Events

Jan 9 - Jun 1 2024

Walid Raad is a Lebanon-born and New York-based artist whose work investigates the ways that history is remembered and represented. He makes use of archives and photographs in the public realm and questions aspects of veracity and meaning in the context of ongoing wars in the Middle East. Raad is well-known for The Atlas Group (1989-2004), a fifteen-year project which borrows from the genres of literary fiction and conceptual photography.…

UK Art Museum
Free
Jan 9 - Jun 1 2024

This exhibition is the first examination of the various collaborative works that poet/author/critic John Yau has created with a range of visual artists during the past five decades. These include paintings, mixed media works on paper, print portfolios, artist books, and letterpress broadsides. As he says, "I'm into every way a poem can be done."

Yau's poetry is infused with humor and intelligence, and he uses a variety of forms to…

UK Art Museum
Free
Feb 9 - Jul 6 2024
The preposition “re” has a rich grammatical history dating back to its Latin origins, meaning “in reality” or “in fact.” Today, you’re most likely to see “re” on documents or emails, meaning “in regard to” and often interpreted as shorthand for “reply.”
The re:museum exhibition employs “re” for its multitude of meanings, using it as framing to showcase our permanent collection and the Museum itself. Through education-forward installations, re…
UK Art Museum
Free
Feb 9 - Jul 6 2024
This exhibition brings together the trompe l’œil sculptures of two established artists who transform clay and plywood into tableaus of everyday items including clothing, branches, envelopes, and bowls of fruit. Their works are likely to be familiar to Lexington audiences, but Isaacs and Shay are being shown together here for the first time.

Their mastery of craft contributes to a sense of wonder, as they individually take realism to a…
UK Art Museum
Free
Feb 9 - Jul 6 2024
Christina A. West is a mixed-media artist whose works often reference classical art and academic traditions of studying the model. We have invited her to adapt pieces from her Mere Mortals series (constructed wooden stages with wheels, plaster body fragments, plastic straps, and weights) and other recent photographs and sculptures to engage artworks in our permanent collection.
She has written, “My most recent installations explore the female…
UK Art Museum
Free
Feb 9 - Jul 6 2024
In Still feel gone, Tim Carpenter brings together three distinct series of black-and-white photographs that document spare American landscapes and feature houses, roads, trees, powerlines, and other natural or built elements. Often working in central Illinois where he grew up, Carpenter draws the viewer into unassuming semi-rural situations where the most dramatic thing occurring might be the leaning of a telephone pole or a meandering crack in…
UK Art Museum
Free
Feb 9 - Jul 6 2024
Dieter Roth was a German-Swiss Conceptual artist known for his use of non-traditional materials in making sculptures and installations. Cheese, sausage, and chocolate, among other items, would lend definite odors (not always pleasant ones) during the run of his exhibitions. Roth enjoyed blurring the line between process and product, and his work often questioned assumptions about permanence.

His practice included drawing, printmaking,…
UK Art Museum
Free
Mar 18 2024 | 8pm

A cross-section of diverse musical offerings from both universities, featuring music for strings, voice, keyboard, winds, brass, percussion, and more!

Singletary Concert Hall
Free
Mar 19 2024 | 7pm
An Evening of Appalachian MusicMary-Hollis Hundley, soprano
Robert Bosworth, piano
Julia Cash, violin Please join us for the second performance of two new works by Kentucky composers Sarah Hutchings ("Bluegrass") and Corey Crider ("The Loom of Life"). Admission is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there! “Bluegrass” is a captivating musical journey that takes you deep into the heart of Kentucky’s fiddle traditions,…
Central Christian Church
219 E Short St, Lexington, KY 40507
Free
Mar 20 2024 | 10am

The Future of Journalism and the Health of Our Democracy with the Atlantic

Singletary Center for the Arts | Concert Hall
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024 

 

JENISHA WATTS

Jenisha Watts is a university of Kentucky graduate and the senior editor at The Atlantic. Before joining The Atlantic in 2020, she was a culture editor for ESPN’s The Undefeated and a features and commentary editor for…

Singletary Concert Hall
FREE, REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Mar 22 2024 | 7:30pm

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. All ticket holders have received a refund back to their original payment method. 

If you have questions or conerns about the status of your refund, please reach out to SCFA Marketing & Ticketing Director Taylor Jewell here.

University of Kentucky Symphony Orchestra
John Nardolillo, conductor
Merih Erdem Özden, DMA’24, conductor
Camilla Yoder, oboe

Claude Debussy: Rondes de…

Singletary Concert Hall
EVENT CANCELLED
Mar 23 2024 | 3pm, Mar 23 2024 | 7:30pm
Singletary Recital Hall
$34 Adults / $17 Students (additional online processing fees may apply)
Mar 23 2024 | 6:30 - 7:30pm

The lecture recital aims to explore and explain the rich tapestry of Latin-American music, focusing on composers who skillfully blend their traditional rhythms and melodies with Western classical composition techniques.

John Jacob Niles Gallery
Free
Mar 23 2024 | 3pm, Mar 23 2024 | 7:30pm
Singletary Recital Hall
$34 Adults / $17 Students (additional online processing fees may apply)
Mar 25 2024 | 7:30pm

Colin Stetson is a bold, singular force in contemporary music. His recorded output, not to mention studio and live collaborations – with, among others, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, LCD Soundsystem, The National, Chemical Brothers, Bon Iver and Bill Laswell – has proven as prolific as it is praiseworthy. Since the 21st century’s early years Stetson has gained a well-deserved reputation as an exceptional musician, his devotion to craft consummate, his…

Singletary Recital Hall
$25 ADULTS / $10 STUDENTS