Extension
It Starts With Us
Promoting Breathitt County through Arts & Tourism Initiatives
Arts and Creativity
Reed Graham & Kayla Watts
Arts Engagement
Communications and Expressive Arts 4-H Core Curriculum
Beef
Trail Design
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.
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
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
Increase awareness of existing arts initiatives, agents understand creative placemaking and apply to their local communities; artisan entrepreneurs develop enhanced business practices
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: 2018-2019
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: 2018-2019
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
Audience: Youth & Adults
Project or Activity: Make and Take Series
Content or Curriculum: Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, Communications
Inputs: Agent, Volunteers
Date: Fall 2018-Spring 2019
Audience: Youth age 9-18
Project or Activity: Speeches & Demonstrations
Content or Curriculum: Communications & Expressive Arts, Leadership
Inputs: Educators, Agents, Volunteers
Date: Fall 2018-Spring 2019
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 2018-Spring 2019
