Art Museum Educator Wins Award

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 28, 2009) - The Kentucky Art Education Association has named the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky's Deborah Borrowdale-Cox as the 2009 Museum/Higher Education Art Educator of the Year.

As the director of museum education at the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Borrowdale-Cox oversees programs at the museum as well as outreach to the region that provides art education to more than 10,000 students a year. She has served in her present position for 11 years and has tried to give museum exhibitions a voice. "My goal is to provide paths of understanding for our exhibitions and collections so that people can appreciate and value the works of art and the cultures from which they came," said the award-winning educator.
 

Borrowdale-Cox earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts and art history from Scripps College and a master's degree in museum education from George Washington University. She has worked for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Santa Cruz Cultural Council and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
 

The 2009 Museum/Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award was presented at the association gala, held at the museum on Oct. 16, 2009.

The mission of the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky is to promote the understanding and appreciation of art to enhance the quality of life for the people of Kentucky through collecting, exhibiting, preserving and interpreting outstanding works of visual art from all cultures.