Morlan Gallery

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Imprinted Bodies, an exhibit of contemporary Hispanic and Latino work by a dozen artists, opens Friday, September 14 in Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery. The exhibit traces the notion of embodiment or corporality in contemporary Latino visual art, poetry and documentaries and runs through October 24, from noon-5 p.m. in the Morlan Gallery. The exhibit will also be open for the Lexington Gallery Hop Friday, September 21, from 5-8 p.m. The exhibiting artists, originally from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, Columbia, as well as the United States, examine the interplay between immigration, illness, ethnic relations, identity and their own participation in the formation of hybrid cultures. These experiences, involving displacement, relocation, and memories of home, uncover multi-layered disruptions of identity. Artists include Ana Albertina Delgado, Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Sonia Baez-Hernandez, Elizabeth Cerejido, Eduard Duval Carrie, Francisca Hernandez, Diane Kahlo, Connie Lloveras, Jesus Macarena-Avila, Raul Ortiz Bonilla, Diana Solis and Federico Uribe. Their work includes video, sculpture, mixed media, paintings and installation pieces. In recognition of September as Hispanic Heritage Month, the Morlan Gallery will provide a week of related programming called Project Alterity, which will provoke thought in multiple areas including politics, identity formation and roles within culture and society. Tuesday, September 18, 7-8:30 p.m., Carrick TheaterStrangers Among Us: The Plight of Immigrant Workers in Kentucky A panel discussion with Transylvania sociology professor Brian Rich about the challenges of immigrant workers in Kentucky. Question and answer session to

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Installation artists, book artists, writers and poets join “The Shape of Words,” Morlan Gallery’s newest exhibition. A celebration of the written word, “The Shape of Words” opens Wednesday, March 7, and runs through Friday, April 20. Artists in the show are Ben Durham of Midway, Mike Goodlett of Nicholasville, Pam Sexton of Lexington, Edwin Jager of Toronto and Heather Willems of Huntington, Ind. The exhibition also features five poet and artist pairings. Affrilachian poets Mitchell Douglas, Crystal Good, Bianca Spriggs, Natasha Marin and Frank X Walker will have poems interpreted on the walls of Morlan Gallery by Lexington artists Christine Kuhn, Mark Antonio Galvan Parrish, Sonya Brooks, Robert Morgan and Darryl Davis, respectively. Celebrate National Poetry Month on Monday, April 9, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the gallery by attending “The Shape of Words” poetry reading featuring Mitchell Douglas, Nikky Finney, Asha French, Jude McPherson, Frank X Walker and Hao Wang. This exhibition is free and open to the public. Morlan Gallery is open weekdays, noon to 5 p.m., and by special appointment. The gallery is closed for Transylvania’s spring break, March 12-16, except by special appointment. The gallery is a stop on the Lexington Gallery Hop Friday, April 20, from 5-8 p.m. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or Andrea Fisher, director of Morlan Gallery, at (859) 233-8142. More information about Morlan Gallery is available at www.transy.edu/morlan.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Members of the Transylvania community as well as potters from across Kentucky will use their artistic talents to benefit Lexington’s Community Action Council this holiday season with the Morlan Gallery’s Empty Bowls Project, Friday, December 1, and Monday-Friday, December 4-8. Potters have been busy making colorful ceramic bowls, which will sale for $10, throughout the exhibit. On Friday, December 8, a closing reception and supper will be held from 5-7 p.m., in the Rafskeller located on the lower level of the Mitchell Fine Arts Center. Dinner is free with a receipt from the purchase of a $10 ceramic bowl; dinner only is $5. All proceeds from the dinner and sale of the bowls will go to the Community Action Council, a local agency that provides meals, clothing and living essentials to Fayette County residents in need. In addition to the $10 soup bowls, larger one-of-a-kind artists’ bowls will be sold at a higher fixed price. The proceeds for these larger bowls will be equally divided between the artists and the Community Action Council. The Morlan Gallery is open weekdays, noon-5 p.m. For more information go to the Morlan Gallery Web site, www.transy.edu/morlan, call the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or Andrea Fisher, director of the Morlan Gallery, at (859) 233-8142.

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Four emerging artists from New York, Philadelphia and Virginia will exhibit their newest work at Transylvania University’s Morlan Gallery in an exhibit entitled SNAP! The exhibit opens Monday, October 23, and runs through Friday, November 17. Andy Byers, Ryan Kelly, Morgan Herrin and Andrea Moreau are four up-and-coming visual artists who have two things in common: They are 2005 Ohio State University masters graduates and they are meeting with great success in their first year out of grad school. Kelly and Byers are ceramicists, Herrin is a sculptor and Moreau is a painter. Kelly was just awarded the prestigious Resident Artist position at The Clay Studio in Philadelphia; Byers has been working as an art director’s assistant in New York and playing with his critically successful band, Minus Story; Herrin received rave reviews for his new work in the exhibit Diamonds Cut Diamonds at Rare Gallery in New York; and Moreau was awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, the largest and most international artists’ and writers’ residency program in the United States. The jazzy one-word title, SNAP!, is a slang term to describe disbelief, which is what viewers will feel when taking in the sculptures and drawings in the exhibition. “Each of these artists has a real gift for taking mundane and ordinary materials from our everyday lives and turning them into the magical, the beautiful and the humorous,” said Andrea Fisher, director of the Morlan

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LEXINGTON, Ky.—Noted Lexington artist Kurt Gohde had a busy year: he witnessed a Sandhill Crane migration in Indiana, dodged 17 tornados in Wisconsin and watched a cranberry harvest in Massachusetts. He visited Alex Jordon’s House on the Rock, Terry Brown’s Mushroom House, Father Mathias Wernerus’ Holy Ghost Grotto and Loy Allen Bowlin’s Rhinestone Cowboy House. And when things started to slow down he headed out to see the world’s largest ball of paint, the world’s largest tree stump and the Circus World Museum. Gohde, an art professor at Transylvania University, is back from a year long sabbatical and will share his many experiences in Morlan Gallery’s first exhibition of the 2006-07 year. Murmuration of the Filth: New Work by Kurt Gohde opens Monday, September 11, and runs through Wednesday, October 11. Murmuration is a one-man show for Gohde who collaborates with local art stars Michael Goodlett, Vandaver, Mike Howe and Melissa McEuen. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, also features the local premiere of a Ben Fryman video installation. The title of the exhibition Murmuration (the term for a group of starlings) of the Filth (also a starling group name) addresses Gohde’s interest in group and individual thought processes. “I am fascinated with the difference between mass mentality and maverick individualism,” Gohde said. “For example, when starlings murmur or swarm, they create aerial patterns that make them appear to share a single brain. It can be

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