Bill Fischer is a life-long artist, having started painting in the 1950’s and continuing on to as recently as 2011. As he recently reached his 96th birthday, the Hite Art Institute wishes to recognize his accomplishments as an artist and his contributions to young artists at the University of Louisville with an exhibition featuring approximately 40 examples of his art work made over the past sixty years. There will be a public reception on Friday, June 7th from 6:00 - 9:00 pm. at the Cressman Center of Visual Arts where the exhibit is installed. Bill Fischer has endowed the Bill Fischer Senior Project Grants which helps one student in 2-D studios and one student in 3-D studio each semester mount their Senior Exhibition based on their presentations during BFA reviews. In addition, he has underwriten the department’s studio spaces at Our Mother of Sorrows, now referred to as the “The Bill Fischer Studios.”