ENTREPRENEURS
Artist/woodworker Mark Whitley working in his studio.
Artist Relief and Disaster Recovery (ARDR)
With awards of up to $5,000, KAC-ARDR supports individual Kentucky artists affected by the western Kentucky tornadoes in December 2021 or the eastern Kentucky floods in July 2022. Matching funds are not required.
Kentucky Artist Rescue Grant Program (KAR)
Kentucky Artist Rescue Grants (KAR) are awarded to practicing Kentucky professional artists from the COVID-19 crisis and are funded through American Rescue Program funding. The grant supports a stipend/fee for an individual artist applicant to carry out a project or activity. Funding may be used by artists for presentations, training, research and/or creation of new art with tangible outcomes required. The KAR program encourages but does not require partnerships between the artist and local organizations, agencies, businesses, etc. Community participation is encouraged. Activities may include, but are not limited to residencies, the creation of new work, exhibits and performances, other public art events and significant public art forums that create meaningful dialogues, etc.
ARTIST RESOURCES - LEGAL
Legal contact information for artists.
EMERGENCY RESOURCES FOR ARTISTS
Links to various emergency resources for artists.
CALL FOR ARTISTS - OPPORTUNITIES
Artist opportunities from various arts organizations around the region. Opportunities are offered by discipline.
CALL FOR ARTISTS - SUBMIT OPPORTUNITIES
Submit your arts opportunity for artists.
KENTUCKY CRAFTED ARTISTS ON ARTREPRENEUR
Many Kentucky Crafted program artists sell work through a Kentucky Arts Council partnership with Artrepreneur, an online marketplace where artists sell artwork, enter competitions, learn about the business of art, and build successful creative careers. This partnership is supported by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.
KENTUCKY CRAFTED PROGRAM
Kentucky Crafted is an adjudicated program that provides assistance to Kentucky visual and craft artists through marketing and promotional opportunities and arts business training.
KENTUCKY PEER ADVISORY NETWORK (KPAN)
The Kentucky Peer Advisory Network consists of arts professionals on the Kentucky Peer Advisory Directory available to provide six-hour consultancies to assist eligible organizations and individual artists with board development, grant writing, marketing and promotions, strategic planning, festival planning and other activities. Consultancy fees are paid by the Kentucky Arts Council.
PERFORMING ARTISTS DIRECTORY PROGRAM (PAD)
The Performing Arts Directory is an adjudicated roster of Kentucky performing artists used by in-state and out-of-state presenters and others as a resource for identifying artists for performance bookings and projects.
PERFORMING ARTISTS DIRECTORY PROGRAM (PAD-T)
The Performing Artists Directory Touring (PAD-T) Grant is a matching grant that helps make quality public performances available to the people of the commonwealth. This program provides presenters with fee support for booking artists from the Kentucky Arts Council Performing Artists Directory.