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The Kentucky Museum 2008 Changing Exhibits (Archive)
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2008 Exhibits
- The Little Colonel: A Romanticized Look at Kentucky Childhood - November 14 - March 31, 2008 (Kentucky Library Second Floor Tabletop Display)
- Slow Time: The Works of Charley, Noah and Hazel Kinney - September 22, 2007 - February 10, 2008
- Side by Side: Very Special Arts - January 7 - March 30, 2008 (Garden Gallery)
- US Bank "Celebration of the Arts" 2008 Open Art Exhibition -
March 2 - April 5, 2008 (Second and Third Floor Galleries)
The Little Colonel: A Romanticized Look at Kentucky Childhood - November 14, 2007-January 31, 2008
This exhibit will include The Little Colonel Good Times Book Clara Louise Robertson used as a diary, several pages from Marjorie Clagett's Little Colonel Good Times Book, Annie Fellows Johnston books and a Shirley Temple cream pitcher. It will also feature Little Colonel dolls, a Little Colonel game board, and Annie Fellows Johnston publications loaned by the Sue Lynn McDaniel Collection.
This exhibit is a cooperative venture with the University of Louisville and with the Oldham County Historical Society's exhibition Little Colonel: A Romantic Vision of Life Long Ago in Oldham County.
Slow Time: The Works of Charley, Noah and Hazel Kinney September 22, 2007-February 10, 2008
Organized by the Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead, this exhibition presents more than 80 works, including paintings, drawings and wood sculptures by folk artists Charley, Noah and Hazel Kinney. Brothers Charley and Noah Kinney were born six years apart into a life of subsistence farming in Northeast Kentucky. Noah married Hazel in 1960 and she had took up visual art after coming to live on the brothers' farm. Made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius, the Judith Rothschild Foundation and the Kentucky Arts Council.
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