FRANKFORT, Ky. — 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. The eight new KPAN consultants are: Jeremy Beck, Louisville; Heath Eric, Calhoun; Jan Isenhour, Lexington; Peter Kucirko, Lexington; Bart Lovins, Elizabethtown; Mary Claire O’Neal, Lexington; Debbie Pennell, Louisville; and Roxi Witt, Owensboro.

The KPAN directory of consultants currently boasts more than 30 accomplished Kentucky arts professionals, with diverse backgrounds and expertise, who have received intensive training in the art consulting process.

KPAN consultants can provide assistance in a wide variety of areas, including accessibility, advocacy, arts education planning, arts integration in the classroom, audience development, board development, building partnerships, business planning, festival planning, folk and traditional arts, financial planning, fiscal management, fundraising, grant writing, managing volunteers, marketing and promotion, organizational development, program development, product evaluation and development and strategic planning.

For more information about the KPAN program, go to http://1.usa.gov/aboutKPAN or contact Sarah Schmitt at sarah.schmitt@ky.gov or 502-564-3757, ext. 492.

The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, creates opportunities for Kentuckians to value, participate in and benefit from the arts. Kentucky Arts Council funding is provided by the Kentucky General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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