Re-imagining the Art of Kentucky

FAIN: GE-290760-23

Speed Art Museum (Louisville, KY 40208-1812)
Scott Erbes (Project Director: August 2022 to present)

Planning for the reinterpretation of the permanent gallery on Kentucky art, including advisory convenings and evaluation.

The Speed Art Museum will develop and plan a multidisciplinary re-imagining and reinstallation of the museum’s Kentucky Gallery, a space devoted to sharing and interpreting Kentucky-made and Kentucky-associated works of art. The new installation will be a permanent, comprehensive exhibition in the Kentucky Gallery that will place objects within humanities-based contexts, combining works from the Speed’s collection, works borrowed from other institutions and individuals, and works by contemporary artists. Funds from a planning grant will move the project forward by involving an advisory panel of five humanities scholars in planning around the project’s humanities themes, generating a comprehensive evaluation of the current and planned state of the Kentucky Gallery, and creating design standards and strategies.