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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion MISSING: When East Village Artists Came to Main St
 reet
CONTACT:Jessica Oberdick\, 502-852-4437\, email:jessica.oberdick@louisville
 .edu
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Hite Institute of Art + Design for a panel disc
 ussion celebrating Louisville's unlikely role in New York's legendary 1980
 s East Village avant-garde art scene. \n\nIn December 1985, five New York
  artists traveled to Louisville to stage a show in a vacant building at 60
 0 East Main Street. Mounted as a fundraiser for Kentucky’s Child Victims
 ’ Trust Fund, the 1985 Missing Children Show featured new work by Davi
 d Wojnarowicz, Judy Glantzman, Rich Colicchio, Kiely Jenkins, and Futura 2
 000. A mural by Wojnarowicz loomed large in the makeshift exhibition space
 . Today, it is the only known surviving mural by Wojnarowicz, who died of 
 AIDS in 1992 “due to government neglect.” The mural should be a point 
 of pride for our city. But in August of 2025 the building's current owner 
 covered the mural again with drywall painted black evoking the sadly famil
 iar violence of censorship and erasure that continues to haunt Wojnarowicz
 ’s work long after his death.\n\nAnita Vitale, chair of the David Wojnar
 owicz Foundation, will join celebrated East Village artists Rich Colicchio
  and Judy Glantzman to discuss their memories of New York's East Village s
 cene, the importance of their 1985 trip to Louisville, and the vital urgen
 cy of restoring Wojanrowciz's murals to public view. 
GEO:38.2556;-85.7512
LOCATION:Cressman Center for Visual Art
URL:https://events.stage.louisville.edu/events/panel-discussion-missing-whe
 n-east-village-artists-came-main-street/2026-04-10
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