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Teen's brainstorm helps school arts programs

By Katie Saltz Contributing Writer

When Virginia Newsome realized how many children don't even have access to crayons and markers, let alone a stage or spotlight, she founded an organization to change that. Virginia, 15, a junior at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Lexington, is the founder of heARTS, an organization that seeks to bring artistic expression into classrooms and clubs that have lost funding for arts education.

Curtain rises on $30 million EKU Center for the Arts

Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com

RICHMOND — Eastern Kentucky University's dot on the state arts map got a lot bigger Friday night with the opening of the long-anticipated EKU Center for the Arts.

Revamped UK Basketball Museum space to reopen with 'Bodies'

By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com

The former space of the Kentucky Basketball Museum in Lexington Center was morgue-like after the underperforming hoops shrine dribbled away. But the revamped venue is coming back to life this weekend with the arrival of Bodies Revealed.

'Bodies Revealed' exhibit: an anatomy class for the public

By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com

As an anatomy professor at the University of Michigan, Dr. Roy Glover was used to dealing with carefully preserved human specimens that medical students used in their studies. For years, though, he thought that the pieces should be available to more than just aspiring doctors.

Lexington tattoo festival shows that ink art is here to stay

By Blake Hannon Contributing Writer

The taboo of the tattoo certainly isn't what it used to be. Whether you've seen them on your favorite celebrity or musician or your next-door neighbor, or have watched a tattoo-shop reality show, it's apparent that more and more people are going under the gun to get some epidermal artwork.

'The Horse' blockbuster exhibit to open at Kentucky Horse Park museum

By Janet Patton jpatton1@herald-leader.com

The horse has changed humans' relationship with nature, with other humans, with travel and with war. And now it is about to change the school year.

Woodland art fair popular with exhibitors, shoppers alike

By Beth Musgrave bmusgrave@herald-leader.com

John Snell's photography booth — dotted with colorful photos of the starting gate at Keeneland and the natural wonders at Red River Gorge — was packed with art-loving shoppers on Sunday.

Kentucky art and craft exhibit 'just a snapshot' of past 50 years

By Rich Copley rcopley@herald-leader.com

Martha Slaughter, director of the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville for three years, recently got a crash course in the state's indigenous artistic traditions.