Will support Kentucky Highlands Promise Zone mapping
FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 16, 2015) — Berea College has received a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Our Town award of $100,000 to support projects to strategically shape the character of communities in eastern Kentucky.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced 69 Our Town awards totaling almost $5 million through the program’s fifth year of funding. The NEA received 275 applications for Our Town this year and will make grants ranging from $25,000 to $200,000.
Berea College’s project will support cultural asset mapping in the Kentucky Highlands Promise Zone. Via a series of community meetings and workshops, the college will lead a comprehensive asset mapping process to identify local arts and cultural assets that can be leveraged to craft a rural revitalization strategy.
The Kentucky Highlands Promise Zone has an overall poverty rate of 30 percent, and includes rural Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Letcher, Perry and Whitley counties.
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