Extension
It Starts With Us
Community Arts
Community and Economic Development
Froman, Porter
Community Design/Creative Placemaking
Enhancing the Creative Economy
Economic Development
Community Strategic Planning
The Pike County Extension Council identified music and arts diversification, handcrafted artisan awareness and expanding arts to the community as a need for the county. There has been a sharp decline in the arts program in our schools. We are committed to educating and empower citizens through the arts as well as enhancing the community and economic development of our communities through arts programming.
Increase in soft skills for students and adults: critical thinking, problem solving, and responsibility. Increased attendance in arts activities. Increase of leadership skills. Increase in tourism. Communities will gain public art installations.
Increase in knowledge of music, dance, drama, and/or visual arts. Increased attendance in arts programming. Increase in knowledge for artists in marketing and finance.
Increased awareness of arts programming. Business support of events. Word of mouth and marketing of events increases. Family participation increases in events.
Evaluation:
Outcome - initial: new arts programming and events
Indicator: schedule/ reporting
Method: classes, venues, events
Timeline: ongoing
Outcome - intermediate: increased knowledge of arts, better quality of life
Indicator: observation, reports, event participation
Method: surveys, sign in sheets
Timeline: 2021 on forward
Outcome – long-term: Artists benefit financially. Marketing of products and skills increase. Tourism money spent increases. Interest in arts activities increases.
Indicator: Increase in sales for artists. Increase in event participation. Arts events are well attended.
Method: surveys, interviews, sign in sheets
Timeline: 2022 and forward
Audience: artists and entrepreneurs
Project or Activity: financial and business classes
Content or Curriculum: Small Business Development Center, UK
Inputs: teachers, guest speakers
Date: beginning 2021 and forward
Audience: community
Project or Activity: Artisan Markets
Content or Curriculum: public spaces
Inputs: artists
Date: ongoing
Audience: families
Project or Activity: Toddler activity night
Content or Curriculum: arts activities for kids and parents
Inputs: agent and paid staff led
Date: Fall 2020 and ongoing
Audience: community
Project or Activity: Community Arts
Content or Curriculum: arts activities for all ages
Inputs: agent and paid staff led
Date: Fall 2020 and ongoing
Audience: youth ages 5+
Project or Activity: art kits
Content or Curriculum: arts activities in kits available at office
Inputs: agent, paid staff, community partners
Date: 2020 and ongoing through COVID-19 pandemic
Author: Kristy Porter
Major Program: Increasing Access to Quality Arts Experiences
Beginning in March 2020, as a proactive reaction to closures and social distancing guidelines resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Pike County Extension Fine Arts began providing on-the-go art activity kits to the community. Since then, over 600 kits have been distributed to the public. Recipients of these kits have ranged from groups of elementary school students, homebound adults, homeschooled students, and even nursing home residents. These curbside kits are planned and assembled by th
Author: Kristy Porter
Major Program: Arts and Community Health
Throughout a seven week program spanning May to July 2021, Pike County Extension Fine Arts and Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky (CEDIK) partnered to test a grant funded pilot arts program. The program, Mind.Art.Recover.KY. (MARK), utilizes arts programing in an evidence-based therapeutic way to assist people undergoing drug addiction recovery. In Pike County, we took the program to a women’s rehabilitation center within the WestCare rehabilitation network in L
