FUN FACTS

• The Purple Iris is the current flower though it used to be a Pansy
• The Sketchbook used to be called The Quill and Inkhorn before their first national conference 1934
• Kappa Pi's motto is “Art Colors Life and Enriches Living”
• Kappa Pi was originally founded as an Art Fraternity and has changed to be called a International Art Society in 2015
• The first recorded President elected for Kappa Pi in 1935 was a woman named Emily Anderson
• During WW2, they had trouble with members so they organized exhibits and competitions for the soldiers that were overseas
• The Kappa Pi Coat of Arms features a sphinx, four leaf clovers, and ionian column supporting a lamp of knowledge
• The Society first appeared in the 1914 edition of The Kentuckian yearbook as an art club
• The official colors of Kappa Pi are currently gold and purple, but they used to be old gold and lavender
• The first international conference of Kappa Pi, then only a national fraternity, was held in 1934 in Chicago, IL
• The Sketchbook first operated under an editor-in-chief named Marie B. Ryan in 1932
• The first international chapters were established in the Philippines and Mexico
• Kappa Pi's first appearance was in the Miscellaneous Fraternities section of the 9th volume of Baird's Manual of American College Fraternities in 1920