Now Accepting Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant Applications 

The Kentucky Arts Council is now accepting applications for the Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant. This program provides $4,000 to a Kentucky mentor folk or traditional artist to teach skills, practices, and culture to a less-experienced artist in their community over the course of a year. The deadline to apply is March 31.

Last summer, the Kentucky Arts Council awarded 12 mentor-apprentice pairs. Participants and folk art forms are: 

• Andrew Bentley (Fayette Co.) teaching foraging and foodways to Yani Vozos (Jefferson Co.) 
• Johnny House (Butler Co.) teaching blacksmithing and knifemaking to Richard Brown (Butler Co.) 
• Michael Morrow (Logan Co.) teaching oral history and storytelling to Mariel Gardner (Jefferson Co.) 
• Amelia Stamps (Fayette Co.) teaching ceramics to Bekah Dunlap (Fayette Co.) 
• Daxson Lewis (Rowan Co.) teaching banjo to Montana Hobbs (Lee Co.) 
• Angelique Shah (Bullitt Co.) teaching garment making to Chaney Williams (Hardin Co.) 
• John Haywood (Letcher Co.) teaching banjo to Levon Harvey (Clark Co.) 
• Lee Alan Roher (Anderson Co.) teaching stained glass making to Todd Batsche (Boyle Co.) 
• Lorena Miller (Powell Co.) teaching herbalism and curanderismo to Linelle Rivera Rodriguez (Fayette Co.) 
• Shahram Karimi (Daviess Co.) teaching Afghan foodways traditions to Diba Karimi (Daviess Co.) 
• Will Bowling (Clay Co.) teaching square dance calling to Sarah Kate Morgan (Knott Co.) 
• John Ryster (Rowan Co.) teaching fiddle making to Harold Zeller (Rowan Co.) 

Kentuckians’ folk arts are essential to their everyday lives, whether their tradition has been here for generations or if it just arrived. Folk art forms such as dance, music, crafts and foodways are usually taught face-to-face within a community. 

Click here to learn more. Contact Mark Brown, Folk and Traditional Arts Director at [email protected] / 502-892-3115 for more information or assistance.