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Mtn. News: Collaboration & Connection in eKY and Beyond
In this episode we’re talking artistic collaborations & tourism in Appalachia & beyond. We’ll hear sounds from Mosaic Interactive: a group of artists from across the country & world who visited Whitesburg for a week of cultural exchange. Then, we visit the Carr Creek Community Center for the launch of a regional tourism initiative...Read More ▶Mtn. News: Collaboration & Connection in eKY and Beyond
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Mtn. Talk: Jessie Wilkerson & Appalachian Women in Social Justice Movements
In this episode we hear from Jessie Wilkerson: Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, and author of the book “To Live Here You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice.” Wilkerson talks about growing up in east TN, and she delves into her book...Read More ▶Mtn. Talk: Jessie Wilkerson & Appalachian Women in Social Justice Movements
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Appalshop Celebrates 50 Years in New York & Boston | April 2019
DONATE NOW From a Library of Congress 50th Symposium to Speed Cinema events in Kentucky’s largest art museum throughout 2019, Appalshop’s 50th Anniversary celebration is off to a beautiful start. Appalshop family and five decades worth of artistic partnerships are coming together to make this Golden Anniversary one that touches as many places and people as...Read More ▶Appalshop Celebrates 50 Years in New York & Boston | April 2019
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KVEC Proposes a Region’s Way Forward
Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative Executive Director Jeff Hawkins and staff members Dessie Bowling and Bernadette Carpenter describe proposals put forward by KVEC school districts to better serve disadvantaged rural students and improve the economy in Appalachian Kentucky. Recommendations come from “A Region’s Way Forward,” a call to action for achieving learner equity and school...Read More ▶KVEC Proposes a Region’s Way Forward
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Appalshop at 50: Brooklyn Folk Festival 2019
As a part of Appalshop’s growing 50th Anniversary celebrations, Appalshop musicians, artisans and vendors will appear at the Brooklyn Folk Festival from April 5-7, 2019. The annual New York City event will showcase June Appal recording artists, screen Appalshop films, and feature workshops led by traditional Kentucky artists. One Appalshop workshop will explore African-American...Read More ▶Appalshop at 50: Brooklyn Folk Festival 2019
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Reclaiming Appalachia
Many Voices, Many Solutions: Innovative Mine Reclamation in Central Appalachia is a new report that highlights 20 projects across five Appalachian states that would create new economic opportunities in areas with abandoned mine lands. These case studies and similar efforts could be funded by the Abandoned Mine Land Pilot Program, and if passed by Congress,...Read More ▶Reclaiming Appalachia
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Appalshop At 50: Speed Art Museum Film Screenings
Kentucky’s largest art museum, Speed Art Museum in Louisville, KY, will screen free Appalshop films monthly throughout 2019 as part of its celebration of the art of Kentucky and Appalshop’s 50th Anniversary. The Museum’s Free Owsley Sunday Films series will kick off on Sunday, January 27 at 1 P.M. with Appalshop’s most circulated film,...Read More ▶Appalshop At 50: Speed Art Museum Film Screenings
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Girls Rock Whitesburg Announces 2019 Camp Dates
Appalshop held its inaugural WMMT Girls Rock Camp, the first of its kind in eastern Kentucky and the rural southeast in late July, 2018. After a packed Showcase to culminate the week-long camp, gaining official membership to the national Girls Rock Alliance, and a successful Feminist Friday sponsored benefit show, a second Girls Rock...Read More ▶Girls Rock Whitesburg Announces 2019 Camp Dates
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Exhibit Features Eastern Kentucky Family Archives
During Seedtime on the Cumberland 2018, Appalshop Archive mounted a gallery exhibition featuring historical photographs and heirloom objects from family archives in and around Letcher County. The exhibit is the culmination of a yearlong, NEH-supported project to preserve and increase public awareness of personal archives. In spring and summer of 2017, Archive staff hosted...Read More ▶Exhibit Features Eastern Kentucky Family Archives
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Appalshop Awarded 2 Grants from National Endowment for the Arts
Appalshop is proud to announce that it has received two Spring 2018 grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. These NEA funds with matching contributions will enable Appalshop Archive to support artist residencies and associated cultural events with a focus on foodways, and an Appalachian Media Institute-led exchange between rural regional youth and...Read More ▶Appalshop Awarded 2 Grants from National Endowment for the Arts
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A Theater of Affirmation
Here's what happened when, in September 2017, American Theatre magazine asked Roadside's artistic director for an interview for a forthcoming article about how our current polarized politics “in the Age of Trump” shine a spotlight on the social and cultural work of theatremakers.Read More ▶A Theater of Affirmation
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Beyond Measure: Appalachian Culture and Economy DVD
Directed by: Herb E. Smith 1994 Running Time: 58:00 Color There is a constant tension between the forces of an ever changing economy and need to have stable communities. All communities must have an economic base, yet changes in economic conditions can devastate a community. As technologies change, workers can lose their jobs and whole communities can be left without...
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