The Kentucky Museum 2003 Changing Exhibits (Archive)

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2003 Exhibits

Kentucky Collaborations
Opened October 11, 2002
New Deal Murals in Kentucky Post Offices
June 1 - July 13, 2003
Women and Poverty
February - June 29, 2003
Integra Bank Young at Heart: Children's Book Illustrations
March 15 - October 31, 2003
Carving Sound: A Tour of Regional Luthier
September 16 - December 11, 2003

Kentucky Collaborations
Opened October 11, 2002

Kentucky Collaboration, 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 using collaborations between fine arts, folk arts, theatre, folklorists and oral histories. Community Artist-in-Residence Lynne Ferguson collaborates with various local groups and area schools on visual arts projects that reflect individual and community self-expression, exploration and pride essential to both community and arts development. The artist is a community resource, collaborating with local people on projects.

• Paintings by adult students at the Western Kentucky Refugee Mutual Assistance Association
• Mural executed by students at the Warren Regional Juvenile Detention Center Mura
• Paintings and collages by Alice Gatewood Waddell
• Watercolor paintings by Auburn Elementary school children
• Mural created by children at the Southern Kentucky Festival of Books illustrating the unpublished story Sara Gets a Name by Wendy Altenburger.

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Women and Poverty
February 1 - June 29, 2003

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New Deal Murals in Kentucky Post Offices
June 1 - July 13, 2003

This exhibition of Depression era murals found in Kentucky Post Offices represents history on the wall. Painted as part of government art programs, the murals were, for the most part, placed in small rural post offices. The emphasis was to provide tasteful art of good quality to those who had little experience of art at all. The photographs in this exhibition, travelled by the Allen R. Hite Art Institute, show the murals that exist today. Sponsored in part by Landmark Association of Bowling Green and Warren County.

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Integra Bank Young at Heart: Children's Book Illustrations
March 15 - October 31, 2003

"Children's Book Illustrations" features the original artwork from a selection of late 20th century children's books. Supplemented by a display of 19th century books, this exhibit shows the work of such well-known illustrators as Eric Carle, Robert Quackenbush and Ernest Shepard. A highlight of the exhibition is the entire run of illustrations drawn by Simeon Shimin from Mary Jarrell's "The Knee-Baby". The show promises to delight the visitor as the books have delighted children through the years. Sponsored by Integra Bank and the Dorothy Grider Art Exhibit Fund.

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Carving Sound: A Tour of Regional Luthiers
September 16 - December 11, 2003

Standing in front of his workbench Jimmy Robertson holds a mandolin he is building in his Metcalfe County shop. Robertson is one of the luthiers (makers of fretted instruments) shown in this exhibit curated by Western Kentucky Folk Studies students Paul McCoy and Stuart Burrill. The exhibit will feature handmade musical instruments from south central Kentucky.

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