What is Thursday Night Salon at the Carnegie Center?
Set in the main galleries amidst the art exhibitions, this interactive evening series is intended to foster a sense of community, with a rotating program of conversations, performances, and active art-making. Our first Thursday Night Salon in October 2021 featured a keynote presentation about the Underground Railroad by Louisville-based historian and podcaster Jermaine Fowler, set against the backdrop of the exhibition Hoosier Lifelines: Environmental and Social Change Along the Monon, 1847-2020. Our second Thursday Night Salon in December 2021 occurred during the solo painting exhibition Debra Clem: Surface & Illusion, and featured live performance art by local painter Cynthia Norton, and a roundtable discussion with four local figure painters, including Norton, Clem, LaNia Roberts, and Patrick Smith.