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Contact: Ed Lawrence, Kentucky Arts Council (502) 564-3757
Frankfort, Ky. - In what has become part of the Governor’s Derby Breakfast tradition, 25 Kentucky artists will have work displayed in Kentucky Visions: 2001, a two- and three-dimensional visual art exhibit coordinated by the Kentucky Arts Council on behalf Governor Paul E. and First Lady Judi Patton.
"We all know that Kentucky artists are some of the finest in the nation," said First Lady Judi Patton. "Our Derby events are a wonderful opportunity to show off the caliber of our visual arts talent and we invite all of our visitors to experience these interpretations of our great commonwealth."
Kentucky Visions: 2001 is located in the ballroom of the Governor’s Mansion and a reception for the artists will open the show on April 26th. More than 5,000 guests are expected to view the show during the course of Derby-related events. It runs through May 7th (hours by appointment on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-11 a.m. Call 502-564-3449) and the Governor’s Mansion will be open to the public during Derby Breakfast, May 5th, from 7 a.m. - 11 a.m. The breakfast on the capitol grounds and is free and open to the public.
This year’s Kentucky Visions exhibit includes 46 works selected from over 300 entries. “Perhaps the single element that ties this group together is the artists’ love of Kentucky, and in particular its landscape. A true sense of place pervades this work--whether in a panoramic landscape vista, a scene of the farm or barnyard, or an intimate detail from nature. Artists around the globe are often drawn to the beauty and richness of their physical environment, and, as is evidenced by these works, artists in Kentucky are no different,” says guest juror Rene Barrilleaux, Chief Curator at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
The Kentucky Arts Council is a state agency in the Education, Arts & Humanities Cabinet, established in 1965 by the Kentucky General assembly to develop and promote support fort the arts in Kentucky. The KAC has been key to creating a thriving environment for artistic creation and to making the arts more accessible to the people of Kentucky, through grants, awards, and services to arts organizations, schools, community groups, local governments and individual artists.
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Artists whose work is included in Kentucky Visions: 2001
Lisa
Banyai
Lexington
Photograph
David
Bartlett
Morehead
Photograph
Catherine
Burkhead
Louisville
Fiber
Carolyn
Courtney
Louisville
Photograph
Bonnie
Creighton
Richmond
Sculpture
Linda
Cundiff
Finley
Pastel
Drawing
Janice
Darnell
Fiber
Jennifer
Deamer
Louisville
Oil Painting
Keltie
Ferris
Louisville
Oil Painting
Joseph
Fitzpatrick
Louisville
Watercolor
Painting
Mary
Hagy
Loretto
Oil Painting
Rene
Hales
Lexington
Photograph
Kenneth
Hayden
Louisville
Encaustic
Painting
Robert
Hill
Elizabethtown
Shayne
Hull
Louisville
Oil Painting
John
P. Lackey
Lexington
Linoleum
Block Print
Margaret
Lester
Alexandria
Intaglio
Alan
MacKellar
Lexington
Photo
Collage
Tom
Mitts
Newport
Marianne
Brown Mize
Lawrenceburg
Ceramics
Ardis
Moonlight
Fiber
Letitia
Quesenberry
Louisville
Graphite
Shannon
Shepherd
Stanville
Print
Denise
Spaulding
Catlettsburg
Watercolor
Painting
Dennis
Thomas
Sudith
Wood Carving