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<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
<strong>2011</strong> Annual Report
Dear Governor Beshear and Fellow Kentuckians:<br />
On behalf of the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> I am pleased to present to you our<br />
FY<strong>2011</strong> <strong>annual</strong> <strong>report</strong>. As the state arts agency, the arts council’s mission<br />
is to provide opportunities <strong>for</strong> the people of <strong>Kentucky</strong> to value, participate in<br />
and benefit from the arts. This <strong>report</strong> illustrates the impact of public dollars<br />
on our ef<strong>for</strong>ts to ensure that all Kentuckians have access to the arts.<br />
The core programs of the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> provide operating funds<br />
and resources to the organizations sustaining the Commonwealth’s arts infrastructure;<br />
recognize, support and promote artists and artisan businesses;<br />
develop creative thinking and innovation skills by integrating arts in education;<br />
and preserve our unique cultural heritage. In the “Our Stories” section<br />
of this <strong>annual</strong> <strong>report</strong>, you can read first-hand <strong>report</strong>s of how valuable these<br />
programs are <strong>for</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s artists and <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s communities.<br />
In addition to supporting these core programs, the arts council strives to<br />
present the arts to <strong>Kentucky</strong> and <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s arts to the world. Various facets<br />
of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games showcased <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s arts<br />
and culture to thousands of visitors to our state. By hosting the National<br />
Symphony Orchestra’s <strong>2011</strong> American Residency, the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
was able to offer seven full concerts and over 130 workshops, chamber concerts,<br />
master classes and community activities to the citizens of <strong>Kentucky</strong> at<br />
no cost. The new <strong>Kentucky</strong> Cultural Districts Certification Program will help<br />
communities build vibrant local arts scenes to attract tourism dollars, create<br />
a distinctive brand identity, draw businesses and individuals to the community,<br />
and strengthen community development and civic pride.<br />
On the cover:<br />
“Oak Tree Melody” by Craig Kaviar<br />
at the Brown-Forman global headquarters<br />
in Louisville, Ky. Forged iron and bronze,<br />
with glass by Jonathan Stokes.<br />
The National Governor’s Association stated that “states have an opportunity<br />
to both improve livability and boost state and local economies by investing in<br />
the arts and culture.” The funding support that the arts council receives from<br />
the <strong>Kentucky</strong> General Assembly and the National Endowment <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> is<br />
critical to our ability to meet our statutory purpose: to develop and promote a<br />
broadly conceived state policy of support <strong>for</strong> the arts in <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> looks <strong>for</strong>ward to continuing to provide opportunities<br />
to make the arts accessible to the people of <strong>Kentucky</strong> and strengthen the<br />
Commonwealth through the arts.<br />
Lori Meadows<br />
Executive Director<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
Tourism, <strong>Arts</strong> and Heritage Cabinet
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Contents<br />
About the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> 5<br />
Our Mission 6<br />
Our Ends Statements 6<br />
About Us 6<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> Board 7<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> Staff 7<br />
About Our Partners 8<br />
Our Vision 9<br />
Kentuckians value the role of the arts in society. 10<br />
Artists live and work in a supportive environment. 12<br />
Statewide delivery of programs and services is provided. 14<br />
Public policy supports the arts in <strong>Kentucky</strong>. 16<br />
Lifelong education in the arts is encouraged. 18<br />
Our Stories 21<br />
Architectural Artists Directory 22<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Education Roster 24<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Program 26<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Directory 28<br />
Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship Award 30<br />
Folk and Traditional <strong>Arts</strong> Apprenticeship Grant 32<br />
Teacher Initiated Program Grant 34<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership Grant 36<br />
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Promoting the <strong>Arts</strong> 39<br />
Made To Be Played: Traditional Art of <strong>Kentucky</strong> Luthiers 40<br />
Buyers Market of American Craft 41<br />
Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 42<br />
Governor’s Awards in the <strong>Arts</strong> 48<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> On Stage 48<br />
Give a Gift from <strong>Kentucky</strong> 50<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Visions at the Capitol 50<br />
National Symphony Orchestra <strong>Kentucky</strong> Residency 52<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Day in <strong>Kentucky</strong> 53<br />
Poetry Out Loud 54<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted: The Market 56<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Writers’ Day and Poet Laureate Induction 58<br />
Governor’s Derby Celebration 58<br />
Al Smith Fellowship Viewing 62<br />
Cultural Districts Certification Announcement 62<br />
Grants and Awards 65<br />
Funding 75<br />
FY<strong>2011</strong> Funding 76<br />
Funding History 77<br />
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About the<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
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Our Mission<br />
To create opportunities <strong>for</strong> the people of <strong>Kentucky</strong> to value, participate in and<br />
benefit from the arts.<br />
Our Ends Statements<br />
• Kentuckians value the role of the arts in society.<br />
• Artists live and work in a supportive environment.<br />
• Statewide delivery of arts programs and services is provided.<br />
• Public policy supports the arts in <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
• Lifelong education in the arts is encouraged.<br />
About Us<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> is the state government agency responsible <strong>for</strong><br />
developing and promoting support <strong>for</strong> the arts in <strong>Kentucky</strong>. As the state’s<br />
arts agency, we create opportunities <strong>for</strong> people to find value in the arts, participate<br />
in the arts and benefit from the arts through programs, grants and<br />
services.<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> also works in partnership with the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Historical<br />
Society to administer and support the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Folklife Program.<br />
Strategically placed in the Tourism, <strong>Arts</strong> and Heritage Cabinet, the <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> is publicly funded by the <strong>Kentucky</strong> General Assembly and the<br />
National Endowment <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong>, an independent agency of the federal government.<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> invests these resources statewide to<br />
those who create, per<strong>for</strong>m, teach and present the arts.<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> is governed by a citizen board of 16 volunteer<br />
directors appointed by the Governor to serve four-year, rotating terms. The<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> operates with a staff of 19 full-time employees and<br />
three employees in the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Folklife Program.<br />
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<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> Board<br />
June 30, <strong>2011</strong><br />
Todd P. Lowe, Chair<br />
Louisville<br />
Everett D. McCorvey, Vice Chair<br />
Lexington<br />
Sonya G. Baker<br />
Murray<br />
Carla Bass Miller<br />
Louisville<br />
Wilma Brown<br />
Danville<br />
Zev Buffman<br />
Owensboro<br />
Paul Fourshee<br />
Cadiz<br />
John S. Hockensmith<br />
Georgetown<br />
Ronald Edward Johnson<br />
Ft. Mitchell<br />
Henrietta Kemp<br />
Hopkinsville<br />
Nicholas S. Kouns<br />
Lexington<br />
Josephine Richardson<br />
Whitesburg<br />
Andrea Rudloff<br />
Bowling Green<br />
Randall C. Vaughn<br />
Lexington<br />
Roanne Victor<br />
Louisville<br />
Jayne Moore Waldrop<br />
Lexington<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> Staff<br />
June 30, <strong>2011</strong><br />
Lori Meadows, Executive Director<br />
Mike Brooks, Grants Manager<br />
Mark Brown, Folklife Specialist<br />
Chris Cathers, Program Branch Manager<br />
Deborah Catlett, Database Manager<br />
Heidi Caudill, Administrative Associate<br />
Tamara Coffey, Individual Artist Program Director<br />
Sandy Etherington, Fiscal Officer<br />
Bob Gates, Folklife Program Director<br />
Suzanne Gray, Executive Staff Advisor<br />
Beau Haddock, Media and Public Relations Director<br />
Vallorie Henderson, Business Development Director<br />
Craig Kittner, <strong>Arts</strong> Marketing Director<br />
Ed Lawrence, Communications Director<br />
Sandie Lawrence, In<strong>for</strong>mation Technology Manager<br />
Alisha Martin, Folklife Specialist<br />
Melissa Nesselrode, Executive Secretary<br />
Charla Reed, Partnerships and Initiatives Director<br />
Sarah Schmitt, <strong>Arts</strong> Access Director<br />
Sallie Showalter, Communications and Technology<br />
Branch Manager<br />
Dan Strauss, Senior Program Analyst<br />
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About Our Partners<br />
The National Endowment <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> is a public agency dedicated to supporting<br />
excellence in the arts, both new and established, bringing the arts to all<br />
Americans and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress<br />
in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the<br />
National Endowment <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> is the nation’s largest <strong>annual</strong> funder of the<br />
arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities and<br />
military bases. http://www.arts.gov/<br />
The National Assembly of State <strong>Arts</strong> Agencies is the membership organization that<br />
unites, represents and serves the nation’s 56 state and jurisdictional arts<br />
agencies, to support excellence in and access to the arts. The organization<br />
strengthens state arts agencies by representing their individual and collective<br />
interests, empowering their work through knowledge and advancing the arts<br />
as an essential public benefit. http://www.nasaa-arts.org<br />
Americans <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization <strong>for</strong> advancing<br />
the arts in America. Americans <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> is dedicated to representing<br />
and serving local communities and creating opportunities <strong>for</strong> every American<br />
to participate in and appreciate all <strong>for</strong>ms of the arts. From offices in Washington,<br />
D.C., and New York City, it serves more than 150,000 organizational and<br />
individual members and stakeholders. http://www.artsusa.org<br />
South <strong>Arts</strong> is a nonprofit regional arts organization that has been making a positive<br />
difference in the arts throughout the South since 1975. South <strong>Arts</strong> creates<br />
partnerships and collaborations; assists in the professional development<br />
of artists, arts organizations and arts professionals; presents, promotes and<br />
produces southern arts and cultural programming; and advocates <strong>for</strong> the<br />
arts and arts education. The organization works in partnership with the state<br />
arts agencies of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, <strong>Kentucky</strong>, Louisiana, Mississippi,<br />
North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. http://www.southarts.org<br />
Grantmakers in the <strong>Arts</strong> provides leadership and service to advance the use of<br />
philanthropic resources on behalf of arts and culture. It is the only national<br />
association of private and public funders making grants to artists and arts<br />
organizations in America. The association’s strength is in its diversity of<br />
members: private, family, community and corporate foundations; national,<br />
state and local governmental agencies; and nonprofit national, regional and<br />
local service organizations. What they all have in common is a belief that<br />
America is a better place to live and our communities are stronger when the<br />
creativity of artists is prevalent in all aspects of society. http://www.giarts.org<br />
The Craft Organization Development Association offers education and professional<br />
development to foster public appreciation of craft. It works to strengthen craft<br />
organizations and agencies by conducting research and providing communication<br />
and networking opportunities, public education and advocacy <strong>for</strong> the<br />
craft industry. http://www.codacraft.org<br />
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Our Vision<br />
The following guest commentaries are provided by <strong>Kentucky</strong> leaders who<br />
have diverse areas of expertise and a depth of experience in public life. We<br />
asked them to share their perspectives in relationship to our ends statements,<br />
the guiding vision of the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>.<br />
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Kentuckians value the role of the<br />
arts in society.<br />
We are truly lucky to live in a state that values art.<br />
There is so much about <strong>Kentucky</strong> that inspires our artists and stimulates<br />
our appreciation <strong>for</strong> the arts. We are truly lucky to live in a state that values<br />
art in all its <strong>for</strong>ms and provides an environment <strong>for</strong> artists and art lovers to<br />
thrive. From our small communities to urban areas, thousands of artists live<br />
and work among us, allowing us to witness their amazing<br />
talents and enabling them to inspire new artists.<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> does a tremendous job of fulfilling<br />
its mission of creating opportunities <strong>for</strong> the people of<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> to value, participate in and benefit from the arts.<br />
An example of this is the newly-constructed KFC YUM!<br />
Center in Louisville. During construction of the KFC YUM!<br />
Center, the Louisville Arena Authority determined that it<br />
had both an opportunity and responsibility to incorporate<br />
public art into the arena’s final design. Led by board members<br />
Lindy Street and Dan Ulmer, the Authority worked<br />
with the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> to ensure that the arena<br />
included a significant piece of public art.<br />
Jim Host at the KFC YUM! Center in front of the<br />
sculpture “Further” by Al Price. Photo courtesy<br />
of the Louisville Arena Authority.<br />
W. James Host<br />
Chairman<br />
Louisville Arena Authority<br />
As home of the University of Louisville basketball program,<br />
as well as concerts, conventions, and family shows and<br />
entertainment, the KFC YUM! Center will host hundreds<br />
of thousands of people each year. While the breathtaking views of the Ohio<br />
River and the expansive public plaza certainly could be considered works of<br />
art, the arena also features the newly-installed “Further,” a public work of art<br />
by Al Price of Al Price Studio. “Further” is a three-dimensional stainless steel<br />
sculpture suspended from aircraft cable that spans 200 feet of the arena’s<br />
west side on the main concourse. This large, modern piece of art complements<br />
the design of the KFC YUM! Center. Its curved stainless steel design<br />
is evocative of the waves and movement of the Ohio River and captures the<br />
motion, grace and speed of basketball and other sporting events, along with<br />
the excitement of the shows that will take place in the facility.<br />
The Louisville Arena Authority believes in the value that this art brings to<br />
the KFC YUM! Center, as well as the entire community. While many of the<br />
arena’s guests will visit one or more of <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s outstanding museums<br />
and galleries or experience our rich arts culture in another <strong>for</strong>m, there are<br />
some who may not. How wonderful to provide an opportunity to experience<br />
art in this unexpected space. Like sporting events and great entertainment,<br />
art generates passion and conversation, and we hope that “Further” does<br />
just that. We share the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>’s belief that art is relevant<br />
everywhere, including public arenas, and we hope that the Louisville Arena<br />
Authority’s ef<strong>for</strong>ts will inspire future public projects to incorporate art in their<br />
final designs. •<br />
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Jim Host was the driving <strong>for</strong>ce behind the KFC YUM! Center and is the<br />
founding chairman of the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. In<br />
2005, when the University of Louisville began exploring its options <strong>for</strong> a<br />
facility to replace Freedom Hall, Host was asked by Gov. Ernie Fletcher<br />
to help lead the task <strong>for</strong>ce. Host eagerly took on the challenge and the task<br />
<strong>for</strong>ce became what is today the Louisville Arena Authority. Host served in Gov.<br />
Fletcher’s administration as Commerce Cabinet secretary <strong>for</strong> two years, retiring<br />
in October 2005. He is the <strong>for</strong>mer chairman and CEO of Host Communications,<br />
which he founded in Lexington, Ky. The business grew rapidly as Host started<br />
a relationship with the NCAA, and he is credited with implementing the first<br />
national collegiate corporate marketing program.<br />
At age 29, Host became the youngest member of Gov. Louie B. Nunn’s cabinet<br />
as commissioner of the Department of Public In<strong>for</strong>mation and then as commissioner<br />
of the Department of Parks. He was the Republican nominee <strong>for</strong><br />
Lieutenant Governor in 1971.<br />
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Artists live and work in a<br />
supportive environment.<br />
Commissioning and purchasing art <strong>for</strong> buildings benefits artists.<br />
When the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Chamber renovated and added space to our headquarters<br />
just off I-64 in Frank<strong>for</strong>t, we wanted something distinctive, and we<br />
wanted visitors to have a true sense of <strong>Kentucky</strong>. As we met with the architects,<br />
we tossed around all sorts of ideas. Should the building look like a<br />
distillery or a horse barn, or should it be surrounded by dry stone fences<br />
The architects convinced me that it was appropriate to have a functional,<br />
contemporary space, but we could make it “<strong>Kentucky</strong>” by what was inside<br />
the building.<br />
With 7,000 square feet of new meeting space, the Chamber<br />
regularly entertains business and political leaders,<br />
<strong>for</strong>eign dignitaries and visitors. We wanted our space to<br />
have a strong <strong>Kentucky</strong> character, and what better way<br />
to do that than by highlighting some of <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s best<br />
artists and craftspeople<br />
Thanks to the generous grant from Brown-Forman—a<br />
great corporate steward and supporter of the arts—and<br />
guidance from the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>, we were able<br />
to initially feature 11 contemporary artists and more than<br />
25 pieces of art in our offices. We hope to continue to add<br />
to the collection <strong>annual</strong>ly.<br />
Dave Adkisson in the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Chamber’s<br />
<strong>for</strong>mal board room in front of the “Four Seasons<br />
of <strong>Kentucky</strong>” by John Lackey. Photo courtesy of<br />
the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Chamber of Commerce.<br />
Dave Adkisson<br />
President & CEO<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Chamber of Commerce<br />
Visitors entering our building are flanked by four, 20-foot<br />
panoramic images of the Commonwealth by photographer<br />
Jeff Rogers, gracing the upper walls of our atrium. On the lower walls,<br />
visitors can enjoy landscapes by Chris Lewis-Segre, Dan McGrath and John<br />
Lackey. Many of the meeting rooms are adorned with mixed media works by<br />
Darrell Ishmael, which uniquely incorporate coal as a medium. In the <strong>for</strong>mal<br />
board room is a stained glass sculpture by Dan Neil Barnes and a board<br />
table in the round by Shawn Strevels and Faulkner Fain. Other furnishings in<br />
the reception area include a coffee table by Mark Whitley and hand-turned<br />
bowls by Lonnie Combs. A wall installation of ceramic plates by Wayne Bates<br />
and colorful collages by Kathleen O’Brien round out the sophisticated flavor<br />
of the collection.<br />
The entire investment in <strong>Kentucky</strong> artists was only two percent of the total<br />
building project budget, but the investment added at least 50 percent to the<br />
aesthetic, the ambience and the experience visitors have when they come<br />
into our building.<br />
We recently hosted the national board meeting of the American Chamber of<br />
Commerce Executives. Not long after that, I got a call from my counterpart in<br />
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Salt Lake City. He said they were expanding their building<br />
and he wanted a staff member to see what we had done,<br />
specifically the art work. So we are getting some national<br />
recognition <strong>for</strong> this project and hope to be a model <strong>for</strong><br />
other chambers and businesses as they embark upon<br />
renovation or new construction.<br />
Not only is commissioning and purchasing art a way to<br />
enhance the beauty of a building and create a uniquely<br />
local atmosphere, it also benefits artists. Income <strong>for</strong> artists<br />
enables them to have homes, raise families and enjoy the<br />
fruits of their labor. It gives the artists much-needed exposure.<br />
And it helps our local economies.<br />
With this project, we found that you can do a lot <strong>for</strong> a<br />
tiny fraction of the cost of a building, have something<br />
completely unique and support individual artists and<br />
the broader arts community. It’s a win-win <strong>for</strong> everyone<br />
involved. •<br />
Dave Adkisson leads the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Chamber of Commerce, the largest business organization in <strong>Kentucky</strong>,<br />
which advocates <strong>for</strong> a strong business climate in the Commonwealth, uniting business and advancing<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>. Adkisson works with the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Legislature, the Governor, the state’s Congressional delegation<br />
and the court system. During his five years at the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Chamber, the organization has grown substantially,<br />
expanded its headquarters in Frank<strong>for</strong>t and placed a major emphasis on governmental relations.<br />
Adkisson also served as the chairman of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, which<br />
represents more than 7,000 chamber of commerce professionals across the country. He also serves on the board<br />
of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business association.<br />
Adkisson is originally from Owensboro, Ky., where he began his career working <strong>for</strong> the local chamber of commerce.<br />
Later, he was elected mayor of Owensboro and re-elected four years later without opposition.<br />
Adkisson has held several statewide leadership posts in <strong>Kentucky</strong>, including chairman of the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Advocates<br />
<strong>for</strong> Higher Education, co-founder of Leadership <strong>Kentucky</strong> and chairman of the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Center <strong>for</strong> Public Issues.<br />
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Statewide delivery of programs<br />
and services is provided.<br />
The arts council serves our Commonwealth.<br />
My introduction to the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> came when planning this<br />
administration’s first Governor’s Derby Celebration. The arts council’s staff<br />
was there, ready to do whatever was necessary to make the event successful<br />
and infuse arts into the festivities. At this <strong>annual</strong> celebration, the agency<br />
brings in <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted artists from across the Commonwealth<br />
to sell their work and conducts an open call to<br />
artists <strong>for</strong> the Governor’s Derby Exhibit, a spring-themed<br />
visual arts show in the Capitol. The arts council also<br />
developed an artful way to have tablecloths <strong>for</strong> picnic<br />
tables and involve school children from all areas of the<br />
state. Each table was designed to look like a horse and<br />
each horse was draped with a colorful canvas or “horse<br />
blanket” <strong>for</strong> the enjoyment of visitors at the Derby celebration.<br />
First Lady Jane Beshear gives a television<br />
interview on the economic impact of<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted: The Market.<br />
First Lady Jane Beshear<br />
Commonwealth of <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Last year, as <strong>Kentucky</strong> hosted the 2010 FEI Alltech World<br />
Equestrian Games, the arts council once again demonstrated<br />
that the arts are one of our best tourism assets.<br />
Artists in the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Program developed products<br />
specifically <strong>for</strong> the anticipated tens of thousands of<br />
horse lovers coming to <strong>Kentucky</strong> from around the world. At the games, the<br />
arts council showcased the per<strong>for</strong>ming arts at the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Experience Pavilion.<br />
To ensure its success, the arts council held an open call to per<strong>for</strong>ming<br />
artists, developed a selection process to guarantee each region of <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
was well represented and then managed the logistics of the per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />
stage <strong>for</strong> 72 per<strong>for</strong>mances in the span of 16 days. Visitors enjoyed the wide<br />
variety of music and theater presented, from bluegrass to classical and everything<br />
in between. The arts council also partnered with Lexington-Fayette<br />
Urban County Government to bring <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted artists to Triangle Park<br />
during Spotlight Lexington. The agency also provided funding <strong>for</strong> artists from<br />
the arts council’s Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Directory to per<strong>for</strong>m on the three stages at<br />
the downtown festival held during the FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games.<br />
Bringing the arts to Kentuckians is one of the things the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
does best. I had the privilege of inviting the National Symphony Orchestra<br />
to <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>for</strong> its <strong>2011</strong> American Residency, on behalf of the arts council.<br />
During the orchestra’s eight-day stay, it per<strong>for</strong>med full symphony concerts<br />
in each of our six congressional districts, and orchestra members fanned<br />
out across <strong>Kentucky</strong> to bring more than 130 chamber concerts and educational<br />
programs to 35 towns and cities. As the National Symphony Orchestra’s<br />
in-state partner, the arts council coordinated the scheduling, logistics<br />
and promotion of this phenomenal opportunity <strong>for</strong> so many Kentuckians to<br />
experience world-class music.<br />
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I know my involvement with the arts council only represents<br />
a small part of what the agency does. Its marketing<br />
programs <strong>for</strong> visual, craft, per<strong>for</strong>ming, architectural<br />
and teaching artists make it possible <strong>for</strong> artists to make<br />
a living. This positively affects <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s economy. The<br />
arts council’s education programs help students achieve<br />
in all areas of academic life and become engaged in the<br />
learning process. The arts council’s support of <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s<br />
traditional arts brings national recognition to <strong>Kentucky</strong> and<br />
gives Kentuckians a sense of pride in our heritage and<br />
ever-changing culture.<br />
operational support helps theaters, museums, publishers,<br />
per<strong>for</strong>ming groups, and community and per<strong>for</strong>ming arts<br />
centers of all sizes offer year-round arts activities throughout<br />
the state. This public investment in the arts builds<br />
vibrant communities, attracts tourism dollars, improves<br />
the quality of education, creates jobs, enhances the economy<br />
and enriches the lives of all Kentuckians.<br />
I continue to be impressed by the positive impact of the<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> and its ability to deliver the arts to<br />
Kentuckians. •<br />
A large portion of the arts council’s funding is distributed<br />
to <strong>Kentucky</strong> nonprofit arts and cultural organizations. This<br />
As First Lady, Jane Beshear has pioneered many initiatives that will positively affect<br />
the people of <strong>Kentucky</strong> and move our state <strong>for</strong>ward. As a 20-year supporter of<br />
the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Literacy Commission, she continues to emphasize the importance<br />
of a good education and a healthy start in life <strong>for</strong> our children. She has organized Graduate<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>: A Community Approach, focusing on drop-out prevention and increasing graduation<br />
rates in <strong>Kentucky</strong>. She also releases a top 10 reading list featuring recommended<br />
titles four times a year to encourage young people to read <strong>for</strong> pleasure.<br />
She works to support economic development and the tourism industry through her involvement<br />
with adventure tourism and promoting arts and heritage activities. Beshear was also<br />
active in welcoming guests and hosting the FEI Alltech World Equestrian Games in 2010.<br />
Beshear has partnered with the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Cancer Program to found Horses and Hope,<br />
which provides members of the horse industry with breast cancer education, screening,<br />
and treatment referral and organizes special events to honor survivors.<br />
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Public policy supports the arts<br />
in <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
We cannot simply cut our way to a better future.<br />
Over the last several months in Washington, our debate has focused almost<br />
exclusively on finding ways to balance the budget and reduce the federal<br />
deficit. I share the concern of citizens across our country about the urgency<br />
of getting our fiscal house in order.<br />
But we cannot simply cut our way to a better future. In every budget, we<br />
demonstrate what our values are as a nation. The investments we make<br />
speak to our immediate priorities, our goals <strong>for</strong> the<br />
future and the opportunities we provide <strong>for</strong> the generations<br />
that will follow us.<br />
Yet many of my colleagues in Congress are neglecting<br />
to take this longer view. They have proposed millions<br />
of dollars in cuts to the arts and arts education programs—initiatives<br />
that not only strengthen our culture<br />
but also our economy and our communities.<br />
Savannah Miller with Rep. John Yarmuth in<br />
front of her art work, which won his <strong>2011</strong><br />
Congressional District Art Competition.<br />
Rep. John Yarmuth<br />
U.S. House of Representatives<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>’s 3rd Congressional District<br />
When we invest in the arts and arts education, the benefits<br />
do not stop at the studio, stage or classroom door.<br />
Study after study proves that students with access to<br />
arts education programs in school are more likely to go<br />
to college and succeed in the careers they pursue. Individuals<br />
engaged in the arts are more engaged in their<br />
communities. Regardless of economic or social background,<br />
Americans who participated in arts education programs are more<br />
likely to vote, volunteer in their community and work <strong>for</strong> causes that benefit<br />
their friends and neighbors.<br />
The arts help build confidence, imagination, innovation and a sense of<br />
empowerment. When we think of how we want our country to look in the<br />
future, those are attributes we undoubtedly hope will be ingrained in every<br />
citizen. They are the characteristics that helped make our nation strong and<br />
the same ones that can make us even stronger in the years to come.<br />
I’m proud to say that my hometown of Louisville provides a perfect example<br />
of the profound impact art can have on every one of our citizens. Louisville<br />
is one of just 12 cities in the country that can boast a nationally-recognized<br />
theater, a children’s theater, a ballet, an orchestra, and an opera. We are<br />
home to vibrant and nationally-recognized music, theater, and visual arts<br />
communities. And we have done it all thanks to a supportive relationship<br />
among artists, local residents, and the local, state and federal government.<br />
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But all these artistic endeavors do not just create more<br />
options <strong>for</strong> education and cultural experiences—they<br />
translate into jobs and economic growth. <strong>Arts</strong> and cultural<br />
organizations help employ nearly 8,000 people in Jefferson<br />
County, and arts events draw more than 5 million visitors<br />
to Louisville each year, injecting nearly $260 million<br />
into our economy.<br />
Nationwide, the arts sector generates more than $165 billion<br />
<strong>annual</strong>ly, supporting almost 6 million jobs. And the<br />
dividends of federal investments in the arts are significant.<br />
For every dollar of federal support <strong>for</strong> the arts provided to a<br />
local community, nine dollars of economic activity are generated,<br />
meaning more jobs and more economic growth.<br />
When we weigh the choices we must make in our budget,<br />
it is essential that we consider the long-term impact of<br />
each of our options. The evidence proves that funding<br />
<strong>for</strong> the arts and arts education creates jobs now, spurs<br />
community involvement and economic growth, and helps<br />
prepare our children to be the creators, innovators and<br />
leaders who will guide our nation to future prosperity and<br />
success.<br />
The financial challenges we face in Washington are daunting<br />
and the choices are not easy. But we must fight to<br />
ensure that the easy politics of attacking federal funding<br />
<strong>for</strong> the arts are trumped by the smart and responsible<br />
policy of supporting investments in the arts and arts education.<br />
•<br />
Congressman Yarmuth, in his third term, was selected to<br />
the Committee on Budget, the Committee on Oversight and<br />
Government Re<strong>for</strong>m and the Committee on Ethics. He is<br />
also a member of the Congressional <strong>Arts</strong> Caucus. He has served as<br />
president of the freshman class and as senior whip.<br />
Although best known as founder and columnist <strong>for</strong> LEO, Louisville’s<br />
alternative newsweekly, Yarmuth’s diverse career has included work<br />
in public policy, business, higher education and health care.<br />
Yarmuth previously worked on Capitol Hill as legislative aide <strong>for</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Senator Marlowe Cook be<strong>for</strong>e moving back to Louisville to publish<br />
Louisville Today Magazine. He went on to work as associate vice<br />
president of university relations at the University of Louisville and<br />
vice president of a local healthcare firm.<br />
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Lifelong education in the arts is<br />
encouraged.<br />
Without the arts, learning is incomplete.<br />
According to Pablo Picasso, “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to<br />
remain an artist once he grows up.” As adults we have a responsibility to<br />
build upon the creativity, imagination and natural love <strong>for</strong> art that our children<br />
are born with.<br />
In my 37 years as an educator, I have seen firsthand the trans<strong>for</strong>mational<br />
power the arts have to bring a classroom to life, enable students to achieve<br />
more than they thought they could and enhance their understanding of the<br />
world around them. The challenge <strong>for</strong> those of us who<br />
have dedicated our lives to K-12 education is to marry<br />
the climate of high stakes accountability and tight budgets<br />
with the knowledge that without the arts, learning is<br />
incomplete.<br />
Stu Silberman surrounded by Fayette County<br />
school kids. Photo courtesy of Tim Webb of<br />
Tim Webb Photography.<br />
Stu Silberman<br />
Superintendent<br />
Fayette County Public Schools<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> education builds a school environment of high<br />
expectation, discipline and academic rigor; strengthens<br />
student problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; and<br />
provides another opportunity <strong>for</strong> family, community and<br />
business involvement with schools. Through the arts,<br />
we ensure that our children receive a well-rounded education.<br />
We know that authentic experiences in the arts<br />
expand the view of the world <strong>for</strong> our kids, many of whom<br />
have not had those opportunities. Art connects people<br />
in a way that no other medium can.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> education makes a tremendous impact on the developmental growth<br />
of every child and has proven to help level the learning field across socioeconomic<br />
boundaries. We know that quality classroom experiences in the<br />
arts have been shown to help close academic achievement gaps.<br />
While our kids are growing culturally and artistically, their brains are developing<br />
at new levels as they participate in the arts. Just think about how the<br />
brain is developing when a student is playing the piano, reading music and<br />
singing at the same time. How about the student who memorized lines in a<br />
play or mastered the choreography in a complicated dance routine<br />
Additionally, students are developing leadership skills as they participate in<br />
band, orchestra, choir, drama productions and more. Teamwork is learned<br />
by being a productive member of a team, and those lessons are taught daily<br />
when kids are involved with the arts. Our society craves people who can not<br />
only get along with each other but are also creative and productive members<br />
of the work<strong>for</strong>ce. Again, participation in the arts gives our students advantages<br />
in these areas.<br />
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Research has linked experiences in the arts with higher<br />
achievement in reading, math and science, more regular<br />
attendance, lower dropout rates, decreased delinquent<br />
behavior, increased involvement in community service,<br />
and the development of leadership skills. In today’s economic<br />
climate of tight budgets, the arts face survival challenges<br />
in schools across our country. I would argue that<br />
more school districts should follow the path we have taken<br />
in Fayette County—rather than cut our arts programs, we<br />
have invested in the arts and expanded the opportunities<br />
<strong>for</strong> our children. •<br />
Stu Silberman retired as superintendent of Fayette County Public Schools<br />
after seven years of service. He will be taking the post of executive director<br />
of the nonprofit education advocacy group Prichard Committee <strong>for</strong><br />
Academic Excellence effective Sept. 1, <strong>2011</strong>. During his tenure in Fayette<br />
County, he convened the community, and they agreed to put strong emphasis<br />
on the arts with great success in closing the achievement gap in all areas of the<br />
curriculum.<br />
Be<strong>for</strong>e accepting the Fayette County position, Silberman was superintendent at<br />
Daviess County Public Schools where he was widely praised as an advocate of<br />
innovative educational approaches. The Daviess County school board approved<br />
Graduation 2010, in which all elementary kids received piano lessons, <strong>for</strong>eign<br />
language instruction, exposure to artists, chess instruction and access to nurses<br />
in schools. This brain-based learning program received national attention, and<br />
Daviess County Public Schools received the Governor’s Awards in the <strong>Arts</strong> Education<br />
Award during his tenure there. Silberman’s mantra is, “It’s about kids.”<br />
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Our Stories<br />
The following interviews represent the artistic endeavors supported by the<br />
grants, awards and marketing programs of the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>. We<br />
feature artists from as far west as Rumsey in McLean County and as far east<br />
as Big Doubles in Knott County. We spoke with a wide range of people and<br />
personalities, from the Cuban-born choreographer in Lexington to the stayat-home<br />
working mom/potter in Louisville.<br />
The interviews were conducted by Ed Lawrence, communications director<br />
<strong>for</strong> the arts council.<br />
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Architectural Artists Directory<br />
The Architectural Artists Directory promotes artists who have an established<br />
history of working on special projects and installations with private clients,<br />
home builders, architects and interior designers. There are 30 artists adjudicated<br />
into the Architectural Artists Directory.<br />
Craig Kaviar<br />
Kaviar Forge and Gallery<br />
Louisville, Ky.<br />
As I approached Craig Kaviar’s studio, which is a <strong>for</strong>ge, I was overwhelmed<br />
by the industrial feel and the massive amount of metal everywhere. I don’t<br />
know why I expected a neat little studio with a few hot furnaces, but this is<br />
not the case <strong>for</strong> a metal worker who does large scale architectural commissions.<br />
Craig demonstrated the whole process of making iron leaves, which will later<br />
be incorporated into a large-scale handrail. The heat of the furnace, the<br />
pounding on the anvil and the intricate shaping manifested a well choreographed<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance. Visually the <strong>for</strong>ge was overwhelming. There were so<br />
many shapes and textures to look at, but you had to have a discerning eye<br />
because everything was the same color — metallic dark grey.<br />
After talking with Craig awhile, I asked <strong>for</strong> a tour of his gallery. It was a beautiful,<br />
orderly space showcasing a wide variety of art and craft. And displayed<br />
in the gallery, his metal work suddenly had color!<br />
ED: Hi, Craig, you want to tell me what you were just working on<br />
CRAIG: I was working on making some iron leaves as part of a sculptural<br />
handrail that I’m making <strong>for</strong> Norton Hospital’s new cancer center that will<br />
open this summer. This rail will bring you from the cancer center into their<br />
healing garden.<br />
ED: How long does it take from the time you start talking to the people who are<br />
commissioning an architectural piece to the finished product<br />
Video<br />
CRAIG: Each project is different. With Norton’s Hospital, the piece was<br />
designed by late September and contracted in the fall. But because it’s part<br />
of a construction project, it has to be coordinated with the general contractor.<br />
And so, I’ll have eight weeks from when I got the placement pattern and<br />
when I need to have it completed and installed, and that’ll just be days be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
the opening of the facility.<br />
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ED: I know you also do some smaller-size work that fits<br />
into the giftware or home decor categories. Are there retail<br />
venues beyond <strong>Kentucky</strong> that carry your work<br />
CRAIG: I do a fair amount of candlesticks, purse hangers,<br />
little J-hooks and wine racks, and they can be found in<br />
galleries throughout the United States. I have pieces in the<br />
Jewish Museum in New York City, in Texas, Iowa and quite<br />
a number of places. I had candlesticks and a sculptural<br />
relief piece exhibited in the U.S. Pavilion in Japan at the<br />
World’s Fair a couple of years ago.<br />
ED: How long have you been making a living as an artist<br />
CRAIG: I started as an apprentice to a sculptor while I was<br />
in high school. I had my first professional job as a village<br />
blacksmith in Hancock Shaker Village in 1976 while I was<br />
still in school, and I’ve been <strong>for</strong>ging ahead ever since!<br />
ED: I know you have been a part of the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted<br />
Program almost since its inception. What kind of benefits<br />
have there been to being a part of the program<br />
CRAIG: I think what benefited me the most was their education<br />
program. When I started and was a struggling artist<br />
trying to establish myself here in <strong>Kentucky</strong>, they brought in<br />
successful artists who talked about product development<br />
and presentation. It really helped me extend myself and<br />
push me to a more professional level, and it enabled me<br />
to take some risks.<br />
ED: The arts council started the Architectural Artist program<br />
just last year. It’s a new program, and you were<br />
selected to participate in that. What do you think about<br />
that program<br />
CRAIG: It’s a great program. I think it’s really good to have<br />
a resource like that, where you recognize people who are<br />
doing architectural work on a fine crafts level. To put artists<br />
who are doing top quality work in a publication is a<br />
major benefit. I think there is still work to be done in getting<br />
that out to those who are going to use it as a resource<br />
<strong>for</strong> incorporating architectural work into their buildings,<br />
but it has great potential.<br />
ED: I know that you support yourself as an artist, and I see<br />
that you have a couple of apprentices that you also teach<br />
and help support. I understand that you have a gallery<br />
where you feature not only your own work but the work of<br />
other artists.<br />
CRAIG: That’s true. We have about 40 <strong>Kentucky</strong> artists represented<br />
in the gallery. We have about a hundred American<br />
craftspeople in all, and we’re actually looking to focus<br />
more on <strong>Kentucky</strong> arts and crafts in the gallery to make<br />
that a real focus of the gallery. •<br />
Directory: http://artistdirectory.ky.gov/Pages/ArchitecturalArtistDirectory.aspx<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11Kaviar<br />
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<strong>Arts</strong> Education Roster<br />
The <strong>Arts</strong> Education Roster (now renamed the Teaching Artists Directory)<br />
promotes <strong>Kentucky</strong> artists who produce high quality artistic work and have<br />
the skills and competencies needed to work with teachers and students in<br />
designing and implementing arts education programs. There are 39 artists<br />
adjudicated into the <strong>Arts</strong> Education Roster.<br />
Judy Sizemore<br />
Teaching Artist<br />
McKee, Ky.<br />
I knew Judy Sizemore would be a hard person to get an interview with<br />
because she always has so many irons in so many fires. As a writer, teaching<br />
artist, community arts organizer and arts education consultant, she is constantly<br />
on the go. I caught up with her in Berea where she was conducting a<br />
professional development workshop <strong>for</strong> teachers as part of Berea’s Festival<br />
of Learnshops.<br />
ED: Hi, Judy. So what are you doing here in Berea<br />
JUDY: In Berea today we have a professional development workshop. We’ve<br />
got 30 teachers here, and what we’re doing is demonstrating to them how<br />
they can use working studio artists as part of their curriculum, whether they<br />
want to connect it to science or social studies or the arts. So I’m excited to<br />
have this many teachers come in to look at different ways to incorporate the<br />
arts.<br />
ED: So your experience as a teaching artist has gone beyond just going in the<br />
classroom<br />
JUDY: Yes, and I think that’s true <strong>for</strong> most teaching artists. We tend to take<br />
the skills that we develop as teaching artists in the classroom and to build on<br />
that. A lot of the teaching artists do professional development workshops <strong>for</strong><br />
teachers. A lot of us also work in community situations. I kind of specialize<br />
in working with recovering drug addicts and people who are incarcerated.<br />
And others have other areas of expertise. It’s fun to kind of take that joy that<br />
you have in sharing your art <strong>for</strong>m in the classroom and be able to use it in<br />
public settings.<br />
Video<br />
ED: What is your art <strong>for</strong>m, and how do you share that<br />
JUDY: Well, I’m a writer, and I have a couple of things that I do with kids when<br />
I go in as a teaching artist. One is my great passion, which is poetry. My goal<br />
with that is just to have kids playing with language and learning to use poetry<br />
as a way to capture the good times and deal with the bad times. My goal is<br />
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not that they become the greatest poets in the world, but<br />
that they develop a love of the written word.<br />
One of the neatest experiences I had was this past spring<br />
when I was up in Estill County. I was working with second<br />
and third graders and they were just such a joy. The theme<br />
we were working with was water and how important water<br />
is to our lives. So, you know, we talked about the water<br />
cycle, we talked about clouds, we talked about waterfalls<br />
and rivers and everything. And we were writing haiku and<br />
cinquain, and when we got to the end of the lesson, one<br />
of the students said, “Oh, we didn’t have writing today. Do<br />
we still have to have writing” And the teacher said, “This<br />
was writing.” And the girl said, “But it was fun!” At the<br />
same school, actually during the same residency, this little<br />
second grade girl came skipping down the hall saying, “I<br />
love poetry!” And I was like, OK, this is why I exist; this is<br />
why I do what I do.<br />
And then the second thing that I do quite often is what I<br />
call community heritage stories, where I engage students<br />
in talking to members of their family or people who are<br />
carrying on some kind of tradition. It doesn’t necessarily<br />
have to be some kind of old-timey tradition like quilting. It<br />
might be four-wheeling or something like that. There are a<br />
lot of different kinds of traditions, which is something I’ve<br />
learned from working with the Folklife Program. So we ask<br />
them to do interviews. They bring in that in<strong>for</strong>mation, then<br />
we talk about how you take an interview and pull out the<br />
pieces that you want and organize it in a way that makes<br />
sense. As a writer it is their job to take those pieces and<br />
put the puzzle together.<br />
ED: You often use the George Ella Lyon “I am from...”<br />
prompt <strong>for</strong> writing poetry. Can you share some of your<br />
experiences with that<br />
JUDY: Sure. One of the things that I coordinate every year<br />
is bringing international students into the eastern <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
schools, where they are a little bit more remote,<br />
where they don’t have as much interaction with people of<br />
diverse cultures. And so, these college-age students from<br />
all these different countries pair up with our Appalachian<br />
kids and write these “I am from...” poems together. It’s<br />
just an incredible way <strong>for</strong> them to share. What we try to<br />
look at is not just saying, “I’m from McKee, Ky.,” but “I’m<br />
from cornbread and soup beans.” You know, I’m from the<br />
things that I eat, the things that I experience, I’m from my<br />
family, I’m from all the places I’ve lived—really making<br />
that into a sensory experience.<br />
ED: So, Judy, you have been on the <strong>Arts</strong> Education Roster<br />
<strong>for</strong> the arts council <strong>for</strong> a long time<br />
JUDY: Right, I’ve been on the roster <strong>for</strong> 23 years.<br />
ED: So what’s that experience been like<br />
JUDY: Phenomenal. And the reason <strong>for</strong> that is because of<br />
the other artists you get to partner with. I mean I rarely do<br />
a residency alone. It’s so exciting to play off of the different<br />
art <strong>for</strong>ms. I can’t even begin to express how much it has<br />
helped me to grow, and I think that’s true <strong>for</strong> everybody<br />
on the roster.<br />
ED: Have you gotten work from being on the <strong>Arts</strong> Education<br />
Roster beyond TIP [Teacher Initiated Program] grants<br />
JUDY: Oh yeah, definitely. Because people come to know<br />
you through the TIP grant and they’ll say, “Well, we’re<br />
doing this. Could you come back and do that with us” Or<br />
maybe sometimes they’ll just see you on the website and<br />
get in touch with you. But, definitely, in terms of being able<br />
to make a living as an artist, it’s been wonderful, because<br />
it opens up a lot of opportunities <strong>for</strong> you. And as anyone<br />
knows who has been a starving artist or poet or whatever,<br />
it’s difficult to make a full-time living at your artist discipline<br />
unless you diversify. And you can diversify by making different<br />
products, or you can diversify by sharing your art.<br />
So I think that being a teaching artist on the roster has<br />
made all these fantastic connections <strong>for</strong> me, has gotten<br />
my name out there and what I do. The arts council staff<br />
are fabulous in terms of saying, “Well, have you ever<br />
thought about doing this” or “Do you think you might<br />
want to be involved in this project” It’s like coming to a<br />
family reunion every time you get together with the other<br />
artists and with the arts council staff. •<br />
Directory: http://artistdirectory.ky.gov/Pages/<strong>Arts</strong>EducationArtistDirectory.aspx<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11Sizemore<br />
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<strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Program<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Program helps craft and visual artists market their<br />
work by providing them business training and promotional opportunities,<br />
such as inclusion in the online directory of adjudicated <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted artists<br />
and the opportunity to exhibit at <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted: The Market, the program’s<br />
award-winning <strong>annual</strong> showcase. There are 378 artists adjudicated<br />
into the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Program.<br />
Caroline Zama<br />
Star Bird Studio<br />
Louisville, Ky.<br />
When I called Caroline Zama to make an appointment, she said, “Sure, but<br />
you have to know, my studio is in my home.” I had no problem with that since<br />
I realize many artists have studios in their homes. When I got there she welcomed<br />
me with a cup of coffee and then just started talking. She talked and<br />
worked at the same time. In a matter of minutes she had created a mission<br />
house and demonstrated how to make a chubby bird, both signature pieces<br />
<strong>for</strong> Star Bird Studio. I left feeling like I had made a new friend and envious of<br />
the life she has created <strong>for</strong> herself through her art.<br />
CAROLINE: I really just kind of stumbled on making this change in my life and<br />
just deciding to go full <strong>for</strong>ce with pottery, and teaching pottery and trying to<br />
sell my work. You know Louisville is kind of a bubble <strong>for</strong> being an arts city and<br />
having so many art festivals and shows and galleries, and I said, “Well, that’s<br />
good that I live here.” I am able to contribute meaningfully to my family’s<br />
income. This may sound silly to you, but I was able to get a new vehicle at<br />
the end of last year. I never in my life thought that. I thought I’d be driving my<br />
old CRV <strong>for</strong> the rest of my years, and I really needed something bigger. Now<br />
I’m paying <strong>for</strong> it from the money I make every month. This is a big deal to me.<br />
ED: You said earlier that you threw pottery <strong>for</strong> about 20 years and then you<br />
went to slab. So what was the impetus<br />
Video<br />
CAROLINE: Well, you’re going to laugh. I couldn’t get up to the wheel anymore,<br />
because I was so pregnant. And I couldn’t throw properly standing up. I was<br />
huge. And that’s really it. And after I had my daughter, I said there’s no throwing<br />
a pot and doing the steps that it takes to complete a thrown pot when you<br />
have a child in there. I said, “This is it, I’m going to hand build.” It was the<br />
ease of it and I fell in love with it. I used to not like hand building whatsoever.<br />
I barely touched it. Now, I just love the feel, and I like the organic way that I<br />
can express myself. I don’t really want to throw anymore. I want to build, and<br />
I can build anything now with slabs that I could have thrown. And as you can<br />
see, a lot of the whimsical bright colors, that’s the way my work looks. And<br />
that just developed.<br />
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ED: So, are you really scientific with your glazes or are they<br />
kind of random<br />
CAROLINE: There are some serious glaze folks out there. I’m<br />
not one of them. I am not scientific with the glazes, but<br />
I spend an inordinate amount of time glazing, because<br />
I hand glaze each piece. I follow the scene on the pot.<br />
There may be twelve different colors on here and I want<br />
that house, or that bird or that scene to show up.<br />
ED: So, what’s up with all these chickens<br />
CAROLINE: I was awarded the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Fried Chicken<br />
Christmas job, and it is going to entail me making 700 of<br />
my chickens—chickens strung on raffia with little wooden<br />
beads. And, mind you, I made the prototype so it is my<br />
fault. But every year, <strong>Kentucky</strong> Fried Chicken likes to give<br />
authentic home-crafted gifts to all their managers of all<br />
their stores in the United States <strong>for</strong> Christmas presents.<br />
So now this year, they’re going to get one of my chickens.<br />
So It’s really exciting <strong>for</strong> me, but everyone in the home<br />
has a job now. I’m like, “Honey, what are you doing sitting<br />
there doing nothing Get to stringing the raffia on those<br />
chickens!” You know We’re up to around 400. I have to<br />
make a delivery soon. I did not know it was going to take<br />
such a long time to string these chickens, but I’m going to<br />
be clucking by Thanksgiving!<br />
ED: So how do you make these birds<br />
CAROLINE: To make the birds like you see here, they’re<br />
hollow and you want to fire a piece of clay that’s hollow,<br />
not solid. So I use a balloon and then I pop it when I’m<br />
finished. Every piece has a little hole somewhere in it to let<br />
the air out when it’s firing. And I pinch, and I pull, and I<br />
tuck, and I squeeze, and I tear off, and I cut off and then<br />
eventually, I hopefully get a bird that I like.<br />
It’s been really funny, actually. I find it so gratifying. People<br />
tell me where they use their birds and where they have<br />
them in their house. And some of them tell me how they<br />
talk to them. They’re really sweet about it. It’s very touching.<br />
I didn’t think about that part of selling something that<br />
I make—to have people come back and talk to me about<br />
the pieces.<br />
So, here’s the bird that I just finished. This was the balloon.<br />
I wrapped the slab around it and textured it with<br />
some wallpaper. I love using old things <strong>for</strong> different textures.<br />
This is my Dad’s fishing net. This is my sister’s hair<br />
roller. She doesn’t actually know this, but it makes great<br />
sunshines or sunflowers. My parents still live on the Gulf<br />
of Mexico on the water, so I pick up shells from their place.<br />
And old lace from my Great Aunt Lena—we named our<br />
youngest one Lena. I didn’t know what to do with all this<br />
lace I inherited, because I’m not a doily kind of person.<br />
But it’s nice to remember her this way.<br />
ED: So you’ve been able to make a living at it<br />
CAROLINE: Yes, I have. I’ve made a living at it. I’m able to<br />
contribute to my life, to our household, to actually feel like<br />
I’m plugged into something. It’s not something that I could<br />
have predicted ever—that I could be sitting here making<br />
houses and pitchers and vases and birds that do nothing<br />
but look cute and sassy. And people call me and say,<br />
“Can you make me 25 of those <strong>for</strong> my shop” I mean, who<br />
would’ve guessed that So, I’m shocked. I do think a lot of<br />
it is because <strong>Kentucky</strong> has such a pride in their handcrafting.<br />
There are so many ways to express yourself here and<br />
to try to make a living. If you really want to make a living<br />
from pottery or from another craft, then you can.<br />
ED: You had mentioned earlier about getting juried into<br />
craft fairs, and you are newly juried into the <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Crafted Program of the arts council. Was last year your<br />
first Market<br />
CAROLINE: Yes, and it was so much fun. I was so nervous.<br />
And I didn’t know how to do the logistics of it at first, and<br />
it took a lot of phone calls and asking other artists. I loved<br />
it. I know it’s probably different if you’re a new exhibitor,<br />
because folks want to come in and see the new person.<br />
But, I met so many new shop owners from around the<br />
state, and it’s opened up a lot of doors <strong>for</strong> me. I wouldn’t<br />
have been able to be in an exhibit in the Capitol earlier in<br />
the year but <strong>for</strong> having juried into <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted. It has<br />
also opened opportunities <strong>for</strong> me to be in other art shows.<br />
People say, “We’ll give you a shot!” Now I’m in 10 different<br />
stores across the state. I’m busy, I am not stopping. I work<br />
every day, every night. •<br />
Directory: http://artistdirectory.ky.gov/Pages/<strong>Kentucky</strong>CraftedDirectory.aspx<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11Zama<br />
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Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Directory<br />
The Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Directory is a roster of <strong>Kentucky</strong> per<strong>for</strong>ming artists used<br />
by in-state and out-of-state presenters and others as a resource <strong>for</strong> identifying<br />
artists <strong>for</strong> per<strong>for</strong>mance bookings and projects. There are 95 artists adjudicated<br />
into the Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Directory.<br />
Heath Eric<br />
Singer/Songwriter Americana Music<br />
Rumsey, Ky.<br />
After examining Heath Eric’s extensive touring schedule, I decided to meet<br />
up with him after his gig at Francisco’s Farm Art Festival held at Equus Run<br />
Vineyards in Midway, Ky. It worked out great. It was a beautiful day, I got<br />
to enjoy the festival and his per<strong>for</strong>mance, and it saved me the travel to far<br />
western <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
The per<strong>for</strong>mance with his partner Molly G was nothing less than sensational.<br />
He even brought his eight-year-old son Jackson up on the stage <strong>for</strong> a number.<br />
They had the audience with them the whole time, and I started to worry that<br />
the festival goers might not ever leave to shop the festival. So, I talked with<br />
him as he was packing up his truck and heading <strong>for</strong> the road again.<br />
ED: How are you doing, Heath<br />
HEATH: I’m doing great. I mean, who couldn’t be doing great on this day It’s<br />
beautiful, man. We had a great set here at Equus Run. We love coming to<br />
Francisco’s Farm <strong>Arts</strong> Fair every year.<br />
ED: I heard you say during the set that you have been making a living as a<br />
full-time musician <strong>for</strong> four years now. What does it take to do that<br />
Video<br />
HEATH: Well, it takes a lot of hard work, I tell you what! I’m very blessed and<br />
grateful to have the opportunity to do what I love, but I work very hard at it.<br />
It’s a non-stop everyday job, and it’s just like anything in life. If you want to<br />
do something bad enough, you need to be willing to do what it takes to do<br />
it. And that’s what we do, and I’m thankful every day that I wake up and I’m<br />
able to do what I love. So it takes a lot of hard work, a lot of determination,<br />
some thick skin and certainly a lot of help from folks like the arts council, and<br />
venues like Equus Run and Francisco’s Farm and folks all over the state who<br />
support original artists doing this <strong>for</strong> a living.<br />
ED: So, about how many gigs a year do you do<br />
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HEATH: Well, this year we are hoping to hit between 150<br />
and 175. We’ve been clocking it in miles. Last year we<br />
drove over 35,000 miles, and this year, as our calendar is<br />
now, we are going to hit 50,000 miles. So we’re keeping<br />
the tire shops and the oil change shops in business.<br />
ED: In the per<strong>for</strong>mance, you had a key person with you,<br />
Molly G. She’s a great addition and has just been adjudicated<br />
into the program <strong>for</strong> the Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Directory.<br />
Tell me a little bit about how you got started with Molly G<br />
HEATH: Well that’s a great story. My hair’s standing up just<br />
hearing that, because it’s a story of love and talent. It’s just<br />
an unbelievable thing. We both live in McLean County in a<br />
very small town, Rumsey. Calhoun is the county seat, and<br />
I think on a good day we might have 800 and in Rumsey<br />
we might have 18. We love where we live. We met. And<br />
of course you spend a moment around Molly G, and you<br />
have to love her. You hear her sing, and you are just taken<br />
away to a place that is certainly not of this earth. She has<br />
the voice of an angel and so much talent. She came in<br />
to sing on my first album, and I think it was love at first<br />
sight—both musically and emotionally. It’s just been phenomenal,<br />
and I know she’s excited to be in the Per<strong>for</strong>ming<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Directory.<br />
ED: So on the business side of being a professional musician,<br />
has the Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Directory made any difference<br />
HEATH: Oh absolutely. I can’t say enough about the help<br />
and support we’ve gotten from the arts council, in so many<br />
ways. Just being adjudicated gave us both the confidence<br />
and that stamp of authenticity that we were legit artists.<br />
And it really helped us as we pursued work and gigs. You<br />
know we like to get paid <strong>for</strong> our work, which in this business<br />
it’s always tough. A lot of people don’t seem to understand<br />
that it is work, and the arts council always has our<br />
back on that. But they are also in the front lines providing<br />
opportunities <strong>for</strong> us <strong>for</strong> per<strong>for</strong>mance, <strong>for</strong> showcasing, <strong>for</strong><br />
workshops. We’re just thankful that you all are there to do<br />
what you do.<br />
ED: You’ve helped the arts council too. I know that you’ve<br />
helped us in delivering some workshops to other per<strong>for</strong>ming<br />
artists. What’s that’s been like<br />
HEATH: Well, it’s been great. I think that kind of feeds the<br />
business marketing side. Especially doing this as an independent<br />
artist, you really have to be able to do everything.<br />
I mean, literally from keeping your truck tuned up to marketing<br />
yourself, promoting yourself, booking yourself. It’s<br />
really a blessing to me to have the opportunities through<br />
the arts council to share some of the things I’ve learned<br />
with other people and help them maybe get a little further<br />
down the road. •<br />
Directory: http://artistdirectory.ky.gov/Pages/Per<strong>for</strong>mingArtistDirectory.aspx<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11Eric<br />
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Al Smith Individual Artist<br />
Fellowship Award<br />
The Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowships are $7,500 unrestricted awards<br />
given to <strong>Kentucky</strong> artists who have achieved a high level of excellence and<br />
creativity in their work. In FY<strong>2011</strong>, 10 artists were awarded fellowships in the<br />
categories of writing, composition and choreography. Visual and media artists<br />
are awarded fellowships in alternate years.<br />
Norbe Risco<br />
Choreographer and Artistic Director<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Ballet Theatre, Lexington, Ky.<br />
This was my first time to meet Norbe Risco. I knew of his work with the<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Ballet Theatre and the many pieces he had choreographed, all<br />
the classics he had done and then the innovative “Hoops” he created as a<br />
tribute to U.K. basketball. I also knew he created the complex and challenging<br />
“Peter Pan” after receiving the Al Smith Fellowship in choreography. So,<br />
I was curious to talk to him about that and his career as a dancer and choreographer.<br />
We met in the studios of the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Ballet Theatre.<br />
ED: Hi, Norbe. Why don’t you tell me a little bit about how you got into dance<br />
NORBE: I got into dance when I was little in Cuba. They came to our school,<br />
and they told us they were going to do auditions <strong>for</strong> the professional school of<br />
arts in Cuba, <strong>for</strong> ballet. And I thought, “Ballet. That’s dancing with girls.” But<br />
after I started, I realized it meant a lot of sacrifice and hard work to become<br />
a professional ballet dancer. And even more in Cuba. It is so strict. You go<br />
to a boarding school <strong>for</strong> eight years, and you cannot fail anything. If you fail<br />
one thing you’re out of the school. After I studied <strong>for</strong> eight years, I joined the<br />
professional company Ballet de Camaguey under the direction of Fernando<br />
Alonzo. And then after that, I went to Mexico to per<strong>for</strong>m under Fernando<br />
Bujones. He was one of the greatest dancers. When I got to the United States<br />
I joined the Ballet Theatre in Chicago; and then my wife and I moved to Lexington<br />
and I was with the Lexington Ballet; and then we opened the <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Ballet Theatre Company in 1998.<br />
ED: I see. So, how long have you been dancing professionally<br />
Video<br />
NORBE: I have been in this career <strong>for</strong> almost 31 years. Professional It’s been<br />
23 years that I’ve been doing professional ballet, and I’ve been here in the<br />
United States since 1996.<br />
ED: I think everyone understands what dance is, but I’m not sure about choreography.<br />
Can you tell us a little bit about choreography and the process<br />
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NORBE: Sure. I put it very simply. A choreographer is like an<br />
architect. You have to build something; you have to start<br />
from something. The first thing that you have to do is look<br />
at what you want to build or create. And that’s the way we<br />
do in choreography. You choose the story and then from<br />
there you watch the movie, read the book and all that to<br />
get all the details. From there, you choose the music that<br />
you want to use, then the characters that you are going to<br />
be using, because not necessarily every character should<br />
be included in the choreography. And then there’s the<br />
steps that you put in place to tell the story, because ballet<br />
dancers don’t talk. So we do it through movement and<br />
mime. It’s my job to translate a story into ballet, so the<br />
audience can get that flow and what the ballet is about,<br />
even though they may already be familiar with the story.<br />
With “Peter Pan” we worked with a company based in<br />
Louisville that does all the flying mechanisms. This was<br />
the first time that I have actually included that element<br />
in any of my choreography. “Peter Pan” was really something<br />
that was magical <strong>for</strong> us. With music, sets, costumes,<br />
choreography, it all worked out very, very well. I was really<br />
happy with it.<br />
ED: In terms of choreography, what was the biggest challenge<br />
<strong>for</strong> “Peter Pan”<br />
NORBE: How to characterize, through steps, every character.<br />
Peter Pan has to be boyish, and Wendy has to be<br />
a little girl. You know even though Peter Pan is tough,<br />
and all that, he has to have that inner-child quality, he<br />
never grows up. And then Captain Hook is tough also and<br />
chases Peter Pan. And then Tinkerbelle is like a little fairy.<br />
All those characters, you really have to be very careful<br />
when you put them together.<br />
ED: You recently received the Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship<br />
in Choreography. Can you tell us a little bit about<br />
what that meant <strong>for</strong> your career, what difference it made<br />
NORBE: For me it was something that’s special, because it<br />
tells me that artists are well recognized here through the<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>. And <strong>for</strong> me it’s like an engine that<br />
keeps me moving: research to get new ballets, to create<br />
new things <strong>for</strong> my company here, the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Ballet<br />
Theatre. The money’s always good, but at the same time<br />
the recognition is what matters most to me. It’s also important<br />
because people look at you in a different way. They<br />
expect from you different things. So, I raise the bar, but at<br />
the same time I have to keep it there because people will<br />
say, “Well, you know, this artist won an Al Smith award in<br />
choreography, so I expect something good.” So it is a challenge<br />
<strong>for</strong> me to keep my quality high. It keeps me moving<br />
<strong>for</strong>ward. •<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11Risco<br />
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Folk and Traditional <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Apprenticeship Grant<br />
The Folk and Traditional <strong>Arts</strong> Apprenticeship grant provides up to $3,000<br />
to a <strong>Kentucky</strong> master traditional artist to teach skills, practices and culture<br />
to a less-experienced artist from the same community over the course of a<br />
year. In FY<strong>2011</strong>, grants were awarded to four master artists to work with their<br />
apprentices.<br />
George Gibson and John Haywood<br />
Master old-time banjo player and his apprentice<br />
Big Doubles, Ky., and Litt Carr, Ky.<br />
I called John Haywood to see if he could find a time that he and George<br />
Gibson were going to be working together so I could come and interview<br />
them. He told me that George had just finished a big porch on his restored<br />
150-year-old cabin and was having a get-together of musicians to celebrate<br />
the occasion. I jumped at the invitation and asked him <strong>for</strong> directions.<br />
Once I got there, <strong>for</strong>ded the creek and got settled in, it was bucolic splendor.<br />
There were musicians jamming non-stop on the porch. I had to tear myself<br />
away to do the interview with George and John, but it was well worth it. As<br />
the afternoon waned, there was an awesome sunset with the mountains serving<br />
as a beautiful backdrop <strong>for</strong> the white-tailed deer coming out onto the flat<br />
land to graze.<br />
ED: George, can you tell us a little about your history: how you picked up the<br />
banjo, the style of banjo you play, that sort of thing<br />
GEORGE: I learned to play banjo around 1950. I lived in this area. At that time,<br />
most old timers had quit playing banjo. My father probably hadn’t played<br />
banjo in 12 or 15 years and that was true <strong>for</strong> most old timers. So many<br />
people left eastern <strong>Kentucky</strong> around World War II and the early 50s; it was<br />
a culture crash. You had a few old timers still playing, but they didn’t play at<br />
school dances and at home dances as they had done previously.<br />
Video<br />
My father owned a country grocery store, and after I traded <strong>for</strong> a banjo in<br />
1950, he played some <strong>for</strong> me. He knew at least 12 to 15 tunings of the<br />
banjo. One of the functions of the banjo is telling stories, and in order to tell<br />
stories they tuned the banjo different ways to get different sounds <strong>for</strong> different<br />
songs. The banjo had previously had no frets, and a lot of the old timers<br />
in the mountains still made their own banjos. So I learned a lot of different<br />
tunings, and I learned techniques that were used in Knott County. That is,<br />
there was a lot of left-handed picking and plucking as well as right hand<br />
[plucks a little]. I learned a tune called “Morphine.” That was a Knott County<br />
tune. I never heard it anywhere else, and the old fellow who played it <strong>for</strong> me<br />
said, “Son! There’s more music in the bottom string of the banjo than any<br />
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other string.” And, I noticed when he played “Morphine,”<br />
he’d pluck that bottom string like that [more plucking], get<br />
a little roll [plays and sings a few bars of “Morphine”]. It<br />
gives you a rolling sound, rather than this [plays another<br />
few bars]. You get that little note, which falls in behind the<br />
voice. They did that on a lot of old songs.<br />
ED: And, John, how long have you been playing the banjo<br />
JOHN: About eight years or so. I played the guitar <strong>for</strong> 20<br />
years. About eight years ago I started picking up the banjo.<br />
ED: So how long have you been working with George<br />
JOHN: At least five or six years, I’ve known George. And<br />
when I first met him I immediately started picking up on<br />
the way he played the banjo. It reminded me… it sounded<br />
like eastern <strong>Kentucky</strong> banjo.<br />
ED: You’re originally from eastern <strong>Kentucky</strong>, is that right<br />
JOHN: Yeah, from Floyd County, near Martin. You know,<br />
growing up in the 80s around here there were very brief<br />
remnants, I guess you would say, of the old music that<br />
George plays. You know a lot of it’s gone. A lot of it has<br />
been adopted into bluegrass, and it stayed alive that way.<br />
But you don’t hear a lot of people playing the old-style<br />
banjo. A lot of people don’t even remember the old style of<br />
banjo playing either.<br />
You’re influenced a lot of time by what you hear on the<br />
radio or see on TV. And, of course, you think about banjo<br />
players like Earl Scruggs, and Grandpa Jones and Stringbean.<br />
They did play kind of in the old style. But that was<br />
kind of all you know. Every once in a while you’d meet<br />
someone who could sing or play something. My Papaw<br />
sang in the Old Regular Baptist church, and that was one<br />
of the things that got me into it—seeing him get older, and<br />
knowing that when he went it was probably something he<br />
was going to take with him.<br />
GEORGE: History. Techniques. Old songs that might be lost<br />
otherwise. I want to make sure that he knows all the old<br />
songs that I learned when I was a boy, and all the techniques<br />
and particularly the history of the banjo. Because,<br />
the history of the banjo has been written by people from<br />
outside the mountains. And they assume the banjo was a<br />
mountain instrument. It wasn’t; it was a rural instrument.<br />
There’s two different styles of learning: there’s imitation,<br />
and there’s emulation. Now today, with the widely dispersed<br />
community of old-time people, most people have<br />
to learn by imitation. That is, they get a teacher, and they<br />
learn exactly as the teacher plays. Bluegrassers do that.<br />
They learn to play like Earl Scruggs played. But in the<br />
mountains and in rural <strong>Kentucky</strong>, the banjo was a common<br />
object. I mean, it was sitting in the corner of the cabin of a<br />
lot of musical families. So, if someone wanted to play the<br />
banjo, they picked it up, and they played it. There weren’t<br />
any experts around to tell them how to do it. So there were<br />
a lot of different styles. There was up picking, two-finger<br />
picking, old-time three finger rolls and overhand, which<br />
is what Kentuckians call the down-stroke style, which is<br />
played at dances. And if you drop a thumb to pick an<br />
interior string it’s called a drop-thumb. The terms clawhammer<br />
and frailing were not heard in eastern <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
until after about 1970. They have really very little meaning,<br />
whereas earlier on Kentuckians had specific terms <strong>for</strong><br />
specific styles.<br />
ED: So this apprenticeship, this Folklife Apprenticeship<br />
grant, do you think it’s a worthwhile program<br />
GEORGE: I certainly do.<br />
JOHN: I think so. I think it’s really important. I think the grant<br />
is a good way to make sure the music gets preserved and<br />
not necessarily just by somebody from Frank<strong>for</strong>t. You get<br />
to work with someone else from eastern <strong>Kentucky</strong> preserving<br />
our own heritage rather than having someone else<br />
coming and doing it. •<br />
ED: So George, what have you been teaching him<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11GibsonHaywood<br />
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Teacher Initiated Program Grant<br />
The Teacher Initiated Program lets teachers collaborate with practicing, professional<br />
artists on the design and implementation of innovative one- to fourweek<br />
residencies. Residencies provide teachers with the tools to continue<br />
to incorporate the arts into the curriculum after the residency is completed.<br />
There were 39 Teacher Initiated Program grants awarded in FY<strong>2011</strong>, providing<br />
102 weeks of artist residencies in 35 <strong>Kentucky</strong> schools.<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t High School<br />
Rachel Allen, Teacher<br />
Melanie VanHouten, Artist<br />
It was 5:30 in the afternoon, as I was scanning through my e-mails be<strong>for</strong>e<br />
leaving the office <strong>for</strong> the day. And there it was—an invitation to attend the<br />
dedication ceremony of a sculpture garden created by the students at Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
High School with the assistance of a Teacher Initiated Program grant.<br />
Thankfully, I saw it in time to make it over to the school <strong>for</strong> the event, which<br />
started at 6:00.<br />
When I got there people were going around to the different tree stumps<br />
installed on the grounds of the school; some were just looking, others were<br />
writing or drawing on them. The stumps were the remains of two massive<br />
oak trees that had graced the lawn of Frank<strong>for</strong>t High <strong>for</strong> nearly 100 years.<br />
Un<strong>for</strong>tunately, disease and old age had taken their toll on them, and they had<br />
to be removed <strong>for</strong> safety reasons. The art teacher saw the opportunity to connect<br />
the students, faculty, alumni and the community through this sculpture<br />
garden. She asked Melanie Van Houten, a local sculptor and teaching artist<br />
on the arts council’s <strong>Arts</strong> Education Roster, to come in and collaborate on<br />
this project. During the course of the project, from concept through installation,<br />
Allen kept a blog to document the process and the student’s learning.<br />
State Rep. Derrick Graham, who also teaches history at Frank<strong>for</strong>t High, was<br />
the main speaker at the dedication ceremony, and he had some very insightful<br />
comments about the value of the arts in education.<br />
Highlights of the comments made at the ceremony are recorded below.<br />
Video<br />
DERRICK GRAHAM: I want to touch upon something in terms of how important<br />
the arts are. I think what we see today in the front yard of the school—two<br />
things—we see the old matching the new and taking what was here <strong>for</strong> many<br />
years and allowing the kids to be creative. Not only to really allow them to<br />
show their creativity but also to reflect upon the past. Sometimes we <strong>for</strong>get<br />
about how important the past is and how it sets the foundation <strong>for</strong> our future.<br />
And I think this is a typical example of that; but, more importantly, it shows<br />
the importance of art.<br />
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If you know anything about the arts, you know that math<br />
and science have a way of interconnecting with the arts.<br />
And those kids who are exposed to the arts seem to do<br />
much better in terms of their per<strong>for</strong>mance in the academic<br />
world. It bothers me a lot—not being political—but it<br />
bothers me a lot in terms of the possibilities of programs<br />
being cut that deal with the arts and humanities, because<br />
it is an important part of who we are as a country, as a<br />
Commonwealth and as a community.<br />
To those of you who think the arts are important (most<br />
of you in this crowd probably do) you ought to use your<br />
influence to contact any member of the General Assembly<br />
or any member of our congressional delegation to let<br />
them know the importance of the National Endowment <strong>for</strong><br />
the <strong>Arts</strong> and the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>. The arts are an<br />
integral part of who we are. And I think it is up to you as<br />
individuals to contact those elected officials. If you do not<br />
contact them, then we will see many cuts take place over<br />
the next several years. And the only way we are going to<br />
do that is to make sure we have programs like art, and<br />
drama, and theater, and music, so the kids can use their<br />
creativity to pursue their dreams and their ideas.<br />
RACHEL ALLEN: I am the art teacher here; and when I saw<br />
them start to cut down these trees, I was really sad. They<br />
cut down one that was in the front area first, and they<br />
went ahead and ground out that stump. And I was just<br />
astonished at how empty and kind of barren it looked. I<br />
could only imagine what was going to happen when they<br />
cut the others down.<br />
My first thought as an artist was, we need to do a sculpture<br />
about this. But, I’m trained as a painter, and I draw and I<br />
really don’t know much about sculpture at all. I took a few<br />
classes in college but there was no way I was going to be<br />
able to do anything with the wood. So I knew about the<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> and the Teacher Initiated Program<br />
grant, where a teacher contacts an artist to work together.<br />
And so I wanted to use a sculptor, and it turned out<br />
that Melanie was a sculptor in town, which I really liked,<br />
because I wanted to involve the community. Everybody<br />
loved these trees. Everybody was really upset about them<br />
when they were getting cut down. It wasn’t just a Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
High thing; it was a Frank<strong>for</strong>t issue. It was a community<br />
thing, so we really wanted to involve people from the community,<br />
which we’ve done. I think the kids have done a<br />
really great job. I hope you get to talk to them later.<br />
MELANIE VAN HOUTEN: I’m the founder and artistic director<br />
of Josephine Sculpture Park. I’m also a sculptor. I’m from<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t, born here, lived here most of my life. I just got<br />
on the <strong>Arts</strong> Ed Roster. I’d been on it about a year after<br />
returning to Frank<strong>for</strong>t when Rachel contacted me. I was<br />
thrilled to be a part of this project. The opportunity to be<br />
involved in a project of this scale, working with students<br />
and commemorating the trees and the loss of the trees,<br />
was something that I was absolutely interested in, no<br />
matter how much time it took.<br />
And it took more time than we had anticipated, but that’s<br />
in part due to the imaginations and the ambition of the<br />
kids who worked on the project. From the very beginning,<br />
the classes that were primarily involved with this really<br />
drove the creative process. They worked collaboratively<br />
better than any group that I’ve ever worked with. From the<br />
beginning this idea of embracing the past, the present and<br />
the future was a major driving <strong>for</strong>ce of the concept. They<br />
also liked the idea that the trees could remain here, just<br />
in a different <strong>for</strong>m. So, the idea grew very big. It became<br />
quite an ambitious project <strong>for</strong> us to undertake, theoretically,<br />
in two weeks. But we didn’t want to say no, because<br />
it was so great. We sort of envisioned, I think, one object<br />
and it became—I don’t know how many there are. There’s<br />
maybe 50 stumps that they decided to use. So that was<br />
exciting, but it meant that we also had to pull in other<br />
members of the community to help us pull this together.<br />
And they were great!<br />
The final piece of this thing is that we see this as a project<br />
that has the potential to evolve over time, and that’s sort<br />
of the present and the future. And so, the next phase of<br />
it is that we would like to encourage everyone to put their<br />
piece into the sculpture by writing their own memories on<br />
the tree stumps; about this place, about south Frank<strong>for</strong>t,<br />
about Frank<strong>for</strong>t High School. The students have begun<br />
doing that, and as part of this ceremony we would like to<br />
invite you all to do that as well. •<br />
Blog: http://fhstip<strong>2011</strong>.wordpress.com<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11Frank<strong>for</strong>tHigh<br />
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<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership Grant<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership grant provides unrestricted operating support<br />
to arts and cultural organizations to ensure that year-round participation in<br />
the arts is available to the people of <strong>Kentucky</strong>. The amount funded is derived<br />
from a <strong>for</strong>mula based on the organization’s operating revenues, the panelists’<br />
assessment of the application and the funds available <strong>for</strong> the program. There<br />
were 93 <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership grants awarded in FY<strong>2011</strong>, ranging from<br />
$1,000 to $118,796, in rural and urban communities throughout the Commonwealth.<br />
Montgomery County <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Cay Lane, Executive Director<br />
Gateway Regional <strong>Arts</strong> Center<br />
Mount Sterling, Ky.<br />
As I drove into this small town in <strong>Kentucky</strong>, I noticed it has the period architecture<br />
of a bluegrass town and a topography that suggests the mountains<br />
are near. When I got to the top of a hill on Main Street, I could look down<br />
and see the big yellow church on the left and the town’s cemetery at the<br />
base of the hill. The big yellow church is the Gateway Regional <strong>Arts</strong> Center.<br />
After years of fundraising, planning, renovation and volunteer work, the arts<br />
center, operated by the Montgomery County <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong>, serves as a<br />
model <strong>for</strong> what can happen in a small rural community that believes in the<br />
arts.<br />
Cay welcomed me and was very generous with her time. She met me at the<br />
main entrance, and gave me the grand tour. Cay and I decided to settle into<br />
the Wilson Room <strong>for</strong> our interview, a decision largely based on the colorful<br />
Kenyan art and the quiet atmosphere of the library.<br />
ED: Thanks so much <strong>for</strong> showing me around the center. Why don’t you start<br />
by telling us a little about the arts center and your arts organization<br />
Video<br />
CAY: We are the Montgomery County <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong>, and we began in<br />
1991. We were a very small handful of folks who, at the time, were distressed<br />
over the fact that we had factories closing here, and the community was in<br />
a very apathetic state. And we wanted to bring the arts in. We felt like the<br />
arts were important <strong>for</strong> quality of life. So we pulled together and started the<br />
arts council. The first thing we did was have a town meeting to discuss the<br />
possibilities with our community. What would they like to have as far as arts<br />
programming in Mount Sterling and Montgomery County Since then, we<br />
have grown into an organization that has anywhere from 500 – 600 in membership.<br />
We have an active board, we have a great advisory board and have<br />
really increased our programming to where it covers all of the arts.<br />
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In 1997, we were in a little storefront across the street.<br />
Our economic development director initiated the idea of<br />
us having a gallery space down there. They were just renovating<br />
that block. And <strong>for</strong> a small fee of renovation and five<br />
years of free rent, we maintained the gallery <strong>for</strong> the arts<br />
there <strong>for</strong> 10 years.<br />
The Methodist Church, where we are now, built another<br />
building out on the by-pass and vacated this historic<br />
building downtown. And so, this building sat vacant <strong>for</strong><br />
two years. Within that time they were kind enough to let us<br />
come in and try it. So, OK, would a play actually work in a<br />
sanctuary and what about the classroom space Would it<br />
work <strong>for</strong> us After doing three or four per<strong>for</strong>mances during<br />
a year and trying it out, we decided, yes, this is what we<br />
want to do. We wanted to develop an arts center <strong>for</strong> our<br />
community, <strong>for</strong> Montgomery County, and we wanted to<br />
work regionally. We saw that as a need. And from there we<br />
bought this in 2002 and renovated <strong>for</strong> eight years—actually<br />
fund-raised <strong>for</strong> eight years—and moved in a year-anda-half<br />
ago.<br />
ED: Mount Sterling is a pretty small community isn’t it<br />
CAY: It is a small community. We have probably 6,500 in<br />
Mount Sterling itself, about 24,000 in Montgomery County,<br />
and then the surrounding counties have about 55,000 in<br />
population. This area is primarily agricultural. It’s a very<br />
rural area, and we do have some small factories, but it’s<br />
still primarily an agricultural community that we serve.<br />
ED: So what kind of arts programming do you do And I<br />
imagine you also do community programming<br />
CAY: We do. We work a lot with our community as far as<br />
partnerships and bringing programs in. Of course we work<br />
with the schools, too. We have two adult choruses, and<br />
we have a children’s chorus that meets every year. We<br />
have a summer playhouse, a summer stock program that<br />
will be presenting its 16th camp. That’s <strong>for</strong> youth 7–12<br />
years. We have a gallery space downstairs in which we<br />
rotate out exhibits every month. So we have 12 exhibits<br />
every year that come through that space. It’ll feature anything<br />
from contemporary to traditional, three-dimensional<br />
and two-dimensional. We have concerts that are anything<br />
from classical to bluegrass to Broadway. We actually have<br />
a cabaret that is coming up very soon. We just started this<br />
year having workshops <strong>for</strong> children, and that’s gone fairly<br />
well. And we have workshops <strong>for</strong> adults, so we have been<br />
able to spread out a little bit in that way. We work with<br />
the U.K. opera department, as an example, bringing opera<br />
to the schools. We do an empty bowls project, where we<br />
work with Morehead State University. And we just do a<br />
variety of things, whether it be with our chamber, our tourism<br />
office, everybody.<br />
We’re very excited about a couple of things that are actually<br />
going on today. We have a Tai Chi class that is open to<br />
anybody who would like to come and learn that art <strong>for</strong>m,<br />
that <strong>for</strong>m of relaxation. And then we also have an open<br />
mic. Now this will be our first one. It has been put together<br />
by our START 2 team, which is primarily made up of our<br />
young adults. We’re trying to reach that age group of 21<br />
– 35. So these are college and post-college students right<br />
now that we’re working with. The START comes from a<br />
grant that we received through the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
to broaden and diversify our audiences. We originally had<br />
a START 1 team, which worked with our African-American<br />
audience and supporters to diversify our offerings. So,<br />
both of those teams are working to create more programming<br />
to broaden our audiences.<br />
ED: So you’ve had a long relationship with the <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>, not only with various grants, but you’re also<br />
a <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership grantee. What has that meant<br />
<strong>for</strong> the Montgomery County <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong><br />
CAY: It’s why we are a success. We were struggling <strong>for</strong><br />
about a year and a half, and the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
sent a staff person (Jean Perry) to take us by the hand,<br />
basically, and lead us through grant writing so we could<br />
get our very first grant. Then she also gave us direction<br />
on how to become a credible nonprofit organization—all<br />
those loops and hoops you have to go through to become<br />
a 501(c)3. Since then, the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> has<br />
been so very important to us, because it’s through them<br />
that we get support. We also get advice. I feel like I can call<br />
anytime and say, “Hey, I need help. Send me in a direction,<br />
please!” So I always feel they have our organization’s<br />
best interests at the <strong>for</strong>efront. And I also feel like they’ve<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11MCCA<br />
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got our back. If we need something they will help us figure<br />
it out. So that’s been a big part of this partnership, and<br />
that’s the reason we are a success, because we do have<br />
that safety net of feeing like, “Yes, there is somebody we<br />
can turn to who will help us.”<br />
ED: I know you also get a lot of support from your community.<br />
You want to tell us about that<br />
CAY: I’d love to. We are very <strong>for</strong>tunate. We have a community<br />
where the leaders understand that in order to have<br />
a good quality of life in our community, the arts need to<br />
be an important part of it. It’s not just because the arts are<br />
nice to have, but it also makes an economic impact. Our<br />
mayor and county judge use the arts as a way to bring in<br />
industry and their families. You know, they want to relocate<br />
to someplace that has arts, especially if they’re from<br />
somewhere where they have already had exposure and<br />
expectations of arts programming <strong>for</strong> their children. We<br />
are also very <strong>for</strong>tunate to have some major donors and<br />
businesses who support us. In fact, the owner of Ruth<br />
Hunt Candy, Larry Kezele, is our project chairman <strong>for</strong> the<br />
Gateway <strong>Arts</strong> Center renovations. Folks have been so willing<br />
to give up their time as well as their resources to make<br />
this dream happen. •<br />
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Promoting the <strong>Arts</strong><br />
As the state arts agency, The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> actively promotes the<br />
arts through many exhibits, events and activities throughout the year. The<br />
agency also partners with other entities to showcase the arts as a leading<br />
tourism asset.<br />
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Made To Be Played: Traditional Art<br />
of <strong>Kentucky</strong> Luthiers<br />
This special exhibit features the art and traditions of Kentuckians who are<br />
considered masters in the making and repairing of guitars, fiddles, banjos,<br />
mandolins, dulcimers and other original stringed instruments. Made To Be<br />
Played: Traditional Art of <strong>Kentucky</strong> Luthiers was first exhibited in 2007 at the<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Artisan Center in Berea and is the result of years of research and<br />
fieldwork by the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Folklife Program. It has been on tour throughout<br />
the Commonwealth ever since, reaching 30 different sites including arts<br />
centers, history centers, businesses, conferences, libraries, museums, state<br />
parks, festivals, colleges and universities.<br />
The luthier exhibit was on display in FY<strong>2011</strong> at the following locations:<br />
Venue<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Center <strong>for</strong> Traditional Music<br />
Hyden Citizens Bank<br />
Greenbo Lake State Resort Park<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> Experience Pavilion at the<br />
Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games<br />
Eastern <strong>Kentucky</strong> University Crabbe Library<br />
Clay County Public Library<br />
Perry County Public Library<br />
Cumberland Falls State Resort Park<br />
Mountain <strong>Arts</strong> Center<br />
Scott County <strong>Arts</strong> & Cultural Center<br />
Behringer-Craw<strong>for</strong>d Museum<br />
Community<br />
Morehead<br />
Hyden<br />
Greenup<br />
Lexington<br />
Richmond<br />
Manchester<br />
Hazard<br />
Corbin<br />
Prestonsburg<br />
Georgetown<br />
Covington<br />
Made To Be Played: Traditional Art of <strong>Kentucky</strong> Luthiers was originally funded<br />
through an American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment <strong>for</strong><br />
the <strong>Arts</strong>.<br />
Video<br />
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Web link: http://artscouncil.ky.gov/<strong>Kentucky</strong>Art/LuthierExhibit.htm<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11Luthier
Buyers Market of American Craft<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> was the first state agency to sponsor a booth at<br />
the Buyers Market of American Craft, which is staged in Baltimore in July<br />
and Philadelphia in February. This is the largest wholesale trade show of its<br />
kind, featuring exclusively American handmade art and fine craft. Buyers<br />
represent galleries, museum shops, jewelry stores, luxury catalogs and boutiques<br />
carrying original design fashion and accessories.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>’s exhibiting artists were chosen to participate after a triple selection<br />
process. They first had to be accepted into the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>’s <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Crafted Program based on artistic excellence. They were then selected<br />
to be a part of the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted booth at the Buyers Market based on<br />
market readiness. Finally, they were approved by the Buyers Market of American<br />
Craft <strong>for</strong> quality. This rigorous process gives buyers the opportunity to<br />
stock their shelves with the work of some of <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s most outstanding<br />
craft artists.`<br />
Artists exhibiting at the Baltimore market were:<br />
Artist Business Community<br />
Traci Cassilly Knitting Divas Louisville<br />
Marvin Schnoll Red Oak Crafts Louisville<br />
Jordan Stapp<br />
K & M Crafts of<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Campbellsville<br />
Artists exhibiting at the Philadelphia market were:<br />
Artist Business Community<br />
Kelley and Bruce<br />
Hoefer<br />
Turning Wheel Pottery Berea<br />
Pamela Mattei DyeSigns by Pamela Louisville<br />
Hanns-Georg Reck<br />
New World<br />
Woodworking LLC<br />
Louisville<br />
Marvin Schnoll Red Oak Crafts Inc. Louisville<br />
Jordan Stapp<br />
K & M Crafts of<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Campbellsville<br />
Web link: http://www.buyersmarketofamericancraft.com/<br />
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Alltech FEI World<br />
Equestrian Games<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>’s presence at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian<br />
Games raised the visibility of the arts and demonstrated the value of the<br />
arts as a major tourism asset <strong>for</strong> the Commonwealth. During the course of<br />
the games, Sept. 25–Oct. 10, 2010, the agency coordinated, produced or<br />
sponsored a number of components to highlight the arts of <strong>Kentucky</strong>, including<br />
a per<strong>for</strong>ming arts stage at the games, a visual and craft art fair at Spotlight<br />
Lexington, fee support <strong>for</strong> per<strong>for</strong>ming artists at Spotlight Lexington and a<br />
book featuring per<strong>for</strong>ming, visual and literary arts in all regions of <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
Welcoming Waters of <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
First Lady Jane Beshear presided over the ceremonial welcoming<br />
event, Welcoming Waters of <strong>Kentucky</strong>, uniting the<br />
waters of <strong>Kentucky</strong> with water received from Aachen, Germany,<br />
the host of the previous World Equestrian Games.<br />
Water from rivers in each of nine tourism districts were carried<br />
in vessels made by artists from each district. The arts<br />
council coordinated the acquisition of the vessels, and they<br />
remained on display during the course of the games in the<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Experience Pavilion.<br />
Artists whose vessels were selected <strong>for</strong> the honor were:<br />
Artist<br />
Wayne Bates<br />
Bill and Renee Bliznick<br />
Robert Brigl<br />
Page Candler<br />
Jeff Enge and Sarah Culbreth<br />
Matthew Gaddie<br />
Lewis Newman with<br />
David Appalachian Crafts<br />
Larry Watson<br />
June and Ray<strong>for</strong>d Watts<br />
Jennifer Zingg<br />
River Region<br />
Gathering vessel <strong>for</strong> all waters<br />
Green River<br />
Barren River<br />
Cumberland River<br />
Mississippi River<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> River<br />
Big Sandy River<br />
Licking River<br />
Rockcastle River<br />
Salt River<br />
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<strong>Kentucky</strong> Experience<br />
Guests from around the world enjoyed some of <strong>Kentucky</strong>’s best per<strong>for</strong>ming<br />
arts as they visited the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Experience at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian<br />
Games. During the course of the games, the arts council presented<br />
72 per<strong>for</strong>mances by choral groups, orchestra groups, bands, solo per<strong>for</strong>mers,<br />
duos, trios and theater troupes at the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Experience Pavilion or<br />
in the courtyard.<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> conducted an open call to <strong>Kentucky</strong> per<strong>for</strong>ming<br />
artists and community and school groups to ensure that every <strong>Kentucky</strong> tourism<br />
district was represented with high artistic quality. Artists were approved<br />
by an independent panel of per<strong>for</strong>ming arts professionals with selection by<br />
representatives of each tourism region.<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> Folklife Program presented the traveling exhibition Made To<br />
Be Played: Traditional Art of <strong>Kentucky</strong> Luthiers in the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Experience<br />
Pavilion, complete with an interactive musical instrument petting zoo.<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>mers at the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Experience Pavilion included:<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>mer<br />
Advocate Brass Band<br />
The Bats<br />
Big Papa Mark Stampley<br />
Blessid Union of Souls<br />
Blue River Bluegrass Band<br />
Bob and Susie Hutchison<br />
Butch Rice<br />
Coco Yam Band<br />
Colin Grant-Adams<br />
Countyline Bluegrass<br />
Daniel and Amy Carwile<br />
Danny Flanigan<br />
Derby City Chorus<br />
Diane Earle<br />
Donna and Lewis Lamb<br />
The Downtown County Band<br />
EKU Brass<br />
The Fabulous Moonglows<br />
Community<br />
Danville<br />
Lexington<br />
Louisville<br />
Independence<br />
Shepherdsville<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Louisville<br />
Louisville<br />
Glasgow<br />
Greenville<br />
Lexington<br />
Louisville<br />
Louisville<br />
Owensboro<br />
Lancaster<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Richmond<br />
Louisville<br />
Video<br />
Web link: http://artscouncil.ky.gov/KyExperience/kyexperience_artistindex.htm<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11KYEXP<br />
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Per<strong>for</strong>mer<br />
George McGee<br />
Gospelway Bluegrass Singers<br />
Greg Schaber<br />
Hazel Johnson and David Foster<br />
Heath Eric<br />
Hills of <strong>Kentucky</strong> Dulcimers<br />
Hog Operation<br />
The James Family Band<br />
Jerry Tolson Quintet<br />
Jim Olive<br />
Juggernaut Jug Band<br />
The Kentuckians Barbershop Chorus<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> Historical Society Museum Theatre<br />
Kimberly Carter and Carryin’ On<br />
Kyle Meadows<br />
Lauren Houston<br />
Leigh Ann Yost<br />
LeMay and Reese<br />
Lexington Children’s Theatre<br />
Lorinda Jones<br />
The Louisville Chorus Ensemble<br />
Louisville Orchestra String Quartet<br />
Madison County Dulcimers<br />
Michael Fogler<br />
Mickey Clark and the Blue Norther<br />
Mitch Barrett<br />
Morehead State University Concert Choir and<br />
Chamber Singers<br />
One Shot Johnny<br />
Osland/Dailey Jazztet<br />
Paducah Symphony Orchestra String Quartet<br />
Raison D’Etre<br />
Rick Oldfield & Company<br />
The Ridgewood Boys<br />
Community<br />
Georgetown<br />
Walton<br />
Alexandria<br />
Horse Cave<br />
Rumsey<br />
Park Hills<br />
Louisville<br />
Corinth<br />
Louisville<br />
Lexington<br />
Louisville<br />
Louisville<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Winchester<br />
Highland Heights<br />
Morning View<br />
Louisville<br />
Burnside<br />
Lexington<br />
Rineyville<br />
Louisville<br />
Louisville<br />
Richmond<br />
Lexington<br />
Louisville<br />
Berea<br />
Morehead<br />
Greensburg<br />
Lexington<br />
Paducah<br />
Wilder<br />
Mt. Sterling<br />
Columbia<br />
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Per<strong>for</strong>mer<br />
The Ritch Collins Three-O<br />
Roger Cooper<br />
Sarah Elizabeth Burkey<br />
The Songfarmers<br />
The Steven Foster Singers<br />
Stirfry<br />
The 23 String Band<br />
Velveeta Jones Band<br />
Virgil Bowlin<br />
Warrior Poetes<br />
Community<br />
Ashland<br />
Garrison<br />
Kevil<br />
Bowling Green<br />
Bardstown<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Louisville<br />
Danville<br />
London<br />
Mun<strong>for</strong>dville<br />
Spotlight Lexington<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> partnered with Lexington-Fayette County Urban<br />
Government to coordinate and present an art fair in Triangle Park as part of<br />
Spotlight Lexington. Spotlight Lexington provided three weekends of festival<br />
atmosphere in downtown Lexington <strong>for</strong> residents and visitors alike during the<br />
span of the World Equestrian Games.<br />
Artists selected <strong>for</strong> the arts council’s <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Program were invited<br />
to exhibit and sell their work at the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Market of Spotlight Lexington.<br />
The quality of work created by participants in the program gave visitors from<br />
across the globe an opportunity to bring home the very finest art and craft<br />
in <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted artists represented at Spotlight Lexington were:<br />
Artist Business Community<br />
Jamie Taylor Abby Glen Designs Louisville<br />
Kristal Kokinda Alley Cat Pottery Richmond<br />
James Williams Anew Backyard Elizabethtown<br />
Ann Klem Ann Klem Reflections Fisherville<br />
Jan Treesh Bountiful Baskets by Jan Lexington<br />
Carole Gordon Carole Gordon Watercolors Utica<br />
Dennis Jackson Creations Lexington<br />
Erica Kirchner Creature Com<strong>for</strong>ts by Erica Prospect<br />
David Appalachian<br />
Crafts<br />
David Appalachian Crafts David<br />
Video<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11SpotLex<br />
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Artist Business Community<br />
Gail Cohen Gail Cohen Designs Lexington<br />
Gary Bertram Gary Bertram Art LLC Georgetown<br />
Jeffrey and Henrietta<br />
Scott<br />
Highland Raku Studio Columbia<br />
Jamison Brumm Jamison Brumm Monticello<br />
Justine Dennis Justine Dennis New Haven<br />
Jordan Stapp K & M Crafts of <strong>Kentucky</strong> Campbellsville<br />
Judy Kushner Judy Kushner Art Designs Georgetown<br />
Mary Dennis Kannapell Kannapell Art & Design Prospect<br />
Laura George Lynch Laura George Lynch Louisville<br />
Madonna G. Cash Baskets by Madonna Louisville<br />
Maiken Ischiel Young Maiken Ischiel Young Bed<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Marianne Brown Marianne Brown Pottery Lawrenceburg<br />
Mary B. Noelker Mary Noelker Lampwork Beads Danville<br />
Josephine Lamb<br />
Williams<br />
Mayapple Creations<br />
Lexington<br />
Marianna McDonald McDonald Fine Art Lexington<br />
Jeanine Moneypenny Moss Hill Louisville<br />
David Berger Olde Master Originals LLC Crestwood<br />
Melissa Senetar PhbeaD Paint Lick<br />
Scot Kellersberger Phoenix Creative Metal Art Salvisa<br />
Paula Canant Red Hot Design Owensboro<br />
Michael Shambro ShambroLa Wood Art Lexington<br />
Kathy Werking SoapWerks Midway<br />
Amelia Stamps Stamps Pottery Lexington<br />
Theresa Jean Kibby Theresa Jean Kibby Somerset<br />
Jama Watts These Precious Things Lebanon<br />
Harriet Giles The Weavery Lexington<br />
Steve White The White Gallery Maysville<br />
Trent Altman Trent’s Studio Louisville<br />
Wesley Page Wesley Page Fine Woodcrafts Glasgow<br />
Luann Vermillion Wildflowers by Luann Whitesburg<br />
Lonnie Combs Wooden Crafts Fisherville<br />
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Additionally, the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> provided fee support <strong>for</strong> Per<strong>for</strong>ming<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Directory artists who per<strong>for</strong>med on Spotlight Lexington stages:<br />
Artist<br />
Carla Van Hoose<br />
Central <strong>Kentucky</strong> Youth Orchestra<br />
Juggernaut Jug Band<br />
Lexington Children’s Theatre<br />
Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Ballet Theatre<br />
No Tools Loaned<br />
Reel World String Band<br />
River City Drum Corps<br />
Stirfry<br />
Community<br />
Lexington<br />
Lexington<br />
Louisville<br />
Lexington<br />
Lexington<br />
Lexington<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Lexington<br />
Louisville<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Discover Art in <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
In anticipation of the 60,000 visitors to the Alltech FEI World<br />
Equestrian Games, the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> produced<br />
“Discover Art in <strong>Kentucky</strong>.” The 180-page arts and cultural<br />
guidebook features art destinations in every region of <strong>Kentucky</strong>:<br />
galleries, museums, independent booksellers and<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance venues <strong>for</strong> dance, theater and music. The arts<br />
organizations and businesses listed are partners with the arts<br />
council or promote the work of artists associated with the<br />
agency’s arts marketing programs. As a special bonus, the<br />
book brings attention to the work of acclaimed literary figures<br />
with significant ties to the Commonwealth.<br />
“Discover Art in <strong>Kentucky</strong>” was distributed at the <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Experience Pavilion and in Lexington hotels during the<br />
games. It continues to be available through the arts council and at <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
welcome centers, state parks, local tourism offices, chambers of commerce,<br />
national conferences, libraries and arts attractions throughout <strong>Kentucky</strong>.<br />
Web link: http://artscouncil.ky.gov/Resources/pdf/DiscoverArtin<strong>Kentucky</strong>.pdf<br />
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Governor’s Awards in the <strong>Arts</strong><br />
On October 28, 2010, Governor Steven L. Beshear presented the 2010 Governor’s<br />
Awards in the <strong>Arts</strong> in the Capitol Rotunda in Frank<strong>for</strong>t. The Commonwealth’s<br />
most prestigious arts awards <strong>annual</strong>ly honor <strong>Kentucky</strong> individuals,<br />
businesses and organizations that make significant contributions to<br />
the arts in the state. Video tributes <strong>for</strong> each of the winners are available at<br />
http://artscouncil.ky.gov/<strong>Kentucky</strong>Art/GovAward2010.htm<br />
The 2010 Governor’s Awards in the <strong>Arts</strong> were presented to:<br />
Award Recipient Community<br />
Artist Award Stephen Rolfe Powell Danville<br />
Business Award Hilliard Lyons Louisville<br />
Community <strong>Arts</strong> Award<br />
Mayfield/Graves County<br />
Art Guild<br />
Mayfield<br />
Education Award Melanie Wood Louisville<br />
Folk Heritage Award Loyal Jones Berea<br />
Government Award Mountain <strong>Arts</strong> Center Prestonsburg<br />
Media Award Rich Copley Lexington<br />
Milner Award Al Shands Crestwood<br />
National Award Annie Potts Franklin<br />
Each recipient received a mixed media relief sculpture entitled “Faith,” created<br />
by LaVon Van Williams Jr. of Lexington.<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> coordinated the nomination and selection process,<br />
with nominations being sought from the public. Gov. Beshear selected<br />
the recipients based on recommendations from the Governor’s Awards in<br />
the <strong>Arts</strong> committee. The arts council also commissioned the artwork <strong>for</strong> the<br />
awards and hosted the presentation ceremony and public reception.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> On Stage<br />
Video<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>ming artists and ensembles featured in the arts council’s Per<strong>for</strong>ming<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Directory and presenters from across the Commonwealth came together<br />
<strong>for</strong> the 12th <strong>annual</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> on Stage, Dec. 8–9, 2010, at The Clifton Center<br />
in Louisville.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> on Stage is primarily a showcase and professional development<br />
opportunity <strong>for</strong> per<strong>for</strong>ming arts presenters and others who stage live music,<br />
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Web link: http://artscouncil.ky.gov/<strong>Kentucky</strong>Art/GovAward2010.htm<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11GAA
dance and theater per<strong>for</strong>mances. Presenters had the opportunity to experience<br />
samplings of the artists’ work, talk with artists and book per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />
dates.<br />
Sandra Gibson, CEO and president of the Association <strong>for</strong> Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Presenters (APAP) in Washington, D.C., led the plenary session—<strong>Arts</strong> Presenting<br />
and the New Realities—which examined contemporary challenges<br />
that confront the per<strong>for</strong>ming arts. Gibson offered survival strategies and<br />
spoke of the value of reimagining organizations in the new environment.<br />
Artists selected to showcase their talents were:<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>mer Discipline Community<br />
Appalatin World music Louisville<br />
Angela Bartley Theater Louisville<br />
Virgil Bowlin Appalachian London<br />
The Chattering Magpies Celtic and Appalachian Rineyville<br />
Coco Yam Band World music Louisville<br />
Diana Dinicola Flamenco dance Louisville<br />
Divas and Dogs Specialty Louisville<br />
The Downtown County<br />
Band<br />
Old time<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Heath Eric Singer/songwriter Rumsey<br />
Shuling Fister<br />
Chinese traditional and<br />
folk dance<br />
Lexington<br />
Richard Goering Classical guitar Fort Mitchell<br />
Hog Operation Bluegrass Louisville<br />
Juggernaut Jug Band Jug band music Louisville<br />
Keltricity<br />
Contemporary and<br />
traditional Celtic<br />
Louisville<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Baroque<br />
Trumpets<br />
Baroque trumpet Raywick<br />
Kyle Meadows Hammer dulcimer Cold Spring<br />
Roadside Theater Theater Whitesburg<br />
Octavia Sexton Storytelling Orlando<br />
Stirfry Gypsy jazz Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Mariya Tarakanova and<br />
FlamencoTalk<br />
Flamenco dance Louisville<br />
Robert Tincher Celtic Lexington<br />
Videos<br />
Videos: http://bit.ly/kacAR11KOS<br />
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Give a Gift from <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Gov. Steve Beshear proclaimed December 2010 as “Give a Gift from <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Month.” The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> joined First Lady Jane Beshear<br />
along with regional artists and state and local officials, in kicking off the campaign<br />
on Nov. 22 at the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Artisan Center at Berea.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Gift Ideas<br />
In conjunction with the campaign, the arts council developed an online<br />
catalog, <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Gift Ideas, featuring art and handmade items by<br />
18 artists who have been adjudicated into the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Program.<br />
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<strong>Kentucky</strong> Visions at the Capitol<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> presented <strong>Kentucky</strong> Visions at the Capitol, showcasing<br />
the artwork of 39 artists in the halls, reception areas and conference<br />
rooms of Senate and House offices in the Capitol Annex in Frank<strong>for</strong>t. Artists<br />
invited to participate were adjudicated members of the arts council’s <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Crafted Program or artists who have received an Al Smith Individual<br />
Artist Fellowship Award or Governor’s Award in the <strong>Arts</strong>.<br />
The 95 pieces of artwork on display during this legislative session included<br />
paintings, mixed-media work, photographs, sculpture and ceramics. All<br />
works were <strong>for</strong> sale.<br />
Participating artists were:<br />
Artist Medium Community<br />
Dobree Adams Photography Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Matthew Albritton Photography Dayton<br />
Trent Altman Acrylic; Mixed media Louisville<br />
Philis Alvic Weaving Lexington<br />
Don Ament Photography Lexington<br />
David Bartlett Photography Morehead<br />
Patricia Brock Photography Louisville<br />
Marianne Brown Clay Lawrenceburg<br />
Ken Buck Watercolor; Mixed media Highland Heights<br />
Jim Cantrell Watercolor; Oil Bardstown<br />
Paula Clark Acrylic Versailles<br />
Diana Colgate Soft pastel Shepherdsville<br />
Bruce Frank Photography Georgetown<br />
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Web link: http://bit.ly/KAC2010gift
Artist Medium Community<br />
Sarah Frederick Handmade paper Louisville<br />
Linda Fugate-Blumer Photography Lexington<br />
Timothy Gold Acrylic Independence<br />
Debbie Graviss Pastel Versailles<br />
Jo Ann Grimes Fiber Berea<br />
Elsie Harris Acrylic Lexington<br />
Christopher Hill Mixed media Louisville<br />
Rebecca Cathleen Hill Acrylic Louisville<br />
Christine Kuhn Mixed media Lexington<br />
Catherine Logsdon Acrylic Lakeside Park<br />
John McGrath Oil Lexington<br />
Gary Mesa-Gaido Photography Morehead<br />
Gretchen Papka Mixed media Versailles<br />
Raymond Papka Mixed media Versailles<br />
Esther Randall Photography Berea<br />
Judy Rosati Photography Louisville<br />
Reba Rye Photography Lockport<br />
Arturo Sandoval Serigraph Lexington<br />
Randy Simmons Intaglio; Photography Paducah<br />
Karen Spears Springate Oil Lexington<br />
Sheldon Tapley Oil; Pastel Danville<br />
David Toczko Photography Elizabethtown<br />
Ralph Tyree Photography Winchester<br />
Jacob van der Oort Photography Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Mark Whitley Wood Smiths Grove<br />
Caroline Zama Clay Louisville<br />
Video<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11KV<br />
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National Symphony Orchestra<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Residency<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> was the in-state partner <strong>for</strong> the National Symphony<br />
Orchestra (NSO) <strong>2011</strong> American Residency in <strong>Kentucky</strong> Feb. 17–25,<br />
<strong>2011</strong>. During the visit, the orchestra per<strong>for</strong>med major concerts in each of<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong>’s six congressional districts: in Louisville, Florence, Owensboro,<br />
Paducah, Lexington and Somerset. Additionally, members of the orchestra<br />
traveled to 35 <strong>Kentucky</strong> communities to participate in more than 130 educational,<br />
outreach and per<strong>for</strong>mance activities in 66 venues.<br />
The activities included chamber music per<strong>for</strong>mances; pre-concert lectures;<br />
school assemblies; community per<strong>for</strong>mances in libraries, churches and<br />
nursing homes; “Teddy Bear” concerts <strong>for</strong> preschoolers and their parents;<br />
artistic exchanges with <strong>Kentucky</strong> musicians; “Connections” workshops in<br />
schools linking music to the science curriculum; workshops <strong>for</strong> teachers;<br />
arts education roundtable discussions; arts advocacy training sessions; sectionals<br />
coaching; clinics; and master classes.<br />
As in-state partner, the arts council coordinated the requests <strong>for</strong> outreach<br />
activities, assisted in scheduling and logistics and provided promotional support<br />
<strong>for</strong> the residency.<br />
The agency also sponsored an arts advocacy <strong>for</strong>um at Lexington’s Lyric Theatre<br />
with Hugh Wolff, NSO residency conductor, and Rita Shapiro, NSO<br />
executive director, leading the discussion, followed by a question and idea<br />
session.<br />
Additional components of the American Residency included selection of<br />
three <strong>Kentucky</strong> students to participate in the NSO National Trustees’ Summer<br />
Music Institute and an NSO Music Teacher Fellowship given to a <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
teacher.<br />
Theo Lineberry and Jackie Royce from Louisville and Jessie Zhu of Lexington<br />
were selected to attend the four-week Summer Music Institute in Washington,<br />
D.C., with all expenses paid by the NSO. The aspiring musicians<br />
received intensive coaching; private lessons; seminars on public speaking;<br />
instruction in practicing and ensemble skills; side-by-side rehearsals with the<br />
NSO; and per<strong>for</strong>mance opportunities at the John F. Kennedy Center <strong>for</strong> the<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong>.<br />
Video<br />
Thomas Mueller, the director of bands at Camp Ernst Middle School, Burlington,<br />
Ky., received the Music Teacher Fellowship. The four-week program<br />
involved working with the NSO education staff to plan instructional activities<br />
focusing on Mueller’s chosen areas of interest. He was awarded a cash stipend<br />
and had all expenses paid, including travel to and from Washington,<br />
D.C.<br />
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Web link: http://bit.ly/NSOsched<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11NSO
The National Symphony Orchestra American Residencies is a national initiative<br />
encompassing the elements of education, outreach and chamber and<br />
orchestral per<strong>for</strong>mances. American Residencies are sponsored in part by<br />
The John F. Kennedy Center <strong>for</strong> the Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> through a grant from the<br />
U.S. Department of Education. Duke Energy was the supporting sponsor of<br />
the <strong>2011</strong> NSO <strong>Kentucky</strong> Residency. Chamber music concerts and outreach<br />
activities were supported in part by generous contributors to The Kennedy<br />
Center Abe Fortas Memorial Fund <strong>for</strong> Chamber Music and by a major gift to<br />
the fund from the late Carolyn E. Agger, widow of Abe Fortas.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> Day in <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> hosted a full schedule of activities to celebrate<br />
and acknowledge the importance of the arts on Feb. 22, <strong>2011</strong>, in Frank<strong>for</strong>t.<br />
<strong>Arts</strong> leaders and advocates came from across the Commonwealth to meet<br />
with their legislators, network with each other and participate in the day’s<br />
activities.<br />
The day kicked off with the announcement of a new specialty license plate<br />
to benefit arts and cultural organizations in <strong>Kentucky</strong>. The “Experience the<br />
<strong>Arts</strong>!” plate, designed by Louisville artist Jeaneen Barnhart, was unveiled<br />
by Marcheta Sparrow, secretary, Tourism <strong>Arts</strong> and Heritage Cabinet; Lindy<br />
Casebier, deputy secretary, Tourism <strong>Arts</strong> and Heritage Cabinet; Lori Meadows,<br />
executive director, <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>; and Wilma Brown, board<br />
chair, <strong>Kentucky</strong> Foundation <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong>. The plates go into production once<br />
the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Transportation Cabinet has received 900 applications.<br />
Representatives of art and cultural organizations receiving operational support<br />
through the arts council’s <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership grant program had<br />
their photos taken at the Capitol as their legislators presented them with ceremonial<br />
checks. The photos were released to the organizations’ local media<br />
to bring greater awareness of public support <strong>for</strong> the arts.<br />
The recipients of the 2010 Governor’s Awards in the <strong>Arts</strong> were introduced<br />
in the Senate chamber and were presented citations in recognition of their<br />
outstanding contributions to <strong>Kentucky</strong> through the arts.<br />
In the afternoon, education directors from <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership organizations<br />
and artists on the arts council’s <strong>Arts</strong> Education Roster met to discuss<br />
education updates and build relationships between teaching artists and arts<br />
organization administrators.<br />
Video<br />
Web link: http://artscouncil.ky.gov/<strong>Kentucky</strong>Art/<strong>Arts</strong>Day<strong>2011</strong>.htm<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11ARTSDAY<br />
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The highlight of the <strong>Arts</strong> Day in <strong>Kentucky</strong> evening reception at the Thomas<br />
D. Clark Center <strong>for</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> History was a concert with per<strong>for</strong>mances by a<br />
National Symphony Orchestra violin chamber group and NSO violinist Glenn<br />
Donnellan playing the batolin, an instrument he created from a Louisville<br />
Slugger bat. Orchestra members stayed after their per<strong>for</strong>mances to meet and<br />
talk with reception guests.<br />
Poetry Out Loud<br />
Poetry Out Loud is a national program that encourages high school students<br />
to learn about great poetry through memorization, per<strong>for</strong>mance and competition,<br />
presented by the National Endowment <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong>, the Poetry Foundation<br />
and state arts agencies.<br />
On March 8, <strong>2011</strong>, Torie DiMartile, a senior at Beechwood High School, Fort<br />
Mitchell, emerged as the winner among the 21 high school champions from<br />
across the Commonwealth who competed in the sixth <strong>annual</strong> Poetry Out<br />
Loud state finals in Frank<strong>for</strong>t. DiMartile was the state’s second place winner<br />
in 2010 and 2009. DeMartile received $200 plus an all-expenses-paid trip<br />
to Washington, D.C., to compete in the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation<br />
Contest. Her high school also received $500 <strong>for</strong> the purchase of poetry books<br />
<strong>for</strong> its library.<br />
DiMartile won second place at the national contest and received a $10,000<br />
scholarship. <strong>Kentucky</strong> state champions have been national finalists in five of<br />
the six years of the program.<br />
Tyler Poteet, a senior at Butler Traditional High School, Louisville, was named<br />
second place winner at the state competition. He received a $100 cash prize<br />
and $200 <strong>for</strong> his school to purchase poetry books.<br />
Poetry Out Loud high school champions were:<br />
Student High School County<br />
Kayla Wilson<br />
Allen County/Scottsville<br />
High School<br />
Allen<br />
Brittany Skidmore Bell County High School Bell<br />
Candice Lewis Pineville High School Bell<br />
Lissy Rigsby Boyd County High School Boyd<br />
Randall S. Turner Jackson City School Breathitt<br />
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Student High School County<br />
Zachary Mil<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Paul Lawrence Dunbar<br />
High School<br />
Fayette<br />
Kaitlyn Luyster Western Hills High School Franklin<br />
Kaytee Holtman Grant County High School Grant<br />
Jesse Hubbard Harlan County High School Harlan<br />
James Rogers Hart County High School Hart<br />
Tyler Poteet Butler Traditional High School Jefferson<br />
Dane Mendelsohn Ballard High School Jefferson<br />
Torie DiMartile Beechwood High School Kenton<br />
Ethan Gibson Leslie County High School Leslie<br />
Sierra Kiser Jenkins Independent School Letcher<br />
Keilyn Wargo Lone Oak High School McCracken<br />
Michael Cotten Mercer County High School Mercer<br />
Kesia Casey Ohio County High School Ohio<br />
Jared Auton Pikeville High School Pike<br />
Christopher Louis<br />
Bradley Thomas<br />
Russell County High School Russell<br />
Lauren May Greenwood High School Warren<br />
Literary, storytelling and theater artists selected from the arts council’s <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Education Roster coached students at each school leading up to the school<br />
contests. The teaching artists were: Mitch Barrett, Charlie Bissell, Beth<br />
Dotson Brown, Cynthia Changaris, Kathi Ellis, Trina Fischer, Thomas Freese,<br />
Mary Hamilton, Pam Holcomb, Darla Jackson, Katherine Mapother, Susan<br />
Pope, Octavia Sexton, Judy Sizemore and Shannon Woolley.<br />
Competing students and their school supporters were able to travel to Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
as a result of a transportation grant from the Mid Atlantic <strong>Arts</strong> Foundation<br />
awarded to the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> poets Frederick Smock, Bianca Spriggs and Lisa Williams served<br />
as judges <strong>for</strong> the state finals.<br />
Video<br />
Web link: http://artscouncil.ky.gov/<strong>Kentucky</strong>Art/POL_state<strong>2011</strong>.htm<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11POL<br />
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<strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted: The Market<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> produced <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted: The Market, which<br />
was voted best arts festival in the nation by the readers of AmericanStyle<br />
magazine <strong>for</strong> the second year in a row. The four-day art marketplace at the<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Exposition Center in Louisville was both a wholesale trade show<br />
and a retail art fair.<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted: The Market offered buyers from galleries, shops, catalogs<br />
and online retail venues across the nation the opportunity to select products<br />
from more than 200 exhibitors of fine art and craft, books, CDs, DVDs and<br />
specialty foods. The Market was open exclusively to the trade on March 17<br />
and 18.<br />
On March 19 and 20, the marketplace opened to the public. In addition to<br />
shopping <strong>for</strong> fine art and craft, visitors enjoyed musical per<strong>for</strong>mances, sampled<br />
regional food products, attended workshops, met <strong>Kentucky</strong> authors and<br />
explored <strong>Kentucky</strong> traditions through special exhibits.<br />
Exhibitors were primarily artists whose work had been accepted into the arts<br />
council’s <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Program. Guest exhibitors included specialty<br />
food producers from the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Department of Agriculture’s <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Proud program, authors and publishers accepted by the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Book Fair<br />
and artists who have met the quality standards of regional craft and artisan<br />
food programs. The <strong>2011</strong> show included artists from Best of Missouri Hands,<br />
Georgia Made Georgia Grown, Indiana Artisan, Ohio Designer Craftsmen,<br />
West Virginia’s Tamarack and the Southern Highlands Craft Guild.<br />
Visitors were treated to live per<strong>for</strong>mances during wholesale and retails days<br />
by artists who had been accepted into the arts council’s Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Directory. Entertainment spanned from bluegrass to world music on the per<strong>for</strong>mance<br />
stage with larger-than-life puppets roaming the aisles <strong>for</strong> photo<br />
opportunities.<br />
Video<br />
The arts council presented a series of workshops <strong>for</strong> professional and emerging<br />
artists on a wide range of topics at The Market. The business workshops<br />
focused on Internet marketing, copyright protection, finding audiences,<br />
pricing and making digital music products. The literary activities produced<br />
in partnership with Lexington’s Carnegie Center <strong>for</strong> Literacy and Learning<br />
included writing workshops led by Kathleen Driskell, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall<br />
and Leatha Kendrick. There was also a panel discussion on publishing with<br />
University Press of <strong>Kentucky</strong>, Larkspur Press and Sarabande Books represented.<br />
A special exhibit to introduce the new Architectural Artists Directory was<br />
prominently positioned at The Market. Artists accepted into the program<br />
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Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11KCTM
displayed samples or photos of their large-scale work, and the new directory<br />
was distributed to potential clients, homebuilders, architects and interior<br />
designers.<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> Folklife Program presented master traditional artists and their<br />
apprentices, including fiddlers, banjo players and basketmakers. Folklife<br />
Program Director Bob Gates presented a foodways stage highlighting the<br />
regional food producers at The Market.<br />
The <strong>2011</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted: The Market was attended by buyers representing<br />
239 retail venues from 15 states. Total wholesale sales were <strong>report</strong>ed at<br />
$305,421. On the public days, there were 6,651 visitors with total retail sales<br />
<strong>report</strong>ed at $358,084. The estimated total sales figure, determined from the<br />
average sales of <strong>report</strong>ing exhibitors multiplied by the number of exhibitors,<br />
was $748,505.<br />
Each year, <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted: The Market gives special recognition to exhibitors<br />
and buyers who contribute to the success of the show and the <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Crafted brand. The <strong>2011</strong> award winners were:<br />
Award Business Community<br />
Top <strong>Kentucky</strong> Retailer Promenade Gallery Berea, Ky.<br />
Top Out-of-State Retailer Indigenous Cincinnati, Ohio<br />
Best of Show – Exhibitor<br />
Mark Whitley Limited<br />
Edition Furniture<br />
Smiths Grove, Ky.<br />
Best Overall Booth<br />
Design<br />
Kopperwood<br />
Asheville, N.C.<br />
Best New <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Exhibitor<br />
Larkspur Press<br />
Owenton, Ky.<br />
Best New Out-of-State<br />
Exhibitor<br />
Bubba Knives<br />
Cleveland, Ga.<br />
Exhibitor’s Choice –<br />
Best Booth Design<br />
Fire on the Ridge Farm Brooksville, Ky.<br />
Excellence in<br />
Accessibility<br />
Wesley Page Woodworks Glasgow, Ky.<br />
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<strong>Kentucky</strong> Writers’ Day and<br />
Poet Laureate Induction<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> celebrated <strong>Kentucky</strong> Writers’ Day on April 25,<br />
<strong>2011</strong>, in the Capitol Rotunda. The event featured the induction of Maureen<br />
Morehead as <strong>Kentucky</strong> Poet Laureate <strong>for</strong> the <strong>2011</strong>-2012 term. There were<br />
also readings by <strong>for</strong>mer <strong>Kentucky</strong> poets laureate; recognition given to Al<br />
Smith Fellowship Award recipients; recitation of poems by Poetry Out Loud<br />
state finalist Tyler Poteet; and a special reception honoring <strong>Kentucky</strong> writers.<br />
Morehead was appointed to the honorary post by Gov. Steve Beshear to promote<br />
the literary arts in <strong>Kentucky</strong> through readings and public presentations<br />
at meetings, seminars, conferences and events, including <strong>Kentucky</strong> Writers’<br />
Day. The arts council coordinated the nomination and selection process <strong>for</strong><br />
recommendation to the governor.<br />
Morehead is on the poetry faculty of Spalding University’s brief-residency<br />
MFA Program in Writing and is a retired school teacher with 32 years of<br />
service with the Jefferson County public schools. She also taught at the University<br />
of Louisville and Western <strong>Kentucky</strong> University and was on the faculty<br />
of the <strong>Kentucky</strong> Institute <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> in Education. She has published three<br />
books of poetry: “In a Yellow Room” (Sulgrave Press, 1990), “A Sense of<br />
Time Left” (Larkspur Press, 2003) and “The Melancholy Teacher” (Larkspur<br />
Press, 2010) and co-authored “Our Brothers’ War” (Sulgrave Press, 1993).<br />
Morehead’s poems have also appeared in many nationally esteemed literary<br />
journals and anthologies.<br />
Morehead earned a Ph.D. in English, with a creative writing dissertation,<br />
from the University of Louisville; an M.A. in English, also from the University<br />
of Louisville; and a B.A. in English from Western <strong>Kentucky</strong> University.<br />
Governor’s Derby Celebration<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> assists with many parts of the Governor’s Derby Celebration,<br />
an <strong>annual</strong> event attracting visitors and residents alike to the capital.<br />
On the morning of the Derby, May 7, <strong>2011</strong>, downtown Frank<strong>for</strong>t came alive<br />
with music, games, food and crafts, creating a festival atmosphere <strong>for</strong> all to<br />
enjoy.<br />
Videos<br />
The Governor’s Derby Exhibit<br />
The artwork of artists from across the Commonwealth was displayed in the<br />
Governor’s Derby Exhibit, April 1–May 10, <strong>2011</strong>, in the Capitol Rotunda. The<br />
spring-themed show of paintings, lithographs, mixed-media works and pho-<br />
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Videos: http://bit.ly/kacAR11KWD
tographs was coordinated by the arts council on behalf of Gov. Steve Beshear<br />
and First Lady Jane Beshear.<br />
Mrs. Beshear held a media event on April 6 to officially open the exhibit and<br />
personally thank the artists whose work was selected. Reba Rye served as<br />
the independent juror <strong>for</strong> the exhibit. Rye is an assistant professor at <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
State University.<br />
Artists selected to participate were:<br />
Artist Medium Community<br />
Dobree Adams Archival inkjet print Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Karen Carey Oil Stamping Ground<br />
Jeff Chapman-Crane Egg tempera Eolia<br />
Darlene Dine Oil LaGrange<br />
Char Downs Mixed media Paducah<br />
Robert Franzini Crayonstone lithograph Morehead<br />
Ellen Glasgow Oil Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
Kurt Gohde and<br />
Kremena Todorova<br />
Digital photography Lexington<br />
Bill Guffey Oil Burkesville<br />
Darryl Halbrooks Mixed media Richmond<br />
Sally Clay Lanham Watercolor Frank<strong>for</strong>t<br />
BiLan Liao Acrylic Paducah<br />
Betty Liles Acrylic Hopkinsville<br />
Ken Page Acrylic on birch Villa Hills<br />
Salina Ramsay Oil Lexington<br />
Walt Roycraft Photography Nicholasville<br />
Cassandra Russell Oil Louisville<br />
Michael Shambro Wood Lexington<br />
Cathy Shepherd Acrylic Louisville<br />
David Toczko Photography Elizabethtown<br />
Teresa Tope Photography Richmond<br />
Angela Wells Acrylic Louisville<br />
Frances Wells Oil Murray<br />
Bruce Wess Photography Petersburg<br />
Brenda Wirth Digital photography Louisville<br />
Video<br />
Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11GDE<br />
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The “Horse Blankets” at the Governor’s Derby Celebration<br />
As the preparations were made <strong>for</strong> the Governor’s Derby Celebration in downtown<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t, one of the final touches was the tablecloths <strong>for</strong> the picnic<br />
tables. Each picnic table on the Old State Capitol grounds was designed like<br />
a horse and covered with a “blanket” painted by school children of all ages<br />
from across the Commonwealth.<br />
The <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> invited <strong>Kentucky</strong> schools to participate in this<br />
canvas painting project <strong>for</strong> the Derby celebration on behalf of the Governor<br />
and the First Lady.<br />
Participating schools were:<br />
School<br />
County<br />
BCMS/BCHS Gifted Education Boyd<br />
Boyd County Middle School Boyd<br />
Boyd County High School Boyd<br />
Cannonsburg Elementary School Boyd<br />
Central City Elementary School Muhlenberg<br />
Central Elementary School Johnson<br />
Dunn Elementary School Jefferson<br />
East Hardin Middle School Hardin<br />
Eastside Elementary School Harrison<br />
Glendover Elementary School Fayette<br />
Jennie Rogers Elementary School Boyle<br />
Poage Elementary School Boyd<br />
Russell Primary School Greenup<br />
Tates Creek High School Fayette<br />
Washington County Schools Washington<br />
West Whitesburg Elementary School Letcher<br />
Video<br />
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Video: http://bit.ly/kacAR11HorseBlankets
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted at the Governor’s Derby Celebration<br />
Artists accepted into the arts council’s <strong>Kentucky</strong> Crafted Program were the<br />
only artisans invited to sell their wares at the Governor’s Derby Celebration. A<br />
special tent on the Old State Capitol was open <strong>for</strong> business on Derby morning<br />
offering jewelry, mixed-media artwork, paintings, basketry, pottery, woodwork<br />
and much more.<br />
Participating artists were:<br />
Artist Business Community<br />
T. R. Williams<br />
apGwilym - Thomas R.<br />
Williams<br />
Paris<br />
Eugene King Appalachian Mountain Crafts Pikeville<br />
Sandra Rinkel and<br />
Madonna Cash<br />
Baskets by Madonna Louisville<br />
Cynthia Riffe<br />
Bluegrass Handmade<br />
Designs<br />
Scottsville<br />
Charles Crenshaw Bourbon Baskets Bloomfield<br />
Gary Bertram Gary Bertram Art LLC Georgetown<br />
Christopher and<br />
Cathy Hill<br />
Hill’s of <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Louisville<br />
Jeannette Rowlett Jeanette’s Jewelry Berea<br />
Jordan Stapp K & M Crafts of <strong>Kentucky</strong> Campbellsville<br />
James and Deborah<br />
Greene<br />
Life Celebrations Art Design<br />
Studio<br />
LaGrange<br />
Fred and Peggy Spoon Pens to Remember Columbia<br />
Steve Flinchum<br />
Shadoway Expressions in<br />
Wood<br />
Elk Horn<br />
Mick and Debbie<br />
Shambro<br />
ShambroLa Wood Art Lexington<br />
Bruce and Kelley<br />
Hoefer<br />
Turning Wheel Pottery Berea<br />
Joe Offerman Woodcarvings by Offerman Owensboro<br />
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Al Smith Fellowship Viewing<br />
Applicants <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>’s Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship<br />
Awards had images of their work shown on May 24 at the Ursuline <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Center in Louisville.<br />
The public viewing of the 92 applicants’ work preceded the panel review <strong>for</strong><br />
selection of the award recipients in visual arts and media arts <strong>for</strong> FY2012.<br />
It offered art consultants, artist representatives, gallery owners, curators and<br />
art collectors an opportunity to see the breadth of talent in the state. It also<br />
helped artists and art students who may be interested in applying <strong>for</strong> the<br />
award in the future to see a current survey of <strong>Kentucky</strong> artwork.<br />
Cultural Districts Certification<br />
Announcement<br />
On May 31, Gov. Beshear announced the establishment<br />
of a statewide cultural district certification program,<br />
which is administered through the <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>. The agency accepted applications from<br />
communities of all sizes and demographics <strong>for</strong> cultural<br />
district certification, with the intention of announcing<br />
the certified districts later in <strong>2011</strong>.<br />
The program was developed to encourage community<br />
engagement and partnerships that facilitate the stimulation<br />
and promotion of local cultural, economic, community<br />
and social assets.<br />
Gov. Steve Beshear and Marcheta Sparrow,<br />
secretary of the Tourism, <strong>Arts</strong> and Heritage<br />
Cabinet, announce the Cultural Districts<br />
Cerfitication program.<br />
Video<br />
These well-recognized, labeled, mixed-use areas of a<br />
community featuring a high concentration of cultural amenities attract local<br />
residents and visitors alike. More than 100 cities in the United States have<br />
planned or implemented cultural districts — positioning the arts and culture<br />
as the center of revitalization ef<strong>for</strong>ts.<br />
It is anticipated that cultural districts approved <strong>for</strong> the certification will benefit<br />
from increased tourism marketing and economic activity as a result of being<br />
part of a branded program with a statewide emphasis. Certified cultural<br />
districts committee members will receive training and professional development;<br />
technical assistance from partner state agencies and national experts<br />
in the field of arts and cultural economy; in<strong>for</strong>mation regarding grant and<br />
incentive opportunities; and assistance with planning signature events (such<br />
as gallery hops, downtown open houses and festivals).<br />
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Video of press conference: http://youtu.be/A_zc37dO-MA
By June 30, <strong>2011</strong>, 43 communities had expressed an intention to apply <strong>for</strong><br />
the program. Successful applicants will have a well-developed inventory of<br />
cultural assets, sound planning strategies, community support and evidence<br />
of potential collaborations and sustainability.<br />
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Grants and Awards<br />
The following table includes all grants awarded by the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
during FY<strong>2011</strong>. Every public dollar is invested to create opportunities <strong>for</strong> the<br />
people of <strong>Kentucky</strong> to value, participate in and benefit from the arts.<br />
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County Applicant Program Award<br />
ALLEN Allen County/Scottsville High School Poetry Out Loud $2,661<br />
BARREN Austin Tracy Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,620<br />
BELL Bell County High School Poetry Out Loud $1,259<br />
BELL Pineville High School Poetry Out Loud $1,330<br />
BOYD <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> of Northeastern <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,000<br />
BOYD Paramount <strong>Arts</strong> Center <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $56,053<br />
BOYD Boyd County High School Poetry Out Loud $1,252<br />
BOYLE Lisa Williams Al Smith Fellowship Award – Poetry $7,500<br />
BOYLE <strong>Arts</strong> Commission of Danville/Boyle County <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,000<br />
BOYLE Community <strong>Arts</strong> Center <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $8,580<br />
BOYLE Jennie Rogers Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
BREATHITT Jackson City School Poetry Out Loud $449<br />
BULLITT Bullitt Central High School Teacher Initiated Program $540<br />
BUTLER North Butler Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,620<br />
CALLOWAY Murray Art Guild <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $2,351<br />
CALLOWAY Playhouse in the Park <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,680<br />
CAMPBELL <strong>Kentucky</strong> Symphony Orchestra <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $21,011<br />
CAMPBELL <strong>Kentucky</strong> Symphony Orchestra Partnership Grant – NSO $1,000<br />
CHRISTIAN Pennyroyal <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $8,985<br />
CHRISTIAN Pennyroyal <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
CLARK Leeds Center <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $2,581<br />
CLAY Anne Shelby Folk <strong>Arts</strong> Apprenticeship $3,000<br />
CLAY Clay County Middle School Teacher Initiated Program $1,620<br />
CRITTENDEN Fohs Hall Community <strong>Arts</strong> Foundation <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $2,125<br />
CUMBERLAND Cumberland County Middle School Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
DAVIESS International Bluegrass Music Museum Interim – Documentary Film $5,000<br />
DAVIESS International Bluegrass Music Museum <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $21,744<br />
DAVIESS Owensboro Dance Theatre <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $5,547<br />
DAVIESS Owensboro Museum of Fine Art <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $32,036<br />
DAVIESS Owensboro Symphony Orchestra <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $25,460<br />
DAVIESS RiverPark Center <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $54,384<br />
DAVIESS Theatre Workshop of Owensboro <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $6,399<br />
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County Applicant Program Award<br />
DAVIESS Owensboro Dance Theatre<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
DAVIESS RiverPark Center Partnership Grant – NSO $1,000<br />
ESTILL Estill County Middle School Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
ESTILL Estill County Middle School Teacher Initiated Program $1,620<br />
ESTILL Estill Springs Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
ESTILL West Irvine Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,620<br />
FAYETTE Norbe Risco<br />
Al Smith Fellowship Award –<br />
Choreography<br />
$7,500<br />
FAYETTE Dan Bernitt<br />
Al Smith Fellowship Award –<br />
Playwriting<br />
$7,500<br />
FAYETTE Art Mize Folk <strong>Arts</strong> Apprenticeship $3,000<br />
FAYETTE WRFL Radio Interim – Boomslang Festival $3,750<br />
FAYETTE Chamber Music Festival of Lexington Interim – Chamber Music Festival $4,000<br />
FAYETTE Hospice of the Bluegrass<br />
Interim – Flight 5191 Memorial<br />
Ceremony<br />
$1,000<br />
FAYETTE Actors Guild of Lexington <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $13,449<br />
FAYETTE Carnegie Center <strong>for</strong> Literacy and Learning <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $13,326<br />
FAYETTE Central <strong>Kentucky</strong> Youth Orchestras <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $9,444<br />
FAYETTE Explorium of Lexington <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $28,505<br />
FAYETTE Headley-Whitney Museum <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $31,344<br />
FAYETTE <strong>Kentucky</strong> Ballet Theatre <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $6,809<br />
FAYETTE <strong>Kentucky</strong> Theatre Association <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,000<br />
FAYETTE Lex<strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $26,382<br />
FAYETTE Lexington Art League <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $15,634<br />
FAYETTE Lexington Ballet Company <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $10,484<br />
FAYETTE Lexington Children’s Theatre <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $31,180<br />
FAYETTE Lexington Philharmonic <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $37,943<br />
FAYETTE Living <strong>Arts</strong> & Science Center <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $18,847<br />
FAYETTE Music institute of Lexington <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $11,676<br />
FAYETTE Bluegrass Youth Ballet<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
FAYETTE Central <strong>Kentucky</strong> Youth Orchestra<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
FAYETTE <strong>Kentucky</strong> Playwrights Workshop<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
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County Applicant Program Award<br />
FAYETTE May Apple Creations<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
FAYETTE Lexington Vintage Dance Society<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
FAYETTE University of <strong>Kentucky</strong> School of Music Partnership Grant – NSO $1,000<br />
FAYETTE Paul Laurence Dunbar High School Poetry Out Loud $533<br />
FAYETTE Booker T. Washington Academy Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
FLOYD Jenny Wiley Theatre <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $31,078<br />
FLOYD Mountain <strong>Arts</strong> Center <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $30,490<br />
FRANKLIN Capital City Museum<br />
Interim – Cornets and Cannons Civil<br />
War Sesquicentennial Music Festival<br />
$2,500<br />
FRANKLIN Josephine Sculpture Park Interim – Production of Macbeth $1,000<br />
FRANKLIN Frank<strong>for</strong>t <strong>Arts</strong> Foundation <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,378<br />
FRANKLIN Grand Theatre Frank<strong>for</strong>t <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $9,984<br />
FRANKLIN Saxton’s Cornet Band<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
FRANKLIN Western Hills High School Poetry Out Loud $1,039<br />
FRANKLIN Frank<strong>for</strong>t High School Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
FRANKLIN Good Shepherd Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $540<br />
GRANT Grant County High School Poetry Out Loud $550<br />
GRAVES Mayfield/Graves County Art Guild <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,726<br />
HARDIN Lorinda Jones<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
HARDIN Talton K. Stone Middle School Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
HARLAN Harlan County High School Poetry Out Loud $753<br />
HART <strong>Kentucky</strong> Repertory Theatre at Horse Cave <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $24,791<br />
HART<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Repertory Theatre at Horse Cave<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
HART Hart County High School Poetry Out Loud $461<br />
HART Memorial Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
HART Memorial Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
HART Mun<strong>for</strong>dville Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
HENDERSON Henderson Area <strong>Arts</strong> Alliance <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $10,935<br />
HENDERSON Ohio Valley Art League <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,855<br />
HENDERSON<br />
RiverBend Academy School of Visual and<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $5,637<br />
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County Applicant Program Award<br />
JEFFERSON Kimberly Cox<br />
Al Smith Fellowship Award –<br />
Choreography<br />
$7,500<br />
JEFFERSON Clint Morehead<br />
Al Smith Fellowship Award –<br />
Creative Nonfiction<br />
$7,500<br />
JEFFERSON Julie Wade<br />
Al Smith Fellowship Award –<br />
Creative Nonfiction<br />
$7,500<br />
JEFFERSON Jessica Leader Al Smith Fellowship Award – Fiction $7,500<br />
JEFFERSON Amy Tudor Al Smith Fellowship Award – Poetry $7,500<br />
JEFFERSON Mariam Williams<br />
Emerging Artist Award –<br />
Creative Nonfiction<br />
$1,000<br />
JEFFERSON Erich Stem<br />
Emerging Artist Award –<br />
Musical Composition<br />
$1,000<br />
JEFFERSON Brian Walker Emerging Artist Award – Playwriting $1,000<br />
JEFFERSON Cari Norris Folk <strong>Arts</strong> Apprenticeship $3,000<br />
JEFFERSON Actors Theatre of Louisville <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $118,796<br />
JEFFERSON Bourbon Baroque <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,663<br />
JEFFERSON Fund <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $57,229<br />
JEFFERSON InKY <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,000<br />
JEFFERSON <strong>Kentucky</strong> Museum of Art and Craft <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $34,016<br />
JEFFERSON <strong>Kentucky</strong> Opera <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $65,375<br />
JEFFERSON <strong>Kentucky</strong> Shakespeare <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $23,970<br />
JEFFERSON Looking <strong>for</strong> Lilith <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,568<br />
JEFFERSON Louisville Bach Society <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,888<br />
JEFFERSON Louisville Ballet <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $63,156<br />
JEFFERSON Louisville Orchestra <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $94,712<br />
JEFFERSON Louisville Theatrical Association <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $44,939<br />
JEFFERSON Louisville Visual Art Association <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $19,180<br />
JEFFERSON Louisville Youth Choir <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $5,504<br />
JEFFERSON Louisville Youth Orchestra <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $13,137<br />
JEFFERSON Portland Museum <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $18,594<br />
JEFFERSON Sarabande Books <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $20,035<br />
JEFFERSON The Speed Art Museum <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $75,828<br />
JEFFERSON Squallis Puppeteers <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,303<br />
JEFFERSON The Louisville Chorus <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,556<br />
JEFFERSON VOICES of Kentuckiana <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $6,648<br />
JEFFERSON Walden Theatre <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $18,779<br />
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County Applicant Program Award<br />
JEFFERSON WhoDunnit <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,057<br />
JEFFERSON Ann Klem Reflections<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
JEFFERSON Pandora Productions<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
JEFFERSON Squallis Puppeteers<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$200<br />
JEFFERSON <strong>Kentucky</strong> Center <strong>for</strong> the Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership Grant – Accessibility $8,000<br />
JEFFERSON <strong>Kentucky</strong> Center <strong>for</strong> the Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Partnership Grant –<br />
<strong>Arts</strong>Reach <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
$30,000<br />
JEFFERSON <strong>Kentucky</strong> Center <strong>for</strong> the Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership Grant – NSO $1,000<br />
JEFFERSON Maureen Morehead Poet Laureate Travel Stipend $5,000<br />
JEFFERSON Ballard High School Poetry Out Loud $1,158<br />
JEFFERSON Butler Traditional High School Poetry Out Loud $607<br />
JEFFERSON Center <strong>for</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> and Culture Partnerships Public Art Symposium $5,000<br />
JEFFERSON Cochran Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
JEFFERSON Hartstern Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $540<br />
JEFFERSON Hawthorne Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
JEFFERSON<br />
Southern High School Magnet<br />
Career Academy<br />
Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
JEFFERSON Whitney Young Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $540<br />
JEFFERSON Wilder Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
JOHNSON Our Lady of the Mountains School Teacher Initiated Program $540<br />
KENTON Behringer-Craw<strong>for</strong>d Museum <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $10,964<br />
KENTON<br />
The Carnegie Visual and Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong><br />
Center<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $30,528<br />
KENTON Center <strong>for</strong> Great Neighborhoods of Covington <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $5,419<br />
KENTON Frank Duveneck <strong>Arts</strong> and Cultural Center <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $2,812<br />
KENTON My Nose Turns Red Theatre Company <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,002<br />
KENTON Beechwood High School Poetry Out Loud $969<br />
KNOTT George Gibson Folk <strong>Arts</strong> Apprenticeship $3,000<br />
KNOTT Appalachian Artisan Center <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $16,970<br />
KNOTT Carr Creek Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
KNOX Dewitt Elementary School Teacher Initiated Program $1,620<br />
LARUE Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Teacher Initiated Program $540<br />
LARUE Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Teacher Initiated Program $540<br />
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County Applicant Program Award<br />
LAUREL Union College at Bennett Center Interim – <strong>Arts</strong> Heal $4,000<br />
LAUREL Mountain Heritage Artisan Center<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
LAUREL East Bernstadt Independent School Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
LAUREL East Bernstadt Independent School Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
LESLIE Leslie County High School Poetry Out Loud $1,754<br />
LESLIE Leslie County High School Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
LESLIE Mountain View Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
LESLIE Stinnett Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,620<br />
LETCHER Appalshop <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $63,415<br />
LETCHER Jenkins Independent Schools Poetry Out Loud $1,216<br />
MADISON C E Morgan Al Smith Fellowship Award – Fiction $7,500<br />
MADISON EKU Center <strong>for</strong> Appalachian Studies<br />
Interim – Appalachian Studies<br />
Conference<br />
$2,000<br />
MADISON Berea <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $5,187<br />
MADISON <strong>Kentucky</strong> Guild of Artists & Craftsmen <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,575<br />
MADISON Richmond Area <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $15,063<br />
MADISON Berea <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
MADISON Jo Ann Grimes<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
MADISON Clark-Moores Middle School Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
MARION Lebanon Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
MARSHALL Marshall County <strong>Arts</strong> Commission <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,860<br />
MARSHALL Marshall County <strong>Arts</strong> Commission<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
MASON Ohio River Valley Artists Guild <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,000<br />
MCCRACKEN Amelia Martens Emerging Artist Award – Fiction $1,000<br />
MCCRACKEN Britton Shurley Emerging Artist Award – Poetry $1,000<br />
MCCRACKEN The Carson Center <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $60,290<br />
MCCRACKEN Market House Theatre <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $19,004<br />
MCCRACKEN National Quilt Museum <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $35,379<br />
MCCRACKEN Paducah Symphony Orchestra <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $20,560<br />
MCCRACKEN Yeiser Art Center <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,267<br />
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County Applicant Program Award<br />
MCCRACKEN <strong>Arts</strong> Guild of Paducah<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
MCCRACKEN Upper Town Heritage Foundation<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
MCCRACKEN The Carson Center Partnership Grant – NSO $1,000<br />
MCCRACKEN Lone Oak High School Poetry Out Loud $1,805<br />
MERCER Ragged Edge Community Theatre <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,950<br />
MERCER Mercer County Senior High School Poetry Out Loud $1,178<br />
MERCER Mercer County Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
MONTGOMERY Montgomery County <strong>Council</strong> <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $13,780<br />
NELSON Boston School Teacher Initiated Program $2,160<br />
NELSON Cox’s Creek Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $1,080<br />
OHIO Ohio County High School Poetry Out Loud $1,496<br />
OLDHAM Gerald Plain<br />
Al Smith Fellowship Award –<br />
Music Composition<br />
$7,500<br />
OLDHAM <strong>Arts</strong> Association of Oldham County <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,065<br />
PENDLETON Kincaid Regional Theatre Company <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $4,015<br />
PERRY<br />
Greater Hazard Area <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>/<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Series<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $6,184<br />
PERRY<br />
PERRY<br />
Community Foundation of Hazard and<br />
Perry County<br />
Greater Hazard Area <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>/<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Series<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
PIKE Pikeville High School Poetry Out Loud $2,095<br />
POWELL Bowen Elementary Teacher Initiated Program $540<br />
PULASKI Daniel Cherry Emerging Artist Award – Fiction $1,000<br />
PULASKI Lake Cumberland Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong> Series <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,753<br />
PULASKI Center <strong>for</strong> Rural Development Partnership Grant – NSO $1,000<br />
ROCKCASTLE <strong>Kentucky</strong> Music Hall of Fame and Museum <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $9,454<br />
ROWAN Morehead State University Foundation<br />
Interim – <strong>Kentucky</strong> Music<br />
(Television Series)<br />
$3,000<br />
RUSSELL Russell County High School Poetry Out Loud $2,673<br />
SIMPSON<br />
Franklin-Simpson County Tourist and<br />
Convention Commission<br />
Interim – Franklin Battle of the<br />
Bands <strong>Arts</strong> Festival<br />
$400<br />
$400<br />
$2,000<br />
TRIGG Janice Mason Art Museum <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $3,642<br />
WARREN Orchestra <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $22,303<br />
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County Applicant Program Award<br />
WARREN Public Theatre of <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $4,365<br />
WARREN VSA <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $10,876<br />
WARREN VSA <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> Peer Advisory Network<br />
Consultancy<br />
$400<br />
WARREN Greenwood High School Poetry Out Loud $1,202<br />
WHITLEY <strong>Kentucky</strong> Native American Heritage Museum <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,915<br />
WOLFE Appalachian Heritage Alliance <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $1,104<br />
WOODFORD The Art Village<br />
Interim – Wood<strong>for</strong>d County<br />
Quilt Trail<br />
$500<br />
WOODFORD Wood<strong>for</strong>d County Theatrical <strong>Arts</strong> Association <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> Partnership $10,872<br />
OUT OF STATE<br />
John F. Kennedy Center <strong>for</strong> the<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>Arts</strong><br />
LEAD Conference – <strong>Kentucky</strong><br />
Resident Scholarships<br />
$5,000<br />
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Funding<br />
As the state arts agency, the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong> receives state budget<br />
allocations from the <strong>Kentucky</strong> General Assembly and federal funding from<br />
the National Endowment <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong>. State funding has declined to 1993<br />
levels, while federal funding has steadily increased. In FY<strong>2011</strong>, National<br />
Endowment <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> funding represented 28 percent of the total budget.<br />
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FY<strong>2011</strong> Funding<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> General Assembly<br />
Original state appropriation $3,075,800<br />
Health care cost increase 40,300<br />
Budget reduction (September 2010) 46,400<br />
Furlough savings reduction (April <strong>2011</strong>) 23,300<br />
State appropriation revised $3,046,400<br />
National Endowment <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong> $864,600<br />
Total FY<strong>2011</strong> Funding $3,911,000<br />
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Funding History<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> General Assembly<br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
Fiscal Year Allocation<br />
1993 $3,006,400<br />
1994 $3,192,100<br />
1995 $3,192,100<br />
1996 $3,308,100<br />
1997 $3,392,200<br />
1998 $3,979,900<br />
1999 $3,708,300<br />
2000 $4,216,600<br />
2001 $4,527,200<br />
2002 $4,427,800<br />
2003 $4,330,500<br />
2004 $4,324,300<br />
2005 $4,228,000<br />
2006 $4,225,200<br />
2007 $4,203,200<br />
2008 $4,182,500<br />
2009 $3,410,000<br />
2010 $3,186,400<br />
<strong>2011</strong> $3,069,700<br />
National Endowment <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Arts</strong><br />
<strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong><br />
Fiscal Year Allocation<br />
1999 $529,200<br />
2000 $527,800<br />
2001 $588,300<br />
2002 $589,900<br />
2003 $634,100<br />
2004 $649,400<br />
2005 $659,000<br />
2006 $642,300<br />
2007 $692,400<br />
2008 $675,900<br />
2009 $795,200<br />
2010 $805,700<br />
<strong>2011</strong> $864,600<br />
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Produced by the <strong>Kentucky</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>Council</strong>, a state<br />
agency in the Tourism, <strong>Arts</strong> and Heritage<br />
Cabinet.<br />
500 Mero Street<br />
21st Floor<br />
Frank<strong>for</strong>t, KY 40601<br />
888.833.2787<br />
kyarts@ky.gov<br />
www.artscouncil.ky.gov
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