Art Fever 2009

 

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AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park


AFB ART FAIR @ WOODLAND PARK 2009
Now in its 34th year, the AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park is Lexington’s largest, free, outdoor cultural event with over 65,000 visitors coming to Woodland Park during the two-day event.  While the name is new, the Fair will have all of the wonderful artists and activities for which it has become known, including 200 of the nation’s finest juried artists, free live entertainment on the Gazebo Stage, free hands-on art activities for children and families in the Mutual of Omaha Kid Zone and Wild Adventure Tour, great Kentucky food and plenty of opportunities to bump into friends.

The 2009 Fair will take place on Saturday, August 15 and Sunday, August 16, 2009 at beautiful Woodland Park near downtown Lexington.  The Fair is produced by LAL in partnership with the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government’s Division of Parks and Recreation and American Founders Bank with support from many sponsors.  The Fair has received several national, regional and local honors including being voted a Top 15 Fine Art & Design Show in the nation by Sunshine Artist Magazine, a Top 20 Event by The Southeast Tourism Society and a Top 10 Festival by The Kentucky Tourism Council.  The AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park is a significant asset to Lexington and supports LAL’s vision of making visual art the lens through which central Kentucky distinguishes itself as a progressive, inclusive and vibrant region.


PARKING

Fair patrons will once again enjoy hassle-free parking, thanks to American Founders Bank and the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Free parking lots are available at American Founders Bank’s downtown Lexington branch (corner of Rose St. and East Main) and in the LEXTRAN Transit Center parking garage (enter from E. High Street near the Lexington Ave. and MLK Blvd. intersections).  Signs will be posted directing patrons into the lots.  LFUCG Division of Parks and Recreation will provide free shuttle service, including one wheelchair-accessible van, from these locations.  Shuttles will circulate approximately every ten minutes.  For more information, call 859.254.7024, or www.lexingtonartleague.org. Due to road closures for the Mid-Summers Night Run in downtown Lexington, shuttles will not run to the AFB lot between 5:00 and 6:30p.m. on Sat, August 15. Shuttle Service will resume at 6:30p.m. to take Fair patrons from Woodland Park to their cars.

Download a parking shuttle map.



BIKE CHECK
Fair patrons preferring to bike to the AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park can do so without worry. There will be a Bike Check available in the Woodland Park racquetball court on High Street.



AFB ART FAIR @ WOODLAND PARK 2009 ARTIST AWARDS

Best of Kentucky:
Chris Plummer

Award of Excellence:
Mark Whitley

Cutting Edge Award:
Mark Needham


Best of Graphics/Printmaking:
Kent Ambler

Best of 2D Mixed Media:
Mark Traughber

Best of 3D Mixed Media:
Harriet Smith

Best of Wood:
Robert Daily

Best of Photography:
Garry Seidel

Best of Metalwork:
Kim Eubank

Best of Ceramics:
Jeff Unzicker

Best of Jewelry:
Julia Shaw

Best of Fiber/Leather:
Rhanna Nyman

Best of Glass:
Michael Burt

Best of Drawing/Pastels:
Marianna McDonald

Best of Painting:
Marian Pacsuta

LexArts          Kentucky Arts Council


AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park Sponsors:


LEX18    Smiley Pete Publications      Cumulus Radio LexingtonMutual of OmahaGood Foods

Lexington Clinic      Pepsi     Salon Professional Academy     Chiro One     Toyota

Lexington Downtown Hotel     Beau Graphics


AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park Award Sponsors:

Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Lexington / Walter Gross III | Bluegrass Mailing | Crawford Builders, Inc
Michael Cox / Miller, Griffin and Marks P.S.C. | Bluegrass Sotheby’s International Realty, Becky Reinhold
Wise DelCotto, PLLC | Fitzsimons Office of Architecture | Trademark Salon | Karen Carey
Pamela Perlman Law Office | Johns Run Walk & Johns New Shoes | Susan and Steven Goldstein
Sarah Charles Wright / Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney, PLLC

Special Thanks:
AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park Volunteers, Mothers of Preschoolers at Tates Creek Christian Church (MOPS), Bluegrass Community
and Technical College,
Bike Lexington, Bluegrass Cycling Club, Lexrides and Mayor’s Bike Task Force, Magee's Bakery, Third Street Stuff Coffee,
Kentucky Eagle Beer, The Paper Weight, Architectural Kitchen & Baths, Lynagh's, Sharon Schilling, Minna Jenkins and John Pope




AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park 2009 Jurors

Jack Girard
, Chair of Fine Arts Division and Professor of Art at Transylvania University

Jack Girard is currently a Professor of Art, and the Fine Arts Division Chair at Transylvania University, in Lexington, KY, USA, where he teaches multi-level drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, and travel-related courses. He received his BFA (1973) and MFA (1976) degrees from East Carolina University, with additional studies at the University of South Carolina and the University of Kentucky. His primary medium is collage, although he frequently works in paint, assemblage, and installation. Mr. Girard’s work has been included in over 300 exhibitions, and is represented in many corporate, institutional, and private collections around the country and overseas. He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. His work addresses a variety of topical issues, inclusive of aging, discrimination, archaeology, ordnance, politics, and human conflict. His is currently represented by Chapman Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY. Additionally, his scholarship has included publications on the artwork of American assemblage artists Edward and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, and Spanish painter, collagist, and writer Asensio Saez.


Tim Glotzbach, Director of Berea College Student Craft Program

Tim Glotzbach, a professional jeweler and metalsmith, has served as an educator for more than 20 years. He grew up on his family’s farm in southern Indiana with seven siblings, surrounded by an environment that both stimulated and encouraged imaginative solutions to everyday needs. In high school, Glotzbach followed his interests in math and science in preparation for college. As an undergrad at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, he chose to major in archaeology. But by his junior year, he had taken several graphic design and art courses and found himself spending more time in the studio than anywhere else. He eventually learned the art of jewelry and metalworking, which led to an MFA at the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale. After teaching two-dimensional design, drawing, and jewelry/metalworking courses at the State University of New York in Oswego, he moved to Kentucky to start a new jewelry and metalworking program at Eastern Kentucky University. There he also served as a consultant for various art projects throughout the area and worked to develop new programs and recruit students. In 1999, he joined a national advocacy council to devise a new community college program. Soon afterward, he accepted the position of academic dean of the Heritage and Humanities Division of Hazard Community College and helped to found and direct the Kentucky School of Craft in Hindman, Kentucky. He currently serves as the Director of the Berea College Student Craft Program. In addition, he continues with his own art; his metal work has been exhibited every year since 1975 in noted museums, galleries, and traveling exhibits across the United States.


Adrian Swain, Kentucky Folk Art Center Curator

Adrian Swain grew up in England and moved to the United States in 1971. His exposure to contemporary folk art began with a chance encounter with Kentucky woodcarver and folk artist Edgar Tolson in 1973. Soon afterward, Swain followed his interest to Rowan County and began working as a potter. He spent five years as an artist-in-residence, moving in 1977 to Morehead, where he ran a gallery for four years in the early 1980s. In addition to displaying his own work, he met many artists in the area who were looking for a place to exhibit their work and began to open his space to other folk artists. Morehead State University had also acquired a substantial collection of folk art and asked Swain to serve as a part-time curator of the collection. He helped develop the program into the Kentucky Folk Art Center, a museum and art center that houses a permanent collection and acquires and promotes rotating exhibitions of folk artists. Since coming to work at MSU in 1987, Swain has overseen the growth of the center’s permanent collection to more than 900 pieces and has produced numerous exhibits on-site as well as traveling exhibits for other cultural institutions. Swain has written extensively on Kentucky folk art and is a frequent guest writer for Arts Across Kentucky magazine.

 

 


All Lexington Art League programs are made possible through the generous support of LexArts. The annual Campaign for the Arts has raised millions of dollars in support of the visual, literary and performing arts in Lexington. Through the success of the Campaign, LexArts supports the Lexington Art League with an allocation of $52,500 for general operating support. We thank the many individuals whose passion for the arts compelled them to give generously of their time and money. Together we raised more than $1 million during the 2007 Campaign! Special thanks to the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government and the Kentucky Arts Council for their continued partnership in ensuring a flourishing future for the arts in Lexington and central Kentucky.
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