To any of my friends in Bowling Green, KY who happen to see this before the 20th, here’s an art to-do for you.

If you don’t know who Matt Long is, check out his website. I’ve been to numerous guest lectures and demos in the ceramics department at WKU and got a lot out all of them, even as someone who doesn’t know ceramics.

Matt Long will be lecturing and hosting demo sessions on the 20th and 21st of February.

There’s a lot coming up at the WKU Art Department but this one is this week so I’ll just get it out there real quick like. I won’t be able to make it but I highly encourage all to attend. Elissa Cox is coming for a double-whammy visit. First she’ll be the focus of an informal (open to students and others) Q&A during the Studio-Portfolio class. This should go from 3:30 to 4:30 in room 454 of the Fine Arts Center. Afterwards, from 5 – 6pm she’ll be providing an open lecture in room 156. All are welcome to it as well.

Regardless if you’re going to be there, be sure to visit Elissa’s website.

Kentucky Library and Museum’s Print Collection – Now showing in the FAC Corridor Gallery (second floor) is one of the best print collections I’ve seen in a while. Some of the artists includeLouise Nevelson, Frank Stella, Paul Cadmus, Jim Dine, Wayne Kimball and Nathan Oliveira. This show is giving Ceramics Invitational a run for it’s money in terms of balls-to-the-wall amazingness.

And while you’re here be sure to wander up to the Cube gallery on the fourth floor to see what’s going on there.

Above is “Five Paint Brushes,” an etching from 1973 by James Dine. It is one of the pieces in the show, all of which are on loan from the permanent collection of the Kentucky Library and Museum. The majority of the work on view were originally collected in the early seventies through an NEA grant. They were collected by Ivan Schieferdecker, Professor Emeritus and have not been displayed since sometime during the 1980′s.

The show will be on view through finals week which I believe is Friday, May 11th. The prints are screenprints, lithographs, etchings and others.

2007 Graduating Senior Art Exhibit – Also, the Senior show is now up in the Kentucky Museum and will also be on view until May 11th. I haven’t had a chance to get any photographs (or even see the show yet) but I hear it’s quite a collection of work, taking up the whole place.

Above are works by 2007 graduating seniors Sara Truman (left) and Perry Hooks (right). Go check it out.