Upcoming Events

Carried by the Wind: Expressive Arts Grief Workshop

Saturday, May 23, 1-3:30pm 

$10 - Please register (age 18+)

Through nature connection, art making, and ritual, this expressive arts workshop offers a supportive space for adults experiencing grief to honor loved ones. Artist Mollie Rabiner will share her process behind creating JSP’s forthcoming Wind Phone installation. Then, licensed art therapist Danielle Creamer will facilitate a guided nature walk, collaborative altar creation, expressive art-making, and closing letter ritual. Participants are invited to acknowledge grief as a continuing expression of love.

This event is part of Josephine Sculpture Park's Wellness in the Wild program, strengthening community health through outdoor movement, the arts, and connection. The Wind Phone project is in partnership with the Kentucky Center for Grieving Children & Families and is supported by grants from South Arts and Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Barn Raisin': Conservation, Culture & Cuisine

Sunday, June 7, 4–8pm

Barn Raisin’: Conservation, Culture, & Cuisine brings together arts and nature enthusiasts for a night of community celebrating Josephine Sculpture Park. Proceeds from the event support educational programming and land conservation at JSP, providing access to art and nature experiences for more than 130,000 people each year.

Eco-Art Workshop: Petals to Pendants with Courtney Barnes

Saturday, June 20, 9:30-11:30am 

JSP Members $15 | Non-Members $25 | Registration required (all ages welcome, children under 13 accompanied by an adult)
Join us for a morning of friends and flowers as we learn from artist Courtney Barnes. Courtney owns Evermore Pressed Bouquets and designs jewelry, framed memories, and more from pressed flowers. She will guide us in making a dried flower pendant or key chain that participants will take home. These pieces will be filled with resin and cured during the workshop time. You will then tour the Josephine Sculpture Park to source foliage and flowers to practice the art of pressing flowers.

Sculpture Social: Wind Phone by Mollie Rabiner

Tuesday, June 23, 6:30-7:30pm 

FREE | Donations welcome | Please register
Honor artist Mollie Rabiner as she unveils her Wind Phone sculpture commissioned by Josephine Sculpture Park! The wind phone is a powerful place of remembrance and healing for community members to speak to loved ones they have lost through the hand-carved wooden phone, letting the wind carry their messages. JSP's wind phone by Mollie Rabiner is one of three in Kentucky, and of hundreds worldwide. We will also honor JSP's partners in this project, including the Kentucky Center for Grieving Children and Families, South Arts, and the Kentucky Arts Council. Delicious drinks provided.

Eco-Art Workshop: Making Music with Nature

Saturday, July 18, 6-8pm 

JSP Members $10 | Non-Members $20 | Registration required (all ages welcome, children under 13 accompanied by an adult)
Join Rhythm Science Sound at the Josephine Sculpture Park as we explore the sonics and music of the natural world. Through Bio-Data Sonification, a technique of using the bio-electric signals in living organisms and ecologies, we will create melodies, tones, rhythms, and compose unique musical pieces in collaboration with nature. We will create music alongside plants, moss, fungi, humans, etc and dive into the cool science of ecology, bio-electricity, and sound that this technology makes audible!

SoundScape!

Friday, July 31, 5:30-11pm 

$25 Adults | $11 Youth ages 11-17 | Free Ages 10 & under

Join us for a memorable evening of music, nature, and immersive art that delights all the senses.

Families can explore the sculptures while discovering fruity samples of Ale-8-One along the Fruity Twists Trail, accompanied by live performances from musicians of the Louisville Folk School.

Guests ages 21+ can enjoy the Castle & Key Cocktail Stroll, featuring handcrafted drink samples paired with curated sculptures and live music throughout the grounds.

As night falls, experience a special performance by Ben Sollee. Later wander through illuminated art installations paired with electronic music during our nighttime lite sculpture tour.

Arts activities, a tie-dye station, local beer, and delicious food trucks will be available throughout the evening, creating plenty of ways to relax, explore, and enjoy the night.

Musicians Ben Sollee, M. Lightsmith, na Skylark, Lilianna Fischer, and more will play throughout the evening.

Thank you, SoundScape! Sponsors

Volunteer Bluebird Trail Monitoring

Every Saturday April 4-July 25, 10-11:30am 

Do you love birds? Would you like to participate in a community science project and volunteer to help our local eastern bluebird and cavity nesting bird populations? The JSP and Wild Birds Unlimited Bluebird Trail needs volunteers to monitor the nest boxes on the trail during the nesting season (April-July, Saturdays from 10am-11:30am at JSP).