Author: Cortney Moses
Major Program: Increasing Access to Quality Arts Experiences
The Whitley county pottery program has been offering educational programming for 10 years to the Whitley County community. Covid put a halt to the extremely popular Open Pottery program that exposed the community to 12 weeks of free play and experimentation with hand building and wheel throwing. Not only did this create a pottery void it also ended pottery group which met monthly and built strong leadership within the medium and for the program. During the pandemic we tried some potte
Author: Kristy Porter
Artists Collaborative Theatre (ACT) was extremely proud and excited to announce its return to the stage after sixteen months of being dark due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Pike County Extension Fine Arts and ACT has long had a close partnership with productions and kids classes. During the summer, ACT staged Blood Song: The Story of the Hatfields and the McCoys at Jenny Wiley Amphitheatre for three weekends. 865 people attended the play. The play was also selected as a finalist at AACTFest 2021. Tw
Author: Stephanie Richards
In the interest of cross collaboration of colleges at the University of Kentucky, the College of Agriculture has partnered with the College of Fine Arts to extend additional arts resources and education to the citizens of our Commonwealth utilizing the UKY Cooperative Extension system. A main outcome of this partnership is the online resource housed on the CFA website as Community Outreach Resource: https://finearts.uky.edu/college-fine-arts/outreach-resources. This public link current
Author: Anne Stephens
Greenup Arts has identified literacy, local cultural heritage, and experiential arts education as priorities for the county program. The Jesse Stuart music/drama project is one of the longest-running programs in Greenup Arts. As one of the most successful and world famous individuals from our community, Jesse Stuart shared the Appalachian culture that is specific to Greenup County with the entire world through his poems and stories. “A Penny’s Worth of Character” is
In 2021, the Pike County Extension Council identified cross program collaborations as an important need of our county office for the citizens of Pike County. Pike County Fine Arts worked to fill this need in multiple ways.Fine Arts held a pumpkin patch for kids during the fall at the farmers’ market. Thirty pumpkins were purchased from local farmers. We also purchased paint, brushes, and other art supplies for the completely free event. Fine Arts and ANR worked together to design marketing
