Arts & Culture

State Grant Helps Non-Profits Thrive

WKMS

Published July 17, 2013 at 2:34 PM CDT

Twenty-One Western Kentucky Arts and Cultural organizations are recipients of more than $344,000 in state grants from the Kentucky Arts Council. The council awarded nearly two million dollars statewide through the annual Kentucky Arts Partnership grant program.

Western Kentucky Recipients include Paducah’s National Quilt Museum, Carson Center, Maiden Alley Cinema, the Pennyroyal Arts Council, Owensboro Symphony Orchestra and the Murray Art Guild.

Organizations who received grant funds are listed by county below:

Boyd
Paramount Arts Center $56,749

Boyle
Community Arts Center $17,200
The Arts Commission of Danville/Boyle County $1,006

Calloway
Playhouse in the Park $4,925
Murray Art Guild $2,753

Campbell
Kentucky Symphony Orchestra $22,380

Christian
Pennyroyal Arts Council $8,079

Clark
Leeds Center for the Arts $1,898

Daviess
RiverPark Center $58,832
International Bluegrass Music Museum $31,526
Owensboro Symphony Orchestra $26,953
Owensboro Museum of Fine Art $28,651
Owensboro Dance Theatre $10,047
Theatre Workshop of Owensboro $9,733

Fayette
LexArts $38,926
Lexington Philharmonic $39,631
Lexington Children's Theatre $38,838
Living Arts & Science Center $23,639
Explorium of Lexington $20,779
Headley-Whitney Museum $24,681
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning $20,267
Lexington Art League $15,030
Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra Society $11,679
Kentucky Ballet Theatre $13,211
Lexington Ballet Company $17,414
Central Music Academy $7,079
Actors Guild of Lexington $5,822
The Lexington Singers $8,940
The Balagula Theatre Company $3,990
Institute 193 $2,376