REFLECT, REFRAME, REMAKE, REMODEL 40 Years of Recrafting KMAC
April 24--August 1, 2021.
Displaying the work of forty artists, this exhibition charts KMAC's forty-year growth from 1981 when it was first christened the Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, to its present designation as an art museum that explores how craft activity and other forms of cultural expression inform contemporary artistic production.
With Kentucky at the center of this forty-year narrative our program features artists from the region and beyond, providing an ever-expanding context for our state's creative community. During the intervening years, between the foundation and the museum, the institution was known as the Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery, at one point representing over 500 folk and craft-based artists, including jewelry makers, furniture designers and other artisans from the Commonwealth.
Reflecting on KMAC's past, this forty-year survey culls from the museum's permanent collection, along with work by artists who were presented in major solo and group exhibitions from 1981 to the present. Additionally, the exhibition showcases artists who are new to the museum, but who, through a range of forward-thinking processes and ideas, represent the future of a museum that continually reimagines the spaces where art
and craft converge.
Suzanne Adams
Elmer Lucille Allen
Noel W. Anderson
Megan Bickel
Amalia Galdona Broche
Wendell Castle
Kiah Celeste
Fong Choo
G. Caliman Coxe
William M. Duffy
Henry Faulkner
Wayne Ferguson
Marvin Finn
Mike Goodlett
Ed Hamilton
Ron Isaacs
Vinhay Keo
Helen LaFrance
Thaniel Ion Lee
Simone Leigh
Alma Lesch
Kathleen Lolley
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Zephra May-Miller
Mark Anthony Mulligan
Jordan Nassar
Willian J. O'Brien
Ebony G. Patterson
Ché Rhodes
Matthew Ronay
Sheena Rose
Arturo Alonso Sandoval
Rebekka Seigel
Claire Sherman
Penny Sisto
Vian Sora
Stan Squirewell
Donny Tolson
Beatrice Wood
LaVon Van Williams, Jr.
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Admission to KMAC is free for students and children thanks to a generous donation from our members.
KMAC is also supported in part by our members, The Fund for the Arts, and the Kentucky Arts Council.