friday in louisville

i mentioned i needed to do some back-blogging about this past weekend...


i spent this past weekend with my friends dan & malissa. i drove down early friday morning and after a yummy lunch of california pizza kitchen (yay for national pizza month), mel & i headed for the st. james court art show in historic louisville.

but first we swung by the kentucky center to visit their art*o*mat machine. my first art*o*mat experience. just slip in the five dollar bill... pull the lever of your choice... and plunk! it's pocket-sized art bliss. like a kid in a candy shop i ate it up. my little slice of fine art goodness? a ceramic face which will join ninja ned in standing guard over my desk at work. (they're changing the floor plan at work this weekend... so until i'm at my new desk, my art*o*mat goody will stay safely in his box.) for april i got a photo of irish horses mounted on a wood block. and malissa got a folk art sculpture of a toucan with some rocks for him to stand on. good stuff, people. good stuff.

and the art fair was good, too. :) lots and lots of artsy fun. metal, sculpture, ceramics, photography, glass, painting, wood... it was all there. the only thing i found strange was all the fair food available. i mean, i know people needed to eat. but i couldn't bring myself to eat a greasy corn dog or funnel cake and then walk around & thumb through photographs or inspect hand carved wooden vases. i did break down and buy a bottle of water, but even that seemed risky. the artwork was simply gorgeous.