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  • Article titled "Graphic Ideas" on the front page of the University of Louisville College of Arts and Sciences Accent newsletter. The article features artist Julius Friedman and contains a photograph of the poster he designed for the Holocaust remembrance performance A Time to Remember.

  • Throughout the summer of 2020, many businesses in downtown Louisville boarded up their windows during the social justice protests in response to the killing of Breonna Taylor. In the fall of 2020, Tawana Bain, founder of the Global Economic Diversity Development Initiative (GEDDI) led a campaign called "Tearing Down the Walls Together," collaborating with Black-owned businesses and creators to use the boards to beautify downtown and to memorialize the movements for justice through painted artworks - turning symbols of fear and division into ones of hope and renewal. Once the art was completed, the boards were auctioned off during a "Black Harvest" event at the end of October. The Filson is proud to own one of these works by artist Arielle Biddix. This frame was custom made by Mike Strauss.

  • The artist Patricia Fulce-Smith created this poster, titled "Six Feet Apart -- Or Apart?" for the Kentucky COVID-19 Poster Project of 2020. This poster uses a variety of visual cues to discuss social, economic, and cultural issues of 2020. These cues include, but are not limited to: COVID-19, racial injustice, Black Lives Matter, Breonna Taylor, face masks, and social aspects of pandemic protocol like social distancing.

    Patricia Fulce-Smith was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois, and moved to Louisville in 2003. Fulce-Smith is a multi-media artist and her art primarily depicts women and girls. She is a member of the Louisville Visual Arts Association (LVAA) and has created several murals around Louisville, as well as being an artist for a children's book on Kentucky women.
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  • Portrait of Julius Friedman in his studio by Jim Cantrell.

  • Photograph of Julius Friedman firing ceramics.

  • Patty Thum was known for her paintings of flowers, especially roses but she was also a talented landscape and portrait artist. She is one of the city’s earliest professional woman artists. She also was an author, inventor and a major advocate for the arts in the City of Louisville. Thum dedicated her life to art starting at the age of 16, when she left home and traveled north to study art at Vassar College. Established in 1861, Vassar College set out to “accomplish for young women what our colleges are accomplishing for young men”.

  • Patty Thum was known for her paintings of flowers, especially roses but she was also a talented landscape and portrait artist. She is one of the city's earliest professional woman artists. She also was an author, inventor, and major advocate for the arts in the City of Louisville. She dedicated her life to art from the age of 16 right up until her death at the age of 73.

    Born in Louisville in 1853, Patty was the eldest child of Louisa Miller and Mandeville Thum, a doctor with a practice on Jefferson Street. Patty attended the Louisville Girl's School (the city's first public school). Patty was 9 years old when her father died in 1862, serving as a surgeon for the Confederate 7th Arkansas Infantry. Louisa never remarried and ensured her sons and daughters all attended college.

    In 1869, at the age of 16, Thum left home and traveled north to study art at Vassar College, established in 1861 to "accomplish for young women what our colleges are accomplishing for young men."

  • Portrait of Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston

  • Harvey Joiner was a landscape artist from Louisville known for his paintings of beech trees.

  • Watercolor still life and practice of color theory created by Enid Bland Yandell. Date is unknown, but it probably created during her time at the Art Academy of Cincinnati (1887-1889).

  • Half figure bust of Mademoiselle Deckert de la Meillaie with her hair pulled up on top of her head and a shawl wrapped around her bare shoulders. Her hand rests on the head of a dog. One of only two known portraits by Yandell in the half-figure format (the other is the 1907 likeness of Dr. Bull), this figure represents a French friend of Enid's. The painted plaster is part of the Speed Art Museum's collection and the marble version is part of The Fine Arts Museum of Nantes collection in Nantes, France.

  • Enid Bland Yandell poses with model and sculpture of Indian Chief Ninigret. This was Enid's last major public commission which depicted the Niantic chief know for his peaceful relations with European settlers in his territory of Rhode Island. The model for the figure was a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, performing in Paris at the time. The finished work presently rests on a rock beside the bay in Watch Hill, Rhode Island. A version of Chief Ninigret was one of two works which Yandell exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show. The other work featured was the Five Sense Fountain.
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