The Kentucky Museum - Student Exhibits

Coral Reef is a large-scale, collaborative printmaking installation created by 47 students enrolled in Associate Professor Marilee Salvator’s Printmaking Relief and Screenprinting classes in the Department of Art and Design during Fall 2019, Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 semesters. This second print installation at the museum explores the marine biome.

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Spring of 2017 students  in FLK/ANTH 470 and FLK 470G created the “Korea Through Kentucky Eyes” exhibit as part of the International Year of South Korea.

Using a time capsule approach to the stylistic attributes of the era, Honors students from Professor Shura Pollatsek's THEA 323 Period Styles in Design class (Fall 2020) give insight into the 1960s and Mid-Century Modernism.  This small display includes several examples of clothing, furniture and artwork of the period.

 

2012 Museum Procedures and Preservation Techniques Class

This exhibit traces the journeys of people and objects across space and time. Beginning in the 18th C transatlantic slave trade.

These 32 posters were designed by students in Natalie Tyree's Art 331 class. Their works celebrate the visual and historic character of Downtown Bowling Green. More Information

 

The exhibit in the Kentucky Museum featured works of art in multiple genres, created by faculty and staff during Academic Year 2017 and 2018.  Works created include visual art, installations, creative writing, dance, performance and music.

Liza Kelly, Associate Professor, WKU Music and her Opera Theatre class;  Kristina Arnold, Associate Professor, WKU Art; Lisa D. Long, Assistant Professor, California State University Fullerton, Dance; Tammy Jeffries, Post-Doctoral Fellow, WKU Communication; and the faculty and staff of the Kentucky Museum produced this immersive theatre experience.