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Morlan Gallery’s Mi Did Deh Deh, an exhibit examining Jamaican identity, runs through February 27; gallery talk is Wednesday, Jan. 21

Posted on January 13, 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. Morlan Gallery’s first exhibition of 2009 opened Friday, January 9, and runs through February 27. The exhibit is free and open to the public. “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 of Jamaican popular music that is less political and less religious

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Prominent Biblical scholar and best-selling author John Dominic Crossan to speak at Transylvania Wednesday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m.; free and open to the public

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

LEXINGTON, Ky.—John Dominic Crossan, noted author and expert on issues of privilege, oppression and social inequality, will speak at Transylvania University’s Haggin Auditorium Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. The lecture, “Finding Jesus: His Matrix and His Message,” is free and open to the public. Crossan, an authority on historical Jesus and First Century Christianity, writes books for both academic and popular audiences. His two lengthiest books are The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant (1991) and The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened Immediately after the Execution of Jesus (1998). Two of Crossan’s briefer popular books are Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994) and Who Killed Jesus? Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus (1995). Crossan has also co-authored a book about Jesus and another about Paul with archaeologist Jonathan L. Reed (2001, 2004), which provide contextualization of the lives and times of these two men. His latest book (2007) is God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome Then and Now. In all, he has written 23 books, five of which were national religious bestsellers for a combined total of 22 months. His work has been translated into 11 languages, including Korean, Chinese and Japanese. The distinguished New Testament scholar has lectured to lay and scholarly audiences across the U.S. and around the world. He has been interviewed on 200 radio stations and on such television programs as ABC’s PrimeTime and

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