The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts is dedicated to enriching the lives of all people in our community, state and region through the arts. We believe that the human capacity for art is universal and that we have been called upon both to present art and to build bridges of understanding and access to the arts.

Since 1983, The Kentucky Center has served as a major arts education resource for Kentucky’s students and teachers, fully utilizing its own facilities and creating innovative outreach programs to further its statewide mission.

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Educational Partnerships and Consultancies
The Kentucky Center serves as partner and consultant in a wide variety of educational projects throughout Kentucky. Members of The Kentucky Center staff have worked with the Kentucky Department of Education on various elements of KERA implementation.

Since the beginning of The Kentucky Center's education efforts, the Center has been involved with the Cultural Consortium, a group of educators from over 50 arts and cultural organizations in the Jefferson County area.

Other partnerships have involved the Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Educational Television, The City of Louisville, the Prichard Committee, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters and a variety of arts and educational organizations throughout the Commonwealth.

The Kentucky Center Recognition on Americans for the Arts Website
Americans for the Arts has launched a national arts advocacy program. The Kentucky Center's ArtsReach Program is featured prominently as one of a handful of sites across the country.


The Kentucky Center Helps Author National Publication
The Kentucky Center is one of nine art organizations that were invited by The Kennedy Center to look at issues of professional development for artists working in educational settings. Debbie Shannon, The Kentucky Center’s Vice President for Education, has worked with this group for the last few years and their work has been published in Creating Capacity: A Framework for Providing Professional Development Opportunities for Teaching Artists. The Kentucky Center is given credit prominently throughout the piece. The education department will be distributing copies to Arts Education Showcase artists, ArtsReach studio artists and other artists who work in Academies, Institutes and other Kentucky Center education programs. The piece is being disseminated nationally through a variety of means and is available on The Kennedy Center's website.


For more information about The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts Education Programs call (502) 562-0151.