Events

Join Moderator Stuart Horodner for a discussion of the John Waters film with artists Guy Mendes…

Appalachia in the Bluegrass Concert Series, sponsored by The John Jacob Niles Center for American Music and the UK College of Fine Arts

Sparky and Rhonda Rucker perform throughout the U.S. as well as overseas, singing songs and telling stories from the American folk tradition. Sparky Rucker has been performing over forty years and is internationally recognized as a leading folklorist, musician, historian, storyteller, and author.…

Exhibiting artist Chris Verene discusses his photographs that document generations of family members in Galesburg, Illinois. Visit the Museum after the lecture to see his work on view.

On Saturday, September 14, UK Choirs will proudly host the annual Bluegrass Choral Music Festival! This event is historically one of the largest high school choral festivals in the southeastern US with over 500 singers from schools throughout the region participating; Featuring acoUstiKats, Paws and Listen, Blue Note and various High School Choirs.

A free concert will take place at 5pm to cap off the day!

To register, singers…

What Home Means to Us is a community based quilt workshop exploring our own stories of home, future possibilities for housing, and works to translate these experiences through quilt making. Participants will be learning some basic design and quilting techniques to create their own quilt block. All quilt blocks will be a part of a larger community quilt to be shown in 2025.

Join Museum staff for an afternoon of relaxation, arts and crafts, yard games, music, and treats on the Singletary lawn.

September 20-21, 2024

Co-hosted by the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, Queer Art | Queer Archives brings together experts specializing in queer art, theory, and archival methods for two days of presentations, discussions, and exhibitions. Historically, queer practices circumvented institutions and experimented with media not sanctioned by museums. Artists and art historians concerned with queer practices…

Part of the Appalachia in the Bluegrass Series

Carla Gover is an eighth-generation Kentuckian who hails from a small coal town in Eastern Kentucky, and her rural sensibilities permeate the work that she does and the music that she plays. A veteran of the folk scene, she has performed and recorded with such artists as Jean Ritchie, Mark Schatz, Dudley Connell, Stuart Duncan, Dirk Powell, Jesse Wells, Bruce Molsky, and many more. Her two…

September 20-21, 2024

Co-hosted by the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, Queer Art | Queer Archives brings together experts specializing in queer art, theory, and archival methods for two days of presentations, discussions, and exhibitions. Historically, queer practices circumvented institutions and experimented with media not sanctioned by museums. Artists and art historians concerned with queer practices…

Christine Tarkowski is an artist working in a variety of mediums, formats and collaborative conditions. Her artistic output includes; sculpture, architecture, printed matter, photography and song and ranges in scale from the ordinary to the monumental. Equally variable is the scope of production, incorporating the making of permanent public structures, propositional drawings, cast glass models, textile yardage, temporary printed ephemera, and…

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Part of the Appalachia in the Bluegrass Series

TDH4 a/k/a Tall Dark and Handsome-- Karen Jones on fiddle, Bev Futrell on guitar,  George Neel  on mandolin and Nathan Wilson on bass.  Karen and Bev, also members of the Reel World String Band, teamed up with long time friend George Neel, an accomplished jazz musician to form this trio in 1993. Nathan Wilson joined in 2021 on bass. Dust Devils On Our Heels, was…

Join co-curators Stuart Horodner and Leah Kolb for a tour of All in the Family prior to the UK Student Orchestra concert at the Singletary Center.