WKU Events

Gazing Deeply showcases how WKU’s backyard—the unique landscape of Mammoth Cave—is being studied, interpreted, and inspiring action on environmental change. Coinciding with the UNESCO Conservation of Fragile Karst Resources: A Workshop on Sustainability and Community and Earth Day’s 50th anniversary in 2020, this exhibition is a collaborative effort between arts and science faculty and students that highlights one of the most well-known and vital natural landscapes in the world. 

History suggests that as “big business” started to take hold in the late 1800s, women became more involved in business and working outside the home. However, few women owned companies. Those that did were in industries centered on women, such as home goods, apparel, or personal care.

Today, women own only 40% of businesses in the U.S., making Carrie Burnam Taylor’s business of the early 20th century that much more impressive. Curated with Dr. Carrie Cox, this exhibit will explore Taylor's life and work, displaying three of her dresses, two coats, two bodices, and various undergarments recently conserved thanks to our Adopt-an-Artifact program.

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In the late 1800s, stitchery from London's Royal School of Art needlework and Japanese arts and crafts exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition inspired women across America to take up their needles in new and different ways. Explore the various "maniacal" and "maddening" designs that resulted in this showcase of our Crazy Quilt collection.

School of Media Galleries: Grayson County Photography Exhibit.

Danielle Mužina, an artist and educator currently living and working in Cleveland, Ohio, makes paintings that explore place, identity, and crisis, inspired by both personal lived and inherited familial experiences. Using the homespace as a point of grounding and as metaphor, she writes: "My immigrant grandmother, reflecting on witnessing national traumas in our home of former Yugoslavia, tells me 'to pay attention when the sky's bleeding, even if someone tells you it's not'."

This exhibition documents the process artists Alice Gatewood Waddell and Mike Nichols followed to create the historic Jonesville Fresco for the lobby of the Kentucky Museum. The fresco is based on Waddell's image featuring the historic African-American community destroyed by the expansion of WKU.

Join Kimball Green of General Motors as he discusses careers in industry for graduates of arts, humanities, and social programs. If you are graduating soon, this is an event you don't want to miss!

Join the Cultural Enhancement Series as they welcome Dr. William H. Turner, author of The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns and winner of the 2021 Weatherford Award for Non-Fiction, to campus. Admission is free, no tickets necessary, seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Join the Cultural Enhancement Series as they welcome Dr. William H. Turner, author of The Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns and winner of the 2021 Weatherford Award for Non-Fiction, to campus. Admission is free, no tickets necessary, seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

This workshop will introduce you to the resources and services available at WKU Libraries and offer tips for finding the materials you need to support your research. It will focus on research in education and is geared towards students in the Educational Leadership Doctoral program.

 https://libcal.wku.edu/event/10180562

Let’s see if you know your Kulture. Come represent and battle your way to the top, a chance to win an Apple Card.

Join us as we celebrate our annual Black Excellence Showcase, sponsored by the WKU African American Studies Program.  This student-led event will feature black students sharing their voices, stories and performances.