By Nicole Musgrave This year I’ve had the joy of representing the Kentucky Folklife Program as the regional host coordinator for the 2017 Bowling Green Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange community…
By Nicole Musgrave On June 23rd, roughly 70 people from all across Kentucky gathered in Lexington for the first community intensive of the 2017 Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange (RUX). …
The Kentucky RUX network aligns people working across the arts, agriculture, community health and small business to work together towards the transformation of Kentucky’s economies, communities and sense of self.
Last week, the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange program was featured in The Daily Yonder, a multi-media source of news, commentary, research, and features published by the Center for Rural…
The Music of BETSY! An interview with Ron Short and Desmar Guevara. Video content by Zhivko Illeieff [Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Art of the Rural…
THE YEAR OF THE RURAL ARTS 2014 was a program of events, conversations, and online features celebrating the diverse, vital ways in which rural arts and humanities contribute…
Caridad De La Luz and Ron Short developing script in Norton, Virginia, February 2015. Photo by Zhivko Illeieff. [Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Art of the…
[Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Art of the Rural will share a series of new writing and multimedia from HowlRound about the twenty-one-year artistic collaboration between Pregones…
The FilmFocus trailer series is part of AoTR’s rural cinema project, SMALLSCREEN. By Jessie Sims Stranger with a Camera has been recommended on this blog before. It’s an…
[Editor’s Note: Throughout the month of April, Art of the Rural will share a series of new writing and multimedia from HowlRound about the twenty-one-year artistic collaboration between Pregones…
Wisconsin Local Arts Conference: November 29
National Arts Strategies Summit for Change: Sundance, Utah,November 12-15
Common Field: Los Angeles, November 2-5
Wyoming Arts Council 50th Summit: Lander, WY, November 2-4
Charting The American Bottom: Missouri History Center, October 26
At The Edge of Everything Else: St. Louis, October 25
Indiana Arts Homecoming: Indianapolis, October 5
Artists' Thrive: Berea, KY, September 6-9
Rural Arts and Culture Summitl: University of Minnesota-Morris, June 6-8
Rural Environments Field School: Points across the American High Plains, May 15-June 3
Council on Foundations Annual Conference: Dallas, TX, April 23-26
Open Engagement: Chicago, IL, April 21-23
It's Good to be Young in the Mountains: Cumberland, KY, April 21-23
Delta Regional Authority Leadership Institute: New Orleans, LA, January 23-24
Association of Minnesota Counties Annual Convening: Minneapolis, MN, December 6, 2016
Common Field Convening: Miami, FL, October 20-23, 2016
Grantmakers in the Arts: St. Paul, MN, October 16-19, 2016
Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking Summit: Iowa City, IA, October 12-14, 2016
Rural 2 Rural Conference: Bylth, Ontario, Canada, September 27-30, 2016
Wisconsin Regional Small Town Downtown Forum: Shell Lake, WI, September 20,
2016
Our Communities: A Symposium on the Arts, Racine, WI, September 7-9, 2016
Art & Survival 2016: Double Edge Theatre, Ashfield, MA, August 5-7, 2016
