The Louisville Zoo works to help save the endangered black-footed ferret and the Western Lowland gorilla. Old postcards take us on a nostalgic trip through Kentucky. Berea College Crafts employs students and helps working artists make a living. Owensboro’s Rhonda McEnroe exhibits her students’ work at Kentucky Wesleyan College.
Louisville Zoo, Part Three
The Louisville Zoo is a leader in animal preservation. Steven R. Taylor, assistant director of conservation, education, and collections, said the zoo is part of the Saving Animals From Extinction (SAFE) program of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Learn more about the Louisville Zoo and watch the video.
Berea College Crafts
According to the school’s website, Berea College embraced the Crafts Revival Movement of the late 19th century. The school president at the time, William G. Frost, decided to incorporate a crafts-making program as part of the curriculum. The program has thrived and has provided an additional national (and international) presence through the sales and marketing of student-produced items from the program’s five studios: wooden furniture, weaving, broom making, jewelry, ceramics, and small jewelry.
Continue reading about the crafts program at Berea College and watch the video.
Postcards of Kentucky
A postcard collection at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in Frankfort, offers a sweeping yet intimate look at Kentucky from the 1880s to 1950s.
The collection comes from Ron Morgan, a retired state employee who became captivated by old postcards of his hometown. “He found himself in an antique shop one day and found a postcard of Lancaster, his hometown, that showed a view that he’d never seen before,” said Louise Jones, director of research experience at the Kentucky Historical Society.
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Art Lessons
A self-taught painter, Rhonda McEnroe turned the spotlight on her students with an exhibit at Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro. “Trust me, these students who will be exhibiting in the show are far better than I was at the age of 5 or 6,” she said.
McEnroe, a self-taught artist, engages in the full range of media -— watercolor, oil, pastel, and soft mixed media -— in abstract techniques as well as realism. She mastered watercolors because she was told it was the most difficult. She loves oil painting and pastels, especially for children and pets, she said.
