Events

Jan 19 2024 | 12 - 1pm
In my multimedia installations, I use video and light projected through glass objects and kinetic sculptures to create immersive, moving shadow-drawings. The disruption of climate change, man-made disasters, and the evolution of technology on our (and as our) landscape has been the driving force of my creative research for several years. Citing art historical roots from the Hudson River School to Land Arts, I examine the interrelationship of…
Bolivar Art Gallery
Free and Open to the Public
Jan 20 2024 | 4pm

Featuring Men’s Chorus and acoUstiKats with area high school boys choirs

Singletary Concert Hall
Free
Jan 25 2024 | 5:30 - 6:30pm

Please join us for a discussion with Miriam Kienle (UK Professor of Art History) about her new book, Queer Networks: Ray Johnson’s Correspondence Art. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

 

UK Art Museum
Free
Jan 25 2024 | 7:30pm

Jeff Parker is recognized as one of contemporary music’s most versatile and innovative electric guitarists and composers. With a prolific output characterized by musical ideas of angularity and logic, he works in a wide variety of mediums - from pop, rock and jazz to new music - using ideas informed by innovations and trends in both popular and experimental forms. He creates works that explore and exploit the contrary relationships between…

Singletary Recital Hall
$25 ADULTS / $10 STUDENTS
Feb 1 2024

The Musical Theatre Certificate offers students the opportunity to study this popular art form in a flexible program. As a Theatre, Voice, or Dance Major students may audition for entrance into this highly selective program each spring and can be admitted even as incoming Freshmen.

Students in this interdisciplinary program train with experts in Private Voice Coaching, Musical Theatre Dance and Technique as well as Master Classes…

Audition Registration Required
Feb 2 - 4 2024

Honor Band Weekend features two fantastic bands and lots of opportunities to learn, grow, and share in a once-in-a-lifetime experience with giants of the wind band world and other band students.

Entrance into the Honors Concert Band is based on high school director recommendation and all names must be submitted by director and not by student. Entrance into the Honors Wind Ensemble will be based on a personal application and…

Singletary Center
Audition/Nomination Required
Feb 2 2024 | 8:30am - 9pm

High school dancers are invited to engage in dance workshops taught by professional dance faculty, Q&As with both faculty and current students, and tours of our facilities on campus. Plus, all participants will be provided lunch at the Gatton Student Center Champions Kitchen and one complimentary ticket to our Dance Performance mainstage production, HOME: Annual Dance Concert at 7:30 pm in the Guignol Theatre.

Fine Arts Building
$10
Feb 2 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Feb 3 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Feb 4 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm

Feb. 2 - 4, 2024

We’ve returned home. Home to the studio, to the theatre, to creating, sweating, dancing, and witnessing the magic of movement. Home provides a venue for Students to perform faculty, guest artist, and student choreography, which embraces a variety of forms. Through Irish Step Dance, Contemporary Ballet, Hip-Hop, Modern and Dance Theatre, UK Dance celebrates Home as verb, not a concept. 

Guignol Theatre
$20 Adults / $13 Students
Feb 3 2024 | 7:30pm

University of Kentucky Wind Symphony with Lafayette High School Wind Symphony
Singletary Center for the Arts | Concert Hall 
Saturday, February 3rd, 2024 | 7:30PM

UK Wind Symphony, Dr. John Cody Birdwell, Conductor

Singletary Concert Hall
$14 Adults / $7 Students (additional online processing fees may apply)
Feb 2 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Feb 3 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Feb 4 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm

Feb. 2 - 4, 2024

We’ve returned home. Home to the studio, to the theatre, to creating, sweating, dancing, and witnessing the magic of movement. Home provides a venue for Students to perform faculty, guest artist, and student choreography, which embraces a variety of forms. Through Irish Step Dance, Contemporary Ballet, Hip-Hop, Modern and Dance Theatre, UK Dance celebrates Home as verb, not a concept. 

Guignol Theatre
$20 Adults / $13 Students
Feb 2 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Feb 3 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm, Feb 4 2024 | 2 - 3:30pm

Feb. 2 - 4, 2024

We’ve returned home. Home to the studio, to the theatre, to creating, sweating, dancing, and witnessing the magic of movement. Home provides a venue for Students to perform faculty, guest artist, and student choreography, which embraces a variety of forms. Through Irish Step Dance, Contemporary Ballet, Hip-Hop, Modern and Dance Theatre, UK Dance celebrates Home as verb, not a concept. 

Guignol Theatre
$20 Adults / $13 Students
Feb 6 - 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 6 - 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 6 - 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 6 - 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