISAN

01.23.10 BreachBent: A Concert for Third World Justice feat. BROOKS RITTER, JAMIE BARNES, THE PARADE SCHEDULE, DAVE MOISAN, and LUKE ASHER

01.08.10  THE PARADE SCHEDULE and PETER BRADLEY ADAMS

Also on view: Eleven Mega Churches by Travis Shaffer

OPENING RECEPTION Friday, January 8. 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Artist Talk at 7:15 p.m.  Free Concert by The Parade Schedule and Peter Bradley Adams at 8:00 p.m.

ARTIST STATEMENT BY JOE JOHNSON

Mega Churches have inspired thousands of Christian worshippers to gather within vast post-modern architectural spaces across the nation. Megalithic in size, these corporate structures, converted Hilton hotels, and restored theaters are transformed into halls of prayer each Sunday through performative rituals and multimedia spectacles. Most definitions require that a minimum of 2000 worshippers must attend the weekend service for the building to attain the “Mega Church” status.

Specifically I am photographing the empty interior architecture and sanctuary spaces where worship is performed. I use the descriptive power of photography to construct a personal vocabulary with which I can communicate what interests me about a subject. I tend to gravitate to subjects that have some inherent tension and mystery. With the Mega Church project, an interesting point of tension lies in a secular treatment of contemporary religious practice within Mega Churches.

This body of work attempts to reveal the mechanics of creating faith by capturing the wires, computers, light bulbs, and cords that are used to construct mysteries on stage for the faithful. The rawness of the abandoned mega-space and the eerie familiarity of its commercial fixtures question the intention and business of faith in the 21st century.

ABOUT JOE JOHNSON

Joe Johnson received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art.  His work has been featured at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the Beach Museum of Art.  Johnson has participated in exhibitions at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York,  Gallery Kayafas, Boston, Flat File Gallery, Chicago,  Photographic Center North West, Seattle, WA, Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston SC, and many others.  His work has been reviewed in articles by the New York Times and the Boston Globe.  Joe’s work is included in numerous public, private, and corporate collections. In 2008 he received an Individual Creativity grant from the Ohio Arts Council and is a runner up for the Aperture Portfolio Prize.  In 2010, Joe will have solo shows in the 930 Gallery in Louisville KY and Pictura Gallery in Bloomington IL.  Currently Joe Johnson is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Missouri.

Also on view: Eleven Mega Churches by Travis Shaffer

This art and craft show is a one day event Saturday, October 17 in conjunction with a Fall Festival sponsored by Sojourn Church at the same location.  The gallery will be full of paintings, framed photographs, handmade baby clothes and winter hats, and locally made greeting cards. Outside, we’ll have two huge grills making hamburgers and bratwursts, games and giant bounces for the kids, cotton candy, and live bluegrass. It’s all free so that you can spend your money supporting local artists and artisans.

Including art and crafts by:

Dawn Adams

Lacey Adkins

Aubrey Beard

Justin Benzel

Elizabeth Brown + Liz Richards

Mary Margaret Carlton

Cellar Door Chocolates

Sarah Cosper

Sarah Davis

Sojourn Visual Arts

Spend Yourself

Tyler Deeb

Brandon Dyer

onlyembry (Tiffany Embry)

Casey Emrich

Nick Felton

MacKenzie Haley

Sarah Hall

Chuck Heeke

Patrick Jilbert

Laura Knisely and Leslie Hoback

Douglas Miller

Robin and Andrew Morrison

Lesley Lyon Mullinix

Nadus

New Beginnings Artisans from Bhutan

Tenille Novinger

Annie Petersen

Katie Rupp

Sarah Scheffler

Gidget Tincher

Mickie and Michael Winters

on view October 23, 2009 - January 3, 2010

OPENING RECEPTION Friday October 23, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.with a free concert by JOE HENRY

For this photography exhibit, Cincinnati based photographer Michael Wilson has hunted through all his old and recent black and white contact sheets to make new photographs that have never been seen before.

Michael Wilson became a well-known commercial photographer by photographing musicians.  Over the last 20+ years he’s photographed many musicians including laura veirs, over the rhine, doc watson, and wilco, etc.etc. (michaelwilsonphotographer.com has an a-z index).

He’s published four books: Heads Bowed Eyes Closed, No One Looking Around, I See That Hand, What I Really Like Is Music, and First Kind Sight.

He’s had solo exhibitions in many places including the Cincinnati Art Museum, Vanderbilt University, and a recent mid-career retrospective called “The Day of Small Things” organized by the The Light Factory in Charlotte, North Carolina.  He was also part of the first exhibit at the 930 when we opened in early 2008, The View from the Street.

OPENING RECEPTION Friday October 23, 2009, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. with a free concert by DUDE PLAYS SAXOPHONE

EMPOWER is a collaborative project incorporating the efforts of University of Louisville Fine Arts students and kids living at St. Joseph’s Children’s Home.  The project intended to teach children growing up in difficult circumstances the art and skills of photography to encourage them to appreciate the beauty and dignity of their own expression. UofL Professor Mary Carothers directed the project as part of a new UofL class called Collaborative Projects.

The UofL students encouraged the children to imagine what kind of superhero they’d want to be, and then they came up with costumes to turn the children into superheroes.  The resulting studio portraits equally show the creativity of the college art students and the children.  In related projects, the students and children made light-painting photographs, black and white darkroom photograms, and the kids took pictures made with plastic cameras.

Learn more about UofL Fine Arts’ Collaborative Projects at http://collaborativeshelter.blogspot.com/

$25 including camera and developing.  All ages - Children under 13 must come with an adult.

REGISTER HERE.

To coincide with the Snapshot exhibit beginning Friday September 11th, the 930 Art Center is pleased to offer a two day workshop presented by artist Leslie Doyle.  The workshop will begin with a talk covering the history of the ’snapshot aesthetic’, and how this approach was utilized to launch the careers of several prominent photographers over the past several decades.

Attendants will then be introduced to the Interpretation project, which is a participatory project started by Leslie Doyle in 2008.  Participants are asked to submit photographs to represent a set of subjective words along with their written interpretation.  All of the photographs submitted to this project are completed by other individuals, regardless of photographic experience.  This workshop will offer the attendants the opportunity to participate in the project with the use of disposable cameras, the ultimate snapshot camera.  The results will be presented in the second day of the workshop, and will be shown on the Interpretation Project website as the project continues to grow.  The photographs also have the potential to be exhibited in the future.

To register for the workshop, click here.

For more information on the Interpretation Project, please visit www.interpretationproject.com

Sponsored by Snapshot Photo Booth Rentals.

OPENING RECEPTION Friday September 11, 7-10 p.m. with a free concert by Bill Mallonee beginning at 8 p.m.

Artwork by Michael Brohm, Sarah Davis, Courtney Hughes, Stephanie LaGreca, Robert Mitchell, and Travis Shaeffer and Michael Winters.

SNAPSHOT is an art exhibit of photographs inspired by the snapshot aesthetic.  Since around 1900, when Kodak came out with the first snapshot camera for amateur photographers and children, photographs have become an integral part of modern life and the way we remember personal experience.  The seven local photographers whose work makes up this exhibit each are inspired by the casual magic that a camera can achieve.  They are still impressed that by the simple click of a button, life can be stilled and saved on paper.  Some of these artists have used plastictoy cameras to make this artwork, letting chance and the limitations of the simple cameras help form the outcome.  Other artists have reprinted old photographs in new ways. For the Lost and Found series Shaffer re-printed a collection of found black and white glass slides that had undergone some serious deterioration.  Courtney Hughes reprinted old family photos collaged with her grandfather’s journal entries.

In conjunction with the Snapshot exhibit, there will also be a photography workshop called the Interpretation Project.  It will be led by artist Leslie Doyle who begins teaching photography at UofK this semester.  Find out more about the Interpretation Project photo workshop and sign up by clicking here.