PCAL Calendar

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

Faculty Clarinet Recital - John Cipolla & Charlotte Smith

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

History Department Mixer

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou, Director of the bell hooks Center at Berea College, will give a talk about the life and work of the late feminist scholar bell hooks, and what they are doing at Berea College (where hooks taught for nearly 20 years) to preserve her legacy.

This event is hosted by the Gender & Women's Studies Program.

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

PCAL Town Hall Meeting 1

Join us to celebrate the award winners and all entrants of the 2025 Abound Credit Union Celebration of the Arts. Awards ceremony will begin at 7 p.m.

“O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.” Shakespeare’s greatest history comes to life in the confines of an English classroom. Desks become castles, chairs become cavalry, and a group of students discovers the power of the Bard as he was meant to be experienced—alive and aloud. Recommended for all ages.

Tickets: $17 Adults, $12 Students & Seniors (62+)

Purchase tickets now on wku.showware.com.

WKU Symphonic Band & Jazz Band

Symphonic Band Concert
Van Meter Auditorium
7:30p

Combined ensembles Symphonic Band and Jazz Band

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

Nancy Green became one of the first prosperous African American women in the U.S. Green was born enslaved in Montgomery County, Kentucky, in 1834. While in Kentucky she worked for the Walker family and moved with them to Chicago just after the Great Fire, in 1872. Eight years later, Nancy Green became "Aunt Jemima." Businessman R.T. Davis had purchased a pre-mixed, self-rising recipe for pancakes and wanted an "Aunt Jemima," a character from minstrel shows which were popular at the time, to be the face of his pancakes. "Aunt Jemima" would be a friendly, animated, African American cook who served a wealthy white family. Playing the role of "Aunt Jemima" gave Green financial independence few African Americans and few women experienced at the time. She used her wealth as a means to empower her community. She was particularly active in her church, leading missionary trips, investing in anti-poverty programs for African Americans, and advocating for equal rights. Though her work depended on a derogatory racial stereotype, her financial success demonstrates how black Americans could sometimes play on and use such images to their advantage.

Join us for this amazing Kentucky Chautauqua program by Debra Faulk.

This program was funded in part by Kentucky Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.  

Location: Kentucky Museum 

student recital by Ashleigh Chapman & Mack Overfelt

Graduate project for graduate student Brenna Derby. Featuring WKU Wind Ensemble! 

Graduate Conducting Recital
Brenna Derby

“O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.” Shakespeare’s greatest history comes to life in the confines of an English classroom. Desks become castles, chairs become cavalry, and a group of students discovers the power of the Bard as he was meant to be experienced—alive and aloud. Recommended for all ages.

Tickets: $17 Adults, $12 Students & Seniors (62+)

Purchase tickets now on wku.showware.com.

Chinese Spring Symposium

“O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.” Shakespeare’s greatest history comes to life in the confines of an English classroom. Desks become castles, chairs become cavalry, and a group of students discovers the power of the Bard as he was meant to be experienced—alive and aloud. Recommended for all ages.

Tickets: $17 Adults, $12 Students & Seniors (62+)

Purchase tickets now on wku.showware.com.

Music of Lera Auerbach - Ching-Yi Lin, Meghan Berindean & Allesandra Volpi

WKU Choirs

Music and ticket information TBD

Katie Drybrough Graduate Capstone recital

Zoom link is available upon request.  

“O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.” Shakespeare’s greatest history comes to life in the confines of an English classroom. Desks become castles, chairs become cavalry, and a group of students discovers the power of the Bard as he was meant to be experienced—alive and aloud. Recommended for all ages.

Tickets: $17 Adults, $12 Students & Seniors (62+)

Purchase tickets now on wku.showware.com.

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

Join the Department of Society, Culture, Crime, and Justice Studies (SCCJS) for their monthly Brown Bag Lecture Series! This event is free and open to all.

To celebrate Women's History Month, the Gender & Women's Studies program in collaboration with the Department of History presents our second annual Women's History Trivia Night, with our hosts Dr. Katie Lennard (History) and Prof. Jessica Folk (English). Pizza and drinks provided. Come on your own or come as a team. Everyone is welcome!

Junior recital for student Logan Graham

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

Chewing-gum sculptures, a wealthy gallerist, a firebrand wrestler, a notorious murder case and the segregated south – it’s all part of Nellie Mae Rowe’s boundless universe. This World is Not My Own reimagines this self-taught artist’s world and her life spanning the 20th century. With Uzo Aduba as the animated version of Nellie Mae Rowe.

After the screening, a Q&A with filmmakers will be offered.

Faculty Dr. Emily Britton recital 

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

https://apply.wku.edu/register/?id=1be0b24f-a097-4391-9fce-b79e2d933bbd  

Who should come? 

All are welcome! Students thinking about going to college soon (high school students), students thinking about college for their future (middle school students), families, community members, or anyone curious about what we offer in WKU Art & Design!

How do I get there / Where do I park?

Navigation Pin to Mimosa Lot: https://maps.app.goo.gl/PJRZ3VTfnUeoxWH2A

WKU Nights and Weekends Parking Map: https://www.wku.edu/transportation/maps/2024-2025_evening_parking_map.pdf

Other questions? 

Email Kristen.Darby@wku.edu

More Information about WKU Art & Design

www.wku.edu/art

Follow us on Instagram @wkuartdesign 

Join the Kentucky Museum and Kentucky Art Education Association to celebrate this year's entrants and winners of the KYAEA's Elementary & Middle School All-State Art Show. Showcased in the Museum's second-floor gallery, the student artists will be recognized with awards during a Closing Reception held on March 15 from 11 am to 12:30 pm. The reception is open to the public. 

About the KyAEA Exhibit

Each year, this competition begins at the regional level and culminates in the state-wide show, celebrating Kentucky's talented student artists. Students in grades K-8 currently in public and private Kentucky schools are eligible to enter, and teachers submit up to five pieces for the exhibition. Entires are gathered by coordinators, who then work with the host organization to display the works. At the end of the show, an Awards Reception honors students and gives them an introduction to the world of art competition judging and recognition. 

The exhibition is presented by the Kentucky Art Education Association (KyAEA), which advances art education through professional development, service, advancement of knowledge, and leadership. Established in March 1945, the association has continued to grow and change in service of Kentucky's art educators as a nonprofit, all volunteer, non-salary art educational organization. Its members are comprised of active and retired P-12 teachers, art advocates, and higher education art students and educators statewide. Each year, the organization sponsors a two-day convention, regional professional development meetings, and special shows for students to compete and exhibit artworks. The KyAEA is an affiliate of the National Art Education Association (NAEA). 

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

The 2025 Lowell Harrison Distinguished Lecture will be presented by Philip J. Deloria, a Professor of History at Harvard University. Dr. Deloria's research and teaching focus is on the social, cultural and political histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the United States, as well as the comparative and connective histories of indigenous peoples in a global context.

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

Join us for a discussion featuring WKU Folk Studies alumni, who will share how their folklore training has uniquely equipped them for success in a variety of careers--from museums, education, and media, to advocacy and arts agencies.

Featured Speakers:

• Mark Brown ('08), Kentucky Arts Council Folk & Traditional Art Director
• Holly Hudnall ('13), Director of Community Engagement and Education, Kentucky Voices for Health
• Jack LeSieur ('14), Downing Museum Curator/Director
• Nicole Musgrave ('18), Public Folklore, Media Maker, Teaching Artist

This event is sponsored by the Department of Society, Culture, Crime, and Justice Studies.

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Visit the Kentucky Museum to view exhibitions on art, history, and culture from the Commonwealth and across the world. 

Current exhibitions are listed here.

The Museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For directions and public parking information, please click here.

Phi Mu Alpha student organization

Black and Brown Lives Matter

Faculty Flute Recital - Heidi Alvarez

Horn Studio Recital - director Dr. Emily Britton, horn

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If you have ADHD (or think you might have ADHD), join neurospicy PCAL professors Jess Folk, Alison Langdon, Katie Lennard, and Samantha Williams at 4:30 on Monday, March 31st, in CH 210 for an informal get-together over pizza to share tips and strategies for success in your classes and to build community. We’ll also raffle off five copies of Jessica McCabe’s book How to ADHD!

Please RSVP by 3/26 so we know how much pizza we need: https://forms.gle/zHfoJR8Q7oao4ukVA.