Kentucky Museum - Past Exhibits
![Celebration 2024](/kentuckymuseum/images/celebration2024.jpg)
March 2 - April 12, 2024
The Kentucky Museum presents their annual juried art exhibit, which is truly a celebration of this region’s art. Generously sponsored by Abound Credit Union, any Kentucky resident over the age of 18 and living within 65 miles of Bowling Green was eligible to enter a piece of their original artwork created within the last two years. Monetary awards are given in ten categories as well as for Best of Show, the Purchase Award, the World's Greatest Studio Tour Merit Award, and the Artworks Merit Award.
![KYAEA All State Elementary and Middle School Art Show](/kentuckymuseum/images/kyaea_2024.jpg)
February 21 - March 16, 2024
We are thrilled to serve as host venue for the Kentucky Art Education Association's Elementary & Middle School All-State Art Show 2024. Students across Kentucky submit their works to the show. At the end, a Closing Reception honors their works. The show is a wonderful introduction to art as a profession and encourages artistic talent across the Commonwealth while advocating for and increasing the quality of visual arts education.
![Clinton Lewis in Peru](/kentuckymuseum/images/clinton_lewis_peru.png)
July 26, 2023 - March 23, 2024
Official staff photographer for WKU and all satellite campuses, Clinton Lewis has spent fifteen years as a hidden gem of our campus and community. This exhibition highlights Clinton's work in editorial photojournalism, advertising and commercial photography, outdoor adventure, fine art landscape photography, and graphic design.
![Farmers Cultural Awareness Project](/kentuckymuseum/images/fca_logo.png)
January 17 - February 15, 2024
The portion of Americans who make their living by farming has dropped dramatically over the last century, which means that most of us are far removed from farm life - and know little about the challenges that farmers face or the pride and joy that comes with farming. The Farmers Cultural Awareness Project shares experiences of farmers in the 10-country Barren River Area Development District, in their own words, from oral histories recorded in 2021-22.
Created in partnership with the Raising Hope Initiative, the WKU Department of Folk Studies & Anthropology, the WKU School of Nursing & Allied Health, and the Area Health Education Center of South Central Kentucky. For more information about the project, click here.
![Gazing Deeply title card](/kentuckymuseum/images/gazing_350x250.png)
February 2020 - December 9, 2023
Gazing Deeply showcases how WKU’s backyard—the unique landscape of Mammoth Cave—is being studied, interpreted, and inspiring action on environmental change. Coinciding with the UNESCO Conservation of Fragile Karst Resources: A Workshop on Sustainability and Community and Earth Day’s 50th anniversary in 2020, this exhibition is a collaborative effort between arts and science faculty and students that highlights one of the most well-known and vital natural landscapes in the world.
![Our Town](/kentuckymuseum/images/our_town.jpg)
August 30 - December 9, 2023
In 2008, the Kentucky Museum and Department of Library Collections and Discovery invited our community to share their family photographs for documentation in our archives. As a primary source, photographs provide direct evidence of events and time periods used by researchers to learn about what was important to people who lived at the time and to discover what their lives were like. Submitted photographs documented life in Bowling Green from the 1890s to 1980s, and provide a look at nearly 100 years in "Our Town." What do you see when you look at these photographs?
![C2c artwork](/kentuckymuseum/images/c2c_nhan.jpg)
September 2023
![Styles &thegistofit](/kentuckymuseum/images/styles_exhibit_square.png)
2021 - 2023
![Crazy Quilt](/kentuckymuseum/images/crazyquilt_icon.jpg)
through July 29, 2023
![Side by Side](/kentuckymuseum/images/sidebyside_index2019.jpg)
April 6 - June 30, 2023
![US Bank show display](/kentuckymuseum/images/usbank_19.jpg)
March 4 - April 14, 2023
![What Happened to Jonesville](/kentuckymuseum/images/jonesville_exhibit.jpg)
![art example](/kentuckymuseum/images/artexample3.jpg)
![a seat at the table exhibit graphic](/kentuckymuseum/images/seatat_table_lfedit.jpg)
![KWR cover image](/kentuckymuseum/images/kwr_web_cover.png)
View the virtual exhibit here.
![2021 Purchase Award](/kentuckymuseum/images/2021purchaseaward.jpg)
![ZSEIFS title card](/kentuckymuseum/images/zseifs_exhibit_logo.png)
![Whitework no 2857](/kentuckymuseum/images/2857_c.jpg)
![Weaving Exhibit 2019 coverlet](/kentuckymuseum/images/weaving_2019.jpg)
![out of the box logo new](/kentuckymuseum/images/ootb_logo_new.png)
![Highbrow](/kentuckymuseum/images/highbrow_gatton.jpg)
(Photo by Cheryl Kirby Stokes)
![Jacqui Lubbers weaving](/kentuckymuseum/images/lubbers_thumbnail2.jpg)
![2019 purchase award US Bank](/kentuckymuseum/images/lfedit_usbanklewis.jpg)
![POW Exhibit prints](/kentuckymuseum/images/updatedpow.jpg)
![Heart of Steel by artist David Chambers](/kentuckymuseum/images/heartofsteel_nbo.jpg)
![Handmade Heritage exhibit at FAC](/kentuckymuseum/images/handmade_heritage.jpg)
Learn about the Traveling Exhibit available from the Kentucky Folklife Program.
![Journey to the Jote Pop-Up Exhibit](/kentuckymuseum/images/19ammendmentpopup_exhibit.jpg)
![Art Cubano image](/kentuckymuseum/images/d3fonseca_pasatiempo.jpg)
![Bosnian flier](/kentuckymuseum/images/exhibits/bosnian/bosnia_exhibit_page_website4.jpg)
![2018 Purchase Award](/kentuckymuseum/images/purchaseaward_2018_small.jpg)
![Chinese objects](/kentuckymuseum/images/exhibits/clc_2.jpg)
![The Essential Tree](/kentuckymuseum/images/essential_tree_with_dates.jpg)
![Civil War Exhibit](/kentuckymuseum/images/civilwar_replacement.jpg)
![Kentucky Sun Quilt](/kentuckymuseum/images/sun_quilt_lfcrop.jpg)
![Salient Features](/kentuckymuseum/images/1salientfeatures17_web.jpg)
![Cat drawing from summer camp](/kentuckymuseum/images/cat.jpg)
![Collaboration from Side by Side program](/kentuckymuseum/images/paint_pour_web.jpg)
![create it forward logo](/kentuckymuseum/images/exhibits/cif_social_media.jpg)
![Petkus Best of Show 2017](/kentuckymuseum/images/exhibits/petkus.jpg)
![New Kentuckians Art](/kentuckymuseum/images/a012_newkentuckians_webedit.jpg)
![Whie Oak Basket Exhibit Image](/kentuckymuseum/images/leonaedit.jpg)
![MLK, Jr Mural](/kentuckymuseum/images/mlk_gm_resized.jpg)
![IAE Telescope](/kentuckymuseum/images/editiae_t.jpg)
![Alice Waddell vibrant view of human rights](/kentuckymuseum/images/waddellcalendar_edited_1.jpg)
![hascalhaile](/kentuckymuseum/images/haile_crop2edit.jpg)
![Joe Downing Exhibit](/kentuckymuseum/images/100fkm02.jpg)
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