Pick 'Art in Bloom' and Help Support UK Art Museum
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 2, 2017) — The University of Kentucky Art Museum will host its annual fundraiser, Art in Bloom, Feb. 3-5. The exhibition and corresponding events will showcase floral designs inspired by the museum's new exhibition, "Face Value: Photographs by Doris Ulmann and Andy Warhol," and the permanent collection.
“I think Art in Bloom gives visitors new insight into a work of art," said Amy Nelson, director of grants and assets at UK Art Museum. "The floral designer often focuses on the color or line in a painting, or a special detail in a work of art, that people might not have noticed before. I think about art differently during Art in Bloom.”
The floral works of art created by local floral designers for Art in Bloom will be on view 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3, and noon to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 4 and 5. The Art in Bloom exhibition is free and open to the public.
In conjunction with the exhibition, there will be two art demonstrations presented. UK Art Museum's own Pam Hardy will give a floral drawing demonstration at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. The following day, Ann Roughton, member of Garden Club of Lexington and flower guild chair at Christ Church Cathedral, and Rachel Wolfe, owner of Rachel's Rose Garden in Wilmore, Kentucky, will present a floral design demonstration at 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5. Both demonstrations are free and open to the public as well.
As the museum's primary fundraising event, Art in Bloom will also host its popular cocktail party for designers, art lovers and revelers alike. The party, which includes food, drinks and music, will run 7:30-10:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. Four Roses will also be on hand to help celebrate. Tickets for the Art in Bloom Cocktail Party are $50 and available online at http://finearts.uky.edu/art-musuem/events or at the door.
The mission of the UK Art Museum, part of the UK College of Fine Arts, is to promote the understanding and appreciation of art to enhance the quality of life for people of Kentucky through collecting, exhibiting, preserving and interpreting outstanding works of visual art from all cultures. Home to a collection of more than 4,800 objects including American and European paintings, drawings, photographs, prints and sculpture, the museum presents both special exhibitions and shows of work from its permanent collection.