Video Exhibition of Artworks by High School Students in the Hub

May 11th will mark the opening of the first video exhibit of artwork by high school students at the Hub. In collaboration with Tates Creek High School, Gail Kennedy and Stacey Greenwell have arranged this exhibit which will run from May 11th through June 12th. An opening reception recognizing the high school artists and their work will be held from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Monday, May 11. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. We invited the school’s Art Department to exhibit student works this spring in The Hub’s video windows, thus making the school the first Lexington high school to mount an art exhibition in Young Library. Pencil Drawings, chalk pastels, tempera paintings, India ink and ceramics from approximately 150 students will be on display as part of the exhibition. Students represented in the show take Art I, Drawing I and Beginning Ceramics classes. This extends our existing partnership with the high school’s International Baccalaureate program.

Origami Exhibit

The University has released a press release on the Origami Exhibit. If you haven’t seen the exhibit – in three libraries, Young, Science, and Fine Arts – check it out on one of these lovely spring days. http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?category=1&artid=4500

March Madness at the Hub

On the occasion of UK’s first win today in the SEC tournament, make a visit to the Hub to see the exhibit on March Madness, a partnership of the Hub and University Archives. “In addition to the vast number of images featured in this exhibit of photographs and footage, other screens in The Hub will be showing historic games of UK Men's Basketball, including the entire 1978 NCAA Championship game against Duke. The exhibit is being presented on The Hub’s video windows.” See the University’s full press release at http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?artid=4470

Exhibit on Thomas Merton

Forty years after the death of Thomas Merton, one of the leading intellectuals of the 20th century, SCDP will install a major exhibition of his papers from its extensive holdings. The exhibition will open with a free public lecture on Sunday, Nov. 23, at the Great Hall of the Margaret I. King Building. Read more in the University’s press release at http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?artid=4162

Poem by Jane Vance Posted

For those of you who were able to attend the 10th anniversary celebration in May, we were delighted when Kentucky’s poet laureate, Jane Gentry Vance, honors the Library with the presentation of an original poem about the library. Her poem is now posted on our web site at http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/libpage.php?lweb_id=723&llib_id=14

Who Speaks for the Negro Exhibit at Vanderbilt

The Nunn Center has been working with Vanderbilt to provide with access to interview conducted by Robert Penn Warren with Martin Luther King. The Vanderbilt online exhibit is now available at http://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/

Here’s an excerpt from the message that Vanderbilt library director, Paul Gherman, sent to the ARL Directors:

"The Robert Penn Warren Center at Vanderbilt is commemorating the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s death by focusing a conference on Warren’s book “Who Speaks for the Negro” for which he interviewed many of the civil rights leaders of the time. The reel to reel tapes of the interviews are held by the University of Kentucky and Yale University. These interviews are now digitized and available via the web at the following URL;

The interviews are wonderfully candid and captivating to listen to, as Warren talks with King, Malcolm X and many other African American leaders of the Civil Rights movement. Please enjoy them.

I would like to thank Carol Diedrichs, Alice Prochaska and Ann Okerson and their staff for their generosity and support in providing the recordings. This is a wonderful example of cooperation and sharing within our community."

Diversity on Display at Hub Exhibit

The Hub will present "Views of Diversity," an exhibit featuring six projected photography presentations on display in celebration of Black History Month throughout the month of February. Among the images featured in the exhibit are photographs of African-American milestones in the Commonwealth and at UK. Via mounted video projectors, the free public exhibit can be seen on the walls around the central rotunda of the Hub, located on the basement level of Young Library. See the full press release at http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?artid=3132