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The Kentucky Museum 2001 Changing Exhibits (Archive)
Kentucky Building | Western Kentucky University Campus | (270) 745-2592
2001 Exhibits
African
American Folk Art in Kentucky
- January 2, 2001 - February 28, 2001
New
Kentuckians - W.R.O.T.E. International Club and African American Artist
Nathaniel Lewis
- January 13-March 18, 2001
New Kentuckians - Girls, Inc.and Western Kentucky University
International
- March 31-June 2, 2001
New Kentuckians - Final Exhibition
- Opened June 16, 2001
Ninety Miles of Dixie: 31W Today
- October 29, 2000-September 23, 2001
Kentucky Women Artists 1850-1970
- September 16-December 9 at The Kentucky Museum
- January 20-March 13, 2002 at the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art
Picturing Faith: Religious America in Government
Photography, 1935-1943 - October 1-November 18, 2001
Portrait of Bowling Green - Kentucky Portraits and
Landscapes
- October 23-December 2, 2001
African American Folk Art in
Kentucky
January 2 - February 28, 2001
This traveling exhibit provides a first-ever look at
the work of self-taught African-American artists in Kentucky, as seen
through the work of ten artists with diverse backgrounds. They were born
between 1906 and 1963, from a coal camp in the eastern mountains to a
rural community not far from the Mississippi River. They live in cities,
small towns and out in the country and have worked as housemaid, sharecropper,
janitor, laborer, builder, social service supervisor, pro basketball player
and mortician. Developed and produced by the Kentucky
Folk Art Center, Morehead, Kentucky. Sponsored by Omni Customs Meat,
Inc. and Famous-Barr, a division
of the May Department Stores Company.
See photographs of the exhibit's opening
event on January 15 during the Martin Luther King celebration.
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New Kentuckians-W.R.O.T.E. International
Club and African American Artist Nathaniel Lewis
January 13-March 18, 2001
The W.R.O.T.E International Club mural is a painting
on canvas designed and painted by international students. This mural,
facilitated by Community Artist-in-Residence Lynne Ferguson, is displayed
alongside miniature structures built by African American artist Nathaniel
Lewis of Bowling Green. The project is part of New Kentuckians, the Kentucky
Museum 2000/01 community and school programming. Sponsored in part by
the Kentucky Arts Council.
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New Kentuckians-Girls Inc.
Western Kentucky University International
March 31-June 2, 2001
The "Girls From Around the World" mural is a mixed media painting on canvas designed and painted by members of Girls Inc. The girls spent many after school hours drawing and painting with community Artist-In-Residence Lynne Ferguson. The finished piece is a beautiful mural which portrays these young ladies' views of girls from around the world.
Western Kentucky University students Xiaoyun (Jenni)
Li, Chris Tabor, and Mary Charalambous have also been involved in the
"New Kentucians" project at the Kentucky Museum working with students
at the Bowling Green International Festival and designing and painting
a backdrop for the play "International Holiday." Sponsored in part by
the Kentucky Arts Council.
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New Kentuckians
- Final Exhibition
Opened June 16, 2001
New Kentuckians, a community arts project sponsored by
The Kentucky Museum and the Kentucky Arts Council, works to create a place
in the community for creative exchange and communication between the increasingly
diverse population in Bowling Green, Warren County, and the surrounding
area. Community Artist-in-Residence Lynne Ferguson collaborates with various
local groups and area schools to promote awareness and respect for the
different cultures represented in south-central Kentucky by offering artistic
expression opportunities to many residents. This is the final exhibition
from the project which engaged participants from more than 20 ethnic and
nationality groups. Sponsored in part by the Kentucky
Arts Council.
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Ninety Miles of Dixie: 31W Today
October 29, 2000-September 23, 2001
With the popularization of the automobile as a means
of travel, Kentucky cities participated in the creation of the Dixie Highway
along two major north-south highways of Kentucky: U.S. 25 East and West
and U.S. 31 East and West. This exhibit of approximately 60 photographs
will display present-day scenes along a 90-mile stretch of Highway 31W
between Elizabethtown, Kentucky and the Tennessee border. Taken by members
of the Southern Kentucky
Photographic Society, the images in this exhibit will give the viewer
a sampling of the region's culture. Sponsored by Jim Skaggs, Inc.
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Kentucky Women Artists:
1850-1970
September 16-December 9, 2001 at The Kentucky Museum
January 20-March 13, 2002 at the Owensboro Museum of Fine Art
This exhibit of 50 works recognizes the many women artists who were making art in Kentucky between 1850 and 1970. Like most women in America, the majority of women artists in the state did not have the opportunity of attending the finest art schools. Artistic activities, associated with the home such as pottery, weaving, quilting and other crafts were labeled as "minor" arts. The areas of painting, sculpture, and architecture were typically reserved for men as the fine arts. Those women who did acquire an art education played an important role in the state encouraging women to become artists at whatever level. To view the online exhibition, click here. Sponsored by Firstar, The Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Dorothy Grider Art Exhibit Fund.
The exhibition will be displayed at the Owensboro Museum
of Fine Art January 20 - March 13, 2002.
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Picturing Faith: Religious
America in Government Photography, 1935-1943
October 2-November 18, 2001
Picturing Faith is a unique series of photographs showing the place of religion in American society through the lens of some of America's most well known photographers - Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks. It also present the works of equally talented but lesser know photographers John Collier, Jr., Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, and Marjory Collins. In 1935 in order to generate support for New Deal reforms, the Historical Division of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) began making a photographic survey of economic struggle and social dislocation in Depression era America. Explanatory materials that set the photographs in their historical, artistic, and religious contexts accompany the 45 images in this exhibition. Presented by the Philosophy and Religion Department at Western Kentucky University.
Portrait
of Bowling Green - Kentucky Portraits and LandscapesOctober 23-December 2, 2001
Kentucky Portraits and Landscapes is a part of the Kentucky
Museum's 2001-02 community and school programming sponsored by the Mildred
and Wayne Givens Endowment Fund. Artist-in-residence, Lynne Ferguson,
will facilitate art workshops for school groups and professional development
workshops for teachers and collaborate with various local groups in Bowling
Green, Warren County and surrounding areas on visual art projects. Called
Kentucky Portraits and Landscapes, the project includes exhibitions at
the Kentucky Museum focusing on portrait and landscape elements to help
participants explore their personal landscapes and recall family and friends.
Portrait of Bowing Green is a 2' x 16' paper
collage of self-portraits drawn by 76 participants at the Bowling Green
International Festival on Saturday, October 6, 2001. Artist-in-residence
Lynne Ferguson glued the self-portraits together for the finished piece.
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