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The AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park is a popular, annual Lexington tradition, drawing crowds of approximately 60,000 people from across the country. Voted one of the top 15 fine art fairs in the nation by leading trade publication Sunshine Artist Magazine, the 2009 show will take place Saturday, August 15th, 2009 from 10 am until 6 pm and Sunday, August 16th, 2009 from 11 am until 5 pm.
Please follow the links below for more information:
Additional information for AFB artists
Get involved! Volunteer at AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park
AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park 2009 jurors
List of current AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park participating artists
"Lex Trek" webisode about AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park, presented by Lexington Convention & Visitors Bureau
Important Dates:
January 26 Artists apply on ZAPP™
March 31 ZAPP™ window closes
Late April Artists log onto ZAPPlication™ to view their
application status
May 29 Booth Fees due to Lexington Art League
August 14 Load-In begins at Noon
August 15-16 Fair opens to public:
Sat., 10 am to 6 pm; Sun., 11 am to 5 pm |
•2008 Fair Photos
•2008 Fair Map Below
Please note: map is from 2008 and serves as reference for approximate locations for 2009. Please click on map to enlarge.
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LAL thanks the AFB Art Fair @ Woodland Park Sponsors. To learn more about AFB Art Fair 2009 Sponsorship Opportunities please
contact LAL Development Director Stephanie Pevec at 859.254.7024 or email spevec@lexingtonartleague.org
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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. |
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