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Open Hours
Tues - Sat: 11am - 3 pm
Other times by appointment only.
Special Events & Extended Hours
nothing scheduled at this time
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The People’s Choice
Our customers voted this portrait entitled, "Hair-Do", by PAPA artist Gerry Marcum as the People's Choice last month. Gerry's pastels are soft but full of vivid color and thoughtfully reflect the personality of her subject. Even though this woman...
Across from Me
June's featured artist Charles David Alexander, has a special feel for faces. In this exhibit he shares portraits he's painted of many of the friends and family he's chosen to memorialize in oil. In Across from Me, you can sense that it was a warm...
Paintings with Texture
The prompt for our current challenge was Painting with Texture and artist Eve Adams accomplished that in a big way! The overall brightness makes you feel the sunshine reflecting off the sand, which you could literally reach out and feel. The clouds...
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Featured Artist
December/January 2023 Featured Artist – Brenda Foster
Brenda is a native of western Kentucky. Having grown up on a small cattle farm, she is an outdoor enthusiast. Brenda has always loved...
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Our Story
In 1991, a small group of Paducah painters realized a common need. They wanted to learn more about fine art and painting. Led by master artist and long-time Paducah resident, the late Clyde H. Lawter Jr, the group began meeting, sharing, learning, and growing!
A short time later, the group incorporated as a non-profit organization and were officially named PAPA – Paducah Area Painters Alliance.
The PAPA Gallery on Broadway opened in 1998, providing the perfect place to show their work and share their stories. Some members of that original ‘charter group’ are still painting and showing their work today, joined by many more artists from our surrounding region. That same spirit of camaraderie exists at PAPA today and we continue to find ways to share art with each other and our community.
Clyde H Lawter, Jr
Founding Member
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Our Purpose
PAPA endeavors to bring together artists to encourage, motivate, educate, and promote them, and to promote the art of painting in particular. A principal goal is to increase sociability and friendship among its members. Whenever resources allow, PAPA will provide a theatre to display member’s art – both in the gallery on Broadway, online on our website, and in the community.
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Our Board
Dutch Thurman, President
Jenny Fuller, Executive Director
Diane Bay, Program Coordinator
Heather Reid, Treasurer
Cindy McLaren, Secretary
Mark Cope
Sandi Johnson
John McLaren
Chad Nelson
Dale Houseworth
Rebecca Mueller-Williams
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Address
124 Broadway St
Paducah, KY 42001, USA
(270) 575-3544
Open Hours
Tuesday – Saturday: 11am – 3pm
Other times by appointment only.
Call (270) 519-3198 for appt.