KFAC hosts exhibit for MSU teacher John Flavell | Morehead State College

The Kentucky Folk Art Center is at the moment internet hosting the exhibit “Music of the Mountains” that includes work by John Flavell (Class of 1987), photographer and MSU teacher of speech and media manufacturing & journalism.

The exhibit runs by means of Thursday, April 2. There will likely be an artist discuss with Flavell, together with curator and fellow photographer Steve Shaffer (Class of 1992), from 3 to 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 22. A closing reception will happen from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 2.

Flavell was chief photographer for twenty-four years at The Daily Independent in Ashland and a CNHI state editor by means of that newspaper for 5 years. For seven years, he contracted with information shops such because the Associated Press, Lexington Herald-Leader, The Daily Independent, Louisville Courier-Journal, and Kentucky Today. His work has additionally appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

Flavell gained first place in The Kentucky News Photographers Association’s 2012 and 2014 for News Picture Story, and third place for News Picture Story in 2017. Flavell continues to show images and courses in media and journalism at MSU.

In “Music of the Mountains,” Flavell’s pictures chronicle the topics, lives, and tales he has captured since shifting to Kentucky within the mid-Nineteen Seventies after touring a lot of his life rising up in a navy household.

“My mantra became: travel when I want, but build an adopted homeplace,” Flavell mentioned in his artist assertion. “This place—these mountains—gave me room to explore the beauty of Eastern Kentucky, the stories of Appalachia, and the fabric of the region.”

The Kentucky Folk Art Center is positioned at 102 West First Street in Morehead. Gallery hours are Monday by means of Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

For extra details about the KFAC, go to www.kyfolkart.org, contact Stone at 606-783-2204, or e mail [email protected].