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The Kentucky Museum 2008 Changing Exhibits (Archive)
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2008 Exhibits
- Bits and Pieces - through March 31, 2009 (Kentucky Library Second Floor Gallery)
- Sight and Sounds of Warren County - May 31-December 7, 2008 (Ground Floor Gallery)
- Duncan Hines Festival Art Exhibition - August 14 - 24, 2008 (Third Floor Gallery)
- Warren County Strawberries - May 1 - June 30, 2008 (Kentucky Library Second Floor Gallery)
- "Around the World" Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society 2008 Annual Show - May 23 - June 8, 2008 (Third Floor Gallery)
- 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)
- Interior Design Senior Thesis Show - April 25 - May 11, 2008 (Ground Floor Gallery
- WKU Student Art Show - April 17 - May 10, 2008 (Third Floor Gallery)
Bits and Pieces
through March 31, 2009
One of Bowling Green's touchstone features is its Fountain Square Park. This landmark, completed in May of 1872, has witnessed the many events and changes that have come to our area. The Kentucky Library & Museum houses photographs of this "enchanting green gem" and has a display of some of the early photographs of the park as well as over 50 pieces of the original fountain.
Sights and Sounds of Warren County - Closes December 7, 2008
See Sights and Sounds slideshow
Relive those fondly remembered "olden days" by viewing this exhibit of people and places of Warren County. The result of a two-year project, the exhibition shows a sampling of approximately 150 photographs and 45 feet of moving film collected. Donations will permanently reside at the Kentucky Library and Museum. Partners: Kentucky Historical Society; Landmark Association; Bowling Green-Warren County Historic Preservation Board; Insight Communications; and, Kentucky Library & Museum.
The Warren County Strawberries - May 1 - June 30, 2008
Although Warren County's earliest pioneers often mentioned the wild strawberries native to the area, strawberry cultivation began here in earnest after 1880. Founded in 1908, the Warren County Strawberry Grower's Association was the first of several cooperatives founded in the county. All of the strawberry activity, during May and June each year, led one local radio station to air a jingle calling Bowling Green the world's strawberry capital. Indeed for several decades Warren County's four strawberry cooperatives picked more strawberries than any other county in the state.
Around the World: Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society 2008 Annual Show - May 23 - June 8, 2008
The KHQS Annual Show has an international flavor in 2008. The quilts and wall hangings included will be made in an international style (Hawaiian, Japanese, African), constructed from a worldly pattern (Irish Chain, Dresden Plate, leMoyne Star, Greek Cross, Mariner's Compass, relect a geographic location that lies closer to home (Carolina Lily, Baltimore Album, Kentucky Star) or be made in a worldwide theme.
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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