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A RETRO PERSPECTIVE: REVISITING PRINTS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

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In 1973, the Norton Center celebrated its grand opening with an exhibition of works loaned by the Guggenheim Museum. Many of the artists who were featured are now considered pioneers of Modern Art — artists including Andy Warhol, Karel Appel and Adolph Gottlieb. The exhibition inspired Centre College to actively collect graphic prints by these artists and their contemporaries. To celebrate the Norton Center’s 50th anniversary, selections from this special collection will be exhibited throughout the season.

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50 YEARS OF GREAT STORIES!

Actors In The Opera Otello On The Newlin Hall Stage.

The Grand Entrance of Centre’s Improbable, Impossible Dream

It was early June 1973, and Centre College watched on as construction crews gradually left behind campus until…

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Cimarron Performing On Stage With An Audience Watching

Cultural Exchange from the Classroom to the Stage

When Colombian joropo band Cimarrón arrived at the Norton Center on September 7, it was clear that Danville…

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The Joy of the Arts

It’s the “uniqueness” of the Norton Center: what drew in Joy Joy Htet as a Centre College freshman,…

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⭐︎ The Grand Entrance of Centre College's Improbable, Impossible Dream ⭐︎

TODAY marks 𝟱𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 since the Norton Center opened its doors to the public for the very first time! 🎉 🤯

In a night made to remember, a loaned Guggenheim exhibit lined the walls of the Grand Foyer, and the Kentucky Opera Association's 𝘖𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 premiered on the Newlin Hall stage. 

Get the behind-the-scenes details and read about how the Norton Center made its grand entrance ➡️ https://nortoncenter.com/grand-entrance/ 

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Let's take it 🔙 50 years...

Centre College's brand-new Regional Arts Center (now the Norton Center for the Arts) was finally finished, and only one week away from opening its doors to the public for the first time. 

But the building was far from quiet or empty... between final building touch-ups, to preparations for the opening night performance of 𝑶𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐, to installing the first-ever exhibit in the Grand Foyer, it was all hands on deck over the next week.

𝑃𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑑: 𝐺𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑛ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑚 𝑀𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑚 𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚 𝑆𝑚𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑢𝑛𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑥ℎ𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘, 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 25 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥ℎ𝑏𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛.
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