UK SA/VS presents a Transatlantic scholar pictures collaboration

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 18, 2026) — The University of Kentucky School of Art and Visual Studies (SA/VS) invitations the general public to expertise “The Americas Photo Exchange,” a world scholar pictures exhibition, Feb. 26-March 26, within the Bolivar Art Gallery.

The exhibit is free and open to the general public. A free public reception might be 4:30-7 p.m. Thursday, March 5.

The exhibition is the results of an ongoing collaboration between James (Rob) Southard, senior lecturer in artwork studio, pictures and digital media design, and colleagues at Paraná State University’s Curitiba Campus I – EMBAP (Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná) in Curitiba, Brazil. The partnership grew from Southard’s immersive pictures work in southern Brazil and a relationship with the college he cultivated throughout a analysis go to to Curitiba a number of years in the past. He plans to return to Brazil this summer season to proceed a undertaking with a museum there.

“A partnership between two continents — connected not by borders, but by a shared hemisphere,” Southard stated. “North and South America are not divided, but united as one: The Americas.”

The undertaking pairs college students from each universities to collaborate on a twin exhibition — one introduced concurrently at UK and the EMBAP in Brazil. Both establishments are public, land-grant universities deeply rooted of their cities and areas. The collaboration invitations college students to discover their particular person inventive pursuits whereas developing a physique of photographic work that displays the views and issues of collaborators on the other facet of the equator.

“This project is not only a reflection of you and your collaborator’s vision, but also of two distinct communities coming together,” Southard stated. “The direction it takes is entirely open — and that freedom makes it all the more exciting to see what everyone creates and discovers along the way.”

The exhibition options work by scholar photographers from each universities, together with Allie Vieira, Ana Thysa Schneider Jamas, Kauan Gapski Barros, Lara Zanatta Waz, Roberto Dalmo Varallo Lima de Oliveira, Sarah Crystine Pozzo Avon, Yasmin Vieira Rocha and Marina Sarat Suttana from EMBAP, alongside UK college students Trevor Logan, Willard Martin, Keegan Rose and Becca Joiner. Faculty concerned within the undertaking embody Rob Southard (SA/VS), Bruno Oliveira, and Milena Costa (EMBAP).

The Bolivar Art Gallery is within the Art and Visual Studies Building at 236 Bolivar St. in Lexington.

For extra info, go to the UK School of Art and Visual Studies web site at finearts.uky.edu/savs or the EMBAP web site at embap.curitiba1.unespar.edu.br.