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‘Not everybody is lucky enough to be able to be an artist.’ LuigART Exhibit commemorates Women’s History Month

Courtney Mysliwiec, Reporter April 8, 2025

The LuigART Exhibit commemorated Women's History Month with a female artist only gallery including more than 50 different artists. Open during the month of March, and only on weekends, the exhibit showcased...

Danny Mendoza, an international relations sophomore, hangs up slips for the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, at the Lewis Honors College in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Christian Kantosky | Assistant Photo Editor

Hostile Terrain 94 memorializes migrants’ lives lost in the Sonoran Desert

Courtney Mysliwiec, Reporter February 14, 2025

Hostile Terrain 94 conveys the deaths of migrants crossing into the United States through the poor terrains of the Sonoran Desert and are represented through toe tags with documentation in an exhibit.  The...

Art hangs on the walls on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, in the Singletary Art Museum at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Abbey Cutrer | Staff

Art brought to light: The UK Art Museum

Nate Lucas, Reporter March 6, 2023

Inside of the UK Art Museum at the Singletary Center for the Arts, visitors might notice the soft sounds of the orchestra. As soon as visitors enter, they’re met by two student workers of tranquil...

Rabbi Shlomo Litvin explains one of the exhibit pieces to a group who attended the showing of the Contemporary Anti-Semitism exhibit on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Natalie Parks | Staff

On-campus photo exhibit showed the local effects of anti-Semitism

Natalie Parks November 19, 2019

Although art is rarely ever just art, rarely is an exhibit as intentionally instructional as the latest to be shown at UK.Titled Contemporary Anti-Semitism, the photo exhibit showed at the Singletary Center...

An image made from graphite pencil on display at artist Sean Lyman's "Define" exhibit at the Bolivar Art Gallery on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019, in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Michael Clubb | Staff

‘Define’ art exhibit redefines the ‘mundane and ordinary’

Emily Baehner March 4, 2019

For many college students, mechanical pencils are just an obligatory writing utensil for note taking, resorted to only in classes where professors have a no-laptops rule. For artist Sean Lyman, they are...

Jennifer Angus's Otherworldly exhibit is displayed at the School of Arts and Visual Studies building on UK's campus in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jordan Prather | Staff

Bugs and beauty on display at art gallery

Emily Baehner January 23, 2019

For many, the thought of being in a room full of bugs fills them with terror or discomfort.For Jennifer Angus, she feels inspiration. In over a thousand bugs, she sees art.Angus is an artist featured as...

Meatyard currently has 99 photographs, including this, on display at the UK Art Museum.

UK Art Museum exhibit displays photos of ‘extraordinary’ photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard

October 10, 2018

Ninety-nine photographs featuring men in masks, amputated dolls and abandoned houses are currently hanging on walls on UK’s campus.The UK Art Museum’s exhibition "RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD: Stages for...

Student work from “Embedded Memories of the Thailand Education Abroad Trip” exhibit on Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Photo by Jordan Prather | Staff

College of Design exhibits memories from Thailand

Hayley Burris March 29, 2018

Over winter break, some students in the College of Design were able to escape the cold and travel to Thailand and Cambodia for a school trip.Students from the College of Design went into Thailand with...

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UK students’ art featured at local gallery

Alex Brinkhorst June 16, 2017

Seven University of Kentucky students are featured in LexArts’ annual University Open competition and gallery.The juried competition has been hosted annually since 2006 and features the artwork of Kentucky...

The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away.

Everything You Need to Know about Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors

Catherine Heredia April 10, 2017

It just so happened that I was going to be in Washington D.C. the same weekend that Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors were on exhibit in the Hirshhorn Museum. I have been wanting to see the infinity mirrors...

Protesters placed signs throughout the city after the march concluded including outside the Washington D.C. District Court of Appeals on Saturday, January 21, 2017.

Professor preserves Women’s March signs

Madison Rexroat January 25, 2017

After the Women’s March, Boston edition, a professor at Northeastern University, Nathan Felde, noticed the uniqueness and power of the hordes of signs left behind. That’s when he decided to save them.The...

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