The Kentucky Arts Council creates opportunities for lifelong learning in the arts and through the arts. With overwhelming evidence that learning experiences in the arts contribute to academic skills, including areas of reading and language development and mathematics, the arts council is an active advocate for including the arts in education at the national and state levels of government policy.

The Kentucky Arts Council provides teacher professional development to incorporate the arts across the curriculum and training for professional artists to work as teaching artists in an educational environment. These artists go into schools to share their art forms, give students hands-on arts experiences and provide teachers with guidance to keep arts programs going after their residencies are completed. This investment by the arts council often causes positive, life-changing experiences for individual students.

Support for arts and cultural organizations in Kentucky also provides educational programming in the arts for school field trips as well as traveling performances and exhibitions that go to schools in all 120 counties of Kentucky.

• Application Deadlines
• Applications
• Arts Education Roster
• Arts Toolkit
• All Art Schools is a complete online guide to art education and careers. One of the finest resources available for allowing students to compare schools, contact them, read common questions and answers, and ask questions.
• Curriculum Development
• Funding Sources
• Grants & Programs For Educators
• Governor's School for the Arts
• Five Kentucky Poets Laureate:
  An Anthology—Teacher resource guide
• Kentucky Arts Partnership
  Organization Education Contacts 
• Kentucky Center
• Kentucky Educational Television (KET)
• Museums and Galleries
• Professional Development
• Publications
• Arts and the Kentucky Economy   [486 KB]
  
  
• Responding to the Arts  [3,720 KB]
  
  
• Free education publications are available from ED Pubs, the U.S. Department of Education's Publications Center. To order free books, brochures, videos, and more, visit the ED Pubs web site www.ed.gov/about/ordering.jsp or call ED Pubs toll-free 877-433-7827.
  
  
• The Montana Arts Council has produced a new arts education advocacy tool called "There is More: Supporting Arts Education in our Schools." It is a free 16-minute presentation which was designed to help arts educators and advocates clarify the importance of arts education in our schools – how it impacts our children, our cultural heritage, and our communities. Images highlighting Montana arts organizations, artists, students and teachers make this a project that reflects Montana values and priorities while also providing solid statistical arts education research that is nationally recognized and respected.
  
  More information and a streaming video are available on our website at art.mt.gov/resources/resources_supportae.asp.
  
  
• Resource Guide for Arts Educators
  
  
• WEB RESOURCES BY DISCIPLINE
  Dance
  Folklife
  Literary Arts
  Music
  Storytelling
  Theatre
  Visual Arts
  Cross-Curriculum
  Multidisciplinary
  Other
  
  

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