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The mural inside Memorial Hall was created by Anne Rice O'Hanlon in 1934. Photo by Joel Repoley | Staff File Photo

Op-ed: BSU president responds to artist’s call to not remove mural

Tsage Douglas April 10, 2019

Dear University of Kentucky community, Addressing our histories and exposing our realities too often comes at the price of Black trauma, Black community setbacks, and the death of Black people. This does...

Pieces of Karyn Olivier work 'Witness' are cut out in preparation for their installation in the Memorial Hall vestibule on UK's campus on Wednesday, August 15, 2018 in Lexington, Kentucky. Karyn Olivier was an artist chosen by the UK Memorial Hall art committee to create an artwork that adds context to Anne Rice O'Hanlon's 1934 mural. O'Hanlon's mural depicts a 'sanitized' version of the brutality that existed during the time of slavery and legal segregation. Photo by Arden Barnes | Staff

Once anonymous, now revered: Memorial Hall art adds context to debate of race in art

Rick Childress August 16, 2018

A space once wrought with racial tension now demands reverence for the subjugated.Karyn Olivier, the artist charged with assembling a complimentary art piece for the controversial mural in UK’s Memorial...

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