Facilities
Fine Arts Building (see map)
Constructed in 1949, the Fine Arts Building currently houses classrooms and faculty offices for the Art Education and Art History programs, the Visual Resource Center, the Tuska Gallery, and the Department’s administrative offices. The Fine Arts Building is also home to the School of Music, The Department of Theatre, Arts Administration, and the offices of the Dean of the College of Fine Arts. The administrative offices of the Department of Art are located on the second floor.
"Illumine", a group of 56 bronze sculptures by former UK professor John Regis Tuska adorns the facade of the building facing Rose Street.
Reynolds Studio Building (Reynolds Building #1, see map)
In the mid-1960’s the Department’s Studio programs expanded into the former Reynolds Company Tobacco Warehouse #1. The building is an enormous asset for the Department, providing 53,000 square feet for classrooms and studios for Ceramics, Digital Media, Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, and Sculpture as well as the Barnhart Gallery.
Studio space for Students
Compared to many programs at other universities, the Art Studio area at UK benefits from an abundance of individual studio space. We are one of the few programs in the country that is able to provide studio space not only for faculty but for every graduate and senior BFA student. Students should apply to the Art Studio Area Coordinator who will assign studio space as appropriate.
Woodshop (Lynn Sweet, Facilities Operator, 257-4214)
At 2000 sq ft, the shop lab is large enough to accommodate the activities of any of the classes that use it. The woodshop is equipped with a wide variety light industrial cabinet shop tools that are shared by the various disciplines. The students of these classes are required to take a Woodshop Orientation each year to assure a continued safety record. The shop is available to these students at prescribed hours under proper supervision.
Metal Arts (see map)
Home to the Department’s programs in Sculpture, the Metal Arts Building is next door to the Reynolds Studio Building.
Galleries
Tuska Gallery of Contemporary Art. 107 Fine Arts Building
The Tuska Gallery in the Fine Arts Building is dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art of regional and national importance. The schedule includes exhibitions of regional artists, art department faculty, and graduating MFA students. The gallery was dedicated to the late John Tuska, University of Kentucky faculty emeritus, in 1996.
The Raymond Barnhart Gallery Reynolds #1, 206
The Barnhart Gallery in the Reynolds Building presents a constantly changing series of exhibits from current BA, BFA, and MFA degree candidates.
The Rasdall Gallery, Student Center
Rasdall Gallery is an intimate exhibition space located on the second floor of the UK Student Center. Exhibitions are coordinated through the Student Center Board by a volunteer director.
Visual Resources Collections
Three major image collections comprise Visual Resources in the Department of Art. The Slide Library houses over 235,000 35mm slides, which may be borrowed by students, faculty, and staff for presentation or research. A steadily growing in-house digital image collection, managed with Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) software, complements the UK Libraries' subscription to the premiere digital image database service houses a collection of over 235,000 35mm slides, available for use by faculty, students, and staff of the Department of Art and the University as a whole. An in-house collection of digital images, managed with Madison Digital Image Database (MDID) software, was inaugurated in the summer of 2004, and should be available campus-wide by Spring of 2005. In conjunction with UK Libraries’ forthcoming subscription to ARTstor. Together, these collections of images make hundreds of thousands of images available for use in teaching and research for the Department of Art and for the University as a whole.
Located in the basement of the Lucille Little Fine Arts Library building, this state-of the-art lab consists of two 21-seat classrooms and a 15-seat general use area. It currently contains dual 2 GHz Power Macintosh G5 towers and a wide variety of software and peripherals targeted for multimedia projects. Students using the labs must obtain Macintosh accounts, which are customizable and provide personal storage space that can be accessed from any Systems Labs Macintosh lab or from any computer via SFTP.
The Lucille Caudill Little Fine Arts Library
The Little Fine Arts Library and Learning Center combines the collections of the Edward Rannells Art Library and the Adelle G. Dailey Music Library and is the home of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music. This Library is the university repository for holdings on the visual arts (all media), including current and past periodicals and serials, monographs, texts, art reference, and course reserve materials.
University of Kentucky Art Museum 125 Center for the Arts (257-5716).
The Art Museum maintains a growing collection of over 3,500 drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, and sculptures. Selections from the permanent collection are always on display, as well as periodic special exhibits. Works in storage are easily accessible by appointment. Special tours for University classes are available. The museum is open from noon to 5:00 p.m. daily except Mondays and University holidays. Friday’s hours are noon to 8:00 p.m.