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The Arts and Humanities collaborative is a
consortium of school districts (75 schools and still growing) whom
through partnering together plan to be able to provide their districts
with the high quality arts education in the areas of drama, visual
arts, music, dance and creative writing that is demanded by the State
of Kentucky School System. The Collaborative is housed at Eastern
Kentucky University, however dues paid by each school district, grant
monies and ticket income from programming fund the collaborative.
There is 1 full time coordinator.
One of the objectives of the
collaborative is to provide high quality arts programming at a low cost to the schools by
large block bookings, grants, and networking with artist that are
willing to reduce their fees in order to promote the arts in these
poorer districts.
The Collaborative provides several types of arts
programming to the schools. School Day performances are generally
geared to larger audiences and are performed at venues centrally
located to the participating districts. This helps reduce large
transportation fees. In-School performances are programs that the
collaborative takes into the schools. These are generally smaller
audiences but with the added benefit of not having to provide
transportation. Residency and workshops are programs that allow the
artist to work with a smaller group of students often for an extended
period of time. Again the benefits of not having to transport students
and these programs provide very focused learning.
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