Art Museum - Family

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.

Learn more about visiting the Art Museum.

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.

Learn more about visiting the Art Museum.

This hour-long Zoom session will take participants on a virtual tour of the Art Museum, focusing on artwork that uses boxes, containers, and frames and talking about how artists use these simple shapes to tell stories and prompt us to look closer. Have paper and a writing utensil or other art supplies ready for a drawing activity! Kids of all ages are welcome to participate with parent or guardian permission.

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Join Liz Swanson, UK associate professor of architecture, for a collaborative drawing session utilizing her new accordion-style publication, Wondrous Things. It is a lively children’s book to read on one side, and an interactive coloring book on the other. We’ll provide materials; you bring family members and friends to help fill in the continuous landscape design.

image: Wondrous Things bookcover

Family Day Workshop
12-1 pm
Using our current exhibitions for inspiration, we will explore elements of collage, weaving, and erasing. We’ll provide the materials, you bring family members and a playful spirit. In partnership with Jarah Jones and ARTplay Children’s Studio.

Using our current exhibitions for inspiration, we will explore elements of collage, weaving, and erasing. We’ll provide the materials; you bring family members and a playful spirit. In partnership with Jarah Jones and ARTplay Children’s Studio.