An Evening with Arturo at the home of the Todd's

A few weeks ago Mike and I were honored to be guests of Dr. Lee and Patsy Todd at a reception honoring donors for the Endowed Professorship of Dr. Arturo Sandoval, Art Department at the University of Kentucky. Arturo is a wonderful friend of ours, as with every one he comes in contact with. We are so proud of this recognition of his wonderful career in teaching and creating ground breaking art.

And as a life long employee of UK, it was a thrill for me to get an opportunity to meet President and Mrs. Todd and see their home. They were very gracious hosts and spent time talking with all their guests. It was a very fun evening for us.














Left to right: Dr. Lee Todd, Dr. Arturo Sandoval, Letha, Mike and Patsy Todd

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all our family, friends and clients!
We have a wonderful little original painting framed up
and ready to go to a Christmas loving home!
The picture doesn't do it justice!

From us to you, Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year,
Mike, Letha and Rickelle

The UK Dentistry Class Composite Projext

Before: The College of Dentistry has displayed the class composites from 1966 to current. However the framing practices back in the day exhibited the worst of the worst from a conservation standpoint. We are redoing them to give them a fresher look and hopefully slow down the damage from acid, UV light and outdated styles! BEFORE: Silver metal frames, Faded blue mat with silver accent, cardboard backing, masking tape and plain glass. The pictures are fading and falling down. Glass is so hazy you can't read the names. AFTER: Black Wood with blue and black accent mats. A very simple but fresh look for the College.

The night before Thanksgiving was a crazy time to work, however, in this busy clinic it was a good time to get out the ol' hammer drill and get things done! Thanks UK College of Dentistry for the opportunity to work with you on this worthwhile project!

We Swept the Competition!

The Kentucky/Tennessee Chapter of the Professional Picture Framers Association held their annual framing competition in October in Lexington, KY. South Hill Gallery entered both the Print and Open Framing Competition and won FIRST PLACE in both categories! We were also honored to win the Popular Choice vote and a Judges Award for our Open Framing entry as well. The competition was held at Joseph Beth Booksellers and the pieces were on public display for their patrons to view and cast votes for Popular Choice.

Displayed above are our ribbons, as we cannot post pictures of the pieces themselves until after the International Competition, which will be held in February, 2010 in Anaheim, CA. However, if you come by South Hill Gallery you can see the pieces on display and have your framing projects completed by a frame shop that truly has "Award Winning" frame designers!

Museum Glass Feeds America!

Did you know that 1 in 8 Americans are facing hunger?

Come by South Hill Gallery from now until February 28, 2010 and get a free

Tru Vue Museum Glass® Feeds America

"Scratch, Give and Win" Card.

Each card offers cash prizes or discount certificates to winners, and Tru Vue will match every cash prize with an equal donation to Feeding America (formerly named Americas Second Harvest), the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief charity. Mailed in non-cash prize cards are matched with a $5 donation to Feeding America. That means that each redeemed card will at least provide 35 meals to those Americans in need!For more information see http://www.feedingamerica.org/.

Building A Beautiful Frame Job

We recently sold a client a lovely piece of original art by Cheryl Martin called "Making Memories II" that was a transitional piece featuring simple green trees. The frame design included a wonderful hand waxed wooden Romaframe with an expresso brown finish, a hand wrapped silk liner and a wonderful wood fillet next to the art.
Mike painstakingly joined the frame, Rickelle cut and joined the fillet into the liner and the art was fitted into the package. The result was a lovely piece of art in a custom designed package that would grace any space!

Buy Local Fair, Oct 1st @ Thursday Night Live

Friends of Local First Lexington,

Please join us on Thursday, Oct. 1 for our first Buy Local Fair, from 5-8 p.m. at Cheapside Park in downtown Lexington. This event is being held in conjunction with the weekly Thursday Night Live series and will feature all the food, drink and fun that you've come to expect at TNL plus lots more!
Our Buy Local Fair will be a great opportunity to meet dozens of Local First member businesses and learn more about how supporting our home-grown businesses makes Lexington a better place.
Look for plenty of special offers, and there will be giveaways and door prizes too! South Hill Gallery will be giving away a gift certificate for custom framing and will be displaying a large new shipment of Go Go jewelry, ordered especially for this event.
Best of all, at 7 p.m. you can enjoy a special performance by Lexington's very own award-winning March Madness Marching Band!
This is going to be fun event and we hope to see everyone there!