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The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft is featuring a touring exhibit from the Kentucky Folk Art Center in Morehead entitled “Slow Time: The Works of Charley, Noah, & Hazel Kinney.” More than 80 works, including paintings, drawings and wood sculpture, are displayed, along with a 40-page catalog complete with essays by Lee Kogan, director of the Folk Art Institute in New York City, and John Harrod, one of the nation’s authorities on traditional Kentucky music.

Charley and Noah Kinney were born six years apart in 1912 into a life of subsistence farming not so far removed from the kind of life eked out by early white settlers in northeastern Kentucky. As artists and musicians, they kept alive a culture and way of life long abandoned by most by the late 20th century. In 1960 Noah, the younger of the brothers, married Hazel Bateman, who came to live on the brothers’ farm and began painting as well. Through March 3. Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, 715 W. Main St. 589-0102.