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Pike County CES

Title:
Community Arts
MAP:
Community and Economic Development
Agents Involved:
Froman, Porter
MAJOR PROGRAM 1:
Community Design/Creative Placemaking
MAJOR PROGRAM 2:
Enhancing the Creative Economy
MAJOR PROGRAM 3:
Economic Development
MAJOR PROGRAM 4:
Community Strategic Planning
Situation:

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.

Long-Term Outcomes:

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.

Intermediate Outcomes:

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.

Initial Outcomes:

Increased awareness of arts programming. Business support of events. Word of mouth and marketing of events increases. Family participation increases in events.

Evaluation:

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


Learning Opportunities:

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




Success Stories

Curbside Art Kits

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

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Mind.Art.Recovery.KY. (M.A.R.K.) Program

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

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