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A black and white portrait of Gray Koesters, a graduate student at the Hite Institute of Art + Design.

Portraits and Memory: Graduate Student Curates John Burton Harter Exhibit on Love, Loss and the AIDS Crisis

March 23, 2026

By Stephanie Godward, Communications and Marketing Director, College of Arts & Sciences  

A large, colorful mural painted on the interior wall of an industrial space shows surreal imagery, including crumbling red…

MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main Street

March 11, 2026

Cressman Center 100 East Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202 March 20 – May 2, 2026 

"Sidewalk" - still life by Lori Larusso

MA Student Curates “After Precarity” Exhibition at 21c Museum Hotel

January 26, 2026

MA students in the Hite Institute of Art + Design’s Critical & Curatorial Studies program don’t just study exhibitions—they create them.