BCTC Hosts Kentucky Heritage Artist and Author, Al Cornett
LEXINGTON, KY (January 31, 2007) – Bluegrass Community & Technical College’s Learning Resource Center recently hosted woodworker, artist, and author of The Sandstone Chronicles, Al Cornett.
Cornett, an original Kentucky Heritage Artist and juried exhibitor of the Kentucky Guild of Artist and Craftsmen is a native of Boyd County and a graduate of Eastern 
Kentucky University. Cornett’s professional career included work as an industrial arts teacher in Jessamine County and 16 years as an employee of International Business Machines before following his artistic calling. In 1973, Cornett purchased a piece of property on the border of the Red River Gorge Geological Area in the Daniel Boone National Forest and built a cabin. It was there that he began to pursue his love of oil painting, woodworking and photography. The Indian rock art or petroglyphs of the Red River Gorge and the native people of the area are the subject of his book The Sandstone Chronicles.
Cornett’s work includes hand made willow chairs, pastel drawings and oil paintings that are currently on display in the BCTC Leestown Campus Library, 164 Opportunity Way, Lexington.
