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Kentucky
Museum of Art and Craft
715 West Main Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40202
Phone: (502) 589-0102
Fax: (502) 589-0154
Hours: Mon-Fri, 10am-5pm and Sat, 11am-5pm or by appointment.
Admission is free.
Website: www.KentuckyArts.org
"The
Fund for the Arts has helped fund an expansion of our educational
programming by continuing to support our middle school arts
learning initiative."
The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft is a nonprofit organization
founded in 1981 to continue the art and craft heritage of
Kentucky through the support and education of craft artists
and education of the public. In 2001 the Foundation celebrated
20 years of supporting over 400 artists and providing educational
programs to over 500,000 school children. The Foundation
is supported in part by the Fund for the Arts and Kentucky
Arts Council, a state agency of the Education, Arts and
Humanities Cabinet.
The
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft hosts 12 exhibitions a
year. Each year more than 65,000 attendees visit the Foundation.
Over 2,000 students and teachers visit the Foundation on
field trips and more than 35,000 students and teachers access
the Traveling Craft Suitcase program, which offers hands-on
learning using real art objects in the K-12 classroom. The
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft's Education Center also
provides special needs workshops, summer craft camps, community
center programs, school partnership workshops, Saturday
morning workshops and craft artist demonstrations.
The
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft Sales Gallery features
the work of approximately 400 artists at any one time, offering
work in all media from folk art to furniture. The Gallery
offers corporate gift sales and free gift-wrapping, will
work with artists and clients on commissions, and will ship
to all corners of the globe.
The
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft hosts two major fundraisers
a year, the Bourbon Ball in October and the Oaks Brunch
on the first Friday in May. Benefits support The Kentucky
Museum of Art and Craft’s educational and exhibition
programming.
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