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Transylvania students partner with neighborhood to create Morlan Gallery exhibit “North Limestone Gathers” opening March 16

Posted on March 11, 2009July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Students from Transylvania University’s Community Engagement Through the Arts class have teamed up with North Limestone residents and neighboring students to find collections, objects and stories from the North Limestone neighborhood. The result is North Limestone Gathers, an exhibition opening Monday, March 16, and running through April 17. The exhibition features collections from people, homes and dorms, each displayed as an installation. In addition to creating the exhibition, students in the class taught by Transylvania English professor Kremena Todorova and art professor Kurt Gohde have maintained a Facebook page which records all their class assignments, including writing weekly “This I believe” essays in style of the NPR project of the same name. The class, first introduced last winter, has garnered the participation of vice-mayor Jim Gray, Transylvania associate dean Kathleen Jagger and city councilwoman Andrea James, to name a few. A North Limestone Gathers gallery talk and reception will be held Wednesday, April 1, from 6-8 p.m., in the Morlan Gallery. College and middle school students, professors, community members and local collectors will discuss the experience of creating North Limestone Gathers. This event is free and open to the public. The Morlan Gallery is open weekdays, noon to 5 p.m. The exhibit will also be a stop on the Lexington Gallery Hop, Friday, April 17, from 5-8 p.m. For more information go to: https://www.transy.edu/morlan or contact Morlan Gallery director Andrea Fisher at (859) 233-8142.

Tobacco industry ‘Insider’ Jeffrey Wigand to speak at Transylvania, Tuesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m.; free and open to the public

Posted on February 27, 2009July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, KY.—Jeffrey Wigand, the real-life subject of the highly acclaimed film The Insider, will speak at Transylvania’s Haggin Auditorium on Tuesday, March 3, at 7:30 p.m. The lecture, “Insider’s View of the Tobacco Industry,” is free and open to the public. Wigand, a scientist and former vice president of research and development for the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, was hired in 1988 to help develop a safer cigarette. His career came to an abrupt halt five years later when he took issue with the company’s policy to continue using a controversial pipe additive. Wigand gained national prominence by revealing the tobacco industry’s disregard for health and safety during a 60 Minutes interview and a Food and Drug Administration investigation into the role and effect of nicotine in tobacco products. Brown & Williamson filed a lawsuit against him, but it was dismissed in 1997 as a condition of the $246 billion settlement between the attorneys general of 40 states and the tobacco industry. The 1999 motion picture recounts the events leading up to and surrounding the 60 Minutes interview. Directed by Michael Mann and starring Russell Crowe (as Wigand) and Al Pacino, The insider was named Best Picture of the Year by L.A. Film Critics and was nominated for eight Academy Awards. Wigand received numerous awards for his action in revealing tobacco company research and marketing practices, and he continues his efforts to reduce teen tobacco use through the non-profit

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“Mi Did Deh Deh,” an exhibit examining Jamaican identity, part of Friday’s Lexington Gallery Hop

Posted on February 18, 2009July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Young artists Ebony G. Patterson and Oneika Russell bring fresh insight to their Jamaican culture by examining notions of identity in Mi Did Deh Deh currently on exhibit in Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery and a stop on the Lexington Gallery Hop, Friday, February 20, from 5-8 p.m. The exhibit is free and open to the public and runs through February 27. “Both Patterson and Russell work in a vivid and confrontational style that imparts the feeling of receiving a first-hand account of the social and political currents in Jamaica,” said Morlan Gallery Director Andrea Fisher. “Therefore, the exhibition is called Mi Did Deh Deh, meaning I Was There in the Jamaican dialect.” Russell is an artist working in Kingston in digital and traditional media. Her work is generally made up of drawings, objects, digital animations and video. Her Morlan Gallery work includes two video pieces and a series of photographs exploring Manet’s painting, Olympia. In this well-known painting, a young nude woman reclines on her day bed, yet the figure behind Olympia has been virtually ignored in art history. Russell takes a long look at the black servant woman in the background, drawing attention to the role of the black woman, giving her a voice and an identity. Patterson, a University of Kentucky assistant professor of painting, also draws attention to identity in her Disciplez Series, a collection of mixed media pieces that examine the culture of dancehall, a type

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Transylvania University Theater presents 17th century French comedy Tartuffe,” Feb. 19-28

Posted on February 13, 2009July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Moliere’s 1667 comic masterpiece, Tartuffe, opens Thursday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Transylvania University’s Lucille C. Little Theater. Is Tartuffe a man of the cloth or a master of deceit? This slick charmer, posing as a devout Christian, oozes into a private household and disrupts it entirely, manipulating the gullible and silencing the sensible. The holier-than-thou hypocrite tricks an unquestioning fan into giving him his home, his wealth, his daughter and nearly even his wife. The wildly witty comedy, directed by drama professor Tim Soulis, runs Feb. 19-21 and 26-28 at 7:30 p.m., and Feb. 22 at 2 p.m. in the Lucille C. Little Theater. For tickets ($10) call (859) 281-3621, Monday-Friday, 1:30-4 p.m. Immediately following the opening night performance, French professor Simonetta Cochis and members of the drama program, cast and crew will answer questions from the audience and discuss the play’s contemporary relevance, historical and cultural context and staging challenges. For information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.

Noted presidential historian to deliver Transy’s Kenan Lecture, “Our Lincoln,” Monday, Feb. 16, 7:30 p.m.; free and open to the public

Posted on February 5, 2009July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Richard Norton Smith, presidential historian and scholar in residence at George Mason University, where he teaches on the American presidency, will deliver Transylvania’s winter Kenan Lecture Monday, Feb. 16, at 7:30 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium. The lecture, “Our Lincoln,” is free and open to the public. A graduate of Harvard University with a degree in government, Smith is a prolific writer. His book, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times was a finalist for the 1983 Pulitzer Prize. His 1997 book The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick received the Goldsmith Prize from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School and was described by Hilton Kramer as “the best book every written about the press.” Smith currently is working on a biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller. Smith is ABC News’ presidential historian and a political analyst for PBS. In 2003, he was named founding director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill., and executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation. Previously, he served as director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Center, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, the Reagan Center for Public Affairs, the Gerald R. Ford Museum and Library and the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics. The Kenan Lecture Series is made possible by a grant from the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.