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The BlueMoon
is published bi-monthly by the Kentucky Arts Council. Please send comments,
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"Save America's Treasures" Grant Recently, the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), National Park Service (NPS), National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) jointly announced the awarding of $15,600,000 in Save America's Treasures (SAT) grants nationwide to help preserve and protect our nation's irreplaceable cultural heritage. The Kentucky Arts Council congratulates the Appalshop Archive in located in Whitesburg for their award of $135,000. Appalshop produces music, film and video of and about the Appalachian region and with this grant, the organization will address conservation of its audio, film and video archive. Through the Congressionally-appropriated Historic Preservation Fund's SAT program, 80 projects in 36 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico will receive funding for critically needed repairs and restoration efforts for some of the nation's most threatened historic places, archives, and artifacts. "It is important that we continue to document and preserve our country's significant artistic achievements," according to Eileen B. Mason, Senior Deputy Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. "By maintaining our nation's diverse cultural treasures -- from LOOK Magazine's photography archive, to the Flint Institute of Art's unique accumulation of works by three centuries of American artists, to the extensive Hawaiian Cultural Collection at the Bishop Museum in Honolulu -- we ensure that future generations will have the opportunity to discover the depth and beauty of our country's rich artistic heritage." View the full press release and grant listing for Save America's Treasures
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