CURRENT EVENTS

Boyd’s Station has launched an exciting new venture: the Boyd’s Station Market. Located inside the Boyd's Station Gallery at 203 East Pike Street, Cynthiana, KY, the market will feature a curated selection of handcrafted gifts and artwork, all created by Kentucky artists from the local Boyd’s Station Artist Guild.

Shoppers can explore paintings, photographs, art prints, jewelry, clothing, brooms, notecards, Christmas ornaments, and more, all while supporting the local arts and community of Kentucky artists.

In the future, selected items will remain available during scheduled gallery exhibits, offering a year-round opportunity to support local artists.

The Boyd’s Station Market will be open Thursdays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. through December 31, 2024.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

BOYD’S STATION PROJECT 306.36 PHOTO EXHIBITION

Celebrate the work by Project 306.36 photographers Abigail Pittman and Lukas Flippo showcased at the Boyd’s Station Gallery

Boyd’s Station Gallery, 203 E. Pike Street, Cynthiana, KY

EXHIBITION DATES: Saturday, September 2 - Saturday, October 7, 2023

Fridays, 4-8 PM, Saturdays, 12-6 PM and Sundays, 12-4 PM

Join Boyd’s Station for a Special Community Celebration Opening Reception – Saturday, September 2 - 6-8 pm

RED, WHITE, AND BLUE EXHIBITION

Boyd’s Station Gallery

203 E. Pike Street, Cynthiana, KY

EXHIBITION DATES: June 24 - July 30, 2023

Special Opening Reception – Saturday, June 24 - 6-8 pm

MAKING THEIR MARK: Regional Student Art Exhibition

May 13 - June 11, 2023

Opening Reception - Sat, May 20, 6-9 pm 

The Boyd’s Station Gallery is excited to announce our first student artwork juried show called “Making Their Mark: Regional Student Art Exhibition.”

Third through 12th-grade students from Harrison, Bourbon, Grant and Scott Counties are all part of this exhibition.

Student works will be shown in the Gallery from May 13 - June 11, 2023. In this juried exhibition, a “Best of Show” winner alongside two runner-ups will be chosen, receiving $100 and $50 scholarships, respectively, from Boyd’s Station.

Students, families, friends, and community members are invited to a special opening reception on Saturday, May 20 from 6-9 pm.

Boyd’s Station Artist Guild: SPRING SHOWCASE

Boyd’s Station Gallery

203 E. Pike Street, Cynthiana, KY

EXHIBITION DATES: March 18 - April 23, 2023

Special Opening Reception – Saturday, March 18 - 6-9 pm

7500+ Miles: Adventure-Inspired Fiber Art by Kris Grenier

February 4 - March 5, 2023

Boyd’s Station Gallery presents 7500+ Miles, a multimedia exhibition featuring felted works, snapshots, journal entries, watercolor sketches, and backpacking gear of award-winning Harrison County artist Kris Grenier.

Special Opening Reception – Saturday, Feb. 4 - 6-9 pm

WINTER WONDERLAND | Harrison County Student Exhibition

December 10-December 18, 2022 -The Winter Wonderland student art exhibition showcased at Boyd's Station Gallery celebrating student artists from Harrison County High School, Harrison County Middle School, St. Edward Catholic School, Northside Elementary and Southside Elementary.

MUHAMMAD ALI: THROUGH THE YEARS

November 4-December 4, 2022 -Boyd’s Station Gallery, the community exhibition space in Cynthiana, Kentucky, and part of the nonprofit organization Boyd’s Station, is proud to showcase over sixty years of Muhammad Ali photographs by Louisville Courier-Journal photographers curated from the newspaper archives.  This thirty-image photographic exhibition documenting Muhammad Ali’s early life captured in beautiful black and white images along with remarkable color imagery documenting Ali’s funeral procession through the streets of Louisville following his death on June 3, 2016, includes many rarely seen images from the early life and career of “The Greatest of All Time”.

This historic Muhammad Ali showcase of work by photographers from The Courier-Journal photographers spanning six decades is on exhibition at the Boyd’s Station Gallery located at 203 E. Pike Street, Cynthiana, Kentucky from November 4 through December 4, 2022. The opening reception for the “Muhammad Ali: Through the Years” exhibition will be hosted at Boyd’s Station Gallery on Friday, November 4 from 6-9 pm. A special Louisville Courier-Journal photographer Q/A will be hosted at the Boyd's Station Gallery on Saturday, Nov. 26 at 3 pm.

All events and gallery visits are always free and open to the public.

Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville on January 17, 1942, was an American professional boxer, activist, and philanthropist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century and is frequently ranked as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time. Ali remains the only three-time champion of that division.

The great boxing legend and Louisville native Muhammad Ali had a long relationship with the Courier-Journal. From the first photograph as a twelve-year-old flyweight in 1954 until his passing in 2016, Courier-Journal photographers were on hand to document his life. In Louisville, Florida, Los Angeles, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey, and the Bahamas, in the ring, training in the fog, or waking in the morning at home, Courier-Journal photographers were ever-present. An amazing collection of Ali on film remains from his illustrious career. The results are this very rare and exclusive collection of extraordinarily intimate, intense, and simply stunning photographs.

“Having the opportunity to share these historically significant images here in Cynthiana at the Boyd’s Station Gallery is an honor,” remarks nonprofit Boyd’s Station executive director and USA TODAY staff photographer Jack Gruber. “Our group of volunteers at Boyd’s Station are so excited this community gallery space continues to draw on friends of the program and other relationships to make these opportunities real for our community to experience and witness up close. We can’t thank the Louisville Courier-Journal enough for allowing us to showcase their photographers’ amazing work spanning six decades of documenting Muhammad Ali and his journey from Kentucky, around the world and finally back to Kentucky to his final resting place.”

The public is invited to visit and enjoy this unique exhibition at the Boyd’s Station Gallery located at 203 E. Pike Street, Cynthiana, Kentucky during normal gallery hours of Fridays, 4-8 pm, Saturdays, noon-6 pm and Sundays, noon-4 pm from Nov. 4 through December 4, 2022.

The opening reception for the “Muhammad Ali: Through the Years” exhibition at Boyd’s Station Gallery is on Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, from 6-9 pm. All are welcome.

A special Louisville Courier-Journal photographer Q/A will be hosted at the Boyd's Station Gallery in Cynthiana, Kentucky on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, at 3 pm.

SEE MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE MUHAMMAD ALI: THROUGH THE YEARS EXHIBIT HERE

EXHIBITION SPONSORS

BY 4 & MORE - Paintings By Ray Duke

October 1-30, 2022 - I've always been able to draw and I don't remember a time when I couldn't manipulate clay into recognizable shapes. I was better with the clay than the pencil, though I didn't spend much time doing either until I neared middle age.I produced some small sculptures late in the previous century. Having no training in casting methods I was dependent on others to manufacture the permanent finished products. That quickly became too expensive to pursue as a hobby.

Still wishing to produce images, in my fifth decade I determined to finally teach myself to paint. I rented a casita in Mexico from a dear friend who had a second-floor studio built on it before she moved to a larger place. After seventeen months, which included a solo show at the Museo de Arte Mazatlan, the money ran out and I relocated stateside with a pick-up load of finished canvases.

I like to eat so I opted to work a variety of jobs, painting mostly on weekends. Near the end of 2019 circumstances allowed me to be in the studio far more often.

My work tends to be figurative, coarse, sculptural and colorful. I've figured out a few things along my path but when faced with a blank surface it feels as if it's for the first time. There is much to learn. — Artist Ray Duke

PROJECT 306.36 Exhibition - We are Harrison County

Photographs by Project 306.36 grant recipients Jesse Barber, Annie Barker and Tanner Pearson

August 19 - September 25, 2022 - The 2022 Project 306.36 photo exhibition at Boyd’s Station Gallery celebrates the amazing work of the Boyd's Station PROJECT 306.36 photographers following 3-months of documenting Harrison County culminating in this 70-plus image exhibition.

The collection of work by photographers Annie Barker, Jesse Barber, and Tanner Pearson are on display at the Boyd's Station Gallery during normal gallery weekend hours from August 19-September 15, 2022, and during the special opening reception on Friday, August 19 from 6-9 pm.

Boyd’s Station thanks the Clyde N. Day Foundation and the Argo Photo Collective for their continued support and for providing funding for these highly competitive grants and fellowships which make Project 306.36 possible.

We also would like to thank Nikon Professional Services for their yearly support of providing the amazing Nikon professional photo equipment for use in making this project happen along with Madison Photos Works, Photoshelter, Northern Kentucky University, The Louisville Courier-Journal, and The Cynthiana Democrat and the Kentucky Arts Council for their continued support.

And a very special thanks to the community of Cynthiana and Harrison County, Kentucky for their hospitality and spirit which allows this project to be a success each year.

JESSE BARBER

Jesse Barber from Appalachian State University was awarded the $3000 Boyd's Station Reinke Grant for Visual Storytelling following graduation from Appalachian State in Boone, NC.

“I think there’s an exchange with folks that we interact and photograph that I think goes beyond what either party can recognize. There’s us looking at them and they are looking at us. People are seen and heard which is unheard of in our current world of divisiveness. And that’s ultimately what I want to do with my career and life. Listen and see others where they are and how they are and share that experience with others. To share an experience of bridge building. And this was an amazing experience in inserting yourself into a community and getting to know it and making visual work about it. I’ve photographed a lot of communities close to me but I’ve learned a lot in the process of photographing a community removed from my own experience.” – Jesse Barker

ANNIE BARKER

Annie Barker from Michigan State University was awarded the $3000 Argo Photo Collective Grant recipient following an impressive three-month internship at the Detroit Free Press in Detroit, Michigan to take part in Project 306.36.

“Our time in Harrison County is over, for now, and we are grappling with the knowledge this was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Life and journalism move too fast. Over nearly three months, we had the privilege of discovering and visualizing what is important to ourselves and the people of this area. Harrison County’s threads of history and community allowed for serendipitous and indelible moments to unfold for Boyd’s Station Fellows.

I am grateful for my time here at Boyd’s Station and in Harrison County. My experiences here altered the course of my life and career in a positive way.

I am thankful that we are helping document history for, and with, Harrison County. Rural communities tend to be overlooked but offer value to those who live here and elsewhere in so many ways. Everyone deserves to have a keepsake of this remarkable place and their time here.” – Annie Barker

TANNER PEARSON

Tanner Pearson received the Don Perris Scholarship Internship Award from Ohio University Scripps College of Communication which granted $3,000 used towards a summer internship at the Cynthiana Democrat and working with Boyd's Station Project 306.36.

“Participating in Project 306.36 was one of my biggest goals of mine to accomplish while I was in college. This project has changed my life in many aspects. The opportunity to work in a community daily, meet individuals, and listen to their stories is an incredible experience to have. I believe this allowed us to gain access to people in the community to better understand their stories. Then, we could spend time with them photographing their lives and documenting their day-to-day rituals. I learned so much about this community in such a short time that I feel a part of it. When I covered my last event for the Cynthiana Democrat, the summer concert series, I realized how many people I knew at it. I felt a sense of community, love, and appreciation from those around me for what I was doing, documenting what was going on. Many wonderful folks have stopped me to talk about the photos they see in the paper and on Facebook and what kind of impact it has on their life. From photographing an event to seeing the images in print, to hearing from the community what their reaction is, is so rewarding to see the effects of local journalism. It reinforced my perspective on how local journalism is so important to communities across America.” – Tanner Pearson

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Since 2018, The Boyd’s Station Project 306.36 Visual Documentary and Writing annual archive project has focused solely on documenting the people and places of Harrison County, Kentucky creating an archive of these student journalists' work while mentoring and guiding the next generation of storytellers.

To learn more about Project 306.36, please visit www.boydsstation.org/about-306.

Rural Route Collection - Photographs by Harrison County’s Mark Bradford

May 13, 2022 - July 24, 2022 - The Rural Route Collection exhibition is an extensive body of photographs by local postman and photographer, Mark Bradford. He shatters the monotony of a daily mail route by capturing serendipitous encounters along the backroads and farm lanes of Harrison County, KY. For 20 years, Bradford has worked for the Berry Post Office where he has served his community as a vital member of the distribution chain and as a visual documentarian. What began as an artistic meditation has become a living document of over 6,000 images taken through rain, sleet, snow, and the heat of the day and the dark of night.

The Mark Bradford images on display at the Boyd’s Station Gallery in Cynthiana, Kentucky is the gallery’s first exhibition of work solely by a Harrison County artist and curated by the Boyd’s Station Gallery to proudly promote and highlight locally created work.

You can follow Mark “Pappy” Bradford’s work on Instagram: @pappybradford

Boyd’s Station Artist Guild - Founding Members Exhibition

June 4, 2022 - July 24, 2022 -We are pleased to announce the launch of the Boyd’s Station Artist Guild, a cooperative endeavor bringing local and regional artists from the Commonwealth of Kentucky together as a collective group. The Boyd’s Station Artist Guild is an exciting addition to the overall mission of the non-profit 501(c)(3) organization Boyd’s Station supporting the arts in Harrison County, Kentucky.

The works of founding members, Kris Grenier, Ray Duke, Nicolette and Wes Mallory, Michael Swensen, Margaret Heltzel and Arden Barnes will be featured in an inaugural exhibition opening on June 4, 2022. Please join us for an opening reception on Saturday, June 4, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Boyd’s Station Gallery.

100% of all proceeds from sales of active Guild member’s work sold through the Boyd’s Station Gallery will always benefit the artist fully with zero commission fees paid to the Boyd’s Station Gallery. The Guild relies on members volunteering their time and talents to help operate the Boyd’s Station Gallery. Boyd’s Station Gallery provides the space and exposure for Guild artists to promote and sustain their creative endeavors.

The Guild welcomes new members to the group who bring their talents and ideas to help grow the organization and heighten community impact. The Guild also welcomes those who may not wish to contribute artistic works but would like to support the artistic abilities of others and the arts in Harrison County.

Details will soon be announced on how to become a member of Boyd’s Station Artist Guild.

Questions regarding the Boyd’s Station Artist Guild can be sent to guild@boydsstation.org.

America Reimagined

December 10, 2021 - January 15, 2022 - The AMERICA REIMAGINED photographic exhibition gives voice to emerging photojournalists documenting dramatic changes in daily life across America – from grappling with a global pandemic to the fight for social justice – while creating a lasting archive of photographs and narratives.

You can view the entire project here.

Native Reflections: Visual Art by American Indians of Kentucky

October 1 - October 30, 2021 - The exhibit features 23 works by 12 Kentuckians who identify as American Indians of either enrolled tribal membership or unenrolled, but native-inspired individuals. The submitted work was adjudicated by a panel of American Indian artists and members of the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission for inclusion in the traveling exhibit. See the work.

Mountain Workshops Photo Exhibition

June 12 - August 13, 2021 - Curated images from the 2019 Mountain Workshops project produced during a week-long event that brought nearly 150 student and professional storytellers in Harrison County, Kentucky showcased at the Boyd’s Station Gallery from June 12-August 13, 2021.