Art Museum - Family

10am - 5pm, presentation at 3pm

The UK College of Fine Arts Costume Studio will have a selection of pieces from their collection on display throughout the day, leading up to a presentation by Costume Studio faculty and staff at 3 PM on how they repurpose materials such as previously constructed costumes and purchased or donated clothing and accessories. 

The artworks in Sew What are made of sewn, woven, and quilted materials. Family Day: Sew Cool will give participants the supplies to sew their own artistic creations. Using embroidery hoops, yarn, burlap, and plastic kid-safe sewing needles, participants will create their own stitched characters using either pre-made templates or their own original designs. Kids of all ages are welcome to participate with parent or guardian accompaniment. 

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We are excited to partner with the Friends of the Kentucky Theater, The Lyric Theater, and Local Trivia Action on Zoom Movie Trivia Night.  This month's focus is on art in film!  Join us Thursday, April 29 at 7:45 pm and test your knowledge!  Win a great prize and movie trivia bragging rights!  This event is free but registration is required.  Click here to reserve your spot:  friendsofthekentucky.org/onthemarquee 

Join acclaimed interdisciplinary artist Jay Bolotin for a conversation about his current animated film, based on his 2011-2014 print portfolio of 20 woodcut and relief etchings. 

The Book of Only Enoch is the story of a sensitive Jewish boy from Kentucky and his journey of self-awareness and spiritual clarity. Created using countless drawings and sets made by the artist, the film possesses the magic realism of Bolotin’s 2019 film, The Silence of Professor Tösla, a collaboration with writer Ilan Stavans, that has won prizes at festivals around the world.  

Join us for a conversation about recycling, heavy metal music, and site-specific installation, with exhibiting artists, Bruce Burris, Elana Herzog, and Ben Venom.  

They each add something unique to the venerable tradition of collage and assemblage. Moderated by director Stuart Horodner.  

This conversation will take place on Zoom. 

Elinor Carucci lives an examined life. As a teenager in Israel, she began photographing her mother, father and grandparents with intimacy and openness about the human body that reflects the culture in which she was raised.

Photographer Todd Hido is best known for the evocative images he captured while driving through neighborhoods at night, photographing homes whose glowing windows suggest untold stories, but reveal little. For more than twenty-five years, he has returned literally and metaphorically to memories and experiences of growing up in Kent, Ohio, exploring suburban isolation and finding romance in the mundane.

You're invited to listen in and contribute to a conversation with UK Art Museum Curator Janie Welker alongside Education Coordinator Dan Solberg as they discuss works from the exhibition How 'Bout Them Cats, which Welker curated. 
 

Exhibiting artist Patrick Smith discusses his realistic portraits of friends in Lexington with Director Stuart Horodner. They examine Smith's art in relationship to historical portraiture by Victor Hammer, an Austrian artist working in the dangerous context of Europe in the 1930s. 

The Art Museum will be CLOSED the following dates:

• Thursday, Nov. 26, and Friday, Nov. 27: Thanksgiving
• December 13, 2020 - January 4, 2021: Winter Holidays and New Years

The Art Museum will be OPEN on Saturday, Nov. 28.

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