Promoting Breathitt County through Arts & Tourism InitiativesPlan of Work

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Breathitt County CES

Title:
Promoting Breathitt County through Arts & Tourism Initiatives
MAP:
Arts and Creativity
Agents Involved:
Jessica Ritchie, Ty Back, Kayla Watts
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Arts Engagement
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Communications and Expressive Arts 4-H Core Curriculum
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Beef
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Trail Design
Situation:
With recent budget cuts from business and government, the Breathitt County community has lost businesses, jobs and morale. More so, our local schools have lost various core programming, including music and the arts. There has been a need and interest expressed in engaging our community in arts and tourism programming.

According to a report from "American's for the Arts," "Every day, the 100,000 nonprofit arts and culture organizations that populate the nation’s cities and towns are making their communities more desirable places to live and work. They provide inspiration and enjoyment to residents, beautify shared public places, and strengthen the social fabric." More so, the study demonstrates that "arts and culture industry is also an economic driver in these communities—a growth industry that supports jobs, generates government revenue, and is the cornerstone of tourism." (www.americansforthearts.org)

Arts and tourism programming will enhance creative capacity for Kentucky's communities and encourage and support the inclusion of creative placemaking as an economic development strategy.
Long-Term Outcomes:
Communities are more diverse and resilient due to arts inclusion and creative placemaking, extension agents are confident in arts-related community development practices, communities entice arts entrepreneurs; communities are designated as Cultural Districts
Intermediate Outcomes:
Creative placemaking is incorporated within economic development strategies; arts are identified in more county plan-of-work reports; Kentucky communities engage in creative asset mapping; communities develop pride in local culture; communities collectively increase skill- set within the arts
Initial Outcomes:
Increase awareness of existing arts initiatives, agents understand creative placemaking and apply to their local communities; artisan entrepreneurs develop enhanced business practices
Evaluation:

Initial Outcome:

Indicator: Number of community members attending and participating in arts and tourism programming

Method: Offer arts and tourism programming, gather statistics on number of attendance

Timeline: 2017-2018


Intermediate Outcome:

Indicator: Number of community members who have completed art/heritage projects and continued to be involved

Method:3/6/9 month follow-up evaluations

Timeline: 2017-2018


Long-term Outcome:

Indicator: Number of community members involved in arts and tourism projects

Method: Evaluations, Gauge arts and tourisms businesses and projects

Timeline: 2017-2020

Learning Opportunities:

Audience: Youth & Adults

Project or Activity: Painting Class

Content or Curriculum: Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, Communications

Inputs: Instructor, Agent

Date: Fall 2017-Spring 2018


Audience: Youth & Adults

Project or Activity: Arts Series (Working with various mediums)

Content or Curriculum: Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, Communications, CEDIK

Inputs: CEDIK Specialist, Agents

Date: Fall 2017-Spring 2018


Audience: Youth age 9-18

Project or Activity: Speeches & Demonstrations

Content or Curriculum: Communications & Expressive Arts, Leadership

Inputs: Educators, Agents, Volunteers

Date: Fall 2017-Spring 2018


Audience: Youth & Adults

Project or Activity: Country Ham Project

Content or Curriculum: Animal Science, Agriculture, Natural Resources, Communications

Inputs: Agents, Community Members

Date: Spring 2018


Audience: Youth & Adults

Project or Activity: Annual Canoe Trips

Content or Curriculum: Environmental Science, Teamwork,

Inputs: Agents, Community Members, Parks & Recreation Department, Agricultural Development Board

Date: Summer 2018


Audience: Youth & Adults

Project or Activity: Arts Classes (General)

Content or Curriculum: Creativity, Economic Development,

Inputs: Agents, Community Members, Local Artisans

Date: Fall 2017-Spring 2018


Audience: Youth & Adults

Project or Activity: Cake Decorating

Content or Curriculum: Health, Food Science, Creativity, Teamwork, Communication, Economic Development

Inputs: Agents, Program Assistant

Date: Fall 2017-Spring 2018


Audience: Youth & Adults

Project or Activity: Instrument Lessons

Content or Curriculum: How to read/play music

Inputs: Agents, Program Assistant, Volunteers

Date: 2017-2020

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