VSA Kentucky – in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education and VSA, a Program of the Kennedy Center – is offering awards of $1,300 to schools throughout Kentucky to fund inclusionary, hands-on arts projects through the Arts Inclusion Program.
VSA Kentucky is extending a Call for Art to K-12 students with disabilities in schools across the Commonwealth.
After another successful year of making art, the 2017 Kentucky Art Education Association’s All-State Art Competitions exhibited the best of the best from the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Register now for the 2nd annual Arts Education Summit, scheduled for June 14-15 at the Galt House in Louisville.
Kentucky Educational Television (KET) is offering a professional learning experience focused on developing a media arts program for schools offering grades K-8. Media arts incorporates elements from drama, dance, music and visual arts, but also must include technology in the creation and distribution of the product. Media arts projects involve interactivity between the art and the audience through the use [...]
The Crafts Luminary exhibit sponsored by the Kentucky Craft History and Education Association (KCHEA) and presented at ArtsPlace in Lexington offers teachers an opportunity to address the Kentucky Academic Standards in the Visual Arts (creating, presenting, responding, and connecting) as they engage students in exploring artworks by contemporary Kentuckians. Teachers may take their students on a field trip to ArtsPlace [...]
More than 120 teachers attended this year’s Berea Festival of Learnshops where they made art, learned about program reviews and the new National Core Arts Standards.
As a reminder, each spring the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual arts competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent. Participation in the contest is at the discretion of each Congressional representative’s office. Please contact your representative to confirm your district’s participation and obtain specific guidance on submissions. The various representatives have different deadlines for accepting works but [...]
District program takes solos and turns them into ensembles.
Students ages 12-18 from school- and community-based arts programs in the Southeast region are invited to submit their original artwork for the Young Artist Award, Art Education Partnership’s (AEP) national spotlight of talented visual artists. The winning submission is featured on the cover of the National Forum program booklet and the student receives an honorarium, along with special recognition at [...]