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Owensboro Museum of Fine Art expands and enhances the cultural environment of the region through a permanent collection of American, European and Asian fine and decorative arts dating from the 15th century to the present. Major traveling exhibitions; visual and performing arts; interpretive events and educational programs for children and adults occur throughout the year.

A CELEBRATION OF PUBLIC ART

The Museum grounds feature Ryan Sculpture Park, a new community green space adjacent to the museum at 10th and Frederica Streets and the Contemporary Art Park across the street from the museum at 9th and Frederica Street.
Ryan Sculpture Park showcases the first buffalo sculpture in Owensboro's Bronze Buffalo Trace, INTO THE WIND, a one and one-third life size bronze bison by Texas artist T. D. Kelsey.

Kelsey has an international reputation as a wildlife sculptor and is featured in the collection of many major museums, including the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Wyoming; National Museum of Wildlife, Wyoming; C. M. Russell Museum, Montana and was recently the subject of a one-person exhibition at the Thomas Gilcrease Museum, Oklahoma. He is a member of the National Sculpture Society and the Cowboy Artists of America.

LITTLE MO monumental polychromed steel sculpture, 2006 Peter Reginato (b. 1945) New York Collection of Owensboro Museum of Fine Art A Gift of the Alton and Margaret Puckett Private Foundation

The Contemporary Art Park will be the permanent site for a monumental painted steel construction, LITTLE MO, by New York artist Peter Reginato. It is the sixth monumental outdoor sculpture purchased from the Owensboro Public Art Commission's national competition, the Riverbend Sculpture Biennial.

Reginato's signature polychromed metal assemblages are featured in numerous sculpture gardens across the nation and in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Texas; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida; Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Corcoran Gallery of Art, both Washington D.C.; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts and Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Featured Exhibition

HOLIDAZE, an exhibition and market designed as a documentary, showcases the region’s most accomplished artists working in three dimensional media at the beginning of the new century.
The exhibition documents the innovative styles, techniques and media used by this new century of artists while offering an opportunity for museum visitors to acquire their works.  Each artist represented in the exhibition will also be included in the museum’s 1st Annual HOLIDAZE MARKET, offering hundreds of objects that can be purchased for holiday giving.