Louisville Catholic HS Canvas Prints: St. X, Trinity, SHA
B2The7 sells original canvas prints of Louisville's Catholic high school campuses. St. Xavier on Poplar Level Road, Trinity on Shelbyville Road, and Sacred Heart Academy on Lexington Road. Every print is an original photograph taken by Louisville photographer Bernie Fussenegger at the campus itself. Not stock. Not generic school merchandise. Prints start at $105 and ship ready to hang.
Yes, B2The7 offers original canvas prints of St. Xavier, Trinity, and Sacred Heart in Louisville. Each one is an original photograph shot on campus by Bernie Fussenegger, sold exclusively here and nowhere else. Prints start at $105 and ship across the US ready to hang. Browse the collection.
Here is a thing that surprises people. There is no good market for original campus photography of Louisville's Catholic high schools. If you search for a St. Xavier canvas print, you either find licensed stock images that have nothing to do with the school, generic products with the school name slapped on them, or official merchandise that is more logo than photograph.
None of that is what an alumnus who graduated thirty years ago is actually looking for when they want something on the wall of their home office that means something.
I'm Bernie. I photographed St. Xavier's main entrance, the chapel, and Riken House. I photographed Trinity's campus on Shelbyville Road. I photographed Sacred Heart Academy on Lexington Road. Original photographs. Named photographer. Specific buildings. The kind of image that someone who was actually there recognizes immediately.
Let me tell you what is in the collection and who tends to want it.
What You Will Learn
- What makes original Louisville Catholic high school photography different from a stock print or a generic school product
- What the St. Xavier, Trinity, and Sacred Heart photography actually captures
- Who buys these prints and what they are usually looking for
- Why campus architecture matters to alums in a way a school logo product does not
- How to browse the collection and reach out for something specific
Why Campus Photography Hits Differently Than School Merchandise
Most school merchandise is logo-based. The school name in a certain font, the mascot rendered in the school colors, a generic design that signals affiliation without showing the actual place. That is a different object from a photograph of the front entrance of your high school on a Tuesday afternoon in November when the light is right, and the building looks exactly the way you remember it looking.
The people who buy from the B2The7 high school collection are not looking for merchandise. They are looking for something that shows the actual place. The specific campus they walked through for four years. The entrance they went through for the first time as a freshman and for the last time on graduation day. The chapel or the field house or the hallway outside the main office that every person who went there would recognize on sight.
Photography does that in a way a logo print cannot. And original photography from a named local photographer who actually went to these campuses and shot them with intention does it better than a stock image pulled from a photo library by someone who has never been to Louisville.
St. Xavier High School Canvas Prints
St. X is at 1609 Poplar Level Road. It has been there since 1864. It is the only school in Kentucky to receive the National Blue Ribbon of Excellence Award five times, most recently in 2023. The campus is 54 acres, and the architecture reflects more than 150 years of Catholic Xaverian history in Louisville.
The B2The7 St. Xavier collection includes the main entrance with its bold green doors and gold lettering against the familiar glass facade that every Tiger knows. It is framed by brick and trees and a Kentucky sky that does what Kentucky skies do in the late afternoon. The collection also includes the St. Xavier Chapel and Riken House, two of the most distinctive architectural features on the campus, steeped in the school's Catholic Lasallian tradition.
These are the buildings St. X alumni tell their kids about when they drive by Poplar Level Road. The main entrance is where class photographs were taken for 160 years. It is a specific place that means something specific to a specific community of people in Louisville. The canvas print captures it from the perspective of someone who knows the school.
Who buys the St. Xavier prints? Parents whose sons are currently enrolled. Alums who graduated in any decade from the 1960s forward. Boosters who want something on the wall of a home office or a business that shows their connection to the school. People buying graduation gifts. People buying Father's Day gifts for the St. X alum who already has everything except a photograph of the campus on canvas. Whether you spell it St. Xavier canvas or saint Xavier canvas, this is what you are actually after.
Trinity High School Canvas Prints
Trinity is at 4011 Shelbyville Road. Catholic, all-boys, college preparatory, green and white Shamrocks. Founded in 1953 by Archbishop John Floersh. About 1,200 students on a 13-acre campus in the St. Matthews area of Louisville. And, for anyone who went to either school, the defining cross-town rivalry with St. Xavier.
The B2The7 Trinity collection captures the campus on Shelbyville Road with the same approach as the St. Xavier work. Original photographs of the specific architecture and campus details that Trinity alums and families recognize. Not a generic Catholic school image. Not something that could have been taken at any school anywhere. The specific buildings on the specific campus in Louisville.
The rivalry between Trinity and St. X is one of the genuinely meaningful things about Louisville Catholic high school culture. Which means the collection has prints relevant to both sides of that conversation. A home with a St. X graduate and a Trinity graduate has a reason to own prints from both collections, assuming they can agree on where each one goes.
Nobody else has these prints. Not Fine Art America. Not a stock library. They exist in this collection and nowhere else.
Sacred Heart Academy Canvas Prints
Sacred Heart Academy is at 3175 Lexington Road. All-girls, Catholic, founded in 1877 by the Ursuline Sisters. The Valkyries. Navy, white, and red. The campus has been in continuous operation for nearly 150 years, and the architecture carries that history visibly.
Sacred Heart is the unofficial sister school to Trinity, which means the social network that connects Louisville's Catholic high school alums runs through all three of these campuses. An SHA alumna whose husband went to Trinity has connections to both sides of that network. An SHA alumna who sends her son to St. X has connections in a different direction. These schools are woven into the same community.
The B2The7 Sacred Heart collection brings the same original photography approach to Lexington Road. Specific campus architecture. Named photographer. Original photographs that SHA alumnae and families will recognize as the actual place rather than a generic image that could have come from anywhere.
What This Collection Is For
The Louisville Catholic high school canvas prints work in a few specific contexts.
Home offices and personal spaces
An alum who now has a home office, a study, or a wall above a desk where something meaningful goes. The school photograph on canvas is the adult version of the letter jacket. It says where you came from without needing to explain it to anyone who was also there.
Graduation gifts
A gift for a graduating senior that will still be on a wall twenty years later. Not a spirit shirt. Not a generic keepsake. An original photograph of the campus they just spent four years of their life in.
Gifts for parents
A parent of a current student or recent grad who wants something that represents the family's connection to the school. The people who go to every game, volunteer for every event, and have a real relationship with the campus.
Business and professional spaces
A business owned by a St. X alum, a law firm where the partners all went to Trinity, an office where someone wants their Louisville roots on the wall.
I covered how original local photography works in professional spaces in more depth in the Louisville office wall art article on this site. The short version is that specific original photography communicates something a generic decorative print cannot.
Why Original Photography From a Named Photographer Matters Here
Louisville has plenty of people who will sell you a product with a school name on it. Licensed merchandise, generic prints, spirit items that exist in every school's bookstore.
What is much harder to find is original photography of the specific campus from a named local photographer who was actually there. I covered the difference between original photography and marketplace stock prints in depth in the original vs print-on-demand article on this site. The short version is that knowing who took the photograph, when, and where matters to the person buying it as a meaningful object rather than a decorative item.
Bernie Fussenegger took every print in the B2The7 high school collection. He went to these campuses with a camera and photographed them. Nobody else has these prints. They are not in Fine Art America. They are not in a stock photo library. They exist in this collection and nowhere else.
For a gift, or for a space where the art is supposed to reflect a real connection to a real place, that is the distinction that makes the difference.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Bottom Line
St. Xavier. Trinity. Sacred Heart. Three Louisville Catholic high schools with combined histories stretching back 150 years. Three campuses that are genuinely specific places with specific architecture and specific meaning to the thousands of families in Louisville who have sent kids through their doors.
The B2The7 collection captures these campuses in original photographs by a named Louisville photographer who actually went there. Not stock images. Not generic school merchandise. Original prints that alums, parents, and boosters will recognize as the real thing.
If you are looking for a specific view or a specific part of one of these campuses that is not in the current collection, reach out. There is more photography from these campuses than what is currently listed.
Original Louisville Catholic HS Canvas Prints
Original photography of St. Xavier, Trinity, and Sacred Heart Academy on canvas. Starts at $105. Ships ready to hang. Nobody else has these.
Bernie Fussenegger is a Louisville-based photographer and digital marketing strategist. He makes original photography on canvas featuring Louisville, Kentucky, golf, bourbon country, and beyond. Find the full collection at b2the7.com/canvas-prints.
