PCAL Calendar

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.

More Information

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.

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.

Scott Strazzante - Shooting from the Hip Photography Exhibit.

Department of Folk Studies & Anthropology: Brown Bag Lecture Series (Zoom option available).

Dr. Ann Ferrell, Associate Professor and Program Director of Folk Studies, and Mr. Brent Bjorkman, Director of the Kentucky Folklife Program and the Kentucky Museum, will present “The Community Scholars Program and What Happened to Jonesville?”

The Community Scholars program is a statewide training program for documenting traditional arts and culture. Over six weeks, participants learn documentation techniques, oral history, grant writing, and project management skills. To date, over 250 Kentuckians have become certified Community Scholars.

This presentation focuses on the work of Community Scholars in documenting the former community of Jonesville, a thriving African American neighborhood destroyed by expansion of the WKU campus. In collaboration with the Jonesville Reconcilliation Workgroup, the Jonesville Community Scholars contributed to the What Happened to Jonesville? exhibit that opened at the Kentucky Museum at WKU in October 2022.

Zoom option: https://wku.zoom.us/j/98419219983

Student Recital

Come and see the Wonders of Creation! A Grand Fête of Artistry! A Cavalcade of Amusement! You are invited to immerse yourself in a topsy turvy world of fine arts. You needn’t choose between just an opera, ballet, film, or art gallery. At The Menagerie, all the delights are alive in one location for your pleasure! Be swept away by our vignettes of dancers, thespians, and vocal acrobats! Mesmerized by our works of stagecraft, animation, film, and photography! Awestruck by miraculous feats of visual art in our pop-up galleries and installations. Come! Enjoy! This will be no average event! Why choose one thing when you can have it all?!

March 31 - April 2, 2023
Van Meter Auditorium
Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. CST
Sunday at 2:00 p.m. CST
Tickets $20
Student/Senior (62+) $16

Tickets can be purchased online or at the door: https://wku.showare.com/

Student/Senior (age 62+) discounts available at checkout.

To receive your discount choose the appropriate price from the pull-down menu in the center of the Shopping Cart page.

Come and see the Wonders of Creation! A Grand Fête of Artistry! A Calvacade of Amusement! You are invited to immerse yourself in a topsy turvy world of fine arts. You needn't choose between just an opera, ballet, film, or art gallery. At The Menagerie, all the delights are alive in one location for your pleasure! Be swept away by our vignettes of dancers, thespians, and vocal acrobats! Mesmerized by our works of stagecraft, animation, film, and photography! Awestruck by miraculous feats of visual art in our pop-up galleries and installations. Come! Enjoy! This will be no average event! Why choose one thing when you can have it all?! (A Co-Production of the Departments of Music and Theatre & Dance)

Adults $20 / Students & Seniors (62+) $16