Three times a year the Kentucky Artisan Center holds review sessions to consider works and products by Kentucky artisans who are not juried members of the Kentucky Arts Council programs or the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen.
Applications for the next January review session are due December 31.
Application categories include:
• Visual Arts (crafts, and two-dimensional art)
• Books
• Music, Storytelling and other recordings/Films
• Kentucky Proud food products
• Beauty products
Artists can download applications from the Center’s website.
Completed application forms along with additional requested materials can be mailed to: Artisan Review, Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea, 200 Artisan Way, Berea, KY, 40403.
Applications may also be submitted at the Center’s front desk from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily or E-mailed to: gwen.heffner@ky.gov
The Kentucky Artisan Center is located just off Interstate 75 at Berea, Exit 77. The center’s exhibits, shopping and travel information areas are open daily, year-round, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the cafe open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is free.
The Center currently features works by more than 800 artisans from more than 100 counties across the Commonwealth. The gallery exhibit, “Innovators: Stephen Rolfe Powell & Arturo Alonzo Sandoval” is on display through Feb. 28, 2019, and on display in the lobby is, “Ray Papka: Juxtapositions.”
For information about the Center’s events call 859-985-5448 and follow us on Facebook.
The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea is an agency in the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
(provided by Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet)
