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Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
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Kentucky Wesleyan College to present Carrie: The Musical
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Officials with Kentucky Wesleyan College have announced an upcoming performance of Carrie: The Musical. Carrie: The Musical is based on horror novel by Stephen King about a teenage girl with psychic powers. The musical production at the college will be directed by Preston Middleton. The show will be performed at the Jack T. Wells Activity Center on April 3-5 at 7 p.m. and on April 6 at 2 p.m.. Tickets can be purchased on KWC's website. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- General
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KWC announces drop off location for Charitable Challenge donations
Kentucky Wesleyan College has announced that donations for the Charitable Challenge can be dropped off from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Student Life Office located in the Winchester Center on the college's campus. 'Kentucky Wesleyan College is excited to participate in this round of the Charitable Challenge,' said Morgan Russelburg, the vice president of student affairs at KWC. Russelburg also said that KWC's Student Government Association is matching the canned good donations.
Yahoo
15-02-2025
- Entertainment
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Educator, artist Lewis tells students art is about making an impact
Daviess County High School continued commemorating Black History Month on Thursday, as students discussed art with Kenneth 'K.O.' Lewis, an Owensboro artist and educator who has exhibited across the Midwest. Lewis, who is assistant principal at Newton Parrish Elementary School, began drawing at an early age as a child in Louisville. At Kentucky Wesleyan College, Lewis played football while also getting degrees in art education and visual arts. Lewis said he knew he wanted to pursue art from the time he was 13 years old. 'You feel like you have to do it,' he said. 'It's like breathing.' Lewis said he initially had plans to become a college art professor before finding his place in public education. 'I had really big dreams, but those dreams led to opportunities to get into our schools,' Lewis said. Lewis displayed several of his work to the students, including portraits of Emmett Till, Jackie Robinson and Robinson's wife, Rachel Robinson, Shirley Chisholm, Toni Morrison, Ruby Bridges, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Monetta Sleet, Martin Luther King Jr., Bob Marley and others. Lewis said his goal as an artist is to tell the stories of his subjects and to represent Black men and women who have had a cultural impact. In culture, much of the emphasis on Black Americans is in sports and entertainment, which isn't representative of the impact Blacks have had on society, Lewis said. 'We are not seeing Black people beyond entertainment,' Lewis told the students. 'I have to represent Black people outside of art and music.' Black activists and artists have affected not just the Black community, but also people from 'all walks of life and all colors,' Lewis said. Lewis' portrait of Till became a complex work that took time to finish, Lewis said. Behind Till, Lewis painted newspaper articles and photos that show how the media covered Till's murder by two white men in 1955. Till's killers were acquitted by an all-white jury, but later admitted to killing Till, who was 14 years old at the time he was murdered. 'A lot of times, our stories are on the back burner,' Lewis said. 'We don't want to have these kinds of conversations because those conversations are very uncomfortable. 'Sometimes representation is important, because we need to know these kind of stories. We need to know how in the world (things like Till's murder) could happen.' Lewis told the students to 'find out what you're passionate about, find out what you care about and fight until you can't fight no more' for that passion.
