KMAC Contemporary Art Museum Joins IKT Open Access Program
We’re thrilled to welcome KMAC Contemporary Art Museum as a partner in the IKT Open Access Program. IKT members can now enjoy free entry to the museum with a valid IKT membership card.
Located in Louisville, Kentucky, KMAC connects people to art and creative practice through dynamic exhibitions and educational initiatives. The museum explores the evolving relationship between art and craft, and how materials, process, and labor inform both contemporary aesthetics and conceptual expression.
KMAC features artists who are deeply engaged with the material histories and physical properties of their chosen media—from ceramics and woodworking to photography, painting, and found objects. These exhibitions challenge conventional techniques, highlight pressing social and political issues, and celebrate the full sensory experience of encountering art.
Current Exhibitions
Chico da Silva: Amazonian Legend
March 15 – May 18, 2025
Chico da Silva: Amazônian Legend is an exhibition that marks a significant moment in the recognition of Indigenous artistry and cultural narratives. The exhibition introduces viewers to the extraordinary work of Francisco da Silva (1910 – 1985), affectionately known as “Chico,” one of Brazil’s most influential Indigenous artists. Curated by Simon Watson, the exhibition features over 52 paintings created between 1964 and 1984 and focuses on three of the artist’s signature themes: fish, birds, and mythic creatures. These themes not only highlight Chico’s artistic prowess, but also reflect a deep connection to Amazonian folklore and the vibrant natural world that shaped the artist’s life.
Licia Priest: I Am We – Crafting Community in Paper Tole
April 25 – August 17, 2025
Since the mid 1980’s, Louisville based artist Licia Priest has been teaching art and developing a practice that brings together her experiences working in painting, fiber art, sculpture, and photography. Her most recent work emerged from a research trip to Zimbabwe where she documented the food, flora and fauna, architecture, city, rural and family life, along with views and customs of care for the elderly. Photos from this trip are manipulated, first through digital color changes, merging scenes, and alterations to line, space, and shape. Priest then cuts up and organizes copies of her treated photos into multi-layered images that create the perception of depth. Her contoured figures and stacked layers ultimately become impressive, wall-mounted, high relief sculptures.