The Kentucky Museum – Upcoming Exhibits

This exhibition invites members of Artworks, Inc. to submit 2D and 3D works for a juried showcase. Artworks is a visual arts coalition dedicated to creating a sustainable arts community in Bowling Green. 

Call for Artists

We are thrilled to welcome back the Kentucky Art Education Association's All-State Elementary and Middle School Art Show for 2025. Details will be announced soon.

The Kentucky Museum presents their annual juried art exhibit, which is truly a celebration of this region’s art. Generously sponsored by Abound Credit Union, any Kentucky resident over the age of 18 and living within 65 miles of Bowling Green was eligible to enter a piece of their original artwork created within the last two years. Monetary awards are given in ten categories as well as for Best of Show, the Purchase Award, the Student Purchase Award, the World's Greatest Studio Tour Merit Award, and the Artworks Merit Award.

Details will be announced in November/December 2024.

Produced by Marilee Salvator's printmaking class, this exhibition will feature an installation of their works produced during the Fall 2024 term.

The Side by Side program was created by Arts for All Kentucky (formerly VSA) in 2004 for school age kids with special needs in communities across Kentucky. Details will be released in early spring 2025.

Rather than developing only one distinct sound, South-Central Kentucky has been a site of exchange and collaboration between and across a plurality of genres and styles, which owes its strength to the long history of diversity in the region and the traffic of talent and opportunity between the region’s hub, Bowling Green, and nearby Nashville, TN, one hour south. Produced in partnership with the Kentucky Folklife Program, this multi-year exhibition interprets and contextualizes these rich musical traditions in the region and their influence throughout America.

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Featuring original posters collected for the Southcentral Kentucky Music Legacy project, this exhibition explores how color, texture, pop culture, and place inform and inspire the promotion of musical performances to the public. What can these posters tell us about Southcentral Kentucky during particular decades? How do the symbols, colors, and typefaces communicate musical meanings to audiences? And do promotional posters have a place in museum art collections?

Equal Temperament highlights the inclusivity of modern metalworking in a juried art show, accompanied by a variety of interpretive programming to showcase metal’s links with other artistic and historical forms. The show invites entries from artists who are 18 years of age or older and living in the United States, whose work is inspired by or includes metalwork or forging and fits within a USPS Flat Rate Shipping Box. Equal Temperament will be accompanied by a variety of programs that explore the inclusivity of metalworking and its ties to other art forms. It is produced in collaboration with the Soceity for Inclusive Blacksmiths, WKU Department of Art & Design, and WKU Department of Music.

Call for Artists will open in August 2024. 

For generations, quilters have been inspired by the natural world. Sewing Seeds showcases Kentucky quilts that showcase the beauty of flora, fauna, and mycelia while exploring their connections to agriculture, scientific use, and cultural symbolism. Did quilt makers imbue these meanings in their quilts…or was germination merely about capturing beauty? You decide.