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Kentucky Folk Art Center

 

The Kentucky Folk Art Center (KFAC) at Morehead State University is one of Kentucky's special places. Located in the historic Union Grocery, the Center offers much more than a typical museum experience. KFAC houses a permanent collection of nearly 1,400 pieces of self-taught art. Dozens of works from the collection are displayed on a rotating basis in the center’s first-floor gallery. Upon viewing folk art for the first time, many are attracted to its whimsical attributes, and we should take joy in these works as the artists intended. But in many instances, the art you see on the walls at KFAC was born out of hard times. The works displayed here stand as a document of and testament to the common man's concerns, courage, and convictions. 

The Center presents several new changing exhibits each year in the second-floor gallery, featuring folk art, fine art, textiles, photography, and historical content. KFAC also boasts one of the best gift shops in the region, offering original folk art, crafts, jewelry, books, toys, housewares and much more. 

KFAC hosts or sponsors regular cultural events and activities each year, like the Appalachian Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair, on the first Saturday in December. For a complete schedule of upcoming events and exhibition openings, please call.

Kentucky Folk Art Center Farmhouse Painting stroll

Kentucky Folk Art Center

The Kentucky Folk Art Center houses a permanent collection of nearly 1,400 pieces of self-taught art.

The Kentucky Folk Art Center (KFAC) at Morehead State University is one of Kentucky’s special places.

Edgar Tolson Folk Art Library

The Edgar Tolson Folk Art Library was made possible through a gift from Dr. and Mrs. Paul Maddox, of Campton, Ky., whose generous contribution honors the memory of one of Kentucky’s best known artists, folk or fine. The Library recently received hundreds of volumes donated by the family of the late Richard and Maggie Wenstrup. The Library is available at no charge to groups in need of a meeting space, and the books and other resource materials there may be used but cannot leave the facility.

Research through Morehead State University’s Camden-Carroll Library includes the listings for the Tolson Library.

HOURS

Monday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Tuesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Wednesday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

DIRECTIONS

From I-64, take exit 137. Turn south on to HWY 32. Follow the brown KFAC signs to the HWY 60 bypass. 

STAFF

Tammy Stone, Administrative Coordinator, 606-783-2204

 

KFAC’s annual Appalachian Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair will be held at the Laughlin Health Building Saturday, Dec. 3, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. The Fair offers visitors a wide and varied selection of regional arts and crafts, ranging from the traditional to the cutting edge, including holiday decorations. More than 100 vendors participate annually.

Admission to the fair is $3 for adults; children under 12 are free