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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan 26, 2021) – A portrait series by Lexington artists Kurt Gohde and Kremena Todorova titled, “56 Lexington Women of Color: In Honor of VP Kamala Harris,” features a number of University of Kentucky faculty and staff members. The series serves as a tribute to Kamala Harris, the first woman of color to be elected to the office of vice president.
“On the day Senator Kamala Harris made history as the first woman and the first woman of color to become Vice President-Elect, Kurt and I started work on a series of 46 photographs to celebrate Harris and to honor Lexington women of color who lead,” wrote Todorova on the project website. “We began by recognizing we had already photographed many women of color who are leaders in our community for the project “Lexington in the Time of COVID-19”. So we wrote to each of them to share about what we were doing and to ask if we could include the portraits we had taken of them.”
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 21, 2021) The University of Kentucky will host the 32nd annual Economic Outlook Conference, sponsored by Central Bank, Wednesday, Feb. 3. The conference will be offered from 8:30 a.m.-noon as a webinar. Registration is required, but the registration fee has been waived.
Kevin L. Kliesen, business economist and research officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, will be the featured speaker discussing the U.S. economy and monetary policy.
Additional speakers and presenters include:
Michael Clark, associate professor of economics and director of the Center for Business and Economic Research in Gatton College, Economic Outlook for 2021: Kentucky and Beyond ;
In the summer of 2018, “The Birds of Opulence” was included in Book Benches: A Tribute to Kentucky Authors. Mark Cornelison | UK Photo.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 6, 2021) University Press of Kentucky author Crystal Wilkinson s novel, The Birds of Opulence, has been selected by Kentucky Humanities for the 2021 Kentucky Reads.
The novel will be at the center of statewide conversations on the dynamics of family and community, the strength of women and stigmas surrounding mental illness. Kentucky Reads will offer 25 scholar-led discussions of “The Birds of Opulence” to community organizations throughout the Commonwealth.
“Mental illness continues to be one of our greatest societal ills and the stigma surrounding it is as concerning as the disease itself,” Wilkinson, an associate professor in the Department of English in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, explained. “It gives me great hope that communities all over the state will read the novel and use it as a cataly