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2D and Graphic Design Building

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GIVING NEW LIFE TO A HISTORIC BUILDING Kitchens, Inc Building 2007

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Paducah School of Art and Design 2D and Graphic Design Building 2016

The two-story, brick building located at 905 Harrison Street in Paducah, formerly known as the Kitchens, Inc. Building, was once a buggy manufacturing building and later used to build batteries before it became a cabinet making shop. The 32,228-square-foot building was donated by the City of Paducah to West Kentucky Community and Technical College on October 31, 2007. As part of WKCTC’s Paducah School of Art and Design campus, the building now houses classrooms and studios for painting, drawing, 2D design, photography, visual communications and multimedia as well as a recording room, an art gallery, and a cafe.

WKCTC has strived to capture and preserve the historic essence of the building by saving the original flooring and wood timbers, that are now being used in the first floor art gallery and part of the corridors on the first floor. That saved materials is also being used on the donor wall area, the benches in the corridors and the wood slats in the second floor lecture hall and the interior window seals.

The Kitchens Café dining room area is where the boiler for the original building used to be housed. The old chimney smokestack as well as the front part of the boiler face place have been preserved and will hang in the café.

Two concrete block rooms on the first floor go all the way through the second floor to the roof in order to provide more strength to the building in case of an earthquake. One of the old sliding wooden doors from the first floor now hangs off of the main corridor on the first floor.

West Kentucky Community and Technical College Completion of the renovations of the former Kitchens, Inc. facility and the birth of Paducah School of Art and Design’s 2D and Graphic Design Building marks the third and final phase of the PSAD campus.

Paducah School of Art and Design February 4, 2016 • Remarks at 5:45 p.m.

PROGRAM

Welcome

President West Kentucky Community & Technical College

The completed PSAD campus is designed as a three-building campus in the heart of LowerTown.

The historic 2D and Graphic Design Building has 32,228-square-feet of space for all of PSAD’s 2D and visual communications programs.

By transforming this once vacant building into a state-of-the art facility that can be used by students, the community and tourists, we continue our mission to drive Paducah’s creative economy.

Dr. Barbara Veazey

Comments

Paul Aho Dean Paducah School of Art & Design

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Judge J. William Howerton Board of Trustees Chair Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation

Closing Remarks

Dr. Veazey

2D and Graphic Design Building Tours

The two-story, brick building located at 905 Harrison Street in Paducah, formerly known as the Kitchens, Inc. Building, was once a buggy manufacturing building and later used to build batteries before it became a cabinet making shop. The 32,228-square-foot building was donated by the City of Paducah to West Kentucky Community and Technical College on October 31, 2007. As part of WKCTC’s Paducah School of Art and Design campus, the building now houses classrooms and studios for painting, drawing, 2D design, photography, visual communications and multimedia as well as a recording room, an art gallery, and a cafe.

WKCTC has strived to capture and preserve the historic essence of the building by saving the original flooring and wood timbers, that are now being used in the first floor art gallery and part of the corridors on the first floor. That saved materials is also being used on the donor wall area, the benches in the corridors and the wood slats in the second floor lecture hall and the interior window seals.

The Kitchens Café dining room area is where the boiler for the original building used to be housed. The old chimney smokestack as well as the front part of the boiler face place have been preserved and will hang in the café.

Two concrete block rooms on the first floor go all the way through the second floor to the roof in order to provide more strength to the building in case of an earthquake. One of the old sliding wooden doors from the first floor now hangs off of the main corridor on the first floor.

West Kentucky Community and Technical College Completion of the renovations of the former Kitchens, Inc. facility and the birth of Paducah School of Art and Design’s 2D and Graphic Design Building marks the third and final phase of the PSAD campus.

Paducah School of Art and Design February 4, 2016 • Remarks at 5:45 p.m.

PROGRAM

Welcome

President West Kentucky Community & Technical College

The completed PSAD campus is designed as a three-building campus in the heart of LowerTown.

The historic 2D and Graphic Design Building has 32,228-square-feet of space for all of PSAD’s 2D and visual communications programs.

By transforming this once vacant building into a state-of-the art facility that can be used by students, the community and tourists, we continue our mission to drive Paducah’s creative economy.

Dr. Barbara Veazey

Comments

Paul Aho Dean Paducah School of Art & Design

Comments

Judge J. William Howerton Board of Trustees Chair Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation

Closing Remarks

Dr. Veazey

2D and Graphic Design Building Tours

Bill Ford Art Gallery The Ford Art Gallery on the first floor of the Paducah School of Art and Design’s 2D and Graphic Design Building is named in honor of Paducah artist Bill Ford.

Ford has been a leading residential and commercial interior designer and artist in Paducah for over 25 years. As an artist, he does calligraphy, watercolors and pen and ink renderings. He has been a vital part of the arts having served on the boards of Paducah Chamber of Commerce, Child Watch, Paducah Day Nursery, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah Symphony Orchestra, and Market House Theatre. He has exhibited his work in the member shows at the Yeiser Center and had his first one-man show at Ruth Baggett Gallery in 2013.

“Art enriches our lives. I love working with children and showing them the wonder that is art,” said Ford, a Memphis native. “I just can’t imagine life without the arts.”

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2D and Graphic Design Building

Bill Ford Art Gallery The Ford Art Gallery on the first floor of the Paducah School of Art and Design’s 2D and Graphic Design Building is named in honor of Paducah artist Bill Ford.

Ford has been a leading residential and commercial interior designer and artist in Paducah for over 25 years. As an artist, he does calligraphy, watercolors and pen and ink renderings. He has been a vital part of the arts having served on the boards of Paducah Chamber of Commerce, Child Watch, Paducah Day Nursery, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah Symphony Orchestra, and Market House Theatre. He has exhibited his work in the member shows at the Yeiser Center and had his first one-man show at Ruth Baggett Gallery in 2013.

“Art enriches our lives. I love working with children and showing them the wonder that is art,” said Ford, a Memphis native. “I just can’t imagine life without the arts.”

First Floor

2D and Graphic Design Building

GIVING NEW LIFE TO A HISTORIC BUILDING Kitchens, Inc Building 2007

Second Floor

2D and Graphic Design Building

Paducah School of Art and Design 2D and Graphic Design Building 2016

2D and Graphic Design Building

Welcome to the

West Kentucky Community & Technical College Cover Artwork: Rethinking the Rest

by Paul Aho WKCTC is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.