Program News Archives - Kentucky Arts Council

Teaching Art Together Grant application is open!

The Kentucky Arts Council is now accepting applications for the 2025-26 school year for the Teaching Arts Together Grant. With the Teaching Art Together Grant, teachers can implement one to 10-day teaching artist residencies in their PreK-12th grade classrooms. All artists have been carefully juried by a panel of arts education professionals and selected for inclusion in the Teaching … Continued

Applications open for Kentucky Peer Advisory Network

Applications are now being accepted for the Kentucky Arts Council’s Kentucky Peer Advisory Network (KPAN). The network is open to all arts organizations, community groups and eligible individual artists interested in arts-related technical assistance. Applicants must be Kentucky residents, Kentucky-based organizations or serve Kentuckians in a significant way. Organizations do not need to be Kentucky … Continued

Beechwood High School champion wins Poetry Out Loud state title

Last week, Javontae Cranmo from Beechwood High School took home the championship title for the 2025 Poetry Out Loud state competition. Cranmo will advance to the Poetry Out Loud national finals in Washington, DC, scheduled for May 5-7. In the final round, Cranmo performed “I Am the People, the Mob” by Carl Sandburg, one of the … Continued

Now Accepting Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant Applications

Do you know a tradition-bearer who is ready to teach someone in their cultural group? They might be a good candidate for the Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Grant. This program provides up to $4,000 to a Kentucky mentor folk or traditional artist to teach skills, practices and culture to a less experienced artist from the … Continued

America250KY: Exploring 250 Years Through the Arts

With support from the Kentucky Historical Society and the Kentucky General Assembly, the Kentucky Arts Council is offering grant funds up to $10,000 arts and cultural organizations, communities, or other nonprofit entities and up to $5,000 for individual artists. As the United States prepares to celebrate 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of … Continued

Kentucky Touring Grant application now open

The Kentucky Arts Council is accepting applications for the FY2026 Kentucky Touring Grant (KYT), a matching grant supporting public performances statewide. The grant helps presenters book performers from the council’s Performing Artists Directory.

Press Release: 28 New Artists Join the Kentucky Crafted Program

Team Kentucky has accepted 28 new artists into its prestigious Kentucky Crafted program.

Governor’s Award in the Arts Recipients Past to 2023

Kentucky Arts Council is happy to announce the past Governor’s Award in the Arts Recipients.

TranspARTation Award Recipients FY 2025

Kentucky Arts Council is happy to announce the TranspARTation Award recipients for Fiscal Year 2025. Eastern Elementary SchoolBarren CountySKyPACAward: $305 Bowen Elementary SchoolPowell CountyLexington Children’s TheatreAward: $1,000 W.B. Muncy Elementary SchoolLeslie CountyArt Center of the BluegrassAward: $440 F.T. Burns Middle SchoolDaviess CountyRiverPark CenterAward: $180 Owen County High SchoolOwen CountyThe Speed Art MuseumAward: $320 Phelps High … Continued

TranspARTation Award Recipients 2023-2024

FY 2024 Recipients Catlettsburg Elementary SchoolBoyd CountyLouisville OrchestraAward: $752 William G. Conkwright Elementary SchoolClark CountyEastern Kentucky University Center for the ArtsAward: $1,118 Pulaski Elementary SchoolPulaski CountyEastern Kentucky University Center for the ArtsAward: $440 Fancy Farm Elementary SchoolGraves CountyCarson Center for the Performing ArtsAward: $116 Newton Parrish Elementary SchoolDaviess CountyRiverPark CenterAward: $80 Strode Station ElementaryClark CountyThe … Continued