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Warhol Foundation supports UK Art Museum research on pioneering photographers

The University of Kentucky Art Museum has received a $38,000 Curatorial Research Fellowship Grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The grant will fund research on two African American photographers, Maurice W. Strider and William S. Dotson, who documented the Civil Rights Movement in Lexington during the mid-twentieth century. Curator Rachel Hooper will lead the research for a planned 2029 exhibition.

UK Art Museum announces Spring ’26 exhibitions and photography lecture

The University of Kentucky Art Museum has announced its Spring 2026 exhibition lineup, running from February 3 to June 27, alongside the first Robert C. May Endowed Photography Lecture of the semester. The season features two main exhibitions: "Ecstatic Personas," a group show exploring joy as a radical force with works by Carlos Rosales-Silva and Shannon Alonzo, and "Harry Gamboa Jr.: The Early, The Late, The Lost," a career-spanning survey of the artist's photography, performance, and writing. Gamboa, a co-founder of the influential collective Asco, will also deliver a lecture on March 27 as part of the photography lecture series.