The Paducah Arts Alliance is proud to announce that board member Randy Simmons, Professor of Drawing at the Paducah School of Art and Design (PSAD), has received two regional Best of Show awards with individual portrait drawings of his parents. The Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science, located in the Historic District in Downtown […]

“Mom” and “Dad” drawings by Professor Randy Simmons, Paducah School of Art & Design, win Best of Show awards in two regional exhibitions

Yeiser Art Center & Paducah Arts Alliance team up for In Between – a creative collaboration with Massachusetts-based fiber artist
Yeiser Art Center (YAC) and the Paducah Arts Alliance (PAA) are pleased to welcome Anna Kristina Goransson, Swedish-born artist and lecturer at University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, to Paducah for a creative collaboration. Goransson will be showcasing In Between, an installation of her felted works at Yeiser Art Center, 200 Broadway, from Saturday, October 8 through Saturday, November 26, 2016. In addition to being Yeiser’s featured […]

Fluidity, charcoal drawings series by Paducah School of Art & Design professor, to debut at 1857 Hotel
Randy Simmons, Professor of Drawing at the Paducah School of Art and Design (PSAD), will debut Fluidity, a series of large-scale charcoal drawings and images focusing on the human figure and distortions created by water, in an upcoming exhibit. The exhibit will be on view in the lobby of the 1857 Hotel, Paducah’s new boutique hotel located at 210 Kentucky Avenue in Paducah’s historic Downtown, from […]

Paducah Arts Alliance & Paducah School of Art & Design team up for creative connection with North Carolina artist/s
Paducah Arts Alliance (PAA) is pleased to announce that Tim and Sarah Lazure from Greenville, North Carolina, are the current participants in the Paducah Artist in Residence Program. Their Paducah residency coincides with Tim’s involvement with the Paducah School of Art & Design’s (PSAD) 2016 Master Artists Workshops. Tim conducts metals design workshops across […]

Georgia artist brings historic depth & contemporary approach to Paducah’s quilting/fiber art scene
Paducah Arts Alliance’s (PAA) current Artist-in-Residence Jess Jones is finding a comfortable niche for creating new works and sharing her deep knowledge of fiber art, quilting and design in Paducah.

Artist in Residence Lea Feinstein from California to showcase her recent Paducah creations
Paducah Arts Alliance is pleased to announce that “No Dawdling,” recent works by California artist Lea Feinstein, will be on display at Ruth Baggett Gallery, 1025 Jefferson, from June 18 through July 31. The public is invited to the opening reception this Saturday, June 18, from 5-8 pm.

Paducah Artists-in-Residence Vlada Soshkina & Dmitry Gomberg showcase their collective Paducah works this Saturday
Children’s book signing, public art mural celebration & dual exhibition highlight the creative couple’s community engagement The Paducah Art’s Alliance’s (PAA) will showcase the works of March artists-in-residence Vlada Soshkina and Dmitry Gomberg in a dual exhibition this Saturday, April 2, at StudioMars, 418 N. 7th Street, from 5-7 pm. Soshkina & Gomberg, originally from Ukraine […]

MAKE to Host Mural Reveal with Paducah Arts Alliance
MAKE, in conjunction with the Paducah ArtsvAlliance, will reveal the recently completed mural by PAA’s March artist-in-residence Vlada Soshkina on Saturday, April 2 with a reception from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Paducah Artists-in-Residence Vlada Soshkina & Dmitry Gomberg bring their unique artistic flair to community
Paducah Art’s Alliance’s (PAA) March artists-in-residence Vlada Soshkina and Dmitry Gomberg arrived in Paducah from the Southern Berkshires of Western Massachusetts on March 7 prepared to embrace and enhance Paducah’s creative culture.

Paducah artist creates strong statement in black and white at prestigious international drawing exhibition
The Paducah Arts Alliance is proud to announce that board member Randy Simmons’ work Gravity has been accepted into the international juried exhibition Drawing Discourse 2016 at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Asheville. The exhibit will be on display through February 12 at S. Tucker Cooke Gallery located in Owen Hall, One University Heights, […]