Join WUKY on Sunday, August 20^th from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. for the opening of The Urban Art Collective Gallery. Experience the WUKY Gallery with personal tours with artists as they discuss their artistic process and showcase their artwork, much of which was created during the pandemic. Additionally, The Urban Art Collective will host performances by Tony Wavy and others. Also, the Ricochet Effect Podcast co-hosts Dr. Abeni El-Amin and Renee Collins Cobb, M.Ed. will provide an open house.

Tom Godell, General Manager of WUKY said, “We are extremely excited to partner with Project Ricochet to bring the Urban Art Collective to Central Kentucky as WUKY's mission embodies diversity and inclusion.” The featured artists participating in the art gallery are Andrew Cohen, Latonia Dishueme-Bangudi, Shakyrah Hightower, Bryce Oquaye, Tony Wavy, and The World Art Camp Artists.

Background

Project Ricochet provides a number of activities throughout the year to accomplish its goals. One of which is the Urban Art Collective. This initiative provides the landscape to promote public health issues because of humanity’s shared global experience with covid, such as mental health, depression, and miseducation about covid disease. Project Ricochet’s Urban Arts Collective artists display their work at local art galleries, collaborate on arts projects, co-create community murals, and host visual, performance, and multimedia events. For more information visit www.projectricochet.org and www.wuky.org/wuky-gallery

Featured Artists: Andrew Cohen, Latonia Dishueme-Bangudie, Shakyrah Hightower, Bryce Oquaye and Tony Wavy.

Curator: Dr. Abeni El-Amin Gallery
Engineer: Andrew Cohen