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CU exhibiting art of Linda J. Cundiff until mid-November 2011

Campbellville University will exhibit the art of Adair County native and Adair County High School graduate Linda J. Cundiff, now art professor at Campbellsville University in the Learning Commons, 110 University Drive, Campbellsville, KY

By Natasha West
News from Campbellsville University Art Department

CAMPBELLSVILLE, KY - Campbellsville University art professor Linda J. Cundiff is showcasing her art in an exhibit until mid-November in the Badgett Academic Support Center's Learning Commons, on 110 University Drive, Campbellsville, KY. The Badgett Academic Support Center is open from 8am-12pm noon ET/7am-11amCT, Mondays through Thursdays, until mid-November, 2011 and on Fridays from 8am-5pmET/7am-4pmCT, and on Saturdays and Sundays (time TBA) The exhibit is free and all are welcome to attend.



Cundiff will be displaying pastels, oil pastels, pen and ink, mixed media and watercolor pastel. Her subjects include landscapes, flowers, vegetation and sheep drawings. She will be showcasing 22 pieces of her artwork.

Cundiff is a 1972 graduate of Campbellsville University receiving her bachelor of arts in painting and drawing. She received her master of arts in printmaking and drawing from Murray State University in 1975.

She received her master of fine arts is in printmaking and painting from Ohio University in 1978, and received her rank I with a Kentucky teaching certification, grades K-12, in art, in 1983.

Cundiff has attended a paper workshop at the Appalachian Center for Arts and Crafts, the Kentucky Institute for European Studies in Florence, Italy, a computer graphics workshop at Penland School, Penland, NC, a post graduate class at the University of Louisville and has studied at the University of Oxford/University of California, Berkeley Program.

She has been teaching art at Campbellsville University since 1982. She also has taught photography as well.

Cundiff was an arts consultant for Collaborative for Teaching and Learning, Different Ways of Knowing Program in Kentucky founded by Galef Institute, Los Angeles, Calif., providing teacher in-service training workshops in various locations such as Louisville, Lexington, Central Kentucky, Northern Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky from 1994 to 2000.

Cundiff had a pastel and watercolor mixed media piece purchased by the Kentucky State Fair for the 50th year that a purchase award for the art exhibit was done. Her piece was of tobacco leaves, and it hangs in one of the administrative offices at the state fair grounds.

Cundiff also had a pastel piece in the Kentucky Governor's Mansion for the Invitational Kentucky Vision Exhibit. Cundiff said she was invited because she had had pieces accepted in several of the juried KY Vision shows.

She was a visual arts instructor for the Institute for Arts in Education sponsored by the Kentucky Center for Arts, University of Louisville and the Kentucky Department of Education from 1989 through 1999. The program is a two-week hands-on graduate seminar for adults in the arts.

She is a former member of the Visual Arts Task Force Committee for the Kentucky Department of Education.

Cundiff has served as a juror for Lincoln Days Art Exhibits, Kentucky State Fair Arts and Crafts Exhibition and for the Kentucky Watercolor Society Show "Totally Transparent" at Lindsey Wilson College. She was invited to participate in the Invitational Juried Alumni Exhibition at Murray State University in 1997 and exhibited a lithograph at the Invitational Alumni Juried Exhibit at Dairy Barn in Athens, Ohio, in 1998 in conjunction with the 200th anniversary of lithography by the Southern Graphics Council Conference meeting at Ohio University.

Cumberland College purchased one of two pieces submitted by Cundiff for the Invitational Exhibit of monotypes by faculty of the Appalachian College Association at Cumberland College in 1998.She exhibited a pastel at the Invitational Juried Exhibit "A Kentucky Visions: 1998," sponsored by the Kentucky Arts Council, both at the governor's mansion and the Kentucky Center for Rural Development in Somerset, Ky.Cundiff's work, along with the work of 20 other visual artists, was juried for acceptance into a pilot program to exhibit and market visual art in "Kentucky Crafted: The Market, 1999" in Louisville.As a member of the state-wide Visual Arts Task Force, she participated with five other art teachers and Dr. Patricia Hartanowicz with the Professional Standards Board in taping a live KET one-hour program.

She was selected as one of six artists from the Institute for Arts for planning, writing and appearing in four 90-minute 1998-99 Professional Development Programs for KET.

Cundiff is the wife of Scotty Hedgespeth of Finley, KY.

For more information on the art exhibit contact Cundiff at 270-789-5268 or at ljcundiff@Campbellsville.edu.


This story was posted on 2011-10-29 04:38:11
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Art work of Adair Co., Ky native Linda J. Cundiff on display at CU



2011-10-29 - Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Nicholas Osaigbovo.
Whit Shelton, a freshman football player from Lawrenceburg, KY, looks at one of the pieces of art work by Adair County native Linda J. Cundiff now on display in the Learning Commons, 110 University Drive, Campbellsville, KY.

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