Deadline Sept. 30 for New Artisan Applications

 – Special to 1340 WEKY AM –

BEREA, Ky. – Three times a year the Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea holds review sessions to consider works and products by Kentucky artisans who are not juried members of Kentucky Arts Council programs or the Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen.  Applications for the next review must be received or postmarked by Sept. 30.

Application categories are:

·         Visual Arts – (crafts and two-dimensional art)

·         Books

·         Music, storytelling and other recordings/films

·         Kentucky Proud food products

 Artists can download applications from the center’s website at www.kentuckyartisancenter.ky.gov

 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.

 The Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea is located at 200 Artisan Way, 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 700 artisans from more than 100 counties across the Commonwealth. A gallery exhibit, “Turn, Turn, Turn: Lathe-turned Works by Kentucky Artisans,” is on display through Sept. 12; and in the lobby, “Weaving in Kentucky: A Continuing Tradition” is on display through Nov. 14. For information about the center’s events call 859-985-5448, visit us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/kentucky.artisan.center, or go to the center’s website at www.kentuckyartisancenter.ky.gov.

 Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea is an agency in the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.