Events

The title and spirit of this exhibition was inspired in many ways by a photograph made by Mark Klett with Byron Wolfe. An intrepid climber bounds from one rocky outcrop to another; caught in mid-air, his landing is uncertain. Klett started out as a straight photographer, but began marrying historic and contemporary imagery, occasionally with tongue in cheek. He has deftly inserted a vintage postcard of the daredevil jumper into his own twenty…

In the early 1950s, Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Van Deren Coke set out to photograph all the people, homes, and businesses on Georgetown Street in Lexington. Together they made 150 images and exhibited thirty of them in the Lexington Camera Club’s annual show in November 1956. The results are sometimes joyful, sometimes disturbing.  

“These are the people, the places, no derision shown,” Meatyard wrote in an exhibition statement. “…

Oscar Wilde said, “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future,” acknowledging that we are all works in progress, and most of us struggle with both good and at least somewhat malicious impulses over the course of our lives. Sinners and Saints examines both the labels and the blurred lines as artists present mixed messages in their approach to these twinned themes. Drawn from the permanent collection, this exhibition…

On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark piece of legislation that made access to an abortion a federal right in the United States. This action dismantled fifty years of legal protection for women and control over their reproductive health.  This was not a surprise given the dispositions of the current justices, but it is another challenge among the issues of equality and respect, and gender and racial…

The re:museum exhibition is getting a re:fresh in 2023 with a new set of artworks and updated 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, an online resource established through a UK Arts Extension Outreach Grant to…

Foundations Show

MFA Melanie Landsittel / MFA Thesis Show

BFA Alexis Jesse / BFA Thesis Show

reception: Thursday, March 23 @ 4:30-6:30

Humberto Saenz is a Mexican artist currently residing in San Antonio, Texas. Humberto’s artwork is exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in solo, juried, and invitational exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include the Flatbed Contemporary Art Fair, Austin, TX, Global Print 2015 in Sabrosa, Portugal, and the Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2015 in Tokushima, Japan. In 2016, his work was exhibited in Border…

The Student Activities Board and the University of Kentucky Student Government Association are excited to announce Speak Blue featuring former UK basketball player, Rex Chapman! Join us for a night with this speaker Thursday, March 29th, 2023 at 7PM (doors open at 6PM) at the Singletary Center for the Arts Concert Hall.

Reserved Seating. 

Curator Janie Welker leads a tour focusing on her exhibitions, Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Georgetown Street, and Sinners and Saints.

Image: Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Untitled, circa 1955-56, gelatin silver print. Collection of the UK Art Museum, gift of the Ralph Eugene Meatyard Estate. 

The John Jacob Niles Center for American Music presents
Stephen Trask in concert: Compositions and Improvisations for Modular Synthesizers

Pre-concert Talk and demonstration - 3:30pm
Concert - 7:30pm

Lexington-based composer Stephen Trask is best known as the award-winning composer and lyricist for the groundbreaking rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. They have also scored numerous films including…

UK Choristers presents "A Night on Broadway: Fools in Love" in the Singletary Center Recital Hall. 

ALL PERFORMANCES:
April 1st at 3:00PM
April 1st at 7:30PM

UK Choristers presents "A Night on Broadway: Fools in Love" in the Singletary Center Recital Hall. 

ALL PERFORMANCES:
April 1st at 3:00PM
April 1st at 7:30PM

Chamber Music Society of Central Kentucky presents Garth Newel Piano Quartet
Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 3PM in the SCFA Recital Hall

Based in Warm Springs, VA at the Garth Newel Music Center, where chamber music reigns supreme, the Garth Newel Piano Quartet keeps very busy playing home and away. Their Lexington program includes one of the greatest of all chamber works--Brahms Piano Quartet in A Major--plus a delightful Mozart…

KANDACE SPRINGS
presented by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and Origins Jazz Series
Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 | 5PM | SCFA Concert Hall 

Reserved seating. 

TICKETS:
$25 Adults / $5 Students

Prince once said that Kandace Springs “has a voice that could melt snow.” The music icon heard Springs’ cover of Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me” online in 2014 and invited her to perform with…

This concert will feature music by the UK Trumpet Ensemble, UK Trombone Choir, UK Horn Choir, UK Tuba & Euphonium Choir, and combined UK brass ensembles.