March April 2003

 

 

 

 

 

Start Building Participation Grants Announced

 

Sixteen Kentucky nonprofit organizations have received $5000 awards to increase participation in the arts in their communities. Organizations who were accepted to attend the Kentucky START Building Participation Institute in September 2002, to receive training in the Integrative Approach to Increasing Participation (see Jan./Feb 2002, and Sept./Oct. 2002 issues of the Blue Moon), were eligible to apply for these special initiative non-matching grants. By incorporating the knowledge gained at the Institute and through additional learning, the organizations developed project proposals to broaden, deepen or diversify participation in the arts.

In addition to increasing participation within their own organizations, further development and implementation of these proposals will be used to develop models and practices for other organizations to utilize. The organizations will receive training in continuous assessment throughout the course of their grant period, which runs January 1-December 31, 2003.

 

Covington Community Center
Reclaiming our Lost Connections is a neighborhood identity project designed to celebrate the Austinburg community through the arts in the form of 10 banners placed on telephone poles. Material for these banners will be derived from oral histories of Austinburg families, Scanning Bees in which pictures and oral histories are scanned and archived, and Family Heritage Scrapbook Events. Visual artist Peter D. Jaquish will work with the community to create the banners from the neighborhood’s design concept.

George Bernard Shaw