Events

Join us in celebrating the art and life of the American modernist Edward Fisk, who left New York City in September 1926 for a more peaceful life in Lexington and a teaching position at the University of Kentucky. In Greenwich Village and Provincetown, Massachusetts, Fisk was at the heart of the Bohemian art scene from about 1914 to the mid-1920s. Among his close friends were the avant-garde playwright Eugene O’Neill and his literary cadre, as…

Susan Silas is a New York-based artist who uses photography, video, performance, and sculpture to examine the aging female body and various states of being. Her exhibition combines works from several series over the past twenty-five years, drawing connections between animal and human, stillness and motion, individuality and hybridity.

In EYES WIDE SHUT, 2010, from her ongoing series found birds, Silas photographs a dead…

In 2022, the Museum received a generous gift of Barbara Rossi works from the Kohler Foundation in Wisconsin, and several of these are included in this exhibition. The artist is associated with the Chicago Imagists, along with Roger Brown, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, and Karl Wirsum, among others. They each utilize the human figure in fantastic ways, rendering it with precise line, vibrant color, and stylized distortions. …

The re:museum exhibition continues to evolve and re:fresh, with updated artworks and informational displays. 

re:museum centers the Museum and our permanent collection by exhibiting a combination of artworks, educational prompts, and other incisive displays. The artworks on view in re:museum pull from our Digital Learning Gallery, including prints from Romare Bearden’s Odysseus Suite, a pair of…

Celebrate the magic of the holiday season on Sunday, Dec. 10 as we present our traditional Alltech Celebration of Song featuring the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre and winners of the Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition. Doors open at 3:00 p.m. Parking is free. 

Close out the evening with a drive through the sparkling Southern Lights display at the Kentucky Horse Park campground, a holiday tradition in the…

UK’s School of Art and Visual Studies hosts its biannual Digital Media Blast. Join the faculty and students from SA/VS to experience the best student time-based work from this fall semester. Free and open to the public, so bring a friend!

Warm up with hot jazz music at Singletary Center as UK Jazz Studies presents the UK Jazz Studies and Bluegrass Area Jazz Ambassadors’ “Jazzy Christmas.” The concert will begin 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12, in the Singletary Center Recital Hall.

The Bluegrass Area Jazz Association (BAJA) is a nonprofit organization committed to the promotion of jazz education and the performance of jazz in the Bluegrass area. BAJA consists…

Bluegrass Youth Ballet presents "The Nutcracker in One Act" in the SCFA Concert Hall.

This shortened performance of The Nutcracker (presented in a single, family-friendly act) was created with younger audiences in mind, condensing the enchantment to capture the attention of kids.

ALSO - Enhance your experience with attendance at the Sugar Plum Tea Party after the performance. This is your golden opportunity to mingle with beloved…

Bluegrass Youth Ballet presents "The Nutcracker in One Act" in the SCFA Concert Hall.

This shortened performance of The Nutcracker (presented in a single, family-friendly act) was created with younger audiences in mind, condensing the enchantment to capture the attention of kids.

ALSO - Enhance your experience with attendance at the Sugar Plum Tea Party after the performance. This is your golden opportunity to mingle with beloved…

TICKETS: 
Save $5 when you purchase before the day of the show! 

$25 VIP (includes admission to the performance and reception)
$15 Adults
$10 Students/Seniors
Children 5 and under can enter for free - please contact the SCFA Ticket Office at (859) 257-4929 to reserve 

The African American Ballet Troupe (AABT) of Lexington, KY is excited to bring you the Ebony Nutcracker which is their…

This exhibition features the collaborative works that poet/author/critic John Yau has created with a range of visual artists during the past four 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 poetic forms to examine aspects…

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 and…

We welcome the general public to a reception celebrating our new exhibitions.

A survey of faculty work from the Academy of Fine Art in Krakow, Poland featuring works on paper ranging from contemporary applications of traditional media to the integration of technologies like robotic drawing machines. The show will be presented in partnership with the Bolivar Art Gallery in the UK School of Art / Visual Studies and Morlan Gallery at Transylvania University.

Alice Pixley Young is a multimedia installation artist born and raised in Washington, D.C. Her work examines the interrelationship of landscape, environment, and technology.