The Kentucky Arts Council is seeking applications for its 2025 Governor’s Awards in the Arts.
Donor Name: Kentucky Arts Council
State: Kentucky
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 05/31/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The purpose of the Governor’s Awards in the Arts is to recognize, with the commonwealth’s highest honors in the arts, the extraordinary and significant contributions of artists, arts organizations, volunteers, schools, educators, local governments, legislators, and corporate citizens, to the arts in Kentucky or the nation.
The goals of the Governor’s Awards in the Arts are:
- To select, on an annual basis, exemplary recipients for the six award categories
- To honor the annual recipients in a public recognition ceremony
- To expand and diversify arts advocacy.
Award Categories
Your nomination will be reviewed using the following expectations as applied to each award category description:
- Personification of the value of the arts
- Nominee has demonstrated their/its support of artists and organizations in providing arts activities
- Milner Award: Outstanding philanthropic, artistic or other contributions to the arts
- Artist Award: Lifetime achievement in the arts
- Community Arts Award: Positive impact in the community through the arts
- Education Award: Significant contribution to arts in education
- Folk Heritage Award: Outstanding effort to perpetuate and promote Kentucky’s unique artistic traditions, including traditions brought to Kentucky from other regions, states or countries
- National Award: Achievement of national prominence in the arts.
Eligibility Criteria
There are six award categories. Each award category has its own eligibility requirements. The expectations are the same for all award categories. However, each award category has specific criteria. Organizations, businesses or individuals from within or outside of Kentucky may make nominations.
- Milner Award
- Be an individual resident of Kentucky or an organization located in Kentucky
- Artist Award
- Be an individual resident of Kentucky, or group of Kentucky residents
- Community Arts Award
- Be an individual resident of Kentucky or an organization located in Kentucky
- Education Award
- Be an individual resident of Kentucky or a school or organization located in Kentucky
- Folk Heritage Award
- Be an individual resident of Kentucky or an organization located in Kentucky
- National Award
- Be a past or present Kentuckian who is closely connected with Kentucky.
For more information, visit KAC.
