November 2012

Morlan Gallery celebrates local printmakers; exhibition opens Nov. 5 and culminates in holiday party and print sale Dec. 5

Posted on November 6, 2012July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

Sara Turner (Cricket Press) “The Walkmen” (2012) LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University’s Morlan Gallery celebrates local printmakers with its newest exhibition, Lexington Legatees: Contemporary Printmaking in the Bluegrass, which opens Monday, Nov. 5, and runs through Wednesday, Dec. 5. The exhibition focuses on Lexington printmakers who carry on the city’s strong printmaking history. Artists in the exhibition include Nick Alley, Cricket Press (Sara and Brian Turner), Joel Feldman, Liz Foley, Homegrown Press (Johnny Lackey), Hound Dog Press (Nick Baute and Robert Ronk), Larkspur Press (Gray Zeitz) and dRock Press (Derrick Riley). Kentucky’s first printmaker set up shop in Lexington in 1787. John Bradford unloaded his press and type from the Ohio River landing in Maysville and traversed 65 miles of rough roads to establish the Kentucke Gazette. In the 1940s, when hobby presses were all the rage, noted Viennese artist and printmaker Victor Karl Hammer moved to Lexington to serve as artist-in-residence at Transylvania. The quick result was a deepening dedication to the fine craft of book arts by these home press operators. Although Hammer had many devotees, it was printmaker Carolyn Reading who advanced the press in Lexington perhaps more than any other, eventually establishing the King Library Press, located in the Margaret I. King Library at the University of Kentucky. Reading and Hammer married in 1955. Lexington Legatees artist Gray Zeitz bridges the gap between the vibrant Hammer era and today’s resurgent printmaking scene in Lexington. Zeitz, who learned the

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Soprano Christine Goerke performs Nov. 3, the first show of the inaugural Gail Robinson Series

Posted on November 2, 2012July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

Soprano Christine Goerke LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University will host four concerts for the inaugural season of the Gail Robinson Series, beginning with a performance by Metropolitan Opera star Christine Goerke on Saturday, Nov. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium. Tickets are available through the Singletary Center box office at (859) 257-2949, online or in person. Robinson, a soprano, sang with many of the world’s leading opera companies in the 1970s and 1980s. She spent 34 years at the Metropolitan Opera, including ten years as executive director of the Met’s Young Artists Program. She was also director of the Met’s National Council Auditions. In 1999, she became a voice professor at the University of Kentucky, where she taught until her death in 2008. Three of her mentees, Goerke, Gregory Turay and Michelle DeYoung, are featured in the inaugural season of the recital series. Soprano Goerke has appeared in the major opera houses of the world including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Paris Opera, La Scala, Teatro Municipal de Santiago and the Saito Kinen Festival. She has sung much of the great soprano repertoire, beginning with the Mozart and Handel heroines and now moving into the dramatic Strauss and Wagner roles. Goerke has also appeared with leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony and the Orchestra of

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Transylvania named a ‘best value’ by Kiplinger’s

Posted on November 1, 2012July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University is among the top liberal arts colleges in the country that were named a best value by “Kiplinger’s Personal Finance.” The university ranked 63rd in the magazine’s annual list of the top 100 liberal arts colleges that combine outstanding quality with affordability. Kiplinger’s assesses quality according to measurable standards, including the percentage of students who are admitted out of those who applied, the test scores of incoming freshmen, the ratio of students to faculty members and the four- and five-year graduation rates. “For most families, college is the second largest investment they make after the purchase of a home,” said Brad Goan, Transylvania’s vice president for enrollment and dean of admissions. “Our students have the confidence that their investments pay them back over and over again throughout the course of their lives. A Transylvania education empowers students and alumni to envision the possibilities in life and provides them with the tools and the confidence to pursue them. That is the lasting value of the Transylvania experience.” Through its Pioneer Pledge, the university makes a high quality liberal arts education affordable for all students who meet Transylvania’s admissions requirements. The Pioneer Pledge includes: Guaranteed graduation in four years A 12-month payment plan A level tuition program, which locks in the tuition rate for four years. Transylvania’s tuition and fees fall below the national average for liberal arts colleges, and the university offers extensive merit-based scholarships and need-based financial

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