VWS: Danni Quintos

 6 p.m. Nov.30th, 2022

 Location: William T Young Library, UKAA Auditorium
 
Danni Quintos is the author of the poetry collection, Two Brown Dots (BOA Editions, 2022), chosen by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as winner of the Poulin Prize, and PYTHON (Argus House, 2017), an ekphrastic chapbook featuring photography by her sister, Shelli Quintos. She is a Kentuckian, a mom, a knitter, and an Affrilachian Poet. She received her BA from The Evergreen State College, and her MFA in Poetry from Indiana University. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Cream City Review, Cincinnati Review, The Margins, Salon, and elsewhere. Quintos lives in Lexington with her kid & farmer-spouse & their little dog too. She teaches in the Humanities Division at Bluegrass Community & Technical College. 
 
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William T Young Library, UKAA Auditorium

UK Art Museum Panel Discussion

PANEL DISCUSSION: It’s Complicated: Championing “Self-taught” Artists 

Thursday, October 13, 2022 

6:30 – 8 pm 

Recital Hall, Singletary Center for the Arts 

FREE 

This panel is organized in conjunction with our exhibitions featuring Charles Williams, James "Son Ford" Thomas, and David Farris. For the most part, these artists were/are self-taught, with little or no formal training, or they come to artmaking from another discipline. 

 

How are such artists understood, critically assessed, and contextualized in artworld frameworks? How does race, sexual identity, and other factors further complicate these considerations? 

 

Director Stuart Horodner will moderate a discussion with artist and curator Jonathan Berger, artist and poet Frank X Walker, and art historian Miriam Kienle. 


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UK Art Museum

UK Art Museum Panel Discussion

UK Art Museum Panel Discussion

Event Date(s)

Thu, Oct 6 2022, 6
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7pm

Ticket Price
Free
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Marlene McCarty headshot
Erik Reece headshot

In conjunction with her exhibition, Thicker than Water, artist Marlene McCarty talks about image-making and evolution with author/UK English professor Erik Reece and Museum Director Stuart Horodner.



Marlene McCarty is known for her drawings that examine aspects of sexuality, articulation of power, and social formation. Her exhibition, Thicker Than Water, includes a monumental drawing that shows male and female caregivers who nurse, comfort, and communicate with several chimpanzees. The humans are partially nude, reducing the differences between themselves and the chimps, and suggesting a clear lineage and inter-species intimacy. 

McCarty was a member of the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury and was the co-founder of the trans-disciplinary design studio Bureau, along with Donald Moffett. Her work is in the collection of institutions including the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among others. 

Erik Reece is the author of An American Gospel: On Family, History and the Kingdom of God and Lost Mountain: A year in the Vanishing Wilderness, which won Columbia University's John. B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism and the Sierra Club's David R. Brower Award for Environmental Excellence. 



In his new book, A Theory of Grandeur, Reece retraces Charles Darwin's voyage through the Galapagos Islands, while simultaneously recounting the dramatic events of the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial, a trial that changed the course of public education and public opinion regarding evolution, religion and freedom of speech. John Scopes grew up in Paducah and graduated from the University of Kentucky. His teacher, the great zoologist, William Funkhouser, helped catalog some of the specimens Darwin brought back. In 1924, UK president, Frank McVey, convinced the Kentucky legislature to reject anti-evolution laws for public schools, which then sent the fight to Tennessee, where Scopes and his lawyer, Clarence Darrow, took it up. 

 

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Singletary Recital Hall

Incubator Reading Series

Free and open to the public.
 
Come hear 2nd year MFA students read from their work!



Lucy Jayes

Henry Knollenberg

Alfonso Zapata

Faculty Guest Reader Frank X Walker



Limited open mic spots available! First come first serve!
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Martin Luther King Jr., Cultural Center - Gatton Student Center

ENG TA Workshop: Managing Heated, Offensive, and Tense Moments in the Classroom

The English Department is offering a workshop on "Managing Tense, Heated, and Offensive Moments in the Classroom."
 
This session will be led by Dr. Morgan and will take place 9/15 2-3 pm in the CELT space in 502 King Library.
 
This session is for all TAs and PTIs in ENG classes --- present, future, past --- who feel like they could add to their toolbox of strategies for the literature, creative writing, and film classrooms. Please no faculty.
 
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CELT space in 502 King Library

Rosa Goddard International Film Festival: The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after a traveling projectionist screens a print of James Whale's 1931 "Frankenstein" for the village. The youngster is profoundly disturbed by the scenes in which the monster murders the little girl and is later killed himself by the villagers. She questions her sister about the profundities of life and death and believes her older sibling when she tells her that the monster is not dead, but exists as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn. When a Loyalist soldier, a fugitive from Franco's victorious army, hides out in the barn, Ana crosses from reality into a fantasy world of her own.

 

We’re thrilled to partner once again with local bookstore sQecial media to bring you The Rosa Goddard International Film Festival, an annual celebration of cinema classics from around the world. This year we are featuring films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Víctor Erice, and Yasujiro Ozu. Tarkovsky and Ozu are widely considered two of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive is regarded by many as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made. 
 
Tarkovsky’s film Mirror will be followed by a Q&A led by Raymond De Luca, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and a Tarkovsky scholar at the University of Kentucky. Masamichi Inoue, Associate Professor, Japan Studies, University of Kentucky will lead a Q&A following Yasujiro Ozu’s Good Morning. Carmen Moreno-Nuño, Professor of Hispanic Studies and a specialist in cinema and the Spanish Civil War will lead a Q&A following Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive.
 
All films are in their original language with English-language subtitles.
 
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Kentucky Theatre

Rosa Goddard International Film Festival: Mirror (1975)

A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker, Solaris) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.

 

We’re thrilled to partner once again with local bookstore sQecial media to bring you The Rosa Goddard International Film Festival, an annual celebration of cinema classics from around the world. This year we are featuring films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Víctor Erice, and Yasujiro Ozu. Tarkovsky and Ozu are widely considered two of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive is regarded by many as one of the greatest Spanish films ever made. 
 
Tarkovsky’s film Mirror will be followed by a Q&A led by Raymond De Luca, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies and a Tarkovsky scholar at the University of Kentucky. Masamichi Inoue, Associate Professor, Japan Studies, University of Kentucky will lead a Q&A following Yasujiro Ozu’s Good Morning. Carmen Moreno-Nuño, Professor of Hispanic Studies and a specialist in cinema and the Spanish Civil War will lead a Q&A following Víctor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive.
 
All films are in their original language with English-language subtitles.
 
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Kentucky Theatre
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