91制片厂

 

MURRAY, Ky. 鈥� The Murray State Department of Art & Design and University Galleries are pleased to host the 2025 annual Holiday Art Auction on Friday, Nov. 14, beginning at 6 p.m. in the Clara M. Eagle Gallery, located on the sixth floor of the Price Doyle Fine Arts Center on Murray State鈥檚 campus. 

Original works of art in a wide variety of formats will be available for purchase through both silent and live auction during the evening. The works are donated by faculty, staff, students and alumni, as well as local and regional artists. 

Proceeds from the event go to support Murray State鈥檚 Department of Art & Design student scholarships. Registration and the silent auction begin at 6 p.m., and the live auction begins at 7 p.m. Advance registration is required. To RSVP or request more information, visit  or email msu.art@murraystate.edu.

This year鈥檚 featured artist is Gregory Scott Cook. While enthusiastically owning up to his rural Kentucky roots, Cook received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in drawing/printmaking from Murray State University in 2010, his Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in printmaking/new media from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 2013 and taught at the University of Texas - Arlington as an assistant professor of visual communication, where he also co-founded a public-facing artists' studio/workshop/active press under the name MAKE GOOD. He has since happily returned to the Commonwealth where he works as an assistant professor of graphic design and co-coordinator of the graphic design area within the Department of Art & Design at Murray State University. A nationally and internationally exhibited artist and designer, Cook works in the media of design, print, drawing, audio recording/performance and installation, specializing in the creative use of emerging technology (making robots talk, sing, shoot lasers, draw on and grind away at things).

91制片厂 Cook鈥檚 Featured Donation: 鈥淣o, Where?鈥�

According to the artist, "No, Where?" is a piece about displacement in both emotional and physical space, where language is simply but enduringly altered. It features the permanent facsimiles of deeply impermanent materials such as thermal labeling and masking tape alongside security patterning making a futile effort to lock in the meaning of a piece of text all too easily revised.

鈥淎 blind embossment of an outstretched hand intertwined with the fingers of one of the many collaborative drawings made with my 6-year-old daughter during our daily video chats while she lives on the other side of the state鈥攁 situation never expected, but observed and endured,鈥� said Cook. 鈥淲e are now here, and it's not nowhere.鈥� 

For more information about this or other upcoming events, please contact the Department of Art & Design at 270-809-3784 or msu.art@murraystate.edu. For more information about the Department of Art & Design, visit .