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Programs For Individual Artists

  • The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Product Development Grants
    provide financial assistance to artists and craftspeople to develop new products to commemorate the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial in Kentucky in 2009.

  • Artist Roster
    Artists apply for acceptance to the Arts in Education Artist Roster. Acceptance to the Artist Roster ensures that artists have the qualifications to conduct residencies, a high quality of artistic work, and the skills and competencies needed to work with teachers and students in designing and implementing arts programs.

  • Arts Build Communities Grants
    encourage partnerships that contribute to the cultural, social, educational and economic growth of the community.

  • Fellowship Awards
    recognize and encourage the artistic excellence of individual Kentucky artists. Annually awarded, the fellowships alternate between two discipline groupings: visual artists and media artists in one year and writers, composers, choreographers, and interdisciplinary artists in the next.

  • Folk & Traditional Arts Apprenticeship
    grants pair traditional master artists with apprentices.

  • Governor's Awards in the Arts
    The commonwealth's highest honor in the arts recognized the outstanding and significant contributions of artists, individuals, organizations, schools, educators, businesses, media and government to the arts in Kentucky.

  • Individual Artist Professional Development Program
    provides funding support for activities that will help artists further their careers.

  • The Craft Marketing Program
    works to expand the state's craft industry, create an economically viable environment for craft entrepreneurs, preserve the state's craft traditions and generate public awareness of the diversity of Kentucky's traditional and contemporary handmade crafts.

    Juried Participant Status enables craft businesses to reach regional, national, and international markets through state-sponsored wholesale and retail promotional venues.

  • Kentucky Poet Laureate
    Appointed by the Governor for a two year term, the Poet Laureate is a critically acclaimed Kentucky writer who promotes participation in the literary arts of the state.

  • Performing Arts Directory
    promotes, showcases and provides professional development opportunities to a diverse selection of Kentucky's finest contemporary and traditional performing artists.

  • Product Development Grants
    provide financial assistance to artists and craftspeople to develop new products or prototypes of Kentucky cultural products for the wholesale marketplace.

  • Teacher Initiated Program (TIP)
    place professional artists in Kentucky schools and communities for 1- or 2-week residencies to plan and implement a project with teachers, demonstrate their art form, and support Kentucky's educational reform.

  • Visual Arts at the Market
    assists Kentucky visual artists interested in reaching wholesale and retail markets. Visual Arts at the Market is a component of a larger craft event, Kentucky Crafted: The Market, held at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center in Louisville. Within this annual market, Visual Arts at the market adds two-dimensional visual art to the spectrum of cultural products available for purchase. Visual Arts at the Market includes original two-dimensional paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, and mixed media work, in addition to notecards, posters, calendars and other printed projects derived from original two-dimensional art.