Total awarded $40,000
FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 21, 2015) — The Kentucky Arts Council has awarded $40,000 to five Kentucky organizations through the arts council’s Arts Access Assistance (AAA) grant. Each organization received an $8,000 grant.
The theme for the 2016 fiscal year AAA grant funding was “Vibrant Appalachian Communities.” Applicants were encouraged to seek funding for artistic projects that evoked community pride and called attention to unique community assets. It was limited to Kentucky’s 54 counties in the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Organizations receiving AAA grants are:
- Discover Downtown Middlesboro (Bell County) will host a series of free live music concerts on a vacant lot that has been transformed into a performance venue through creative placemaking. The project will also focus on training artists to sell their work online.
- Cowan Community Action Group (Letcher County) will continue to develop a community theater, with an emphasis on collecting, scripting and telling the stories of Letcher County residents.
- Knox County Public Library will expand upon its existing Thursday evening “Story Hour” with a program called “Celebrating Our Traditions.” The new program will showcase local artists and engage Knox County residents to explore the county’s artistic traditions through monthly demonstrations, performances, exhibits and hands-on activities.
- Hart County Historical Society will document and bring prominence to its local, time-honored tradition of basket weaving via an exhibit and other events designed to engage the community in recognizing its basket making heritage.
- Pathfinders of Perry County will present “A Seat at the Table,” a collaborative forum in which the Perry County community will gather for an open-air community potluck at Hazard’s River Arts Greenway to discuss and bridge disparate views and beliefs about key topical issues that divide neighbors and groups in Perry County.
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