Arts Council
Workshops Offered Across the Commonwealth for Organization Planning

FRANKFORT, Ky. – The Kentucky Arts Council and Arts Kentucky will offer Saturday workshops for arts and cultural organizations that are interested in developing their first long range plan, or want to learn new ways to approach the planning process. Workshops will focus on how to ensure that the organization's activities are aligned with its mission, vision and values, developing goals and objectives, establishing progress measurements, developing a timeline, and designing a system for managing the long range plan.

Workshop presenters are professional arts administrators and arts consultants on the roster of the Kentucky Peer Advisory Network.  Workshops fees are $10 per person for Arts Kentucky members and $25 per person for non-members. For more information, call toll-free 877-561-0701. Pre-registration is required.  To register; go to www.artsky.org/arts_ky_registration.htm.

OCT 1    1-4p.m. (CST)           Owensboro           RiverPark Center

OCT 1    1-4p.m. (CST)           Paducah                Museum of the American Quilter's Society

OCT 8    1-4p.m. (EST)            Berea                      Kentucky Artisan Center

OCT 8    1-4p.m. (EST)            Hazard                    Hazard Community and Technical College

OCT 15   1-4p.m. (EST)            Ashland                 Paramount Arts Center

OCT 15   1-4p.m. (CST)            Bowling Green    Capitol Arts Center

OCT 22   1-4p.m. (EST)            Covington             Center for  Great Neighborhoods

OCT 22   1-4p.m. (EST)            Louisville                Louisville Visual Arts Association

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The Kentucky Arts Council is a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet that invests in programs that develop vibrant communities, provide lifelong education in the arts and support arts participation.  Every $1 in grant funds awarded by the Kentucky Arts Council helps grantees secure $15 in earned income and matching funds from individuals, philanthropic sources and other levels of government. Kentucky Arts Council funding is provided by the Kentucky State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

Arts Kentucky is a statewide membership organization for individual artists, performers, craftspeople, community and arts groups whose mission is to provide resources and tools for people who are working to improve their communities through the arts.