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Transylvania’s Morlan Gallery opens "The Illustrious Horse" exhibition in celebration of the World Equestrian Games

Posted on September 13, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

Video artist Valerie Fuchs drew inspiration for her work, above, from Rosa Bonheur’s original sketchbook, below right. LEXINGTON, Ky.—In celebration of the World Equestrian Games, the Morlan Gallery proudly presents “The Illustrious Horse: Kentucky Artists Respond to the Clara Peck Collection,” an invitational exhibit of critically renowned contemporary artists from Kentucky. Twelve visual artists and one poet were asked to creatively respond to a horse image found in Transylvania University’s esteemed Clara Peck Collection. The Peck Collection, located in the Rare Book Room of Transylvania University’s library, houses collectable books dealing with the history of the horse and natural history. Exhibition participants are sculptor Steve Armstrong (Lexington); painter Gaela Erwin (Louisville); conceptual artist Kurt Gohde (Lexington); drawing and mixed media artist Michael Goodlett (Wilmore); video artist Valerie Fuchs (Louisville); photographer Guy Mendes (Lexington); painter Lennon Michalski (Lexington); fiber artist Arturo Sandoval (Lexington); conceptual artist Zoé Strecker (Harrodsburg); drawing and mixed media artist Lawrence Tarpey (Lexington); sculptor Travis Townsend (Richmond); sculptor Lavon Van Williams (Lexington); and poet Richard Taylor (Frankfort). Original Rosa Bonheur sketchbook. These artists innovatively respond to the uncommon and diverse visual imagery of the Peck Collection. For example, Steve Armstrong replies to George Stubbs’ “1766 Anatomy of a Horse,” a virtuosic collection of drawings; Lennon Michaslski answers to “Hortusan Itatis” (Garden of Health), a rare illuminated manuscript from 1400; and video artist Valerie Fuchs finds inspiration from Rosa Bonheur’s original artist’s sketchbook, complete with the initial

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Kentucky poet Maurice Manning to speak at convocation Sunday, Sept. 12; talk relates to First Engagements book selection, Wendell Berry’s "A World Lost"

Posted on September 9, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Maurice Manning, an award-winning Kentucky poet, will give Transylvania’s fall convocation, “The Moral Vision of A World Lost,” in Haggin Auditorium Sunday, September 12 at 7 p.m. “A World Lost,” a novel by Kentucky author Wendell Berry, is this year’s First Engagements: A Community Book Project selection. First Engagements is a program for first-year students to get an introduction to the high standards of a liberal arts education at Transy through small-group discussion and analysis of a text. Many upperclassmen, faculty and staff also read the books and join the discussions that take place the first week of class. Manning has published four books of poetry, most recently “The Common Man.” In 2009 he was awarded the Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Manning teaches at Indiana University, in the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and is a regular faculty member for The Appalachian Writers Workshop in Hindman, Ky. His first book, “Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions,” was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 2000. Manning’s second collection of poetry, “A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, & c.,” was published in 2004 by Harcourt. His poems have appeared in “The New Yorker,” “Shenandoah,” “The Southern Review,” “Washington Square,” “Green Mountains Review” and elsewhere. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120.

Final week of GSA 2010 at Transylvania is July 5-10

Posted on July 6, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—The Governor’s School for the Arts 2010 summer session at Transylvania comes to a close Saturday, July 10, highlighted by final student performances and graduation ceremonies. The final week will also feature a reception in honor of Transylvania president Charles L. Shearer, who is retiring at the end of this month following 27 years leading the university. After the reception at the Morlan Gallery, the GSA will put on a showcase performance at Carrick Theater, beginning about for guests and dignitaries attending the reception. Highlights of the final week will also include a performance by Flamenco Louisville on Thursday, July 8, at 9 a.m. The GSA will wrap up its 11th year on the Transy campus on Saturday, with day-long performances in all disciplines preceding graduation ceremonies at 5:15 p.m. in Haggin Auditorium. Final performances, including those in instrumental and vocal music, musical theater, visual arts, drama, new media and architecture, will begin at various campus locations at noon. All final day events are open to GSA parents, friends and relatives as well as the public and media. Previous final day performances have attracted over 1,200 people to the campus. Refreshments will be available at various locations near Old Morrison. Final performances will be held at the Mitchell Fine Arts Center, the Little Theater, the Shearer Art Building, the Haupt Humanities Building, Old Morrison and the Cowgill Center. A total of 225 high school students from 46 counties have

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2010 Governor’s School for the Arts session opens June 20

Posted on June 16, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Some 225 of Kentucky’s best young artists from 46 counties will assemble on Transylvania’s campus on Sunday, June 20, to begin the three-week 2010 session of the Governor’s School for the Arts. The latest GSA class is comprised of rising juniors and seniors from all regions of the Commonwealth who will receive top-level training through daily seminars, master classes, lectures, hands-on workshops and field trips to various arts attractions in central Kentucky. The student-artists will receive instruction in a total of nine areas. Those disciplines are architecture, creative writing, dance, drama, instrumental music, musical theatre, new media, visual arts and vocal music. Over 4,200 of the state’s most talented high school artists from all 120 counties have attended the 23-year-old GSA summer program following a rigorous selection process. Each year since the program’s inception in 1987, over 1,500 students have applied annually for one of the available scholarships, valued at more than $3,000. Currently, 18 colleges and universities, including Transylvania, offer scholarships to GSA alumni. The program will culminate on Saturday, July 10, with an all-day festival at Transy that celebrates the achievements of the young artists through performances that are open to family, friends and the public. Graduation ceremonies are held at approximately 5 p.m. Transylvania and Lexington have hosted the GSA program annually since 2000 and recently announced an agreement to keep the program on campus at least through 2011. “The presence of the Governor’s School for

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Transylvania and the city of Lexington invite the public to annual patriotic concert Friday, July 2, at 8 p.m.

Posted on June 16, 2010July 14, 2020 by Office of Marketing and Communications

LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University and the city of Lexington once again invite the public to the city’s annual patriotic concert on the steps of Transylvania’s historic Old Morrison on Friday, July 2, at 8 p.m. The annual concert features new tunes and old favorites from the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra and the Lexington Singers. The concert is free and open to the public and draws upwards of 5,000 people who set out their blankets and picnics from the front lawn of Old Morrison to the Carnegie Center in Gratz Park. The concert is sponsored by PNC Bank, Saint Joseph Health System and Hilliard Lyons. The Young at Heart Dixieland Jazz Band will perform in Gratz Park prior to the concert, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Handicapped accessible parking will be available in the semi-circle driveway on Broadway between Third and Fourth streets. For more information, contact the public relations office at (859) 233-8120 or Penny Ebel in the mayor’s office at (859) 258-3130.