THE BLUE M N A Bimonthly Publication of the Arts Council Volume 8 Issue 2 March/April 2001 Kentucky's New Poet Laureate

PHOTO: MICHAEL HALL Shares Some Thoughts about the Arts, Literature and a New Generation of Kentucky Authors

James Baker Hall is “ready, willing, and delighted” He feels there’s been a great omission in the about the opportunities that lie ahead of him as Kentucky’s curriculum of art in education, in that students are Poet Laureate for 2001-2002. taught about works of art but never get to talk to an artist. Hall intends to advocate for a greater presence “Kentucky has such an intense and rich literary culture of artists in education because artists “don’t think like right now. There are so many Kentucky authors with intellectuals do; they have different takes on what is national reputations who are writing at the top of their real and important.” form right now. I’m excited about representing the literary fruitfulness Kentucky has to offer,” said Hall. “The education system spends all its time putting things in your head, but most artists begin with emptying their A self-proclaimed private person, Hall never imagined heads out.” himself in a public role. Now he’s finding himself making plans to travel around to Kentucky’s communities to Also an acclaimed photographer, Hall plans to use both promote literature and the arts. mediums in his role as Poet Laureate. “I think my photography will make it very easy to talk about the Hall is particularly interested in talking to Kentucky’s richness of literary culture. Perhaps someone who schools. A professor at the for doesn’t have a connection with fiction or poetry can the past thirty years, Hall says there’s “no reason why, connect with a picture.” with this platform, some education can’t take place.” (Continued on page 2) 2—March/April 2001 THE BLUE MOON

KENTUCKY ARTS COUNCIL James Baker Hall AND STAFF

Council Members Hall’s latest book is a perfect example Hall is the author of five volumes of Janrose Tunnell, Chair ...... Richmond of such a connection. A Spring-Fed poetry, two novels and text for two Ann Duggins Schell, Vice Chair ...... Louisville Pond, set for an October release, photography books in his capacity as Jerry Baker ...... Bowling Green contains almost 100 photographs of contributing editor for Aperature. The Stephanie Bateman ...... Louisville Lila Bellando ...... Berea Hall’s most commended colleagues New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, Carol Black ...... Louisville including , , The American Poetry Review and The Geraldine Montgomery ...... Paducah Bobby Ann Mason, Ed McClanahan, Kenyon Review are among the many Jennifer S. Maddux...... Pembroke and Mary Ann Taylor Hall. The pictures magazines that have published Hall’s Everett D. McCorvey ...... Lexington are stories in themselves, displaying Lynn Morris ...... Hopkinsville work. He received a 1979-80 National Suzanne Rutledge ...... Somerset Kentucky’s most prominent authors Endowment in the Arts grant for poetry, Susan Schuler ...... Lakeside Park as they’ve matured over the years. and has won awards from Ironwood Pamela Papka Sexton ...... Lexington and the Cincinnati Poetry Review. In Susan Smith ...... Louisville Some of those photographs will be on addition to his teaching and writing Jean Yewell...... Owensboro display in the University of Kentucky’s career, Hall serves on the advisory Staff Art Museum in October as part of a board of the Kentucky Writers’ Coalition. Gerri Combs, Executive Director yearlong celebration of the school’s Lori Meadows, Executive Staff Advisor writing program. Orchestrated by Ed Lawrence, Public Information Officer He was chosen as Poet Laureate by Louana Tracy, Secretary Norman, the culminating event set The Poet Laureate Selection Committee for October 18, will be a group reading coordinated by the Kentucky Arts Administrative Branch Carolyn Starbuck, Administrative Branch Manager on the campus by several graduates Council. The Poet Laureate program, Deborah Thomas, Administrative Specialist of the program, including Hall. established by the Kentucky General Sandy Etherington, Grants Manager Assembly in 1991, highlights the Sandra Lawrence, Information Technology Administrator Teresa Wade, Fiscal Officer While Hall is delighted to represent accomplishments of a published Kentucky the Kentucky authors of his genera- author who has received critical Program Branch tion, he also intends to give special Daniel Strauss, Program Branch Manager acclaim and whose work has been in- John S. Benjamin, Arts in Education Director recognition to the new generation of formed by living in Kentucky. E. Chris Harp, Community Arts Director authors in the Commonwealth who Lori Meadows, Individual Artist Director are “very talented and already ac- Craft Marketing Program complished”—they’re “people with Fran Redmon, Program Director real passion, real gift.” Nancy Atcher, Product Development Coordinator Anna Marie Walker, Outreach and Training Vallorie Henderson, Special Projects Coordinator Connie Hicks, Marketing Specialist Marcie Christensen, Information Technology Manager Kentucky Writers’ Day Honors Robert Penn Warren Jill Roberts, Administrative Secretary The selection of April 24, 2001, as Writers’ Day celebrations for Kentucky Folklife Program the date of induction of James will include the passing of the baton Bob Gates, Folklife Director Brent Bjorkman, Folklife Specialist Baker Hall as Poet Laureate of from Richard Taylor, Kentucky Poet Joyce Miller, Folklife Specialist Kentucky is not just a coincidence. Laureate 1999-2000 to James Baker Paul E. Patton, Governor The General Assembly established Hall, Kentucky Poet Laureate 2001- Marlene Helm, Secretary, Kentucky Writers’ Day in 1990 to 2002. Governor Paul E. Patton will Education, Arts and Humanities Cabinet honor our strong literary tradition officiate the ceremony to be held in The BlueMoon is published bi-monthly by the and to celebrate the birth anniversary the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort at Kentucky Arts Council. Please send comments, questions of Todd County native son, Robert 11:00 a.m. EST. Readings by writ- and information to: Penn Warren; April 24, 1905. ers of the Affrilachian Poets group The Blue Moon Kentucky Arts Council will highlight the morning’s event, Old Capitol Annex Though regarded as one of the which is free and open to the public. 300 West Broadway Frankfort, Kentucky 4O6Ol - 1950 best poets of his generation, War- or call 5O2/564-3757V/TDD ren was better known as a novelist A few days prior to that, the Frankfort TOLL FREE: 1-888-833-2787 and received critical acclaim for All Arts Foundation will feature both E-MAIL: [email protected] WEB SITE: WWW.KYARTS.ORG the Kings Men which won the James Baker Hall and Richard Taylor This publication was printed with state funds. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Warren at their annual Leadingham Poetry served as Chancellor of the Acad- and Prose Reading and Reception. emy of Poets from 1972 until This ticketed event will take place in 1988, and was appointed the first the Old State Capitol on April 21, 2001 U.S. Poet Laureate in 1985. He at 8:00 p.m. For more details and died in 1989. information, contact: 502-875-4ART. THE BLUE MOON March/April 2001—3

National Endowment for the Arts Grants $127,000 to Kentucky Organizations In the first round of grants from the NEA, which represent approximately a quarter of their annual granting dollars, Kentucky organizations received six of the 718 Creativity grants awarded nationally and one Organizational Capacity grant among the 60 awarded nationally.

The Creativity (formerly Creation & Presentation) grants In the Organizational Capacity grant category, the support all aspects of the creation and presentation of artis- Kentucky Assembly of Local Arts Agencies (Consortium), tic work. Kentucky Arts Council director Gerri Combs says, better know as Arts Kentucky, was awarded $12,000 “I am pleased to see NEA funds coming to a number of our to support a consortium project to implement the Kentucky arts organizations. In my estimation the re- operation of the Kentucky Peer Advisory Network (KPAN). sources of the National Endowment for the Arts are KPAN is a technical assistance program developed to underutilized by our organizations. I hope that more of our assist arts organizations throughout Kentucky and will groups will begin to pursue federal funding opportunities, be implemented with the Kentucky Arts Council. from both the NEA and the US Department of Education." The purpose of the Organizational Capacity grants is to In the category of Creativity, the following organizations support projects that develop future arts leaders and received grants: enhance the skills of those already working in the field. This new grant category is the result of 10 colloquia Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc., Louisville, was convened in 1999 by the Arts Endowment to discuss awarded $35,000 to support the production of Ibsen’s strategies for strengthening art organizations. It refines Hedda Gabler. The production will be developed and the goals of the Endowments earlier grant category, directed by Anne Bogart and company members of the Planning & Stabilization. SITI Theater of New York, NY. For additional information, contact the National Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of the American Festival Endowment for the Arts’ Office of Communications at Project), Whitesburg, was awarded $40,000 to support 202-682-5570, or connect with the Endowment’s Web the American Festival Project. Artists from several dis- site at www.arts.gov. ciplines will work as partners with small Appalachian communities on collaborative art and performance projects during 2001-02. (Multi-state)

Louisville Ballet (Kentucky Dance Council), Louisville, was awarded $5,000 to support a program of four works. ~ HOT DATES! ~ The program will include Red Rose, by Stephen Mills of Ballet Austin; With Chaplin, by Amy Moore-Morton of Appalachian Ballet Company; Under Paradise, by Sarah KAC BOARD MEETINGS Slipper of Ballet Theater; and Le Spectre de la JUN 15 Frankfort/Old Capitol Annex Rose by Michel Fokine. SEP 21 Elizabethtown/TBA

Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, was EVENTS awarded $5,000 to support an exhibit of woodcuts and a APR 24 Kentucky Writers' Day/Poet workshop-style presentation of Limbus: a Mechanical Laureate Induction Opera. The woodcuts and opera are the extraordinary MAY 5 Kentucky Visions/Frankfort creations of artist/composer Jay Bolotin. OCT 3-7 Southern Arts Exchange/ Louisville Master Musicians Festival, Inc., Somerset, was awarded $5,000 to support the Master Musicians Festival. APPLICATION DEADLINES This three-day event will honor master musicians over MAY 11 Craft Marketing Jury by Slides the age of 50, and will offer workshops and master MAY 22 Kentucky Performing Arts on classes to attendees and students. Tour Directory MAY 30 Craft Marketing Jury by Sample Sarabande Books, Inc., Louisville, was awarded $25,000 (mail) to support the production and promotion of books by mid- JUN 4 Craft Marketing Jury by Sample career writers. Scheduled authors include Michael (hand delivered) Burkard, Eleanor Lerman and Ralph Angel. (Multi-state) 4—March/April 2001 THE BLUE MOON NNotesotes ffrromom thethe FFiieleldd

County is concerned that few of the There are numerous other partnerships Reporting from centers offer any arts activities. They emerging all the time. Quite often, the invited a committee of child care ex- ideas for partnerships come from the net- Bell, Boyle, Breathitt, Clay, perts from and Eastern work meetings and regional meetings that Estill, Floyd, Garrard, Harlan, KY University and representatives from are becoming more and more common. If Jackson, Johnson, Knott, two local arts councils to meet with you have an idea for a regional meeting that Knox, Laurel, Lawence, Lee, their staff and board and have come up you’d like to develop, please contact me. I Leslie, Letcher, Lincoln, with a excellent idea for a pilot project. would be glad to work with you. McCreary, Madison, 2. Jenny Wiley Park is partnering with Magoffin, Martin, Owsley, the Route 23 Cultural Heritage Net- Your Circuit Rider, Perry, Pike, Powell, Pulaski, work and regional Homemakers in the Judy Sizemore county extension agencies of their re- Judy Sizemore Rockcastle, Whitley, and 217 Black Lick Road Wolfe Counties. gion to develop a media product. They have not yet determined if they are go- McKee, KY 40447 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: If ing to make a slide show, a video, or a (606) 364-5831 you did not receive your copy of the March power point presentation, but they do [email protected] CONNECTIONS newsletter (#13), please let know that the purpose of the media FAX (606) 364-2940 me know. I accidentally deleted a portion of my product will be to convince park visitors address file! to visit artist studios, performance ven- ues, museums, and other cultural activi- This has been a busy spring. I’ve met with ties in the area. many interesting groups as they consider 3. Mayfield Elementary is partnering Reporting from projects for the coming year and try to find with a local bank, framing shops, the Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, ways to fund their ideas. Developing grant Regional Arts Education Network and Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, applications can be a stressful process, no local artists to develop a community- Carter, Clark, Elliott, Fayette, doubt about it, but I think that sometimes school partnership. A similar effort is Flemming, Gallatin, Grant, it’s really important to step back from the underway in Pulaski County involving Greenup, Harrison, Henry, deadline mania to reflect on the benefits of the Watershed Arts Alliance, local Kenton, Lewis, Mason, grant writing. The obvious benefit of grant businesses, and an after school program Menifee, Montgomery, writing is, of course, getting funded, but for at risk youth. Morgan, Nicholas, Owen, there are other benefits, less tangible but 4. The Kentucky Guild of Artists and Pendleton, Robertson, Rowan, possibly of greater import over the long term. Craftsmen is working with the EKU Scott, and Trimble Counties. Appalachian Center and the Center for The process forces you to do some reflection and Economic Development, Entrepreneur- Greetings! I welcome the coming of Spring self-assessment. What is it that you’d really ship, and Technology (CEDET), Ap- to the Northeast Region! It has truly been a like to do? Why is that important to you as an palachian Heritage Highways, and the “trying time” this winter. In addition to artist, an organization, a school, or a commu- coordinators of community festivals to scheduling problems based on the weather, nity? What would it take to do what you want explore the possibility of developing a communications have been a particular head- to do? What resources do you already have in regional cultural plan for festivals. ache for me. I’ve had problems with a “new hand? Who might work with you? 5. Berea College Office of Special Pro- and improved(?)” digital answering system, grams is partnering with the Richmond and an e-mail server that, when it was up It is this last question that really intrigues Housing Authority to include cultural and running, randomly lost batches of mail. me. Partnerships are the key to sustainable diverse arts and artists in the summer My message from the cosmos was loud and and far-reaching projects. This is a sam- tutoring program. clear. So watch this space next edition for pling of the creative partnering I’ve seen 6. A number of individual American In- ALL NEW contact information for me. over the past few months: dian artists are working as a group in partnership with several family resource I continue to be proud of and impressed by 1. The Children’s Action Network, which centers to develop community festivals the “regionalism” developing in the North- provides services to child care centers that present American Indian cultures east. The Route 23 Cultural Heritage Net- and family day care homes in Madison in an authentic and respectful manner. work has hired an executive director, and THE BLUE MOON March/April 2001—5

they are actively programming and fundraising. The establishment and strengthening of a Reporting from Reporting from designated Cultural District in Covington is forging new, unlikely, and wonderful part- Anderson, Breckinridge, Adair, Allen, Barren, Casey, nerships that not only address economic and Bullitt, Franklin, Hardin, Clinton, Cumberland, community development, but also celebrate a Jefferson, Jessamine, LaRue, Edmonson, Grayson, Green, neighborhood’s arts and cultural heritage. Marion, Meade, Mercer, Hart, Metcalfe, Monroe, Nelson, Oldham, Spencer, Russell, Simpson, Taylor, The Regional Arts and Cultural Network, Shelby, Washington, and Warren, and Wayne Counties. covering the corridor of adjacent counties Woodford Counties. from Maysville to Mt Sterling met in Feb- The January 2001 Regional Arts Meeting held ruary at the Montgomery County Gallery I am proud to be your new circuit rider and in Bowling Green was such a success that an- for the Arts. They bring together commu- am encouraged by the many contacts I’ve had other will be held April 21st at the Barn Lot nity-based organizations to network and in the last month. Circuit riding takes some Theatre in Edmonton, Metcalfe County. To share programming ideas and professional getting used to, and I am still learning make it more convenient for everyone, we will be development opportunities. The next meet- about the people and arts activities in my holding them around our region and it will give ing will address “Community Cultural Plan- territory. In the beginning I stayed close to us all an opportunity to sample each other’s fa- ning” hosted by the Ohio River Valley Art- the Frankfort office, learning the ropes and cilities and communities. A survey from the ists Guild in Old Washington in Mason simultaneously completing a number of TIP first meeting indicated that everyone wanted to County on May 23, 2001, 10:00-3:00. residencies that kept me busy. meet on at least a quarterly basis to share re- RSVP for this meeting to ORVAG’s Ann sources, ideas, problem solving and knowledge. Legris 606-763-6785. I have managed to get newsletters to most of We had mayors, theatre groups, educators, mu- my constituents and to build up my mailing sicians and artists, to name a few, in atten- Also of note, there will be an Regional list and contacts. If you did not receive a Feb- dance. It is good to know we have such a large Meeting for counties along the Ohio River ruary Connections 2001 newsletter, do contact arts community in our area ready and willing to (and those adjacent to them) for the region me. Most of my energy since the newsletter reach out to help each other and expand their stretching from Trimble County to Greenup has been spent trying to update that mailing skills. We will be having a KPAN advisor lead County. This meeting will be in Augusta, list while also compiling an e-mail list that will the April meeting for a discussion of Commu- in Bracken County, on Saturday, April 21, provide quick information and easy access to nity Cultural Planning. And we will make 11-3. Special thanks to Jane Wachs and everyone. If you haven’t received regular e- sure there is plenty of time for discussion of Nina Clooney for their interest in making mails from me, let me know your e-mail address current topics, area news and future plans. this happen. Details are not confirmed as we and I’ll make sure it’s added to the files. go to press, so please contact me for location, The Art Education Showcase held in Bowl- directions, and details. I’ve met with several artists and organiza- ing Green recently was a busy day for per- tions who have expressed interest in submit- formers, artists and teachers alike. If you I celebrate the forward thinkers that are ting project grants, and I hope to be of ser- didn’t attend, please contact me to get a working to erase county lines and acknowledge vice in the areas of grant writing, sounding copy of the 2001 Arts Resource Directory the fact that we ARE going to have to work board, and conduit to the Arts Council. As because it is a valuable tool. Under the together to succeed in the future. spring approaches I will be headed to my headings of “Creative Writing”, “Dance westernmost counties to make contact. and Creative Movement”, “Drama, Puppets Your Circuit Rider, & Storytelling”, “Music” and “Visual Casey Billings Your Circuit Rider, Arts” you will find one-page bio sheets in- POB 431 Normandi Ellis cluding descriptions of the artists and pro- grams, cost and contact information. Stanton, KY 40380 2367 Sullivan Lane (606) 663-0393 Frankfort, KY 40601 Arts organizations and communities will be [email protected] (502) 875-7956 interested in this also. Many times a per- [email protected] FAX (606) 663-0551 former coming to your school can also be (Continued on page 6) 6—March/April 2001 THE BLUE MOON NNotesotes FFrromom thethe FFiieleldd Continued \ booked for an evening performance for the Reporting from Rosine, a small community 8 miles east of community through your local arts council. Beaver Dam on State Rte 62 (Blue Moon It’s a great way to partner! of Kentucky Highway), is known around Ballard, Butler, Caldwell, the world as the birthplace of famed Don’t forget the Capitol Arts Alliance Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Kentucky musician, Bill Monroe. This offers many Educational Programs (School Crittenden, Daviess, Fulton, community of 75 is also building on an Day Performance Series, Arts-In-Education Graves, Hancock, Henderson, existing art tradition to provide new and Grants Program, Scholastic Art and Writ- Hickman, Hopkins, Livingston, exciting opportunities within Western ing, etc.) and that Horse Cave Theatre offers Logan, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, Kentucky. Long the home of the popular Educational Outreach Programs including McLean, Muhlenberg, Ohio, weekly Rosine Barn Jamboree and the annual Workshops on the Road and Outreach Mati- Todd, Trigg, Union, and Bill Monroe Festival, Rosine is already a nees. Want to know more - call me and I’ll Webster Counties. destination for people from around the world. see that you get the information. The Bill Monroe Foundation has been Art, history, and community have combined to created to restore and maintain the three Let me also remind you that we have several help create two exciting new projects from Monroe family buildings. There are also Folklorists on the Arts Council's Artist opposite ends of the Purchase/Western plans to build a museum, an ampitheatre for Roster now. They are based in our region (at Region. Western Kentucky University) and are ready concerts, and arrange tours of the Monroe homeplaces, so that visitors to Rosine can and willing to work with schools and commu- In Paducah, artists, businesses, civic and see first-hand the roots of one of nities through several grant programs. arts organizations, and the city government Kentucky’s home-grown musicians. have long partnered to bring the people from Congratulations to Horse Cave Theatre, cel- the city and the region back downtown to For more information about the Lowertown ebrating its 25th Silver Celebration!! This enjoy summer evenings. Now many of the Artist Relocation Program, which is actively years season opens with CANDIDA by George same groups are working together to turn an recruiting artists to move there and be part Bernard Shaw on June 22 with a reception at historic part of Paducah called Lowertown of the artist community, call Mark Barone 6PM CT followed by the performance at 7:30. into a neighborhood filled with artist’s at 270-444-8690. To learn more about homes and studios. If you are not receiving my Connections the Bill Monroe Foundation and its plans for the future, contact Campbell Mercer at Newsletter, you need to get me your updated One of the oldest parts of Paducah, filled 270-298-3531. They will be happy to share contact information. Please send me your new with lovely older homes, is Lowertown. This their ideas and plans with you. email address as it is the easiest, fastest and neighborhood has suffered during the last most environmentally friendly way (save those few years from neglect and low occupancy trees!) to get you up to the minute news about and many of the community activities have Your Circuit Rider, grants, area happenings and opportunities. I moved to the suburbs. am available to review your draft grants and Mary Jackson-Haugen assist you with getting the proper forms and Inspired by their earlier success in restoring P.O. Box 93 information. Keep in touch, invite me to your the vitality of the city’s downtown, the Mayfield, KY 42066 meetings and schools to find out more about people of Paducah are hard at work (270) 247-1088 the Arts Council and how we can work together. creating an artist’s colony in this historic [email protected] neighborhood in the heart of Paducah. FAX (270) 247-1057 The Lowertown Artist Association has Your Circuit Rider, already purchased an older home to use as a Pat Ritter gallery and workshop site, where resident P.O. Box 509 artists can offer classes to anyone inter- Burkesville, KY 42717 ested. The individual artist studios will be (270) 433-5605 open for scheduled tours, so that anyone [email protected] interested can visit. Lowertown is within FAX (270) 433-5605 easy walking distance of the other arts institutions within Paducah. THE BLUE MOON March/April 2001—7 Spring 2001 Grant Awards

FY2001 Individual Artist FY2002 Community Residency Professional Development Grant Awards

COUNTY NAME AMOUNT COUNTY ORGANIZATION AMOUNT JEFFERSON ...... Kathi Ellis ...... 300 CALLOWAY...... WKMS- FM ...... 10,000 JEFFERSON ...... Nancy Gall-Clayton ...... 269 HARLAN ...... Southeast Community College 10,000 KENTON ...... Kurt Nicaise ...... 441 JEFFERSON ..... Louisville Deaf Oral School...... 10,000 LARUE ...... Heath Seymour ...... 500 JEFFERSON ..... P. N. E. U. M. A...... 8,750 OWEN ...... Rebekka Seigel ...... 500 KENTON ...... Covington Community Center ... 2,500 WARREN...... Marsha Heidbrink ...... 500 MADISON...... Forward in the Fifth ...... 8,750 WHITLEY ...... Dal Macon, Jr...... 200 TOTAL ...... $50,000 TOTAL ...... $2,710

FY2002 Artist in Residence Program Sponsor FY2002 Community Arts Grant Awards Development Awards COUNTY ORGANIZATION AMOUNT BOYLE...... Ky School for the Deaf ...... 5,760 COUNTY ORGANIZATION AMOUNT CLAY ...... Clay County Middle School ...... 5,760 ADAIR ...... Adair County Arts Council ...... 2,000 CLAY ...... Horse Creek/Paces Creek F.R.C. ... 4,265 BOYD ...... Arts Council of Boyd County ...... 4,000 CLAY ...... Manchester Elementary School ...... 5,760 BOYD ...... Route 23 Cultural Heritage Network 3,000 DAVIESS ...... Foust Elementary School ...... 4,265 BOYLE ...... Arts Comm. of Danville/Boyle Co .3,000 FRANKLIN ...... Bondurant Middle School ...... 5,760 BOYLE ...... Arts for Kids, ETC ...... 5,000 LAUREL ...... East Bernstadt Independent School 4,265 BRECKENRIDGE Breckinridge County Arts Council ..1,000 LESLIE ...... Leslie County Board of Education ... 5,760 CLAY ...... Eastern KY Storytelling Guild...... 1,000 PERRY...... Buckhorn Children’s Center ...... 5,760 ELLIOTT ...... Elliott Co. Heritage Arts Network ..3,000 SPENCER ...... Spencer County Elementary ...... 5,760 ESTILL...... Estill Arts Council ...... 1,000 TOTAL ...... $53,115 FAYETTE ...... Guild for Artists with Disabilities ...1,000 FAYETTE ...... Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc...... 5,000 FAYETTE ...... African American Forum, Inc...... 5,000 FRANKLIN ...... Operation Half-Note...... 2,000 HENRY ...... Henry Co. Arts and Craft Guild .... 2,000 “I want to thank anyone who JACKSON ...... Appalachian Heritage Highways .... 1,000 spends part of their day creating. JEFFERSON ...... Kentucky Theater Project ...... 2,000 I don’t care if it’s a book, a film, KENTON ...... Duveneck Center ...... 1,000 a painting, a piece of theater, LAWRENCE ...... Lawrence County Arts Council...... 3,000 a piece of music, anybody who LOGAN...... City of Russellville- Arts Council ..3,000 LYON ...... Lyon County Arts Council ...... 3,000 spends part of their day sharing MASON ...... Ohio River Valley Artists Guild...... 2,000 their experience with us. I think MUHLENBERG .. Duncan Cultural Center...... 5,000 this world would be unlivable PIKE ...... A.R.C.H.E...... 3,000 without art.” PULASKI...... Musical Artists Society of America 4,000 PULASKI...... Watershed Arts Alliance...... 5,000 — Steven Soderbergh, who won the TAYLOR ...... Flute Society of Kentucky ...... 1,000 Academy Award for Best Director for UNION ...... Unicorn Players ...... 2,000

Quotable Quote the movie Traffic. WHITLEY ...... Artists’ Guild...... 1,000 TOTAL ...... $74,000 8—March/April 2001 THE BLUE MOON

FY2002 Artist in Residence Roster of Approved Artists

Gregory Acker John Gage Davie Reneau MUSIC/Shadow Puppets MUSIC VISUAL ARTS/Ceramics Louisville, KY Louisville, KY Glasgow, KY

Suzanne Adams Lea Gentile Patricia Ritter Quotable Quote Quotable Quote Quotable Quote VISUAL ARTS Quotable Quote Quotable Quote MUSIC/Performing Arts VISUAL ARTS Louisville, KY Murray, KY Burkesviile, KY

Pat Banks Chris Green Jennifer Rose VISUAL ARTS/Watercolor LITERARY ARTS/Poetry DANCE/Music Richmond, KY Lexington, KY Berea, KY

Mitch Barrett Louise Halsey Reba Rye MUSIC/STORYTELLING VISUAL ARTS/Fiber VISUAL ARTS/Painting, Drawing, Berea, KY Owensboro, KY Photography Frankfort, KY Katrin Blucker Yolantha Harrison-Pace PUPPET THEATRE/Creation & MULTI-DISCIPLINE/Theatre and Octavia Sexton Performance Movement STORYTELLING Oglesby, IL Danville, KY Orlando, KY

Carol Bolin Debra Hille Judy Sizemore STORYTELLING VISUAL ARTS LITERARY ARTS Manchester, KY Berea, KY McKee, KY

Russ Childers John Howell Amy Slade MUSIC/Traditional LITERARY ARTS/Poetry FOLKLORE Batavia, OH Chicago, IL Owensboro, KY

Jenny Collins Peter D. Jaquish Antoinette Turner LITERARY ARTS VISUAL ARTS/Printmaking DANCE Thornton, KY Covington, KY Louisville, KY

Larry Conger Mara Maldonado Allison Upshaw MUSIC/Appalachian Mountain DANCE MUSIC/Musical Theatre Dulcimer Louisville, KY Atlanta, GA Paris, TN Jane McTeigue Luann Vermillion Dorothy Dukepoo-Goode VISUAL ARTS/Bookmaking VISUAL ARTS/Papermaking STORYTELLING/Native American Bonnieville, KY Whitesburg, KY Arts London, KY Pamela Muss Donald Weber VISUAL ARTS/Native American FOLK ARTS/ Early Technology in Ashi El Eruoa-Bey Louisville, KY Green Woodwork & VISUAL ARTS Blacksmithing Louisville, KY Kurt Nicaise Paint Lick, KY VISUAL ARTS Normandi Ellis Covington, KY Maria Whaley LITERARY ARTS DANCE Frankfort, KY Alice Noel Flatwoods, KY VISUAL ARTS/Drawing, Ceramics, Kathi Ellis Sculpture and Weaving Tandra White-Jennings THEATRE Bowling Green, KY STORYTELLING Louisville, KY Lexington, KY Danny Reid Phyllis Free MUSIC Randall Wilson MUSIC Manchester, KY FOLK ARTS/Music Prospect, KY Big Creek, KY THE BLUE MOON March/April 2001—9

Kentucky Folklife Program — Focus on Education

Recent issues of the Blue Moon have highlighted everything from the Folklife Program's annual fall Folklife Festival to the community work in cultural heritage tourism and more. This month, we present an overview of education related programming the Kentucky Folklife Program offers.

Educational Opportunites in Connection Curriculum Materials with the Kentucky Folklife Festival Teachers who attend the folklife festival with their students will automatically receive A Teacher’s Guide to the Each September, more than 8,000 students come to Kentucky Folklife Festival. Though developed to Frankfort to observe and celebrate the state’s cultural complement the festival, this guide contains materials heritage during the Kentucky Folklife Festival. Students also useful for those who cannot attend the festivities. and teachers can hear traditional music, taste regional The teacher’s guide includes an introduction to folklore, cuisine, learn ethnic dances, listen to the lore of folklife readings, lesson plans, classroom activities, riverboat pilots, and make regional crafts. As an in- and a resource guide. terdisciplinary experience, the festival can serve as the focus of a study unit or enrich study units on history, The Kentucky Folklife Program, in conjunction with KET, music, art, social studies, and/or multiculturalism. has also produced two videos to enhance classroom studies.

Two days—Thursday and Friday—of this three-day Tour of Kentucky Folk Music. KET, 1996. VHS, 4/60 event are geared toward school groups and feature minutes tapes. A four-part series featuring traditional special children’s programming. To encourage interac- music from across the state. tion between students and artists, however, we must limit the number of school groups in attendance at any World of Our Own: Kentucky Folkways. KET, one time. Registration information for schools inter- 1998. VHS, 4/60 minute tapes. A four-part series ex- ested in attending will again be included in the April ploring folklife traditions ranging from music to occupa- issue of Kentucky Teacher or by contacting Kentucky tional lore. The titles of the programs are “The Culture History Center’s Educational Specialist Jennie Boyd at of Work” (Program 1 and 2), “The Culture of Play” (502) 564-1792 (Program 3 and 4), “Art of the Everyday” (Program 5 and 6), and “Customs and Beliefs” (Program 7 and 8). Training Workshops Teacher’s guides accompany each tape. You can obtain these materials directly from the KET Tape Distribution The staff of the Kentucky Folklife Program organizes Service, 600 Cooper Drive, Lexington, KY 40502-2296. workshops for educators interested in incorporating For more information call KET at 800-432-0951 or visit folklife into the classroom. These 1-3 hour workshops its Web site: www.ket.org. can be scheduled in Frankfort, at your school, or in a community center. The workshop will familiarize par- ticipants with existing educational resources and address the following questions: What is folklife? How can I KAC Educational Funding Opportunities use folklife in the classroom? How do I find and present local artists? —Folk Art Project Grants —Teacher Incentive Program (TIP) and Artist- In addition, the Folklife Program co-produced the in-Residence (AIR) Program professional development video, Using Folklife –Tour of Kentucky Folk Music Resources in the Classroom, in partnership with Kentucky Educational Television (KET). Two 90-minute For more information about any of the educational VHS tapes demonstrate how folklife traditions can be programs or services offered by the Kentucky Folklife used to connect educational and “real world” experiences. Program, please contact: Joyce Miller, Folklife Specialist, For more information or to obtain these videos, contact Kentucky Folklife Program, 100 W. Broadway, Frankfort, KET’s professional development staff at (800) 432-0951 KY 40601; 502-564-1792 or (toll free) 877-444-7867. or (859) 258-7271. Email address: [email protected]. 10—March/April 2001 THE BLUE MOON Craft Marketing Program News

Stephen Rolfe Powell Named Rude Osolnik Award Recipient for 2001

Kentucky’s craft community paid His greatest impact, however, has special honor to glassblower been in the Art Department at Centre Stephen Rolfe Powell of Danville, College, in Danville Kentucky, where Kentucky, with this year’s Rude he is currently the Paul L. Cantrell Osolnik Award. Powell was publicly Professor of Humanities. Powell was recognized at a dinner Friday, March hired by Centre in 1983 to teach 16, 2001, in conjunction with “A ceramics and sculpture. By 1985, Toolbox for Craftspeople: Marketing thanks in part to Corning Glass in Ten Kentucky for the 21st Century,” a workshop Harrodsburg, Philips Lighting in weekend presented by Danville and Corhart Craftspeople the Kentucky Art and in Louisville, he had Awarded Emeritus Craft Foundation and built a glass studio the Kentucky Craft and founded Centre’s Status Marketing Program. glass program, The award is named which attracts pro- The Kentucky Craft Marketing Pro- after Rude Osolnik, spective students gram has established a Kentucky the nationally from around the Crafted Emeritus Award to honor acclaimed woodturner country. Many Kentucky artisans who have from Berea, Kentucky graduates of the achieved an exemplary level of ac- who has devoted his program have gone complishment and/or notable state life to the develop- on to graduate or national recognition. The emeritus ment of his craft. school and to be- status give those honored lifetime Powell is the sixth come successful juried participant status and eligibil- recipient of this pres- glass artists. This ity for all Program activities without tigious award which fact was recently the need to jury or rejury their work recognizes artists for demonstrated at the or new work. their contributions to Kentucky Art and the craft community, Craft Foundation’s The 2001 recipients are Curtis Alvey, preservation of craft traditions exhibition featuring Kentucky glass Elizabethtown; Lestel and Ollie through teaching and sharing, and artists, which was heavily dominated Childress, Park City; Dorothy exemplary workmanship. by Centre graduates. Brockman, Annville; Jack Johnson, Morehead; Annie Hunt, Stephen Powell was born in 1951 in Previous Rude Osolnik award recipi- Lawrenceburg; Homer Ledford, Win- Birmingham, Alabama. After receiving ents include fiber artist Alma Lesch, chester; Rude Osolnik, Berea; Emily a Bachelor of Arts in Painting and weaver Emily Wolfson, fiber artist Wolfson, Murray; and the late Alma Ceramics at Centre College, Powell Arturo Sandoval, instrument maker Lesch, Shepherdsville, (awarded went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts Homer Ledford, and ceramist Joseph posthumously). Awardees were rec- in Ceramics at Louisiana State University. Molinaro. ognized at the awards dinner on It was while at LSU, between 1980 March 2, 2001 at Kentucky Crafted: and 1983, that Powell had his first The Market. experience in glass blowing. Glass KENTUCKY CRAFTED: THE MARKET has been a full time obsession for 2001 Facts and Figures Honorary members will be selected him since then, whether he is teaching Attendance each year with nominations submit- it or producing his own work. Exhibitors 288 ted by juried participants of the Retail Shops 491 Craft Marketing Program. Selection Glass students from around the Public 13,052 criteria is based on quality of work, globe have been inspired by Powell Sales juried participant status for ten or through workshops, demonstrations At Market (est.) $1,250,000 more consecutive years, state and and lectures that he has performed 2001 Projection(est.) $3,000,000 national awards or honors, and/or in Russia, Ukraine, Australia, New significant record of contribution to Zealand and all over the United States. the craft community in other areas. THE BLUE MOON March/April 2001—11

Appalshop’s Voices From Home Tourism Guide on Kentucky Art and Craft Released in Cincinnati for April

Since its birth in 1969 Appalshop has grown from a War on Poverty program to a multidisciplinary arts It’s no secret to the Kentucky center producing and presenting work about Department of Travel that Appalachia and rural America. Appalshop greeted the Kentucky’s artisans and 21st Century by launching a national tour—Voices craftspeople are among the from Home. The tour is both a celebration of best in the nation. Now Appalshop’s 30th anniversary and a collaboration with they’ve found a way to share people and organizations across the country that that with the rest of the world. share Appalshop’s commitments to cultural equity and artistic excellence. Lead by Commissioner Bob Stewart, and in collaboration Appalshop in partnership with the Urban Appalachian with the Kentucky Craft Mar- Council and the Cincinnati Arts Association and other keting Program, the Depart- local organizations will present a week of film ment of Travel has published screenings and live performances. The Appalachian a guide to Kentucky’s craftspeople and artisans. The Film Festival on Sunday, April 22, is the culminating brochure, A Sampler of Kentucky Art and Craft, is de- event in Cincinnati of Voices from Home: A signed for tourists visiting Kentucky, and conveniently Celebration of Community Culture and Arts. divides the state into four regions showcasing the hotspots for Kentucky’s finest crafts in each. The bro- The screenings feature regional premieres of chure includes galleries and studios of juried craftspeople Appalshop’s most recent release It’s Hard to Tell in the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program. It also includes the Singer from the Song, and Media Working the top festivals and craft retailers in Kentucky. Group’s Cratis Williams: Living the Divided Life. Voyageur Media Group’s The Will to Read: Estel From Paducah’s Market House Theater to Ashland’s Sizemore’s Story, will also be screened. Paramount Performing Arts Center, talents in the per- forming arts abound across the Commonwealth and Urban and rural Appalachian youth productions are included as well. Kentucky’s cultural history takes include the premiere of Neighborhood Images: the spotlight in features on historic Berea and Shaker Hopes, Dreams, Voices, by teens in Lower Price Village, as well as in segments on the Museum of the Hill; Reaching for Higher Ground: Youth Activism American Quilter’s Society and the Museum of Kentucky in the Mountains by Appalshop youth; A Lesson Folk Art. One of Kentucky’s oldest and best-loved Learned in Time by Spicy Yam, Southern Perry crafts, pottery, is showcased through excerpts from Joe County (OH) Youth Arts & Media Center; and Racism: Molinaro’s book, A Pottery Tour of Kentucky. Thorough An Issue We All Face by The Youth Media Project in listings of other resources, further reading on Kentucky’s Charleston, WV. craft, and other craft attractions in Kentucky complete this informative tour book. The final event features Appalshop’s Stranger with a Camera, an award-winning documentary that “This cooperative project illustrates the state’s new explores Appalachia’s conflicting relationship with the commitment to cultural heritage tourism. The arts media. Stranger with a Camera premiered at the are a vital component of the statewide plan and this Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on the is a tremendous new opportunity to increase visibility PBS series P.O.V. A discussion on “Media Ethics” for our artisans and attract tourists to our state,” moderated by Paul Knue, editor of The Cincinnati Post says Fran Redmon, Kentucky Craft Marketing Program will follow. Panelists will be filmmaker Elizabeth Director. Barret, co-producer Dr. Judi Jennings and Dr. Cedric M. Powell, professor of law at the University of A free copy of A Sampler of Kentucky Art and Craft Louisville. is available from the Kentucky Dept. of Travel by phone, 1-800-225-TRIP (8747); e-mail, [email protected]; For more information, contact: Maxine Kenny, or mail, KDT, 500 Mero Street, 22nd floor, Frankfort, KY Director, Voices From Home/Appalshop, 40601. The guide is also available on the Kentucky (606) 633-0108, e-mail [email protected]. Craft Marketing Program’s website, www.kycraft.org. 12—March/April 2001 THE BLUE MOON

A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Dear Colleagues, planned to give each applicant a fair reading and recommendation. I hope that all of you who have Thanks to the ongoing work of Kentucky applications up for panel review will make every effort Citizens for the Arts and Arts Kentucky, to send a representative to the panel meeting. The the statewide advocacy campaign is discussions provide an excellent learning opportunity in taking shape. Just recently, a letter was grant writing. It is also a chance to answer any sent to organizations receiving funding questions about your grant that might be directed to from the Kentucky Arts Council, asking those present. for information about their boards. Basic information, such as when boards hold regular On a final note, please try to support Kentucky writers meetings and names and addresses of board members, by attending a Kentucky Writers’ Day celebration, will be entered into a database to enable record either here in Frankfort in the Capitol Rotunda or in keeping of transactions and mailings relating to arts your own community. A special feature of the Frank- advocacy. It is essential that we hear back from all of fort ceremony is the installation of Kentucky’s new Poet you who have governing boards! Our plan includes a Laureate, James Baker Hall. personal presentation to each arts board across the state between May and November.

The spring round of grant panels has begun. This is a very busy time for KAC staff who administer the grant process, as well as KAC board members who chair the panels. Every step of the grant process is carefully

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