CREATIVITY and INNOVATION
Children from the Louisville Central Community Center, explore puppetry.
EDUCATOR RESOURCES
Links to a wide variety of educator resources separated into arts discipline categories.
FOLK AND TRADITIONAL ARTS APPRENTICESHIP GRANT
The Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant provides up to $3,000 to a Kentucky master traditional artist to teach skills, practices and culture to a less experienced artist from the same community during the course of a year.
POETRY OUT LOUD PROGRAM
Poetry Out Loud is a national poetry recitation competition created by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Poetry Foundation and administered in partnership with the state arts agencies. Each participating school receives an artist residency and the opportunity for the school champion to attend the state competition with a chaperone. The state champion goes on to the national competition in Washington, D.C.
POETRY OUT LOUD STATE FINALS
Each spring the Kentucky Arts Council hosts the state-wide Poetry Out Loud competition for high school students. Kentucky’s state champion proceeds to the national finals in Washington, D.C., in April.
TEACHING ART TOGETHER GRANT
The Teaching Art Together Grant lets teachers collaborate with practicing, professional artists on the design and implementation of innovative one- to four-week residencies. Residencies provide teachers with the tools to continue to incorporate the arts into the curriculum after the residency is completed.
TEACHING ARTISTS DIRECTORY PROGRAM
The Teaching Artists Directory is an online directory of Kentucky artists who produce high quality artistic work and have the skills and competencies needed to work with teachers and students in designing and implementing arts education programs.
TEACHING ARTISTS DIRECTORY
An online directory of Teaching Artists that have been juried into this program.
TRANSPARTATION DIRECTORY
The TranspARTation Directory is a list of arts organizations and venues that provide field trip options for Kentucky students to study exemplary works of dance, music, theatre, literary, visual and digital media arts. Schools choose destinations from the TranspARTation Directory when applying for funding through the TranspARTation Grant Program.
TRANSPARTATION GRANT
The TranspARTation Grant enables Kentucky teachers and schools to offer students high quality arts experiences by providing transportation funding. Grants will be based on the mileage from the school building to the arts organization or performance venue and the number of buses necessary. Grant requests under $100 are ineligible.