Applications now open for Art in City Hall

Submit your art by January 15 for consideration.

A white stone building in the French Second Empire style, using in Italianate motifs, stands over a busy city street.

Artists can now apply to have their work shown for the third annual Art in City Hall exhibition.

Photo by LOUtoday

Are you the Derby City Dalí? The Ville’s Van Gogh? The Falls City Frida Kahlo?

Louisville Metro Council + Louisville Visual Art (LVA) are now accepting applications for the annual Art in City Hall exhibition.

Here what you should know:

  • You must be a resident of Louisville + Jefferson County.
  • Submissions must be two-dimensional, but in any medium.
  • You can make up to 10 submissions.
  • The work of up to six artists will be displayed in the lobby, hallways, and other public spaces of City Hall from February 2025 through January 2026.
  • Each winning artist will receive $500.
  • Deadline: 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025

Submissions will be reviewed by a committee that includes members of the Commission on Public Art, Louisville Metro Council, and Metro Government staff.

Think your work is the Monet for the money? Submit that Cézanne, and it might hang in the (Andy War)halls of City Hall.

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