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• Kentucky’s Cultural District Certifications to be announced
  Monday, February 06, 2012
  First Lady Jane Beshear and Madeline Abramson, wife of Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson, will announce the five communities receiving Kentucky Cultural District Certification at 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in the State Reception Room on the mezzanine level of the Capitol.
• Kentucky Crafted: The Market is more than craft
  Thursday, February 02, 2012
  Kentucky Crafted: The Market, the award-winning arts marketplace, will feature two full days of musical performances on the Kentucky Stage at the Lexington Convention Center March 3-4.
• Kentucky Arts Council committee meets Feb. 1
  Tuesday, January 31, 2012
  Public Meeting Notice
• Kentucky Arts Council receives grant from National Arts and Disability Center
  Tuesday, January 24, 2012
  The Kentucky Arts Council has been awarded a $12,000 grant to produce statewide activities promoting careers in the arts for artists with disabilities. The arts council will partner with other statewide organizations and agencies including VSA Kentucky, the Kentucky Center and the Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
• Kentucky Arts Council seeks nominations for 2012 Governor’s Awards in the Arts
  Tuesday, January 24, 2012
  Do you know someone or an organization deserving of the Commonwealth’s highest honor in the arts? The Kentucky Arts Council is accepting nominations for the 2012 Governor’s Awards in the Arts until March 1.
• Kentucky Arts Council presents Arts Day in Kentucky Feb. 2
  Wednesday, January 18, 2012
  Arts leaders, artists and supporters of the arts from across the Commonwealth will come to Frankfort for a full day of activities to celebrate the arts and thank legislators for their support.
• From 1 to 1 million – fun facts about Kentucky Crafted:The Market
  Thursday, January 12, 2012
  Kentucky Crafted: The Market, the award-winning arts marketplace that had its debut in 1982 at the Kentucky Horse Park, returns to Lexington at the Lexington Convention Center after a long run in Louisville at the Kentucky Exposition Center.
• Deadline extended for National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute
  Thursday, January 05, 2012
  Young musicians ages 15–20 are eligible to apply for the highly competitive Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) Summer Music Institute. The deadline has been extended to Feb. 20, 2012.
• Kentucky Arts Council offers apprenticeship program to encourage continuation of folk traditions
  Thursday, January 05, 2012
  The Kentucky Arts Council is accepting applications until Feb. 15, 2012, for the Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant.
• Kentucky artwork graces the halls of government
  Thursday, January 05, 2012
  The Kentucky Arts Council presents “Kentucky Visions at the Capitol,” an exhibit that showcases the artwork of 32 artists in the Capitol Annex in Frankfort.
• Kentucky Arts Council offers awards to exceptional writers, choreographers and composers
  Wednesday, January 04, 2012
  The Kentucky Arts Council will accept applications until March 15, 2012, from professional writers, choreographers and composers for the Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship Awards and the Emerging Artist Awards.
• Governor’s Mansion features special art exhibit
  Wednesday, January 04, 2012
  The Kentucky Arts Council presents an exhibit of artwork, “Commissioned to Create: Works by Artists who Created the Governor’s Awards (1993-2011).” The awards, along with other artwork created by this distinguished group of Kentucky artists, will be on display Jan. 9 - April 15, 2012.
• Kentucky Arts Council awards 20 artist residency grants
  Wednesday, January 04, 2012
  The Kentucky Arts Council has awarded $25,380 in Teacher Initiated Program grants for 47 weeks’ worth of short-term artist residencies scheduled to take place in the spring of 2012.
• Kentucky Arts Council offers marketing programs for Kentucky artists
  Friday, December 16, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council is accepting applications until March 15, 2012, from professional artists who wish to be included in the Performing Arts Directory, Architectural Artists Directory or Kentucky Crafted Program. These state-sponsored marketing programs help performing and visual artists promote their work and build their careers.
• Kentucky Arts Council adds eight arts professionals to consultancy network
  Friday, December 16, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council’s Kentucky Peer Advisory Network (KPAN) offers low-cost consulting services for arts organizations, schools, community groups and individual artists who are participants in the agency’s programs.
• Kentucky Arts Council offers artist-in-residence opportunities for schools and teaching artists
  Friday, December 16, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council offers Teacher Initiated Program grants, which help pay for professional artists to go into the classroom and give students and teachers hands-on experiences in making art.
• Kentucky Arts Council supports social media fundraising efforts
  Friday, December 09, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council is offering a dollar-for-dollar match for private donations to arts organizations participating in online fundraising through power2give.org, launched in December by the Fund for the Arts.
• Public Value Report demonstrates nonprofit arts contributions to Kentucky
  Thursday, December 01, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council’s investment of $1.7 million in operational support for nonprofit arts organizations in Kentucky produced significant returns in tax revenues, jobs, education services and tourism development. The first Public Value Report produced by the arts council features data collected from 89 of the 93 arts organizations that received funding through the state agency’s Kentucky Arts Partnership grants for the period of July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011.
• Kentucky Arts Council offers operational support grants to arts and cultural organizations
  Thursday, December 01, 2011
  Kentucky nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that provide year-round arts programming may apply to the Kentucky Arts Council for Kentucky Arts Partnership grant funding by Jan. 15, 2012.
• Kentucky Arts Council meets in Louisville
  Thursday, December 01, 2011
  PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The Kentucky Arts Council will have its quarterly board meeting Dec. 9, 2011, from noon – 3 p.m. EST at The Speed Art Museum, 2035 S. Third St., Louisville, Ky.
• National Endowment for the Arts awards grants to five Kentucky organizations
  Tuesday, November 22, 2011
  The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), an independent federal agency, recently announced awards to five Kentucky organizations to fund arts education and arts programming.
• Kentucky Arts Council launches Give a Gift from Kentucky campaign
  Tuesday, November 15, 2011
  In an effort to support local businesses and encourage the purchase of Kentucky-made holiday gifts, the Kentucky Arts Council has partnered with other organizations across the state to promote Kentucky artists.
• A special exhibit of stringed instruments and the people who make them featured at the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts
  Thursday, November 10, 2011
  The exhibit “Made to be Played: Traditional Art of Kentucky Luthiers” will be on display Nov. 17 – Dec. 17, 2011, at the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts, 2000 College Drive, Madisonville, Ky.
• Kentucky Arts Council selects 21 high schools to participate in Poetry Out Loud
  Friday, October 28, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council has selected 21 high schools to participate in the state competition for the Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation. This is the seventh year of the program, which encourages high school students to learn about great poetry through memorization and recitation.
• Nomination forms available for 2012 Kentucky Governor’s Awards in the Arts
  Monday, October 17, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council is accepting nominations for the 2012 Governor’s Awards in the Arts. The awards, which will be presented at a public ceremony in October 2012, are the state’s highest honor in the arts, recognizing individuals and organizations with extraordinary achievements and contributions in the arts.
• Kentucky Arts Council presents the Governor’s Awards in the Arts
  Thursday, October 13, 2011
  On Oct. 20 First Lady Jane Beshear will honor the 2011 recipients of the Governor’s Awards in the Arts on behalf of Gov. Steve Beshear and the Kentucky Arts Council.
• John Lackey creates Governor’s Awards
  Monday, October 03, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council has commissioned Lexington artist John Lackey to create the awards to be presented to the recipients of the 2011 Governor’s Awards in the Arts, the Commonwealth’s highest honor in the arts. The Governor’s Awards in the Arts presentation and reception will be Oct. 20, 10 a.m. EDT, in the Capitol Rotunda, Frankfort.
• Arts Council presents performing and literary arts conference
  Monday, October 03, 2011
  In conjunction with National Arts and Humanities Month, the Kentucky Arts Council will conduct a conference for literary and performing artists on Tuesday, Oct. 25. The conference will be at the Center for Rural Development, 2292 S. Highway 27, Somerset.
• Arts Council presents visual arts conference
  Friday, September 30, 2011
  In conjunction with National Arts and Humanities Month, the Kentucky Arts Council will conduct a one-day conference for visual and craft artists on Saturday, Oct. 22. The conference will be 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. EDT in Thoroughbred Room 4, Lexington Convention Center.
• Arts Council presents arts education conference
  Thursday, September 29, 2011
  In conjunction with National Arts and Humanities Month, the Kentucky Arts Council will conduct a one-day conference on Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, for educators, parents, and teaching artists. The conference will be in Eddyville, Ky.
• Arts Council offers schools opportunities for artist residencies
  Thursday, September 15, 2011
  Teachers across Kentucky can now apply for Teacher Initiated Program grants for short-term artist residencies scheduled for spring 2012. These grants place professional artists in the classroom to give students and teachers hands-on experiences making art.
• Kentucky Arts Council forms Arts Education Advisory Committee
  Thursday, September 15, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council has established an Arts Education Advisory Committee to assess Kentucky's current arts education landscape and develop strategies to foster and build support for arts education in Kentucky.
• Arts Council offers artists webinar on writing about their work
  Thursday, September 15, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council will conduct a writing seminar via the Internet on Sept. 21 at 2 p.m. EDT for artists wanting to improve the way they write about themselves or their work.
• National Symphony Orchestra will commission chamber work by a Kentucky composer
  Monday, September 12, 2011
  The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Symphony Orchestra in association with the Kentucky Arts Council announce a call for proposals for the commission of a chamber work by a resident Kentucky composer.
• Kentucky Arts Council meets in Mount Sterling
  Monday, September 12, 2011
  PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE The Kentucky Arts Council will have its quarterly board meeting Sept. 16, 2011, from noon – 3 p.m. EDT at the Gateway Regional Arts Center, 44 E. Main St., Mount Sterling, Ky.
• Kentucky Arts Council fosters the traditional arts
  Friday, September 02, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council has awarded Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grants to six master artists to encourage the continuation of Kentucky’s living traditional arts. The grants enable master artists to teach their skills, practices and culture to less experienced artists within their communities.
• "The Makings of a Master: Kentucky Folk Art Apprenticeships" to open at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History
  Friday, September 02, 2011
  The new exhibition “The Makings of a Master: Kentucky Folk Art Apprenticeships” will open Thursday, Sept. 15, 2011, in the Keeneland Changing Exhibits Gallery at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History in downtown Frankfort.
• Kentucky Arts Council to present at arts and humanities workshop
  Monday, August 15, 2011
  The Kentucky Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, along with other local, state and federal agencies, will present sessions at Congressman John Yarmuth’s Arts and Humanities Grants Workshops Aug. 24, 2011, at the Louisville Science Center, 727 W. Main St., Louisville, Ky.
• Kentucky Crafted: The Market comes to Lexington
  Monday, August 15, 2011
  Celebrating its 30th anniversary, Kentucky Crafted: The Market will return to Lexington in 2012. The award-winning arts marketplace, which had its debut in 1981 at the Kentucky Horse Park, will come home after a long run in Louisville at the Kentucky Exposition Center. The annual wholesale/retail show of art, craft, books, music and artisan food products will be held March 1 – 4, 2012, at the Lexington Convention Center, 430 W. Vine St., Lexington, Ky.