Painting Parties

Author: Anne Stephens

Major Program: Arts and Community Health

Success Story for April 2019 – Painting PartiesHumans are creative beings. Making art is a creative outlet that is a necessary part of life; especially when life is also filled with difficult family situations such as job loss and drug addiction. These difficulties have been identified in Greenup County by Extension volunteers as areas of concern for our population. In order to provide a creative outlet to people in our community, “Painting Parties” were organized by the Greenu

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Pike County Gets Healthy/ ACT 5K

Author: Stephanie Richards

Major Program: Arts and Community Health

Pike County Cooperative Extension Service promotes an active lifestyle and a healthy diet for county residents and everyone who participates in our programming.  With that mission in mind, six years ago the Fine Arts Program worked with Artists Collaborative Theatre (ACT) in Elkhorn City to implement a “Get Healthy!” strategy.  As part of that strategy, ACT held its first 5K run in 2014.March 23 marked the sixth year for this now annual event.  The event, in recent yea

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Arts and Nutrition Curriculum

Author: Sky Marietta

Major Program: Arts and Community Health

A second program that I created this year was a free arts curriculum that is easy to implement, uses common and/or low-cost materials, and can be customized to meet the needs of any program. Taking a whole-child approach, this program creates social, educational, and health opportunities in an inclusive format that is organized through arts exploration. The program is designed for ease of delivery in underserved communities and populations, empowering a variety of community actors—from chu

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Earth Day Celebration

Author: Cortney Moses

Major Program: Arts and Community Health

According to the University of California, Santa Barbara, 40 percent of plastic produced is made for packaging and is used just once then thrown away. Other statistics from Brigham Young University – Idaho shows that if every subscriber for the single run of the Sunday New York Times would recycle, it would save 75,000 trees. Little differences can make a big difference in our planet’s livelihood. Educating our local citizens about our impact on the planet is how we can make a big di

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