THE BLUE M N A Bimonthly Publication of the Arts Council Volume 7 Issue 1 January/February 2001

Arts Council Announces Governor’s Awards in the Arts 2000 ailboxes for ten artists, and He then devoted himself to Governor's Award in the Arts Mthose dedicated to the arts, strengthening the arts and National Award. Gilliam is contained a little surprise beyond humanities sectors of the cabinet. a renowned member of the the usual Christmas cards and It was Roy who gave life to Washington Color School of holiday greetings. A letter from the Governor Patton’s desire to painters, and known for Governor congratulated them on showcase Kentucky’s diverse innovations in taking the paint their selection as recipients of one artistic talent, by establishing beyond the canvas - creating of the Governor’s Awards in the the partnership between KET billowing fields of color and three- Arts for the year 2000. Recipents and Ashland Inc. that enabled dimensional hinged images. will be honored at a public “In Performance at the Governor’s In addition to his presence in ceremony on February 20th, at Mansion” to become a statewide museums around the nation and 1:30 p.m., in Commonwealth Hall celebration of Kentucky’s artists. world, Gilliam has numerous public of the Kentucky History Center He also attended and greatly installations including work located enjoyed every arts event he could at the Reagan International The Governor’s Awards are the fit into his schedule, and his office Airport, Washington, D.C. and commonwealth’s highest honor in walls reflected his personal love of LaGuardia Airport, New York, N.Y. the arts, recognizing artists, arts visual art. He laid the groundwork Perhaps as important organizations, individuals, for expansion of the Governor’s to Kentuckians as any of his educators, government leaders, School for the Arts and helped accomplishments, Gilliam has media, and corporate citizens, for secure funding for the Kentucky remained loyal to his Louisville their outstanding and significant Artisan Center. He received roots by serving on the board of contributions to the arts in numerous awards during his the J.B. Speed Art Museum, Kentucky. lifetime, which were often shared donating work for auction to the with his wife Juanita Betz Peterson. and the The Milner Award These awards include The Lane Louisville Visual Art Association, The Milner Award was established Report’s Leader in Education and and returning to participate in in 1977 in honor of B. Hudson the Arts; the arts events and Milner, a Louisville utility executive Kentucky’s Architect of the Dream, educational offerings. and civic leader whose the YMCA Adult Black Achiever, and contributions to the arts in Transylvania University’s Previous National Award Kentucky remain important to this prestigious Hellenic Ideals award. Recipients day. In 1987 Governor Martha Roy was a leader who recognized George Wolfe, Marsha Norman, Marvin and Morgan Smith, , Christine Layne Collins created the the importance of the arts and Johnson Smith, Joe Downing Governor's Awards in the Arts education in the lives of all people Program, which included all but the and we as Kentuckians continue to Artist Award to Lee Luvisi Folk Heritage category. The Folk benefit from his vision Lee Luvisi, born and based in Heritage Award is a new category and commitment. Louisville, has for over four for the year 2000. The Milner decades enjoyed an enviable Award remains the most Previous Milner Award career as concert pianist and prestigious tribute presented for Recipients is today one of the most highly outstanding individual contributions Governor Julian Carroll, Moritz Bomhard, James respected artists on the American to the arts in Kentucky. Still, Anna L. Huddleston, Barry Bingham, Sr., Wendell Berry, Jesse Stuart, Harlowe Dean, Jean musical scene. His activities Ritchie, Jon Jory, Robert Penn Warren, Rude through the years have included Milner Award to Roy P. Osolnik, Lucille Little, Sherry Jelsma, Harriet a formidable array of engagements Peterson, Ph.D. (posthumously) Simpson-Arnow, Homer Ledford, Marilyn Moosnick, Alun Jones, Robert Bruce French across all of the 50 states, as well Throughout his professional life, as in Canada, Mexico, Australia Dr. Roy Peterson displayed a National Award to and Europe. He has performed dedication to providing everyone Sam Gilliam with nearly every important he touched access to education Sam Gilliam's abstract paintings orchestra in North America and and the arts. Roy was appointed by hang in museums ranging from under such distinguished Governor Paul E. Patton as the national Gallery of Art conductors as Leonard Bernstein, Secretary of the Education, Arts in Washington, D.C. to the Tate Eugene Ormandy and Robert Shaw. and Humanities Cabinet after long Gallery in London, making him His solo appearances with the service to higher education. an obvious choice for the 2000 (Continued on page 12) 2—January/February 2001 THE BLUE MOON

KENTUCKY ARTS COUNCIL 2000 Governor's Award Artist Rebekka Seigel AND STAFF Rebekka Seigel began making quilts Artist's Statement over 20 years ago when she learned I chose the Nine-Patch because it is one of that she was expecting her first child. the oldest and best loved of all quilt block Council Members Her grandmother had m ade quilts all designs. These quilts are based on that old Janrose Tunnell, Chair ...... Richmond her life, and taught her the basics, tradition but the format of the block has Ann Duggins Schell, Vice Chair ...... Louisville but Rebekka left the traditional focus Jerry Baker ...... Bowling Green become the design for the quilts themselves. Stephanie Bateman ...... Louisville of her grandmother’s work to Each of these award quilts is a combination Lila Bellando ...... Berea express her own personal view of the of several quiltmaking techniques. The fabrics Carol Black ...... Louisville world through her quilts. Applique, are hand dyed in small batches to create Geraldine Montgomery ...... Paducah reverse applique and batik are the eccentricities in the color and texture. All Jennifer S. Maddux ...... Pembroke favored techniques in her award the piecing is done on the machine, but the Everett D. McCorvey ...... Lexington winning work which has been applique and quilting are done entirely by Lynn Morris ...... Hopkinsville included in Quilt National, Visions, hand. It is this concept of the "hand made" Suzanne Rutledge ...... Somerset and The American Quilt Society’s that inspires the imagery for these pieces. Susan Schuler ...... Lakeside Park annual competition. Rebekka also Nearly every art form can be termed "hand Pamela Papka Sexton ...... Lexington represented Kentucky in the first made" in some way, whether it is the hand Susan Smith ...... Louisville Great American Quilt Competition that holds the pen or the musical instrument, Jean Yewell ...... Owensboro and continues to create new works dances through the air, or even claps to show while pursuing a rigorous teaching appreciation for the art forms of others. Staff schedule that includes workshops for Gerri Combs, Executive Director These pieces honor and applaud the work Lori Meadows, Executive Staff Advisor adults, and programs for children as of the recipients for the "hand-up" they gave Ed Lawrence, Public Information Officer an artist in the schools. This work to the support and creation of the arts in Louana Tracy, Secretary has taken her across the country and Kentucky. to Northern Ireland where she was Administrative Branch an artist in residence in 1995. Her Carolyn Starbuck, Administrative Branch Manager Deborah Thomas, Administrative Specialist work has been featured in many Sandy Etherington, Grants Manager books on contemporary quiltmaking Sandra Lawrence, Information Technology Administrator and craft including Kentucky Crafts Teresa Wade, Fiscal Officer and Living With Quilts by Phyllis Photo: M. Rezny, Lexington, KY George. Rebekka's work can be Program Branch Daniel Strauss, Arts Program Branch Manager found in private and museum John S. Benjamin, Arts in Education Director collections throughout the United E. Chris Harp, Community Arts Director States. Lori Meadows, Individual Artist Director

Craft Marketing Program Fran Redmon, Program Director Nancy Atcher, Product Development Coordinator Anna Marie Walker, Outreach and Training Connie Hicks, Marketing Specialist Kitty McAllister, Media Communications & Marketing Jill Roberts, Administrative Secretary

Folklife Program Bob Gates, Folklife Director Louanna Tracy Brent Bjorkman, Folklife Specialist James Baker Hall Poet Laureate for 2001-2002 Joyce Miller, Folklife Specialist

Paul E. Patton, Governor The Poet Laureate Selection Committee coordinated by the Kentucky Arts Marlene Helm, Secretary, Council has selected University of Kentucky professor of English, James Baker Education, Arts and Humanities Cabinet Hall to succeed Richard Taylor as the new Poet Laureate for Kentucky. The Poet Laureate program was established by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1991 to highlight the accomplishments of a published Kentucky author who has The BlueMoon is published bi-monthly by the Kentucky Arts Council. Please send comments, questions received critical acclaim and whose work has been informed by living in and information to: Kentucky. The Poet Laureate also has the duty of spearheading the activities The BlueMoon of Kentucky Writers’ Day, celebrated on April 24 of each year, in honor of Kentucky Arts Council Kentucky author Robert Penn Warren’s birth date. Induction as Poet Laureate Old Capitol Annex will be April 24, 2001, during Frankfort’s Kentucky Writers’ Day event. 300 West Broadway Frankfort, Kentucky 4O6Ol - 1950 or call 5O2/564-3757V/TDD Hall graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1957, and has taught TOLL FREE: 1-888-833-2787 English there since 1973. In 1961, Hall earned a master’s degree from E-MAIL: [email protected] Stanford, where he received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. He published WEB SITE: WWW.KYARTS.ORG his first book of poetry in 1975, and is the author of five volumes of This publication was printed with state funds. poetry, two novels and text for two photography books in his capacity as contributing editor for Aperature. The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The American Poetry Review and The Kenyon Review are among the many magazines that have published Hall’s work. He received a 1979-80 National Endowment in the Arts grant for poetry, and has won awards from Ironwood and the Cincinnati Poetry Review. In addition to his teaching and writing career, Hall serves on the advisory board of the Kentucky Writers’ Coalition. THE BLUE MOON January/February 2001—3

Director Named for Kentucky Artisans Center

Victoria Faoro began January 1 as Kentucky can be proud of and capacities. the newly hired director of the one that makes a real difference in She was recruited in 1990 to develop Kentucky Artisans Gateway Center the lives of all it serves.". a book production department for the to be built near Berea. Faoro, former "I’m continually impressed, “ she said, Society, oversee editing executive director of the Museum of “by the wealth of arts and artists and production of historical the American Quilter's Society in found in Kentucky and by the and instructional books and edit the Paducah, heads the new center programs Kentucky has developed Society’s quarterly magazine mailed funded by the 1998 General Assembly to promote and market these to over 70,000 members. to promote the sale of Kentucky’s arts resources at home and abroad.” She worked with founders to plan and crafts products and expand the Faoro earned both a bachelor’s and and open the national quilt museum state’s cultural tourism program. Ann master’s degree at State University in 1991, served on its board, directed Latta, Secretary of the Kentucky of New York at Albany, NY. Her the exhibit program and managed Tourism Development Cabinet, previous experience includes stints operations during the annual quilt pointed out that the artisans’ center is as coordinator of special projects in show. She was named the museum’s now in the design stage. Actual art at Hartwick College at Oneonta, full-time director in 1994. Her other construction on the $8 million project NY, executive director of the Upper activities have included jurying art is expected to begin this fall with a Catskill Community Council of the and quilt exhibits and fairs, curating projected completion date in spring Arts also at Oneonta, and project exhibits for museums and galleries 2003. Faoro, who was a full-time director in the marketing department and serving as an arts consultant artist for of the Center for Humanities at Mount for smaller arts agencies in rural New a number of years and professes to Kisco, NY. For the past ten years, York State. She is a member of the a lifelong interest in the arts and Faoro has been involved with the Kentucky Association of Museums crafts field says she looks forward American Quilter’s Society and board of directors, served as founding to “working with a wide array museum in Paducah in various vice-president for the Paducah Film of partners to make this center one Society and is on the Renaissance Kentucky Paducah Advisory board. KPAN Expansion Underway for 2001

In March of 2000 Arts Kentucky, in partnership with the Kentucky Arts Council, submitted a grant application to the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This grant, funded for $12,000, will allow us to continue and expand the Kentucky Peer Advisory Network (KPAN). New features of the program will include additional topic areas, workshops and focused technical assistance.

The new topic areas include: Technology Assessment Planning, Accessibility, Strategic Planning and Organizational Self Assessment. Technology Assessment Planning moves an organization from assessing its mission to using technology to strengthen their organizing work. Accessibility will address ways organizations and schools can make their programming adaptable, inclusive and available to people with disabilities. Strategic Planning is a management tool. The plan is ultimately no more, and no less, than a set of decisions about what to do, why to do it, and how to do it. The process can’t actually be completed during a KPAN consultancy, but any organization that is going to do a strategic plan will need to do some important groundwork before beginning the process. Organizational Self Assessment is another tool organizations can use to gain insight into how different members of the group (board and staff, for example) prioritize their activities. The self-assessment can be done in a number of ways and in various settings. Ultimately its value is in stimulating meaningful information sharing and discussion.

Arts Kentucky will contract with KPAN advisors to conduct workshops throughout the state in their area of expertise. The workshops will be open to arts organizations, schools, individual artists and craftspeople, and anyone else who’s interested in participating. The purpose of the workshops will be to provide opportunities for people to learn more about how they can improve their organizations, schools or communities by addressing such issues as diversity and multiculturalism, cultural heritage tourism, accessibility and more.

Another feature of the new and improved Kentucky Peer Advisory Network will be the addition of the Technology Assistance Program (TAP). TAP will focus on providing help to organizations in the area of computer hardware & software, theatrical lighting systems andperformance sound systems. If you are interested in learning more about how you can participate in the KPAN or TAP programs please call or email Arts Kentucky for more information. Trish Salerno Executive Director Arts Kentucky 624 W Main Street Louisville KY 40202 1-877-561-0701 [email protected] www.artsky.org 4—January/February 2001 THE BLUE MOON

Community Arts Program News (Program News Cont'd. on Page 11)

One of the most interesting trends in Kentucky arts I’ve seen develop in my six years at the Kentucky Arts Council is regionalism. As we all know, Kentucky’s 120 counties are both sometimes a source of local pride and often a hindrance to arts planning. With conflicting arts schedules, duplication of effort and a lack of critical financial and human resources, arts organizations can easily fall into a sort of isolation. Often we wonder, “Does anyone else have to deal with these problems?” Recently I attended a meeting at Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park in Mt. Olivet, Kentucky, about half an hour north of Lexington. At this meeting, called by Casey Billings, Kentucky Arts Council Circuit Rider, sixteen representatives from surrounding counties came together for a day of sharing and regional network building. We spent the morning getting to know each other and our arts organizations. There were so many people I had not met before, and I was grateful for the opportunity to get to know them better. To me the most important thing that happened that day was that people came together to share experiences and problems – learning that they were not alone. I’ve seen this trend all over the state, not just in Mt. Olivet. The Eastern Kentucky counties along U.S. 23 have been getting together for almost two years now to plan for the preservation and promotion of the area’s cultural heritage. A regional meeting took place on January 13th for some of Kentucky’s western-most counties. Much of the interest in regionalism has been spurred by Kentucky’s five regional coordinators, or Circuit Riders, who have seen a real need for resource sharing and for linking artists, arts organizations and others. This is for sure, in part, also Chris Harp participates in the first meeting of the Tri County Regional Arts Council at Blue Licks Battlefield due to the expanse of geographic territory that must be covered by each Circuit State Resort Park. Rider in their daily duties. I encourage you to think seriously about how we can cross boundaries in our work. How can we share our knowledge and our resources to build a strong arts network across Kentucky, not just in the "Golden Triangle?" With the ever-strengthening relationship among the Kentucky Arts Council, Arts Kentucky and Kentucky Citizens for the Arts, the arts are in a state of change and growth. In order to carry a unified message to the Kentucky General Assembly for increased funding, it is necessary that we work to build these regional networks. If you haven’t already, I urge you to join Arts Kentucky and Kentucky Citizens soon. To find out more, visit our web site and follow the links to these organizations.

Kentucky Folklife The Highway 23 Driving Tour Since 1998, the KFP has had a hand Program News in documenting the folklife of eastern Kentucky’s Highway 23, officially designated “Country Music Highway.” Throughout 2001, the Kentucky Folklife Program A two-year cultural survey of the region (KFP), an interagency program of the Kentucky identified distinctive traditions and art forms ranging Arts Council (KAC) and the Kentucky Historical Society from woodcarving to square dancing to fiddle playing. (KHS), will continue its ongoing mission to document, Now some of this information will be made available conserve, and present the state’s living cultural in the form of a driving tour. traditions or folklife. Here are some of the projects In conjunction with the KAC’s Community and programs we’ll be focusing on in the first part Arts Program and the Kentucky Department of Travel’s of the new year. Cultural Heritage Tourism Program, the KFP applied for and received a T-21 Transportation Enhancement Community Scholars Program Grant. These funds will be used to develop an audio The newly developed Community Scholars program tourists can listen to as they explore three Program trains individuals to conduct a cultural resource driving loops along Highway 23. The narration will inventory or survey of their community. By identifying provide information about the region’s traditions and documenting their community’s unique blend and historical sites, and will be accompanied by of traditional art forms, residents lay the groundwork a guide book and map. for enhanced cultural planning and economic development. The Kentucky Folklife Festival 2001 In October, Judy Sizemore, one of the KAC’s Plans for this September’s Kentucky Folklife Circuit Riders, organized the first Community Scholars Festival are already underway. As in previous years, workshops for individuals living in the Appalachian the festival will feature one of the state’s unique cultural Heritage Highways region. Individual sessions focused regions. This year that region will be Highway 31. Also on topics such as interviewing and photographing artists known as Dixie Highway, Highway 31 extends from and their work, organizing information in computer Louisville through Elizabethtown and Bowling Green and databases, and developing community arts into Tennessee. We are currently working with graduate programming. With assistance from Western Kentucky students in the Western Kentucky University’s Folk University’s Folk Studies Program the KFP hopes Studies Program to develop programming that features to create a curriculum guide for a statewide Community basket-making traditions from the Mammoth Cave area Scholars Program. THE BLUE MOON January/February 2001—5

and African-American folklife from Tour of Kentucky beginner or intermediate level. Bowling Green/Warren County, Grants: These grants assist Prospective master and apprentice among other topics. communities in their efforts to present artists must apply as partners. Funds live performances by regional folk are used to provide the master artist Folklife Grant Deadlines musicians. Performances may focus with a stipend and cover travel Deadlines for the KAC grants on a particular region of the state, a expenses for up to one year of study. supporting folklife projects are specific genre of music (i.e. gospel, Deadline: March 30 drawing near. If your organization blues, fiddle) or another innovative is interested in applying for any of the theme. Performing artists are Artist-in-Residence Program: The grants listed below, please contact generally chosen from the Tour of Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program folklife staff at 1-888-833-ARTS Kentucky Folk Music roster, but the places traditional artists and/or (2787) or visit the Kentucky Arts use of local folk musicians can also be folklorists in school residencies of Council’s web site at www.kyarts.org. arranged. The KAC provides three to nine months. After matching funds to help cover the completing a survey of the region’s Folk Art Project Grants: musicians’ fees. Deadline: March 30 folklife, folklorists bring local artists Project Grants help community into the classroom where students organizations identify, document, Folk and Traditional Arts actively explore their heritage and conserve, and/or present traditional Apprenticeship Grants: These culture. AIR grants cover up to one- cultures. Grants can support a wide grants encourage the perpetuation of half of the artist or folklorist’s fees range of activities including, but not Kentucky’s living traditions by and range from approximately $3,200 limited to, regional surveys, festivals, enabling a master artist to share his/ to $8,000, depending on the length of concerts, tours, conferences, exhibits, her knowledge and skills with a less the residency. Deadline: January 22 community residencies, teacher experienced artist. These grants are training, and audio and video intended to provide opportunities for recordings. The KAC funds up to apprentices to advance their skills and half of the total project cost and are not intended for training at a requires a one-to-one match. Deadline: March 30 Fall 2000 Grant Awards Teacher Incentive Project (TIP) Grants

COUNTY ...... ORGANIZATION ...... AWARD FRANKLIN ...... Capital Day School...... 1,050 ANDERSON ...... Anderson Middle School G320...... 1,050 GALLATIN ...... Gallatin Co. Elementary School .... 1,050 BARREN ...... Eastern Elementary ...... 1,050 GARRARD ...... Garrard County High and Middle Schools 1,050 BELL ...... Page Elementary School ...... 1,050 HARDIN ...... Elizabethtown FRYSC ...... 525 BOYLE...... Danville High School...... 525 HARDIN ...... G.C. Burkhead Elementary School 1,050 BOYLE...... Jennie Rogers Elementary ...... 1,050 HARDIN ...... T. K. Stone Middle School ...... 1,050 BRACKEN ...... Marie Roberts-Caney Elementary . 1,050 HARDIN ...... Valley View Education Center ...... 525 BREATHITT ...... Rousseau Elementary School...... 1,050 HOPKINS ...... Browning Springs Middle School ... 1,050 BULLIT...... Cedar Grove Elementary ...... 1,050 JEFFERSON ...... Westport Traditional Middle ...... 1,050 CAMPBELL ...... St. Thomas School ...... 1,050 JEFFERSON ...... Thomas Jefferson Middle School ... 1,050 CHRISTIAN ...... Christian County Middle School .... 1,050 JEFFERSON ...... St. Francis of Assisi School ...... 525 CLARK ...... Strode Station Elementary School .... 525 KENTON ...... Glenn O. Swing Elementary ...... 1,050 CLAY ...... Big Creek Elementary School ...... 1,050 KNOTT ...... Cordia School ...... 1,050 CLAY ...... Paces Creek Elementary School ... 1,050 KNOX...... Artemus Elementary School ...... 1,050 CLAY ...... Clay County Middle School ...... 1,050 LARUE...... Magnolia Elementary ...... 525 CLAY ...... Horse Creek Elementary ...... 1,050 MADISON ...... Mayfield Elementary ...... 1,050 CLAY ...... Laurel Creek Elementary ...... 1,050 MAGOFFIN ...... Middlefork Elementary School...... 1,050 CLAY ...... Burning Springs Elementary ...... 1,050 MARSHALL ...... Benton Elementary School ...... 1,050 CLAY ...... Manchester Elementary School ..... 1,050 MCCRACKEN .... Paducah Middle School ...... 1,050 DAVIESS ...... Deer Park Elementary ...... 525 NELSON ...... Old Kentucky Home Middle School ... 525 ESTILL ...... Estill Middle School ...... 525 NELSON ...... Nelson County High School ...... 1,050 ESTILL ...... West Irvine Elementary School ..... 1,050 NELSON ...... Cox’s Creek Elementary School ... 1,050 FAYETTE ...... M I A M I atRussell Elementary School .. 1,050 NELSON ...... Old Kentucky Home Middle School 1,050 FAYETTE ...... Veterans Park Elementary School . 1,050 PERRY ...... Buckhorn Children’s Center ...... 1,050 FAYETTE ...... School for Creative&Performing Arts .... 1,050 SCOTT ...... Garth Elementary School ...... 525 FAYETTE ...... Southern Elementary School ...... 525 TRIMBLE ...... Bedford Elementary School ...... 1,050 FRANKLIN ...... Good Shepherd ...... 1,050 TRIMBLE ...... Milton Elementary School ...... 1,050 FRANKLIN ...... Peaks Mill Elementary ...... 525 WARREN ...... Oakland Elementary School ...... 525 FRANKLIN ...... Second Street & Frankfort High School 1,050 WARREN ...... Potter Gray Elementary School ..... 1,050 FRANKLIN ...... Peaks Mill Elementary ...... 1,050 WASHINGTON ... Washington County Elementary .... 1,050 FRANKLIN ...... Second Street Elementary ...... 1,050 TOTAL...... 56,175 6—January/February 2001 THE BLUE MOON

Fall 2000 Grant Awards (cont'd.) Fellowship Awards Fiction Inter-Disciplinary COUNTY NAME AWARD COUNTY NAME AWARD FAYETTE ...... Kim Edwards ...... 5,000 FAYETTE ...... Doreen Maloney ...... 1,000 JEFFERSON ...... Christie Hodgen ...... 5,000 JEFFERSON ...... Kristina McGrath ...... 5,000 Non-Fiction/Playwriting JEFFERSON ...... Ruowei Strange ...... 5,000 COUNTY NAME AWARD JEFFERSON ...... Kathleen Driskell ...... 5,000 JEFFERSON ...... Lorna Littleway ...... 1,000 MONTGOMERY ...... Paul Prather ...... 5,000 JEFFERSON ...... Robin Justus ...... 1,000 ROWAN ...... Rebecca Bailey ...... 5,000 JEFFERSON ...... Liz Fentress ...... 1,000 Non Fiction/Playwriting MONTGOMERY ...... Liz Mandrell ...... 1,000

COUNTY NAME AWARD Musical Composition FLOYD...... Pamela Shingler ...... 5,000 COUNTY NAME AWARD FRANKLIN ...... Normandi Ellis ...... 5,000 FAYETTE ...... Michael Johnathon ...... 1,000 JEFFERSON ...... Ronni Lundy ...... 5,000 JEFFERSON ...... Dianne Aprile ...... 5,000 Poetry NICHOLAS ...... Arwen Donahue ...... 5,000 COUNTY NAME AWARD Musical Compostion FAYETTE ...... Chris Green ...... 1,000 FRANKLIN ...... Jonathan Greene ...... 1,000 COUNTY ...... NAME ...... AWARD JEFFERSON ...... Georgia Wallace ...... 1,000 FAYETTE ...... Raleigh Dailey ...... 5,000 WARREN ...... Alice Templeton ...... 1,000 GARRARD ...... Laurence Bitensky ...... 5,000 TOTAL...... 21,000 Poetry Kentucky Arts on Tour COUNTY NAME AWARD COUNTY ORGANIZATION AWARD HART ...... Carolyn Koo ...... 5,000 BELL ...... KY Mountain Concert...... 7,500 HART ...... Davis McCombs ...... 5,000 BOURBON ...... Paris-Bourbon Co. Public Library ...... 300 JEFFERSON ...... Martha Greenwald ...... 5,000 BOURBON ...... Paris-Bourbon Co. Public Library ...... 600 JEFFERSON ...... Clifford Wieck ...... 5,000 BOYD...... Paramount Arts Center Inc...... 5,000 JEFFERSON ...... Edmund August ...... 5,000 CHRISTIAN ...... Pennyroyal Arts Council ...... 6,000 JEFFERSON ...... Frank Walker ...... 5,000 DAVIESS ...... Downtown Owensboro Inc...... 2,200 TOTAL...... 100,000 DAVIESS ...... RiverPark Center, Inc...... 1,800 EDMONSON ...... Mammoth Cave National Park ...... 800 Professional Assistance Awards FAYETTE ...... Singletary Center for the Arts ...... 5,000 FLOYD...... Mountain Arts Center ...... 300 Fiction FRANKLIN ...... Frankfort Arts Foundation ...... 7,500 HARDIN ...... Hardin Co. Arts Council ...... 2,500 COUNTY NAME AWARD HENDERSON..... Henderson Area Arts Alliance ...... 7,500 FAYETTE ...... Jerrie Oughton ...... 1,000 HOPKINS ...... Glema Mahr Theatre ...... 5,000 FAYETTE ...... Barbara Hausman ...... 1,000 JEFFERSON ...... Governor’s School for the Arts ...... 600 JEFFERSON ...... Mary Lou Northern ...... 1,000 KENTON ...... Behringer-Crawford Museum ...... 1,175 JEFFERSON ...... Kirby Tittle ...... 1,000 MADISON ...... Richmond Area Arts Council ...... 4,000 JEFFERSON ...... Ron Seitz ...... 1,000 MERCER ...... Ragged Edge Comm. Theatre ...... 750 JEFFERSON ...... Paul Griner ...... 1,000 METCALFE ...... Barn Lot Theatre ...... 2,225 KENTON ...... Karen George ...... 1,000 NELSON ...... Stephen Foster Drama Assoc...... 4,000 MADISON ...... Laura Nagle ...... 1,000 PERRY ...... Greater Hazard Area Arts Cncl...... 7,500 MADISON ...... George Strange ...... 1,000 PULASKI ...... Master Musicians Festival ...... 900 OLDHAM ...... Larry Williams ...... 1,000 WARREN ...... Bowling Green Public Library ...... 2,812 PULASKI ...... Wanda Fries ...... 1,000 WHITLEY ...... Fine Arts Assn of SE Kentucky ...... 3,725 WOODFORD ..... Magical, Musical, 4th, Inc ...... 7,500 TOTAL...... 87,187 THE BLUE MOON January/February 2001—7

along the corridor of counties from Mason to Montgomery. The first meeting was Reporting from a resounding success, with participants from NNotesotes Ballard, Butler, Caldwell, NNotesotes Mason, Nicholas, Harrison, Robertson, Montgomery, Bourbon and Fleming Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, counties. The next meeting will be on Crittenden, Daviess, Fulton, Wednesday, February 21, 2001 at 10 a.m. Graves, Hancock, Henderson, at the Montgomery County Gallery for Hickman, Hopkins, Livingston, ffrromom Logan, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, the Arts on Main Street in Mt. Sterling. We are going to be meeting quarterly McLean, Muhlenberg, Ohio, to exchange information and plan regional Todd, Trigg, Union, and technical assistance opportunities. Webster Counties. thethe Speaking of technical assistance, I’m thethe Charles Manchester, Executive glad to report that regional use of KPANs is picking up. For those of you not yet Director of the Paducah Symphony, using this amazing resource, KPAN is retired on December 31, 2000 after 19 a free consultancy offered in the form of years on the job. During his years a half-day or one-day consultancy. Arts of service, often as the sole employee, FFiieleldd Kentucky administers this program, and Manchester has seen the number of maintains the approved consultancy roster. musicians in the orchestra grow as have Arts Kentucky pays the consultant’s fee, the crowds. Reporting from you are responsible for the consultant’s From a small beginning and expenses. It’s a great program, and an a small budget, the Paducah Symphony excellent opportunity to receive valuable has spread its wings under Manchester’s Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, guidance and now stands poised to become Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, assistance for very little cost. Kentucky Crafted: The Market will be the principal tenant of the future Four Carter, Clark, Elliott, Fayette, Rivers Center for the Performing Arts. Flemming, Gallatin, Grant, in Louisville the first weekend in March, at the Kentucky Fair & Exposition But perhaps his favorite part of Greenup, Harrison, Henry, the orchestra’s growth has been the Kenton, Lewis, Mason, Center. If you haven’t been, it’s a great way to acquaint yourself with the abundant creation of the orchestral and choral Menifee, Montgomery, youth ensembles, two groups where Morgan, Nicholas, Owen, talent in our state. I am working with Judy Sizemore, Circuit Rider for the Manchester states that he has found Pendleton, Robertson, Rowan, a special home. Scott, and Trimble Counties. Southeastern region, to design a workshop/ training weekend for craft cooperatives But while this article is occasioned for the 2002 Market. We will be scoping by Manchester’s retirement, it is not Greetings for the New Millenium! 2001 is solely about him. As I travel through here and the region is all a-flurry! For those of out training opportunities this coming March. If you have ideas about what kinds my region, I meet many ‘Charles you in the North/Northeastern region who are Manchesters,’ people who work long preparing a grant application for the first time, of hands-on participation you might like at the Market, please let us know. and hard to give their communities arts or are applying for the first time in a new opportunities for everyone. category, don’t forget that I’m here to help. Be careful out there this winter. Write those grants! Call me if you need me. Most often they are volunteers and If you have questions about your application or they spend many unpaid hours hanging art the granting process, please call me. The greatest exhibits, painting sets, directing plays, advice I can give is to get an early start – don’t Your Circuit Rider, arranging for concerts, selling tickets. wait till the last minute. While many of these Ca sey Billings The list of similar contributions like applications are not difficult, the necessary data P.O. Box 431 these to arts and communities is endless. collection can be time-consuming. Stanton, KY 40380 The best part about travelling through Thanks for all the inquiries I’ve (606) 663-0393 the region and seeing the results of all received about the regional effort developing [email protected] this hard work is, for me, seeing how FAX (606) 663-0551 8—January/February 2001 THE BLUE MOON

much creativity there is in the state and how Perhaps these examples will give you carefully each of the projects is crafted to Reporting from inspiration for a residency or project for fit the community’s needs. your school or community. Please contact Ideas have ranged from a tiny Western Adair, Allen, Barren, Casey, me for more information on how to make Clinton, Cumberland, Quotable Quote Quotable Quote Quotable Quote Kentucky county’s celebration of NationalQuotable Quote Quotable Quote your ideas a reality with the help of the Art Month with an exhibit of their own Edmonson, Grayson, Green, Kentucky Arts Council. artists’ works in the local history museum, Hart, Metcalfe, Monroe, to an concert celebrating a community’s Russell, Simpson, Taylor, musical roots while involving young artists Warren, and Wayne Counties. Your Circuit Rider, as part of the event, and to a community Pat Ritter As we start this New Year, I would like theatre’s presenting plays celebrating their P.O. Box 509 own history. to share with you two programs made Burkesville, KY 42717 That list is endless, too. It’s hard to possible in part by recent grants from (270) 433-5605 capture in words the richness of the the Kentucky Arts Council in our region: [email protected] traditions of our own state. It is just as Through a Project Grant, FAX (270) 433-5605 difficult to measure the work of everyone the Cumberland Co. Middle School involved to make that richness accessible to (in partnership with 4-H; the local arts everyone. council; county schools and the Middle So, I’d like to take this opportunity in School 21st Century Community Learning an issue of the Blue Moon which opens with Center) brought in the Missoula Children’s Reporting from the list of the Governor’s Awards in Arts Theatre for a one-week residency this past to offer my own praise and recognition to November. Over 395 students were involved Bell, Boyle, Breathitt, Clay, the people of my region and Kentucky as a in at least one workshop; 52 K-8 students Estill, Floyd, Garrard, Harlan, whole who work so hard to bring the arts to starred in two performances and 4 high Jackson, Johnson, Knott, everyone. I’m proud of all of you. school students were trained as assistant Knox, Laurel, Lawence, Lee, Charles Manchester will have the best directors. An estimated audience of 800 Leslie, Letcher, Lincoln, of both worlds for a while. He’ll be a part- folks attended the performances; which were McCreary, Madison, time consultant to the Paducah Symphony, video taped by Arts and Humanities Magoffin, Martin, Owsley, but he’ll also have time to fish, garden, students. In addition to helping the Perry, Pike, Powell, Pulaski, practice his cello, and spend more time with students learn theatre arts and skills; Rockcastle, Whitley, and his family. build confidence and work together as a Wolfe Counties. One last note, Manchester finally got to team; “much progress has been achieved sit out front with the audience during the towards the goal of having the community I feel extremely fortunate in my region to be last formal concert under his tenure. As all and schools develop a greater appreciation able to partner with a number of outstanding other arts volunteers and employees will for the arts and the value of arts education regional organizations. One of my favorite understand, he’s always been too busy for positive growth and development organizations is Forward in the Fifth. Forward backstage to actually sit down and enjoy the of children”. in the Fifth is a private nonprofit local education concert. And in January 2001, Roster Artist fund that serves school systems in 41 eastern and I wish you well Charles and we won’t Sarah Paulson will begin a 36-day artist in southern Kentucky counties. It was organized forget your contribution to the arts and to residency program at Potter Gray Elemen- in 1986 to address the fact that Kentucky’s Fifth Western Kentucky. tary School in Bowling Green. The main Congressional District (as it was prior to 1991) project will engage a core group of about had the highest percentage of adults without Your Circuit Rider, 75 fifth grade students by exploring and a high school education in the nation. studying puppetry and creating their own Through the years, Forward in the Fifth has Mary Jackson-Haugen marionettes. evolved from supporting its broad mission of P.O. Box 93 Sixth grade students will be involved helping to improve the educational attainment of Mayfield, KY 42066 (270) 247-1088 with building and painting sets for a public citizens in the region to the more specific current [email protected] performance as a culminating event with mission: to bring communities and schools FAX (270) 247-1057 the core group writing their own scripts. together to ensure all children have THE BLUE MOON January/February 2001—9

the educational opportunities necessary firm believer in learning through the arts. about these programs or to subscribe to to live full and productive lives. In the Multicultural appreciation is a major focus Forward in the Fifth’s free newsletter, visit Forward in the Fifth philosophy, the arts of Forward in the Fifth. The Jesse Stuart their website at www.fif.org or contact them are an integral part of those essential Foundation recently published the second in a at P.O. Box 833, Berea, KY 40403: Phone: educational opportunities. series of cultural resource manuals Forward in (859) 986-3696 and Fax: (859) 986-1660. Forward in the Fifth has long supported the Fifth is developing for teachers. arts activities and programs through its APPALACHIAN LITERATURE/ local affiliates. This year, they partnered APPALACHIAN CULTURE is a collection with the Kentucky Arts Council to sponsor of arts rich, literature-based activities for the Your Circuit Rider, their first Community Residency with middle and high school classroom. It includes Judy Sizemore theatre artist/poet, Hasan Davis. Working a section on Multi-Ethnicity in Appalachia, 217 Black Lick Road with Forward in the Fifth staff and featuring the works of Affrilachian poets Frank McKee, KY 40447 members of local affiliates, Hasan recently Walker and Crystal Wilkinson, Cherokee (606) 364-5831 organized arts-based workshops storyteller Freeman Owle and Cherokee poet [email protected] for at-risk youth in Jackson, Madison, and Marilou Awiakta. It also highlights the works FAX (606) 364-2940 Rockcastle counties. Students learned of Kentucky authors like Rebecca Bailey, Garry to express themselves and communicate Barker, Clifton Caudill, Billy Clark, Jenny through the arts. “Activities ranged from Galloway Collins, James Goode, Jim Hays, Loyal improvisational activities to the creation Jones, Robert Mason, Gurney Norman, Gwyn of tableaux, or living pictures,” explained Rubio, and Rob Williams as well as Appalachian New Circuit Rider Travis Estridge, Program Associate, in writers from other states, including Sharyn an editorial in Forward in the Fifth’s McCrumb. A similar resource manual for Announced newsletter, FAST FORWARD. teachers in grades K-6 presents activities based “The overall objective of this workshop on the works of George Ella Lyon, Anne Shelby, Normandi Ellis has replaced was to develop a framework for violence Cynthia Rylant, Paul Brett Johnson and others. Sue Massek as the Circuit prevention through the creative arts,” Forward in the Fifth is currently developing a Rider for the counties below. Estridge continued. A goal of the resource manual on using literature by Native Normandi began on January residency has been to develop a model for American authors as a springboard for creative 15th. Please feel free to arts-based prevention programs that can be activities that explore Native American cultures contact Normandi and intro- replicated in other communities. Hasan, in an authentic and respectful manner. I am duce yourself. who is also a lawyer and chair of the state delighted to be working with them as the author Juvenile Justice Committee, will be for this series. presenting workshops at Forward in the Program areas of Forward in the Fifth Anderson, Breckinridge, Fifth’s Summer Institute for teachers in include: Arts and Crafts Suitcase, Library Bullitt, Franklin, Hardin, July to help other communities consider how Power Program, Local Affiliates, Jefferson, Jessamine, LaRue, they might develop similar arts-based Newsletter, Professional Development Marion, Meade, Mercer, Nelson, programs. Opportunities, and the Student Oldham, Spencer, Shelby, Another aspect of the workshops was Entrepreneurship Center. These programs Washington, and Woodford to promote cross-cultural appreciation. are available to schools and Local Affiliates Working with dance instructor Aminata in the following counties: Adair, Bell, Normandi Ellis Cairo-Baruti, students gained insights into Breathitt, Casey, Clay, Clinton, 2367 Sullivan Lane the significance of dance in African Cumberland, Estill, Floyd, Garrard, Green, Frankfort, KY 40601 cultures through hands-on dancing and Harlan, Jackson, Jessamine, Johnson, (502) 875-7956 drumming activities. At the conclusion Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, [email protected] of the workshop, students willingly shared Lincoln, Madison, Magoffin, Martin, their thoughts in journals. “These students McCreary, Menifee, Metcalfe, Monroe, learned more about African culture in two Morgan, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Powell, hours than they probably would in their Pulaski, Rockcastle, Russell, Taylor, whole academic career,’ stated Estridge, a Wayne, Whitley and Wolfe. To learn more 10—January/February 2001 THE BLUE MOON

Arts Development & Challenge Grant Revisions for 2001 As a result of adjustments in the panel review process, a number of grantees in the last funding cycle experienced significant variances, both up Please also note that organizations and down, that occurred in their Arts Development support. Although the Arts that receive line item funding through Council does not expect another round of grants with the same level of the Education, Arts and Humanities variances, applicants are cautioned to budget conservatively. The FY 2002 Cabinet continue to be ineligible for panel process will remain the same as last year. Applicants will be evaluated Arts Council operational support in and scored by the panel solely on the information presented and according to the same fiscal years for which they the criteria percentages listed in the grant information. Funding history will not receive line item funding. be part of the panel’s discussions. Therefore, your funding in one cycle should If you have any questions about not be taken as a baseline for funding in the next cycle. any of the above information or the The guidelines for FY 2002 have been changed to read: “Arts application process in general, please Development grants shall not exceed 10% of an organization’s prior contact Dan Strauss, Arts Program year operating expenses for arts programs.” Branch Manager at 888/833-2787, This enforcement of a 10%-funding cap has been necessary because ext. 4804 or [email protected]. of the static level of available grant dollars and the growth in number and budget size of applicants. Keep in mind that for FY 2001 the average grant percentage of applicants’ prior year operating expenses was 5.8%. Percentages ranged from 0.5% to 7.5%. The good news is that all grant applications were funded. Individual Artist One other change of note is the emphasis on the applicant organization’s responsibility to show it exists in a “restricted fundraising environment.” Program News This explanation is critical to the Impact of Support criteria - 25% of applicants’ scores. Upcoming Deadlines To further clarify what constitutes a “fundraising environment,” the following additional sentence has been added to the guidelines: “In explaining why The purpose of the Individual Artist fundraising on the local level is limited, applicants should address Professional Development Grants such issues as geographic location, population statistics, the range of is to fund activities that help artists locally accessible funding sources, earned-income options, and any further their careers. Eligible events special extenuating circumstances.” and activities might include Beginning with the FY 2002 application cycle, Challenge Grant applicants attendance at workshops, will submit complete applications every other year. On alternate years, conferences, and master classes; applicants will submit abbreviated applications consisting of the application production or mounting expenses for cover pages, compliance/signature page, statement of eligible income, a first time performance or exhibition and audit (if required, per Challenge Grant Program guidelines) or financial opportunity of significance; statement - no support material or other attachments. Notice has been sent to and preparation of work samples. past grantees informing them of which type of application they will be required The program is open to both to submit for FY 2002. emerging and established artists who For the FY 2003 funding cycle, the two groups of applicants will reverse have attained a certain level of application procedures - those who submitted complete FY 2002 applications proficiency as represented by work will do abbreviated applications, and those who submitted abbreviated FY 2002 samples included with the application. applications will do complete applications. Requests may be up to $500 with Organizations applying for the first time in the Challenge Grant Program a one-to-one match required. at the February 2, 2001 deadline, or past Challenge Grant applicants that did Applications for this program are not apply in the last funding cycle, must submit the complete Challenge Grant accepted on a quarterly basis. Program application. The next deadline of March 1, 2001 is To facilitate the Arts Council’s audit of applicants’ eligible income, the for activities taking place April-June, description of the required statement of eligible income now reads as follows: 2001. “On an attachment, please list the total amount, and a breakdown by The deadline for Individual category, of eligible income, that can be easily tracked in your audit Artist Project Grants is March 30, or financial report.” 2001 for projects taking place July 1, The Application Instructions now recommend “that supporting materials 2001 through June 30, 2002. be limited to 15 pages/pieces of any combination... Letters of This program provides funding for support, reviews, and other photocopied materials must be on artist initiated activities that might standard-size, single-sided, 8 1/2 x 11 white paper only. Applicants include performances, exhibitions, should carefully prioritize and select supporting materials. Excessive or other presentations. Eligible supporting materials will not be forwarded projects should involve the non-arts for panel review.” sector in sponsorship of and In every application cycle, all applicants are required to supply on the participation in arts events, and to application cover page the current state and federal legislative districts, as develop new audiences. Artists may well as the names of the legislators, for the applicant’s mailing address - if you apply for up to $3000, with a one-to- do not know this information, please contact your County Clerk’s office. one match. One/half of the match The required number of copies of certain application materials has been may come from the artist. reduced - refer to the Application Checklist for specifics. Artists who are included in the Arts Development and Challenge Grant Programs Guidelines, Instructions, Performing Arts on Tour Directory and Intent to Apply and Application forms are available on the Arts Council’s have had several new opportunities web site at www.kyarts.org, or by mail on request. available to them this year! THE BLUE MOON January/February 2001—11

An informational meeting for The informational meeting will artists interested in applying to the include an overview of the program, KY Craft Visual Arts at the Market program and specifics on applying for inclusion, will be held Thursday, March 1, 2001 followed by a special VIP tour of the Marketing from 1:00-3:00 PM at the Kentucky Market, held March 1-4 at the Fair and Fair and Exposition Center in Exposition Center. Program News Louisville. Designed to assist To obtain a registration form for Kentucky visual artists interested the free workshop, call toll free 1- in reaching wholesale and retail 888-833-2787, x. 4824 or New Membership Category markets, Visual Arts at the Market is email:[email protected]. a component of Kentucky Crafted: For information on any of these The Program has established The Market. Visual Arts at the Market Individual Artist Programs contact Lori a Kentucky Crafted Emeritus includes original two-dimensional art, Meadows toll free at 1-888-833-2787, designation with lifetime honorary as well as printed items derived from ext. 4812 or email: juried participant membership to original art such as posters, note [email protected] recognize those Program juried cards, and calendars. participants and Kentucky craft artists who have achieved an exemplary level of accomplishment and/or notable state be selected each year. Nominations will be solicited Arts in Education Program News from Program juried participants. Selection will be based on, but is not The Arts Education calendar has and benefited from the presentations limited to, some, or all, of the follow- been full to overflowing for the past by Cheryl Fekete. This was an ing: quality of work, Program juried couple of months. I’ve been kept important first step in training our participant status for ten or more hopping partly due to our regular roster artists to work with this age consecutive years; acknowledgement programs, but a couple of new group as well as deliver professional from state and national groups with initiatives have added to the fun. development to early childhood awards or honors, such as the ACC The new school year saw the teachers. Fellow, KGAC Fellow, Rude Osolnik launch of many of this year’s Artist in We’re also working with the Award, Governor’s Award in the Arts, Residence programs around the state. Department of Juvenile Justice to KAC Artist Fellowship, or NEA Fellow- All told fourteen residencies, ranging develop our programs for use in their ship. A significant record of contribu- from 20 days to 9 months will be system. We’ve already had two tion to the craft community in other providing hands-on experience to meetings and Chris Doerflinger is areas will also be considered. Kentucky students in the visual arts, helping to develop the artist-training Honorary members will be eligible theatre, music and literature. This will component for this new focus. for all Program activities without the be the final year for 9-month In my spare time I’ve made need to jury or rejury their work or residencies. In an effort to reach presentations to the Kentucky Arts new work and will receive all Program more schools, the 9-month residency Education Association, Teacher event notifications and mailings. has been replaced with one lasting 16 Leadership Northern Kentucky, on KET Members will participate in special weeks, or 48 days. 2 TV and serve on the advisory events targeted specifically for them On December first, the board boards of VSA KY, the Kentucky or their work. Promotion to approved the Teacher Incentive Theater Association and the Kentucky marketing/show entities will be at Project (TIP) panel's recommendation Alliance for Arts Education. the member’s discretion. to fund 60 of 82 applications for those Don’t forget the AIR application one and two week residencies, which deadlines: January 15 for Artists and CMP Jurors Announced will occur from January to June. The January 22 for Sponsors. Applications next TIP application deadline will be are on our website; www.kyarts.org Jurors for the CMP’s annual jury March 1, 2001 for residencies under Arts Education. Stay tuned. session that will be held in June, occurring from July through 2001, will include: Andrew Glasgow, December. Southern Highlands Craft Guild The day after my TIP panel Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina meeting I boarded a plane at 6:00 AM (craft administrator for programs and bound for Pittsburgh and this year’s collections); Craig Nutt, Kingston National Assembly of State Arts Springs, Tennessee (craftsperson Agencies (NASAA) conference (yes, and returning juror); Nancy Dunn, I’m still king/queen). It was great to Middlebury, Vermont (retailer). see my colleagues from all 50 states Juried participants will receive a jury and Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, packet through the mail in the spring. Guam, the Marianas, etc. The Arts Education track was very good but Deadline for slide entries is Friday, many folks let me know that they had May 11. Samples should be mailed a better time in Louisville at last or shipped to arrive no later than year’s conference. Wednesday, May 20 and samples The day after that it was off to the delivered on Monday, June 4. For Kentucky Leadership Center for our more information, contact Anna Marie annual Artists Retreat. This year our Walker, 1/888/592/7238, ext. 4815, focus was on early childhood [email protected]. education and all of us truly enjoyed (Cont'd. on page 14) 12—January/February 2001 THE BLUE MOON

2000 Governor's

Louisville Orchestra alone now Community Award to Saundra bringing in thousands of tourists to the number 120, more than any other Kilijian and Master Musicians area each summer. Kentucky is guest artist. As a chamber pianist, Festival famous for its many community music Mr. Luvisi has collaborated with many festivals, and the Master Musicians of the world’s foremost musicians and Saundra Kilijian Festival is clearly an example of the ensembles. A long-time Artist Saundra Kilijian has dedicated herself best that Kentucky has to offer. member of the Chamber Music to community arts in the Pennyroyal Society of Lincoln Center, he has also region of the commonwealth through Previous Community Award participated in most of America’s her work as the Arts and Education Recipients major summer music festivals. In Coordinator and Executive Director Appalshop, Ashland Area Art Gallery, Jenny Wiley Theatre, Elmer Lucille Allen, Wayne Smith, Mary 1963 Luvisi assumed his present of the Pennyroyal Arts Council, and as Yeiser, B. Caliman Coxe, Emily Wolfson, Bowling position as Artist in Residence at the an advocate for the arts throughout Green Arts Commission, Ft. Knox Alumni Performing University of Louisville School of Music the region. As the Arts and Education Arts Center, Rowan County Arts Council, Elizabeth Paxton, Fohs Hall Community Arts Foundation, where he is also Professor of . Coordinator, Kilijian began the Dorothy Brockman, John Edmonds, Tom Sternal, His achievements have established SmARTS (students meeting the arts) Princeton Art Guild, Cumberland County Arts Council, a reputation of which his fellow native program, a collaborative program Living Arts and Science Center, Roots & Heritage Festival, Billie Jean Osborne, Dr. Diane Roketenetz/ Kentuckians can be proud. between local schools and the James E. Bigg Early Childhood Development Center, Pennyroyal Arts Council that now Paramount Arts Center Previous Artist Award Recipients serves 20,000 students annually. Harlan Hubbard, Alma Lesch, Helen Starr, John Tuska, Since becoming the Executive Education Award to Warren Hammack, Robert S. Whitney, Adale O’Brien, Director of the Pennyroyal Arts Nancy Carpenter Ray Fry, Paul Owen, Barney Bright, Ed Hamilton, Nancy Carpenter has devoted Minnie Adkins, David Livingston, George Zack, Lee Council in 1989, her accomplishments Sexton in Hopkinsville and Christian counties her career to ensuring that include the restoration and Kentuckians of all ages receive arts Business Award to Peoples Bank maintenance of the historic Alhambra education, whether in schools, of Madison County Theatre, support for the annual communities, or through the media. Peoples Bank of Madison County has Dogwood Festival in Christian County, Nancy began her work in arts proven that promoting the arts can and the development and completion education with the Kentucky Arts be good business. Peoples Bank has of the mural wall at Founders’ Square Commission in 1976 as coordinator made a commitment to working with in downtown Hopkinsville, a collage of what was then known as the local artists in order to meet their of period signs representing the Artists-in-the-Schools program. unique financial needs, and in doing history of the community. Although During her tenure at the Arts Council, so has helped Berea artists as well as she retired in 1999, Kilijian continues Nancy designed the Artist Residency the entire community and the tourism to influence the arts in her community Program and the Teacher Incentive business that it depends upon. Other through volunteer activities. She is a Program both of which are still in ways that Peoples Bank of Madison fine example of the role that an place today; serving children, County has committed itself to re- individual can play to keep the arts teaching teachers and employing thinking good business practices alive in her or his community. artists across the commonwealth. include hosting an annual artisan She pioneered the arts education appreciation dinner, offering a Master Musicians Festival movement by serving on the National permanent exhibit area where local The Master Musicians Festival, though Endowment for the Arts Advisory artists can display their work, and less than a decade old, has become Group on Arts Education and the Arts supporting the development of the one of Kentucky’s – and the Education Committee for the National Gateway Artisans Center. Peoples Southeast’s – most popular cultural Assembly of State Arts Agencies Bank of Madison County has proven events. The Festival offers a wide in 1985. She was also appointed to itself to be a leader among Kentucky range of musical genres and talents, the Arts Education Task Force for the businesses through its support and brings brilliant musicians from Kentucky Department of Education in of the arts in its community. around the world to Somerset, 1989. As director of Arts & Cultural Kentucky, offering community Programs and Executive Producer Previous Business Award members and visitors a unique for the Arts at Kentucky Educational Recipients festival experience. Also highlighted Television, Nancy Carpenter has been Brown-Forman Corporation, South Central Bell, are the talents of local musicians, as responsible for delivering quality arts Ashland Oil, Philip Morris USA, Humana Inc., Texas and arts education programming to Gas Transmission, Martin Coal Company, Liberty well as area artists who participate National Bank, Toyota, Trans Financial, Inc., Charlie in the Sheltowee Artisans’ arts and Kentuckians as well as to the nation. Johnson (Active Transportation), The Commercial crafts fair. The Festival is a result of Her many production projects include Bank of Grayson, William & Meredith Schroeder, Bank the six-part Signature series focusing of Louisville the vision of its founder and director, Gabrielle Mattingly Gray, whose work on Southern writers, Mountain Born: was initially supported by a Kentucky The Jean Ritchie Story, the eight-part Arts Council Community Arts grant in Kentucky Folkways series, and the 1993. The Festival was included in ongoing In Performance at the the Southeast Tourism Society’s Top Governor’s Mansion series, as well 20 Events for the month of July 2000, as educational programming that and has had a significant economic includes Art On-Air, Imagine That, and impact on the Pulaski County region, Old Music for New Ears. THE BLUE MOON January/February 2001—13

Awards in the Arts

Nancy is currently working on several also known as the Country Music The Folk Heritage Award projects including Creating Stories Highway is being developed. The traditional arts are the backbone and Music in partnership with the Recently, Latta has been a leader in of Kentucky’s arts and culture. From Louisville Orchestra and DanceSense, developing a Cultural Heritage singing in churches to quilting a project to premiere in the fall. In Tourism Master Plan that will lead at home, thousands of Kentuckians addition to her many production and state agencies forward in cooperation make traditional arts part of their project credits, Nancy Carpenter is to develop cultural heritage tourism in everyday lives. In the year 2000, respected throughout the state for Kentucky. the Kentucky Arts Council established working closely with educators, a special category of the Governor’s advocates, and artists to make the Previous Government Award Awards to honor the men and women arts more accessible to all Recipients who have made an outstanding effort Kentuckians. Senator David Karem, Mayor Scotty Baesler, to perpetuate and promote Kentucky’s Representative Jody Richards, Congressman Ron Mazzoli, Representative Harry Moberly, Sue Larison, unique artistic traditions. In this way we spotlight the folk heritage of Previous Education Award Louisville Regional Airport Authority, Senator , Mammoth Cave National Park, Mayor Pam communities and acknowledge its Recipients Miller Henrietta Roush Scott, Hindman Settlement School, importance to the arts of Kentucky. Kentucky Educational Television, Christian County Media Award to Nick Lawrence Schools, Lila Davis Bellando, Norma E. Brown, Mildred Folk Heritage Award to In his own words, Nick Lawrence’s Berkey, Hancock County Schools, Westport Middle Eddie Pennington School, Jean Green, Bige Towery, Ballard High School, goal is to help create a market Eddie Pennington is a well-known Judy Sizemore, VSA Arts of Kentucky, Daviess County demand for the arts in Kentucky so Public Schools Kentucky musician, carrying on the strong that, “…one day, you’ll find unique style of guitar playing known folks scalping tickets to see opera!” Government Award to Ann Latta as thumbpicking. This style of guitar Lawrence’s dedication to the arts in Ann Latta was named Secretary of the playing originated in Western Kentucky can be heard three times a Kentucky Tourism Development Kentucky and was made famous by week on WUKY public radio’s Cabinet by Governor Paul Patton in such musical greats as Merle Travis, “Curtains @ 8!,” a program he December 1995 and re-appointed for Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed. Travis’ originated, produces and hosts. a second term in December 1999. style was shaped in part by the “Curtains @ 8!” is dedicated to the A graduate of the University of influential Drakesboro guitarist, Mose promotion of the arts and of individual Kentucky School of Journalism, Latta Rager. Pennington was the national artists who might otherwise get little gained early experience in Kentucky’s thumbpicking champion in 1986 and airtime. His program provides an travel industry working as News 1987, and he plays regularly at such opportunity to learn about the arts in Director in the former Department of events as the Chet Atkins Appreciation Kentucky, and gives artists and arts Public Information, which at the time Society Convention in Nashville, organizations a venue for getting the included the state’s tourism programs. Tennessee, the Everly Brothers word out about their activities and Her career later included a stint Homecoming Concert in Central City, programming. In addition to as Assistant Public Relations Director Kentucky, and the Kentucky Folklife Curtains @ 8!, Lawrence produces for the U.S. Travel Service in Festival in Frankfort, Kentucky. Not WUKY’s Arts Calendar, providing Washington D. C., where she only is Pennington a renowned listeners with up-to-date information promoted travel from foreign musician, he has devoted his life to about the region’s arts events four countries to the . Latta conserving the rich Kentucky tradition times a day. Lawrence will also be has also been a newspaper reporter, of thumbpicking by sharing his talents hosting a new show on WUKY called for both the Lexington Herald-Leader with young musicians, and by leading Curtain Calls, with Everett McCorvey and the Huntington, W. Va., Herald- the development of the Thumbpicker’s and Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber, after the Dispatch. In 1986, she became the Hall of Fame in Drakesboro, Kentucky. Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcast first woman elected Mayor of the City It is through the dedication of on Saturday afternoons during opera of Prestonsburg and was re-elected in musicians such as Pennington that season. Lawrence can also be found 1990. After leaving the Mayor’s office Kentucky maintains its reputation around the state as a popular Master she formed a public relations firm and as home to an abundance of diverse of Ceremonies for events such as the also served as Executive Director of musical traditions. the Floyd County Chamber of Great American Brass Band Festival, Commerce. During her eight years in the Duke Ellington Centenary office, concentrating on tourism as the Celebration Series, and An Evening city’s primary economic development with Jean Ritchie. Nick is also an focus, tourism spending more than accomplished singer and musician. doubled and she led the drive to build the $7 million Mountain Arts Center, Previous Media Award Recipients which now draws thousands of visitors Barry Bernson, Cass Irvin, Jane S. Blake, WXMT-TV (Hazard), WKMS Radio (Murray), William Mootz, a year to Prestonsburg. In recent WEKU/WEKH Radio (Richmond), Lexington Herald- years Secretary Latta has been Leader, Kentucky Educational Television, Public Radio instrumental in forwarding cultural Service of Western Kentucky University, WHAS-TV (Louisville), Byron Crawford heritage tourism throughout the state and particularly in Eastern Kentucky, where the Route 23 Cultural Corridor, 14—January/February 2001 THE BLUE MOON

KY Craft Marketing Program News (cont'd from pg. 11) include international marketing, employee management, media The Kentucky Craft Marketing Pro- relations, preparing for a radio gram and The Kentucky Art and Craft interview, cultural heritage tourism, Kentucky Crafted Foundation are planning the annual working with galleries, Internet workshop weekend entitled A marketing, working with Kentucky In The Big Apple Toolbox for Craftspeople: Mar- Arts Council Artist Programs, printing, keting for the 21st Century. The organizational management for co- New York International Gift Fair 2001 workshop weekend will be held ops, and luncheon roundtables that Jacob Javits Convention Center at the University of Louisville on will be led by veteran craftspeople. March 16 and 17. National presenter Special assistance for the conference January 21-25, 2001 Bill Hunt, former Editor of Ceramics is provided by the Kentucky Guild of Monthly, will present “Successful Artists and Craftsmen, a non-profit TLC Originals, Cynthiana Publicity and Promotion for Artists and membership organization that spon- Aardvark Woodworks, Inc., Beattyville Craftspeople” and “Career Planning: sors art fairs and workshops and Gail Cohen Designs, Lexington Controlling Career Events for More maintains a list of artists and crafts- Judy’s Kentucky Crafts, Tollesboro Success.” Richard Taylor, Poet men interested in serving as artists in Clay house Pots, Louisville Laureate of Kentucky, will be the schools. The Louisville Craftsmen’s Images of Santa, Berea keynote speaker for dinner at the Guild is hosting the resource and University of Louisville’s University hospitality room. Other contributors Club on Friday evening, March 16, include: the Department of Travel Five Other Kentucky during which an outstanding Kentucky Development, International Market- Crafted Exhibitors craftsperson will be presented with ing, the Cabinet for Economic Devel- the sixth annual Rude Osolnik Award. opment, the Kentucky Arts Council Churchill Weavers, Berea Previous award recipients include and Kinko’s. Registration fees are Crafts, Berea Alma Lesch, Emily Wolfson, Arturo $35 for one day or $50 for both Jane Fenestra Jewelry, Bloomfield Sandoval, Homer Ledford, and Joseph Friday and Saturday. For additional Bandana/Yardbirds, Louisville Molinaro. Conference topics, in information or to request a brochure, Berni Enterprises, Louisville addition to Hunt’s presentation, please call Diana Cecil at (502) 589- 0102. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! Volunteers are needed to help with Kentucky Crafted: The Market 2001, March 1-4, Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center, South Wing B, Louisville. Assistance is needed with setup on Wednesday & Thursday, as well as during show hours which begin at 4 p.m. on Thursday and end at 5 p.m. Sunday. Help is also needed with tear down on Sunday evening beginning at 5 p.m. If you can volunteer, please contact Anna Marie Walker, 888/592-7238, ext. 4815, or email: [email protected].

HOT DATES

Teacher Incentive Program (TIP) for Spring Residencies ...... March 1

School-Community-Arts Partnership Program (SCAPP) ...... March 15

Folk & Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program...... March 30

Folk Arts Project & Tour of KY Folk Music Program ...... March 30

Individual Artist Project Grant Program ...... March 30

Project Grant Program ...... March 30 THE BLUE MOON January/February 2001—15 16—January/February 2001 THE BLUE MOON

A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR

Greetings from Frankfort on a cold, heritage; and with the Farnsley Middle School, where snowy day. the Department of Education has linked agency January always seems to be a good time personnel with school personnel to identify strate- to take stock. In addition to the grants gies for using the historic Farnsley-Kaufman house and services with which all of you are (located on school property) as a base for curricular most familiar, there are several new studies.dies. initiatives underway at the Arts Council and projects continuing to grow and In the realm of arts education, four Arts Academies develop. for teachers, funded by the Kentucky Department of · Pre-School Arts is a program de- Education and administered by the Kentucky Center signed to serve the 2-4 year-old for the Arts, will be scheduled across the state in population. A planning committee has been at work July of 2001. since last fall. The first phase of this program will include training of artists to deliver professional ArtsMarket, a national consulting firm, is conducting development in the arts to child-care workers to be an in-depth study of fifteen performing arts centers piloted in the spring of 2001 in Jefferson and Fayette in Kentucky to determine priorities in the areas of Counties. technical assistance and financial support. This · Kids at Risk is the result of a partnership with the study will provide important documentation of Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice. This performing arts centers’ needs to share with legisla- program will offer artist residencies to youth deten- tors prior to making the case for additional funding tion centers across the state. It also includes in 2002. training of artists to work in this type of environ- ment. Happy 2001 from the staff and board of the Ken- In addition to these new program initiatives within the tucky Arts Council. Let’s make this a banner year Kentucky Arts Council, the staff is also involved in for the arts in the commonwealth! supporting our cabinet with new projects in Hindman that are related to its Community Development Initia- tive; Park City, where through the leadership of the Kentucky Heritage Council the community is studying its

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