Fund for the Arts
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Fund for the Arts
623 W. Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 582-0100, Fax: (502) 582-0149 webmaster@fundforthearts.com
Partial funding has been provided by The Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Welcome to the Great ArtsRush of 2010 page!
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Fund for the Arts Partial funding has been provided
by The Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet with
support from the National Endowment for the Arts. Welcome to the Fund for the Arts mobile webpage. You can navigate between screens by changing the orientation of your phone. To view the ArtsRush Calendar turn your phone onto its right side. To view upcoming Arts events turn your phone onto its left side. Remember, at anytime you can return to this screen by turning your phone upright. You can also move to the normal webpage by clicking here or clicking the banner. Dear Friend, Fund for the Arts Partial funding has been provided
by The Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet with
support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For the rest of the 2009/2010 season, the area's largest performing arts organizations will be offering day-of-show ArtsRush tickets for select performances for only $10!
ArtsRush tickets will be available 2 hours before curtain on a first come, first served basis.
The number of ArtsRush tickets and location of available seats within the house will vary by venue, presenting organization, and show.
All ArtsRush ticket purchases must be made in person at the box office; no telephone or internet sales are included.
Click here for The Kentucky Center and Brown Theatre box office information.
Clickhere for Actors Theatre of Louisville box office information.
JUST $10 FOR THESE THRILLING PERFORMANCES!
Click on any link below to read more about the show.
Then, on the day of the event, 2 hours prior to curtain, purchase your ArtsRush tickets in person at the corresponding box office.
623 W. Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 582-0100, Fax: (502) 582-0149
webmaster@fundforthearts.com
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the future....
The intellectual collision that occasioned my daydreaming was the coincidence of three simultaneous events:
- A visit to Louisville from a dozen Fund for the Arts peer organizations around the country;
- My participation in the GLI visioning process; and,
- Finally, the 32nd anniversary of my employment with the Fund for the Arts.
Our out-of-town guests: Impressed is an understatement. Clearly, our arts as a collective are more innovative, more cooperative, and simply - well....more creative than any of our peer cities. While Charlie Sexton teased our guests with tales of Walden Theatre, Bruce Simpson talked of the new Nutcracker ballet. Jason Weinberger spun tales of the Louisville Orchestra and Marc Masterson topped it off by reminding our guests of Actors Theatre's international fame. (It goes without saying that I claimed bragging rights with all the facts of our community's generosity to the Fund for the Arts campaign.)
Across the river: Last week, business leaders from GLI - our Chamber of Commerce - gathered in Indianapolis to dream about our community's future. The range of options under consideration was extensive. At the heart of this community dreaming was the clear comprehension that Louisville is a great family town. Through our arts, the living and the thriving came into our crosshairs. And, while the GLI comprehensive "community dreaming" is incomplete, you can bet our arts will be at the center of our future.
An anniversary celebrated: Arriving in November of 1976, I pushed my way through the storage boxes of the Liberty National Bank branch on Broadway to uncover the Spartan office (room) that housed the Fund for the Arts. In the year before, our arts campaign struggled across the finish line raising an anemic $536,000 from a few thousand donors with an operating deficit of $40,000. And, here we are today; you know the Brown Theatre; ArtSpace; over 26,000 donors; a $9 million dollar campaign; and, at the heart of it all a powerful force in the form of the Fund for the Arts and all the people that support it that propels our Arts agenda forward.
So, while it appears that "believing does make it so," we have more dreams to deliver - you and I. Our remaining obstacle is the need to bring shape and form to our uncharted future. GLI is on it. Our Arts groups are testing the creative content. And, finally, I'm dreaming.
Here's my request: What do you think our Arts should be about? What can the Fund for the Arts do to help deliver it? What can you do to move our Arts forward? Please share your own thoughts about our future and how you dream of it and email me.
Can't wait to hear what you have to say.
Best,
623 W. Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502) 582-0100, Fax: (502) 582-0149
webmaster@fundforthearts.com