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MURRAY, Ky. — The Department of Art & Design at Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍøÈë¿Ú is pleased to host Acadia Kandora as the Patricia L. Summerville Artist in Printmaking on Tuesday, March 10 through Friday, March 13.

Kandora will host a CMYK and print installation workshop with the help of both Professor Nicole Hand’s and Professor Lu Coby’s advanced printmaking class. The workshop will be March 10-13 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Fine Arts (FA) room 1006. Kandora will also give a lecture on her work on March 10 at 11 a.m. in FA room 623 located inside the Clara Eagle Gallery. The workshop and lecture are both free and open to the public.

Kandora is a printmaker, educator and zinester from the mountains of Appalachia. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Arkansas and a Bachelor of Fine Arts with concentrations in graphic design and sculpture from Shepherd University. She has been an artist in residence at the Archipelago Artist Residency in Korpo, Finland and a maker in residence at the Scott Family Amazeum. She has exhibited nationally in cities such as Baltimore, Maryland; Boulder, Colorado; Indianapolis, Indiana; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Kent, Ohio. Her collaborative publications have been included in collections such as the Library of Congress, Center for Book Arts in New York City, the Ohio State University’s Riot Grrrl Zine Collection, and the State University of New York New Paltz Zine Library. She currently resides in Arkansas with her cat, teaching printmaking as an assistant professor.

The Patricia L. Summerville Lecture Series is made possible through an endowment to the Department of Art & Design from Patricia Summerville, who graduated from Murray State University in 1972 with a B.S. Ed., after attending the University for only three years. She then earned three additional degrees, including a M.S. Ed., with a major in supervision in 1976 from the University of Akron; a M.H.A., with a major in hospital administration in 1982 from Xavier University; and the Juris Doctor from Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University in 1994. She was admitted to the bar the following year. Summerville’s career included teaching art for six years, serving as an administrator for hospitals and healthcare facilities for 20 years and practicing law for five years before retiring in 2003. She passed away in March 2022.

For more information about the Patricia L. Summerville Lecture Series or the Department of Art & Design, contact Nicole Hand at nhandbryant@murraystate.edu. For more about Kandora’s work, please visit .