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Arts Council - Recent Headlines
Below you will find a list of recent press releases. Click on the title to view the full text of the press release.
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- Kentucky Arts Council meets in Bowling Green
Friday, May 25, 2012
PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE -- The Kentucky Arts Council will have its quarterly board meeting June 15, 2012, from noon to 3 p.m. CDT at the Southern Kentucky Performing Arts Center (SKyPAC), 601 College St., Bowling Green, Ky.
- National Endowment for the Arts awards grants to five Kentucky organizations
Monday, May 14, 2012
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an independent federal agency, recently announced $185,000 in grant awards to five Kentucky organizations to fund arts programming.
- Community scholars discover the diversity of traditions in their own backyard
Friday, May 04, 2012
The Kentucky Folklife Program honored 22 Louisville and Irvington residents who met the standards to become certified Community Scholars on April 23, at the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage in Louisville.
- Kentucky arts and cultural initiatives included in new report from National Governors Association
Thursday, May 03, 2012
With concerns over job creation and business growth holding a prominent position on policy agendas today, governors are increasingly finding innovative ways to support economic growth, according to the recently released report “New Engines of Growth: Five Roles for Arts, Culture, and Design.” Kentucky is cited on several occasions in the National Governors Association (NGA) report for arts marketing programs and the arts and cultural districts initiative developed by the Kentucky Arts Council.
- Schoolchildren paint colorful canvases for Governor’s Derby Celebration
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
As the preparations are made for a festive atmosphere in downtown Frankfort for the Governor’s Derby Celebration, one of the final touches will be the tablecloths for the picnic tables. Each picnic table on the Old State Capitol grounds will be shaped like a horse and covered with a “blanket” painted by schoolchildren of all ages from across the Commonwealth.
- Kentucky Arts Council receives $734,900 from National Endowment for the Arts
Friday, April 27, 2012
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, a state partnership grant of $734,900.The arts council is the sole Kentucky agency designated to receive state partnership funding from the NEA.
- Kentucky Arts Council presents fine art and craft at Governor's Derby Celebration
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Visitors to the Governor’s Derby Celebration in downtown Frankfort will have an opportunity to purchase some of Kentucky’s finest jewelry, paintings, pottery, basketry, woodwork, hand-painted photographs, soft sculptures, toys and more, on the grounds of the Old Capitol from 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday, May 5, 2012.
- Kentucky Arts Council presents Governor’s Derby Exhibit
Monday, April 23, 2012
Visitors to the Capitol during the Derby season will have the opportunity to see the work of Kentucky artists in the Governor’s Derby Exhibit. The show of paintings, drawings and photographs is the result of an open call to artists coordinated by the Kentucky Arts Council on behalf of Gov. Steve Beshear and First Lady Jane Beshear as a part of the Governor’s Derby Celebration.
- Kentucky Arts Council presents architectural artists at Central Kentucky Home, Garden & Flower Show
Friday, April 06, 2012
Visitors to the 37th Annual Central Kentucky Home, Garden & Flower Show will have the opportunity to see the work of artists who create architectural elements, sculptures, custom-made fixtures and uniquely crafted installations for residential and commercial interior and exterior spaces. The Kentucky Arts Council’s exhibit of architectural artists will be prominently featured at the show, April 12-15, in Heritage Hall, Lexington Convention Center.
- Kentucky Arts Council partners with University of Louisville to present public art symposium
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
In an effort to engage artists, students, curators, preservationists, administrators, public officials and others in discourse about public art, the Kentucky Arts Council has partnered with the University of Louisville to offer Public Art and the City: 2012. The symposium will be April 13 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT, at the Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library, 2301 S. Third St., on the campus of the University of Louisville.
- Kentucky Arts Council awards transportation grant to seven schools
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
The Kentucky Arts Council is helping students from across the state attend events and performances at Kentucky arts venues. Funding through the arts council’s newly established TranspARTation grant covers transportation costs.
- Kentucky Arts Council awards 10 artist residency grants to schools
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
The Kentucky Arts Council has awarded $11,340 in Teacher Initiated Program grants to support 21 weeks of short-term artist residencies during the fall of 2012. These grants give professional artists an opportunity to demonstrate their art forms and provide students and teachers hands-on experiences in making art.
- Kentucky Arts Council presents Kentucky Writers' Day
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The Kentucky Arts Council will celebrate Kentucky Writers’ Day with a number of activities April 24 in Frankfort.
- Curtlyn Kramer wins Poetry Out Loud state finals competition
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Curtlyn Kramer, a senior from Ashland attending The Gatton Academy at Western Kentucky University, emerged as the winner among the 21 high school champions from across the Commonwealth who competed in the seventh annual Poetry Out Loud state finals today in Frankfort.
- Exhibitors shine at Kentucky Crafted: The Market
Monday, March 19, 2012
The Kentucky Arts Council recognized five outstanding exhibiting artists at Kentucky Crafted: The Market, held March 1-4 at the Lexington Convention Center, Lexington, Ky. The awards encourage excellence in product development, booth display and accessibility.
- Kentucky Arts Council presents Poetry Out Loud state finals competition
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Poetry Out Loud school champions from 21 high schools across the Commonwealth will compete in Frankfort for the state championship on March 21. The state winner will compete in the national Poetry Out Loud recitation contest.
- Kentucky Arts Council meets in Frankfort
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE
- Learn how to use power2give.org/Kentucky to raise funds
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
The Kentucky Arts Council, in partnership with the Fund for the Arts in Louisville, announces a series of workshops to introduce the online fundraising and marketing tool power2give.org/Kentucky.
- Kentucky Crafted: The Market again No. 1 in nation
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Kentucky Crafted: The Market, which is coming to the Lexington Convention Center this weekend, has been voted as No. 1 in the nation for the third consecutive year by the readers of AmericanStyle magazine. No other American craft fair can make that claim.
- Kentucky Arts Council presents Designing for a Community
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
City and cultural district leaders, nonprofit organizations with future building projects, residential and commercial builders and academics in the worlds of art, architecture, environmental science and sociology will have the opportunity to attend a presentation, Designing for a Community, by Roberto de Leon Jr. and M. Ross Primmer of the acclaimed architecture firm
De Leon & Primmer Architecture Workshop.
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