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• Garden Designer Jon Carloftis Highlights Kentucky Crafted: The Market
  Friday, November 21, 2008
  The award winning Kentucky Crafted: The Market, now in its twenty-seventh year, will feature Kentucky's own nationally acclaimed garden designer, Jon Carloftis, with garden design vignettes, guest lecture and book signing.
• Kentucky Crafted Artists Exhibit at Winterfair
  Tuesday, November 18, 2008
  Six artists in the Kentucky Crafted® program of the Kentucky Arts Council will be guest exhibitors at Winterfair produced by Ohio Designer Craftsmen. Celebrating its 30th year, the retail fair of fine art and fine craft welcomes shoppers to the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, November 28-30, 2008.
• Arts Council Releases "Abraham Lincoln of Kentucky"
  Monday, November 10, 2008
  In honor of the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln in Kentucky, the Kentucky Arts Council has published a collection of original poetry and prose by four of Kentucky's poets laureate.
• Arts Council Releases "Five Kentucky Poets Laureate: An Anthology"
  Monday, November 10, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council has published a new anthology of more than 40 poems and essays by a distinguished club of Kentucky contemporary literati; the commonwealth's poets laureate.
• Arts Council Offers Information Sessions for Kentucky Artists
  Friday, October 31, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council will present information sessions to introduce the state's arts grants and programs to performing, visual, craft, media, literary and teaching artists in all disciplines, as well as choreographers and composers. The sessions, "Call to Kentucky Artists: Exploring Arts Grants and Programs," will be conducted in Horse Cave, Paducah, Lexington, Covington and Louisville.
• Arts Council Presents Teacher Initiated Program Grant Writing Tips Workshop in Western Kentucky
  Tuesday, October 28, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council will present a workshop to introduce the Teacher Initiated Program to teachers, administrators and parents interested in arts opportunities in their children's schools. The workshop will be held from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. C.S.T., November 13,2008, at the Graves County Middle School Library, 625 Jimtown Road, Mayfield, KY 42066.
• Kentucky Arts Council Brings Information Session to Lake Cumberland
  Wednesday, October 22, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council welcomes citizens interested in the arts in the Lake Cumberland region to join them for a discussion about the arts grants, programs and services available through the council. This session will be from 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. C.S.T., Monday, November 17, 2008, at the Lake Cumberland State Resort Park.
• Kentucky Arts Council Public Meeting Notice
  Wednesday, October 22, 2008
  The nominating committee of governing board of the Kentucky Arts Council will hold a meeting to make recommendations for appointments to the council's board of directors. The meeting will be at 10:00 a.m. E.D.T., October 29, 2008, in Room C110 of the Transportation Office Building, 200 Mero Street, Frankfort, Ky.
• Kentucky Arts Council Offers Grant Writing Workshops in Eight Kentucky Locations
  Wednesday, October 15, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council will introduce arts grants and programs available to increase arts participation in Kentucky. The three-hour workshops will be held on dates from October 29 through December 11, 2008, in Elkhorn City, Flemingsburg, Horse Cave, Owensboro, Paducah, Lexington, Covington and Louisville.
• Kentucky Arts Council Promotes Performing Artists from Fifteen Counties at Kentucky On Stage
  Tuesday, October 14, 2008
  Twenty-five of performing artists and ensembles will showcase at Kentucky on Stage. The showcase and booking conference will feature music, dance, theatre and storytelling from 11:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. E.S.T., November 5, 2008, at the Falling Springs Recreational Center Theater, 275 Beasley Drive, Versailles, Ky.
• Kentucky Arts Council Visits Benton for Community Conversation on the Arts
  Friday, October 10, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council welcomes citizens interested in the arts in the Purchase Region to join them for a discussion about the arts in local communities. This forum will be from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. C.D.T., Tuesday, October 21, 2008, at the Marshall County Public Library, 1003 Poplar Street, Benton, Ky.
• Kentucky Arts Council Visits Elkhorn City for Community Conversation on the Arts
  Friday, October 10, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council welcomes citizens interested in the arts from eastern Kentucky to join them for a discussion about the arts in local communities. This forum will be from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. E.D.T., Thursday, October 23, 2008, at the Artists Collaborative Theatre, 207 North Patty Loveless Drive, Elkhorn City, Ky.
• Kentucky Arts Council Visits Flemingsburg for Community Conversation on the Arts
  Friday, October 10, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council welcomes citizens interested in the arts from northeastern Kentucky to join them for a discussion about the arts in local communities. This forum will be from 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. E.D.T., Tuesday, October 28, 2008, at the Fleming Mason Energy – Warehouse Training Facility, 1449 Elizaville Road, Flemingsburg, Ky.
• Governor Beshear to Present Governor's Awards in the Arts
  Monday, September 29, 2008
  Governor Steven L. Beshear will honor the 2007-2008 recipients of the Governor's Awards in the Arts at a public ceremony and celebration on Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. in the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort.
• Arts Council Commissions Duffy to Create Awards for Governor's Awards in the Arts
  Thursday, September 25, 2008
  The recipients of the 2007-2008 Governor's Awards in the Arts, will each receive a sculpture carved by Louisville artist William M. Duffy. Governor Steve Beshear will present the awards at a public ceremony and celebration on Wednesday, October 1, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. in the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort.
• Kentucky Arts Council Promotes Kentucky Performing Artists at Performing Arts Exchange
  Wednesday, September 24, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council, the state's arts agency, will promote performing artists and groups that have been selected for inclusion in the Kentucky Performing Arts Directory at the Performing Arts Exchange in Atlanta, September 24-27, 2008.
• Arts Council Launches Web Site and Book on Kentucky's Quilt Trails
  Thursday, September 18, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council is assisting Kentucky quilt trails groups in the marketing and promotion of quilt squares that are popping up on barns, buildings, parks and tourist sites across the commonwealth. http://www.artscouncil.ky.gov/QTrails/QTrails.htm
• Kentucky Arts Council Awards Arts District Planning Grants to Berea, Horse Cave and Maysville
  Thursday, September 18, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council will provide arts and cultural district planning grants of $35,938 each, to three smaller cities in Kentucky, through funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
• Kentucky Arts Council Meets in Bowling Green
  Thursday, September 11, 2008
  PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The governing board of the Kentucky Arts Council will hold its quarterly board meeting at 12:00 noon (CDT), Friday, September 19, 2008 in the Kentucky Room of the Kentucky Museum on the campus of Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Ky.
• Kentucky Arts Council Hosts Reception in Bowling Green
  Friday, September 05, 2008
  The Kentucky Arts Council welcomes artists, representatives from arts organizations, educators and community leaders from Bowling Green and nearby communities to a reception from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. (CDT), Friday, September 19, 2008, at Kentucky Museum in Bowling Green, Ky.