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With its abundance of artists, galleries and museums, Paducah is widely considered one of Kentucky's most creative communities. The town sought and received a UNESCO designation as a City of Crafts and Folk Art.
The heart of Paducah is its downtown. From the earliest explorations of Kentucky's Western Waterlands region, the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers brought people to Paducah's riverfront and the city grew from its banks.
Home to the National Quilt Museum, fiber artists around the country come here each April for the American Quilter's Society Annual Quilt Show and Contest. Downtown is also home to the Yeiser Art Center, Maiden Alley Cinema, the Carson Center, and the Paducah School of Art.
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The Paducah Area Painters Alliance
The Paducah Area Painters Alliance (PAPA Gallery), founded in 1991, is located in the heart of historic downtown, and features Paducah's most unique gallery and art from almost 100 local and regional artists.
A Curated Life
Local Exhibit to Highlight the Important Role of Today's Art Curators
Aug 17, 2017
PADUCAH, KY (08/17/2017) They are often the unsung heroes of the art world, spending countless days and hours organizing information, gathering research, negotiating with artists, applying for grants, executing exhibits and juggling budgets while also trying to create their own work to share with the world. They exist between the duality of producer and creator. It is the latter that will be celebrated with the first fine art exhibition of the season at West Kentucky Community and Technical College titled, A Curated Life: Mediations Between Art, Objects and Ideas.
A reception for the show will be held Friday, September 15 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Clemens Fine Art Gallery located on the WKCTC campus. A panel discussion will also take place during the reception where several of the exhibiting artists will discuss what it means to be a modern curator and the impact they have on how the public perceives contemporary and historical art work. The public is encouraged to ask questions of the panel during this discussion. The exhibit runs through October 13.
Curators/artists participating in the exhibit are T. Michael Martin from Murray State University, Stacey Reason from the Yeiser Art Center, Debi Henry Donaldson from the Murray Art Guild, Landee Bryant Greene from Maiden Alley Cinema, Grace Eckert from University of Tennessee-Martin, Alison Erazmus from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Katie Waters from University of Southern Indiana, Kristina Arnold from Western Kentucky University and Katie Boatman from Belmont University.
Art curators have an eye for staging artwork in a way that creates interest in an exhibition. To be a curator today requires multi-tasking while being responsible for a collection of art, selecting art to be displayed, organizing art exhibitions in galleries as well as unconventional or public spaces, researching artists, plus being highly organized, knowledgeable, a proficient writer and passionate about art and the art they exhibit, said Todd Birdsong, Clemens Fine Arts Center Technical Director.
As much as art consumes their lives, they also manage to fabricate, fashion and forge personal work, Birdsong said.
The contemporary curator is no longer a mere caretaker or overseer of art. They are artist in their own right creating narratives, communicating relationships and translating ideas for the rest of us to experience, he said. They provoke, question and realize ideas as artists while existing in a limbo-like state between art and curation - a difficult place to be considering that without the curator, there could be no exhibition.
For more information about the exhibit or about the Clemens Fine Arts Gallery contact Birdsong at (270) 534-3220.
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the sounds of my home - workshop by Dario Lazzaretto at Metropolis Elementary School
This is the result of a workshop realized with ten girls from
the elementary schools in Metropolis, for Paducah Arts Alliance,
with the precious help of John Romang, the art teacher.
I asked them to imagine that they had to leave for a long
journey, and they had to choose what to bring with them to
remember their house.
Then I explained to them how to use my digital recorder, and
I asked them to record a sound which could been
representing their memory of home.
Then, I asked them to describe the reason for their choice,
using 15 words.
Last but not least, I've asked them to draw the sound
which they have recorded.
Many thanks to Autumn Cofield
Caitlyn Root
Claire Seitz
Delaney Williams
Gabirelle Cornwell
Isabel Hawes
Jocelyn Hearn
Morgan Atkinson
Olivia Heine
Tinsley Allen
and
Freda Fairchild, Laura Walker, Paducah Arts Aliiance (see credits and logos at the and of video). The Paducah Artist-in-Residence Program is a collaborative effort between the Paducah Arts Alliance and the Yeiser Art Center. The residency is made possible through funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Paducah Renaissance Alliance. The Kentucky Arts Council,the state arts agency, provides operating support to the Yeiser Art Center with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Paducah, Kentucky
Paducah is the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States. The largest city in the Jackson Purchase region, it is located at the confluence of the Tennessee and the Ohio Rivers, halfway between St. Louis, Missouri, to the northwest and Nashville, Tennessee, to the southeast. The population was 25,024 during the 2010 U.S. Census. Twenty blocks of the city's downtown have been designated as an historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Paducah is the hub of its micropolitan area, which includes McCracken, Ballard, and Livingston counties in Kentucky and Massac County in Illinois.
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Child Watch CAC, Paducah KY
Winner: 2011 MetLife Volunteer Ventures (VV) Grant
This video was submitted on behalf of Child Watch CAC, with support from Paducah Rotaract. Child Watch CAC is a non-profit organization which provides love and support to abused children in the foster care system. As a CASA (Court Appointed Child Advocate) volunteer I have seen the good work that they do and it MAKES A DIFFERENCE.
Producer/ Director: Sheloa Nichols
Photographer/ Videographer: Glenn Hall
Candace Hicks - 2017 Faculty Achievement Award for Research
Candace Hicks, assistant professor in SFA's School of Art, is the recipient of the 2017 Faculty Achievement Award for Research.
Hicks began working at SFA in 2012 teaching 2-D design. During an almost six-year timespan, her work has been featured in 14 solo and 26 group exhibitions as well as approximately 30 juried shows. Hicks' work in juried shows has garnered a number of recognitions, including Best of Show in Rochester Public Library's International Art of the Book and second place for her work in Fantastic Fibers produced by the Yeiser Art Center in Paducah, Kentucky.
Dr. A.C. Buddy Himes, dean of SFA's College of Fine Arts, said research within fine arts disciplines is represented by work that others in the field nationally recognize as an example of high ideals or consider the artist as an authority and seek his/her expertise.
During the short time she has been at SFA, Professor Hicks' record of exhibition is unprecedented not only at SFA but at any other university art program with which I am familiar, Himes said. It is simply unheard of for university art faculty members anywhere in the country to have such an impressive national and international record of exhibition.
Colleague Rebecca Marino, associate director of Texas State University Galleries, also speaks highly of Hicks.
It was truly a privilege to host an artist who has not only been featured in such eminent institutions across the world, but who also has been included in many of their permanent collections, Marino said. Her books are in more than 40 different university collections ranging all the way from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee to the University of Applied Arts Vienna to Harvard University Art Library.
There is no questioning the quality of Candace Hicks' achievements, which are considerable to say the least, Marino added. Her distinguished reputation precedes her, which can be seen in the confidence and respect of the curators who extend her the invitation to show at their institutions.
Backstage Pass: The Todd Hill Quintet - September 21, 2013
The Todd Hill Quintet performs at the WKCTC Clemens Fine Arts Center for Backstage Pass. The Todd Hill Quintet delivers a great night of jazz in an intimate coffeehouse atmosphere.
Paducah 2 Television is produced through the facilities and administration of West Kentucky Community and Technical College.
Tourism Talk: Dragon Boat 2013
The first international dragon boat festival in the western hemisphere was held in San Diego, California, in June, 1983. Since then, dragon boat racing has become the fastest growing team sport in the United States. Paducah will host it's second annual dragon boat race after a very successful inaugural event. Mary Hammond sits down with River Discovery Center and race coordinator Julie Harris to talk about what to expect in the 2013 Paducah Dragon Boat Race.
Paducah 2 Television is produced through the facilities and administration of West Kentucky Community and Technical College.
Distant Alignments
Distant Alignments a collaborative long-distance choreography performed live from opposite sides of the globe: India and the United States. Performed by Jui Mhatre + Jaee Joshi at Low Lives 3 - International Festival of Live Networked Performances.