Show Applied Filters?

I am creating a gallery with a bunch of filters on the side that a user can use to narrow down the galleries displayed.

There are 2 aspects I would like to add to the top of the gallery though and I can't figure out how to do them and researching has been difficult.

1) I have one filter, called gallery. This filter narrows down the results to a particular kind of gallery. I would like the filter selected to print out at the top of the gallery view page, sort of like a title but I have a placeholder for it in the tpl.php file I made.

So: How can I print out the selected filter from the exposed filter called gallery? I have found information to do this but only as an array number not as plain text. So if a user clicks a filter option, the gallery refreshes as normal and the print out at the top changes as well.

2) Create a "breadcrumb" of applied filters? Sort of like "filter 1 > filter 2 > filter 3 etc." Based on what I am seeing from the client, if you clicked on a previous filter, it would turn off the ones in front of it. That is a little more advanced, so even if I can just get a print out of each filter, that would be great. Really i think similar code as in #1 would be used for this.