The Kentucky Museum Online Exhibits
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Art
• Joe Dudley Downing 2000
• Kentucky Women Artists: 1850-1970
  
  Artist-in-Residence Program
• Expressing Kentucky
• New Kentuckians
  
  Decorative Arts
• Firstar Contemporary Coverage: Not Your Grandmother's Quilt Anymore!
• Nature's Bounty: Quilts and More
  
  History
• Civilian Conservation Corps at Mammoth Cave National Park
• Eliza Calvert Hall: author of Aunt Jane of Kentucky
• Lo and Behold: Schoolhouses of Warren County, Ky.
• Roads, Rails and Rivers: Warren County Then and Now
• History and Folklife of the Kentucky Frontier
• New York: A City Searching for Hope
• U.S. Bank Bill"Whitey" Sanders: Comic Opera
  
  Western Kentucky University
• Bowling Green Business University
• E.A. Diddle Photo Gallery
• Ghosts of Western
• The Hill Builder: Brinton B. Davis and Western Kentucky University
• Potter College for Young Ladies
• P.S. I Love You: The Hilltoppers

Kentucky Women Artists: 1850-1970

The 48 women in this exhibition were selected to represent the activity of Kentucky's women artists between 1850 and 1970. Some of the women were highly trained while others learned skills from their mothers and grandmothers. Despite boundaries set by family duties, economics and attitudes toward women in the work place, these women found time, energy, and resources for creative expression.

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Joe Dudley Downing 2000

Living and painting in France since the early 1950s, artist Joe Downing periodically visits Kentucky to connect with his rural roots. This online version of Downing's third exhibition at The Kentucky Museum is exciting array of his impressive works of art.

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Expressing Kentucky

Expressing Kentucky was a 1999-2000 community arts project of the Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. Kentucky Arts Council Community Artist-in-Residence, Delaire Rowe worked at the museum and other community centers with various groups of citizens on visual arts projects that reflected individual and group points of view concerning the various community identities within the state.

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New Kentuckians

New Kentuckians, a 2000-2001 community arts project sponsored by The Kentucky Museum and the Kentucky Arts Council, worked to create a place in the community for creative exchange and communication between the increasingly diverse population of Bowling Green, Warren County, and the surrounding area. Community Artist-in-Residence Lynne Ferguson collaborated 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 who would not have them otherwise. This project, which engaged participants from more than 20 ethnic and nationality groups, provides an outlet for individuals and groups to share their cultural pride with the larger community.

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Firstar Contemporary Coverage: Not Your Grandmother's Quilt Anymore!

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Nature's Bounty: Quilts and More

Be they pieced, appliquéd, embroidered, or woven, handcrafted textiles often reflect nature. While flowers were a perennial favorite, many animals, particularly birds, have inspired blocks, motifs, and embroidered details. The approach in the textiles in this exhibit varies. In some, the pattern was conceived realistically while in others the design was rendered abstractly. Whatever the intent of the maker, these textiles brought beauty and a bit of the natural world into the American home.

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Civilian Conservation Corps at Mammoth Cave National Park

Between March 1933 and June 1944 The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided jobs for thousands of unemployed young men, supported families across depression weary America, and stimulated the economy of countless local communities. The newly authorized Mammoth Cave National Park was the site of the first CCC camp in Kentucky.

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Eliza Calvert Hall: author of Aunt Jane of Kentucky

Like many American "local color" writers, Eliza Calvert Hall is nearly forgotten today. At the turn of the 20th century, however, her tales of rural western Kentucky and her fictional storyteller "Aunt Jane" enjoyed great popularity. This exhibit explores the writings of Bowling Green native Mrs. Eliza (Lida) Calvert Obenchain author of fiction, a poet, essayist, folk art historian, and ardent advocate of suffrage and women's rights.

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Lo and Behold: Schoolhouses of Warren County, Ky.

In 1919, the Warren County school system operated over one hundred schools to educate the county's children. In the first quarter of the 20th century school boards across the country consolidated districts to offer a better education to their pupils. Most of the schoolhouses seen in this exhibit no longer exist. This exhibit shows many of these early schools as well as some existing to present day.

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Roads, Rails and Rivers: Warren County Then and Now

From settlement to present day, modes and means of transportation have been important to the development of Warren County, Kentucky. This bicentennial exhibition presents the county's history through the themes of business and industry, religion, education, war, health and medicine, and entertainment.

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New York: A City Searching for Hope

Seventy-two hours after the World Trade Center towers fell and took a piece of America’s heart with them, photojournalism students and faculty from Western Kentucky University felt compelled to go to New York City and tell this story of tragedy, triumph and hope. Within two hours after airplanes struck the towers, students had hurriedly packed their clothes and photography gear into cars and were headed north. It was a long journey. They were just sure they needed to be there. Following the events of September 11, many Americans wanted to help the victims of this tragedy in some way. Western's photojournalism program responded in the best way it could - by telling the story.

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U.S. Bank Bill "Whitey" Sanders: Comic Opera

In 34 years as an editorial cartoonist, Bill "Whitey" Sanders observed American society. Winner of the International Salon of Cartoonists award, he worked at the Greensboro Daily News, Kansas City Star, and Milwaukee Journal. The Whitey Sanders Collection at the Kentucky Building offers commentary on the actions and political agenda of key politicians of the last 40 years. This exhibit showcases over 100 cartoons focusing on the accomplishments, foibles and faux pas of America's elected representatives.

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