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Join a Dynamic MFA Program in Art and Design at the University of Louisville

Avatar photo by Hite Institute of Art + Design, University of Louisville October 27, 2022October 26, 2022

Every MFA student receives a generous scholarship, a private studio, and financial support for travel, research, and creative activity.

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Is Kentucky’s Speed Art Museum Haunted?

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 25, 2022October 28, 2022

Founder Hattie Bishop Speed died in 1942 — but some employees of the museum say they continue to feel her presence.

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KMAC Museum Presents the 2022 KMAC Triennial: Divided We Fall

Avatar photo by KMAC Museum September 14, 2022September 14, 2022

On view in Louisville, Kentucky, until November 6, the triennial’s second edition exhibits work by 11 artists responding to current socio-political issues in the United States.

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Wedding Photographers Can Discriminate Against Same-Sex Couples, Kentucky Judge Rules

by Maya Pontone September 7, 2022September 7, 2022

The Trump-appointed federal judge ruled in favor of a Louisville wedding photographer who claimed that serving LGBTQ+ clients violated her Christian beliefs and First Amendment rights.

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Museum Hosts Community Iron Pour for People Affected by Gun Violence

Avatar photo by Natalie Weis June 22, 2022June 28, 2022

Participants created artworks that will be exhibited at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Sanford Biggers Cracks the Code of Quilts

Avatar photo by Natalie Weis June 19, 2022June 17, 2022

Billed as a “survey of quilt-based works,” Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch feels less like an overview of one section of the artist’s oeuvre and more like a record of his creative process overall.

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Joy and Terror Coexist in Vian Sora’s Unsettling Paintings

Avatar photo by Natalie Weis March 30, 2022March 30, 2022

The capacity to reside in joy and terror in equal measure gives Sora’s paintings their unsettling power, a brutal acknowledgment that creation coexists with destruction.

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An Artist Goes Home to Her Appalachia

Avatar photo by Natalie Weis February 3, 2022February 4, 2022

The paintings that form the heart of Ceirra Evans: It’s Okay to Go Home offer a more complex and generous response to the stale and sneering stereotypes of Appalachia.

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The Graceful Instability of Kiah Celeste’s Art

Avatar photo by Natalie Weis September 22, 2021September 22, 2021

Celeste’s sculptures all rely on natural forces to achieve balance, and thus are perpetually on the precipice of collapse.

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Together in Peace and Protest

Avatar photo by Natalie Weis July 31, 2021July 30, 2021

Not all of the scenes Dianna Settles paints are pleasant, but that seems to be the point: for better or worse, we are undeniably yoked in our collective experience of being human.

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Bearing Witness to Breonna Taylor’s Life and Death

Avatar photo by Gregory Volk May 1, 2021April 30, 2021

There are many in Kentucky who wish to get beyond the Breonna Taylor tragedy, but Amy Sherald’s magnetic portrait of Taylor insists otherwise.

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Kentucky Will Raise Its First Statue Honoring a Woman, Nettie Depp

by Hakim Bishara August 19, 2020November 5, 2020

In 1913, Depp became the first woman to be elected as Superintendent of Barren County School. Her complicated legacy will be honored with a monument next August.

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