Events

Paint For Your Supper Featuring Artist Larry Wheeler

By Knox van Nagell | May 4th, 2012 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog, Upcoming Events, What's New

Join us while we watch artist Larry Wheeler Paint for his Supper!

Holly Hill Inn
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
A special menu will be prepared by Chef Ouita Michel

Reservations required.
Call Holly Hill Inn, (859) 846-4732 and mention Paint for Your Supper

Attendees will be responsible for their food and beverage
A special thank you to Cross Gate Gallery for sponsoring this event

Larry Wheeler is one of the leading contemporary equestrian artists in the world. He has traveled extensively capturing the images of horses and horse country in his paintings. Larry has depicted horse country from California to New York, and Canada to much of Europe, but his paintings of Kentucky seem to grasp the essence of what truly makes our state so beautiful. The subtle way he captures the light as it dances across the gentle rolling hills of Kentucky makes his work entrancing.

Upon completion of this series, an auction of works by featured artists will be held to benefit The Fayette Alliance and our efforts to plan a world-class city, and preserve a world-class landscape in Lexington.

Click here to view a digital copy of the postcard.

Previous Paint for Your Supper events featured Thomas Coates, Andre Pater and Kelly Brewer, Sandra Oppegard and Bill Fletcher.

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Town Branch Creek Clean-Up

By Knox van Nagell | April 26th, 2012 | See all in Community Events, Fayette Alliance Blog

Please Join Us for
A Great American Clean-up event to help restore beauty and serenity
to a local creek by removing tires, litter, and other debris

Town Branch Creek Clean – Up
Saturday, April 28, 2012
8am-12pm

Park at 3254 Bracktown Road and walk around the corner to enter the creek from Bradley Lane
(please do not block private driveway of Bradley Lane)

Trash bags and gloves will be provided. Wear water boots, if you have them.

Thank you to:

* Timber Town Stables and Darby Dan Farm for permission to be on their land during this clean-up project
* LFUCG for trash disposal, bags, and gloves
* Friends of Wolf Run for their assistance.

Click here for additional information.

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UK Celebrated 40th Anniversary of School of Interior Design

By Knox van Nagell | March 20th, 2012 | See all in Events, Fayette Alliance Blog, Past Events

Thanks for joining us!
UK College of Design’s ‘Rethinking Design’ Symposium
in the Student Center’s Center Theater

March 29-30, 2012

University of Kentucky College of Design

March 29, 2012
8:30 AM – Prataap Patrose – SRED: Socially Responsible Enlightened Design
10:30 AM – Robin GuentherPerkins+Will, New YorkFuture Think: Hospital Design as a Catalyst for Global Wellness

March 30, 2012
8:30 AM – Cindy ColemanGensler, ChicagoWorkplace and the Global Economy
10:30 AM – Chris CollinsTipodean Technologies, San FranciscoInteractive, realtime design
Each session will include a panel discussion with local professionals

UK College of Design to Bring World-Class Speakers for ‘Rethinking Design’ Symposium

by Celeste Lewis, 3.20.12, BizLex.com

Lexington, KY – Interior designers and those interested in the important role design plays in our life and well-being will have an opportunity to take part in a special event to be held at the end of this month to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the School of Interior Design, part of the University of Kentucky’s College of Design. A symposium, 40+ Rethinking Design will feature a world-class line up of speakers and panel discussions and opens Thursday March 29 running through Friday March 30 and take place in the Student Center’s Center Theater. The symposium is free and open to the public.

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Health and Food Summit

By Knox van Nagell | March 5th, 2012 | See all in Events, Past Events

3rd Annual Kentucky Health Literacy Summit at Griffin Gate Marriott Resort and Spa
11:00 a.m. – March 22-24, 2012
&
5th Annual Bluegrass Local Food Summit at Crestwood Christian Church
8 a.m. to 4 p.m. – March 22-24, 2012

Talon Winery grapes | photy by Jeff Rogers | www.jeffrogers.com

Sharpening health and food literacy is aim of simultaneous summits

by Business Lexington Staff, 3.1.12, Business Lexington

Lexington, KY – Beginning on Thursday, March 22, Lexington is hosting simultaneously a pair of conferences that have everything to do with the quality of our lives, as well as the future of our local and regional economy.

The 3rd Annual Kentucky Health Literacy Summit and the 5th Annual Bluegrass Local Food Summit both get underway on the 22nd, the former a two-day conference housed at the Griffin Gate Marriott Resort and Spa, the latter scheduled for March 22-24 at Crestwood Christian Church and Good Foods Coop.

Hosted by the University of Kentucky, the Health Literacy Summit is designed to help professionals, including librarians, UK Cooperative Extension Service agents and those who work in health-care fields, acquire the tools they need to help the rest of us increase our health literacy, defined by the Institute of Medicine as “one’s ability to obtain and understand basic health-related information from medical diagnosis to insurance claims.”…Read more at Bizlex.com

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Symposium on Preservation Issues

By Knox van Nagell | February 28th, 2012 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog, Past Events

6th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium
Hosted by University of Kentucky
College of Design
was held March 1 and 2

Downtown | photo by Kathleen Burke | Alliance Staff

Tom Eblen: We need to balance past, future in historic preservation debates

by Tom Eblen, 3.4.12, Lexington Herald-Leader

Times change, and it is good when professionals take a critical look at what they do and how they do it to make sure they are meeting society’s needs.

The University of Kentucky’s Historic Preservation Graduate Organization in the College of Design did an excellent job of that last week with its 6th annual symposium on historic preservation issues.

The symposium brought together several national experts to reflect on this basic question: Is the way historic preservation is viewed and practiced in this country too elitist? The basic answer was, well, yes, but not as much as it used to be… Read more at Kentucky.com

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Who We Are

The Fayette Alliance is your voice at city-hall advocating for sustainable growth in Lexington…to achieve a world-class city in our world-class Bluegrass landscape.

Since 2006, the Alliance has worked with local government to usher over 50 major land-use policies into law that promote farmland preservation and our signature agricultural industries, responsible development, and improved water quality and infrastructure in Fayette County.

We are charting Lexington's future by positively impacting local zoning and policy decisions—the very building blocks of our community. Although many challenges still remain, we are accomplishing sustainable growth in Fayette County for a better quality of life, economy, and environment for all of us.