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Appalshop Awarded 2 Grants from National Endowment for the Arts

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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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Youth in the Mountains | Seedtime & Summer on the Cumberland
Celebrating youth in the mountains made the 32nd Annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival a beautiful way to kick off another hot Appalachian summer. From the main stage & theater, to the farmer’s market and craft tent, people gathered for a weekend of music, art, crafts, film, food, and community. All broadcast live on...Read More ▶
Youth in the Mountains | Seedtime & Summer on the Cumberland
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Seedtime Festival June 1-2 | Whitesburg Summer of Music & Art
Appalshop hosts its annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival this June 1-2, 2018. Celebrations of local and regional music, art, film, food, and crafts will run through Friday and Saturday, following Whitesburg’s first Levitt AMP concert. Celebrating youth this 32nd year of Seedtime, Appalshop is spotlighting the 30th year of the Appalachian Media Institute...Read More ▶
Seedtime Festival June 1-2 | Whitesburg Summer of Music & Art
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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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Support Appalshop Archive | Your donation DOUBLED until April 30th!
Help us reach our goal! Appalshop Archive is in the final two weeks of its NEH Challenge campaign to improve access to Appalshop’s rich collections documenting Central Appalachia and to launch a series of public programming events fostering civic engagement, reflection, and inquiry. If you give towards our $50,000 goal by April 30, 2018...Read More ▶
Support Appalshop Archive | Your donation DOUBLED until April 30th!
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Women of Appalshop | Natasha Watts
As we round out this Women’s History Month series spotlighting a few women who’ve shaped and inspired Appalshop, we focus on the Appalachian Media Institute (AMI), now celebrating 30 years of youth centered programming. Natasha Watts proved that youth media is a vibrant road to higher education and a successful career in the mountains....Read More ▶
Women of Appalshop | Natasha Watts
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From the Archive | Sheila Kay Adams at Seedtime 1992
In honor of Women’s History Month and to celebrate the March birthday of Sheila Kay Adams, Appalshop Archive is pleased to share the entirety of the ballad singer and storyteller’s performance at our 1992 Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival. In this audio recording–preserved with support from the GRAMMY Foundation–Adams dedicates the evening to traditional...Read More ▶
From the Archive | Sheila Kay Adams at Seedtime 1992
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Women of Appalshop | Anne Lewis
Kicking off with a 75th birthday celebration of Josephine Richardson, Appalshop’s Women’s History Month series spotlighting Women of Appalshop is very close to home for us. But our next feature leads to Texas. Anne Lewis came out of a movement to make media that creates opportunity for social change. She has made documentary films (always...Read More ▶
Women of Appalshop | Anne Lewis
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Josephine Richardson | Women of Appalshop
This Women’s History Month, women at Appalshop want to honor some of the women who paved the way for us here at the Shop. We’ve been inspired by so many incredible women over the nearly 50 year history of media and art making out of Whitesburg, Kentucky, its hard to know where to start....Read More ▶
Josephine Richardson | Women of Appalshop
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PBS NewsHour Coverage Spotlights Appalshop, New Work and Bakery
Read the full transcript below Judy Woodruff: Now we begin a new series, taking us to all corners of the country to see artists at work. We start with a look at a group that has been serving rural communities in Eastern Kentucky for nearly half-a-century. Originally dubbed the Appalachian Film Workshop, now just...Read More ▶
PBS NewsHour Coverage Spotlights Appalshop, New Work and Bakery
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Art, Culture, & Black History Bring Family Home
After seeing a segment on CBS Sunday Morning about the defunding of the arts, I decided I would like to make a visit to the Appalshop to see what they actually did there. I have to admit that seeing my family’s photo on CBS Sunday Morning, knowing it was archived there, was a big motivating...Read More ▶
Art, Culture, & Black History Bring Family Home
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Black in Appalachia – Living History
From the region’s historically black colleges and black cemeteries to community story circles, Black in Appalachia is using research and local narratives to raise the visibility of Black communities in the mountain South. This growing media project visited Whitesburg, KY last month to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Starting over a decade ago with...Read More ▶
Black in Appalachia – Living History
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Harvard Meets the Hills
Whitesburg, Kentucky – A group of Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership Fellows traveled to the Bluegrass State in mid January with their sights set on Appalachia. With the help of donors, the Kennedy School Fellows were able to embark on trips around the world, experiencing the complexities of different, and often unheard, cultures...Read More ▶
Harvard Meets the Hills
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Alex Gibson on the Life of Dr. King
Appalshop Executive Director, Alex Gibson, offered this keynote address at Hazard Community and Technical College to a few hundred people on January 15, 2018 in commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He also appeared on WYMT’s Issues & Answers that same evening. The following is a transcript of his address, and while long, we...Read More ▶
Alex Gibson on the Life of Dr. King
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Celebrating bell hooks: Hillbilly Solid
In celebration of bell hooks’ induction into the Kentucky Writer’s Hall of Fame, we’re listening to her interview on WMMT back in 2012, just after the release of her book of poetry, Appalachian Elegy. bell hooks is an author, activist, feminist, poet, teacher, and artist from Hopkinsville, Ky. Interviewed by her Berea neighbor, Silas House,...Read More ▶
Celebrating bell hooks: Hillbilly Solid
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