KET Arts Productions
KET seeks to celebrate the art and artists of Kentucky, to enrich the lives of Kentuckians by providing access to the arts, and to encourage an appreciation and understanding of the arts among young people and their families and teachers. Check out our ongoing arts and cultural series, arts specials (all with ideas for classroom use), and arts education series and programs and join this celebration.
Ongoing Arts and Cultural Series
Specials and Past Series
- American Shorts
- Ellis Wilson—So Much To Paint
- Imperial China: The Art of the Horse
- In Performance at the Governor’s Mansion
- James Still’s River of Earth
- Living by Words
- Liz’s Circus Story
- Looking at Painting
- The Louisville Orchestra in Performance: Creating Stories and Music
- Mixed Media
- Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story
- The Secret Commonwealth, Part II: The Road
- Signature
- Whodunit/Whowonit—The International Mystery Festival Awards 2007
- World of Our Own: Kentucky Folkways
Arts Education: Programs, Series, Teacher’s Guides
Informational, entertaining, inspiring—all these words describe KET’s arts education programs and resources. This list of resources is organized by the following arts disciplines to help you find the programs, series, web sites, or teacher’s guides you need for your classroom:
- Dance
- Drama
- Electronic Field Trips
- Folk/Traditional Arts
- Literary Arts
- Media Arts
- Multidisciplinary Arts
- Music
- Visual Arts
For more arts education resources, check our Instructional Resources Guide.
Dance
- Arts Toolkit: Dance
- DanceSense
- Dancing Threads: Community Dances from Africa to Zuni (with downloadable guide and guide cover in PDF format)
- See also: The Secret Commonwealth, Part II: The Road; Arts Express; Electronic Field Trip to the Kentucky Center for the Arts
Drama
- Appleseed John (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- Arts Toolkit: Drama
- Electronic Field Trip to Horse Cave Theatre
- Imagine That Teacher’s Guide (series not available; guide contains stand-alone creative dramatics suggestions; PDF format)
- Telling Tales (with downloadable guide in PDF format, in two sections: Part 1; Part 2)
- Wind in the Willows (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- See also: American Shorts; Liz’s Circus Story; Signature programs on Marsha Norman and George C. Wolfe; Winter: Season of Darkness and Light; Words Like Freedom/Sturdy Black Bridges
Electronic Field Trips to Arts and Cultural Institutions
- Electronic Field Trip to Fort Harrod and Fort Boonesborough
- Electronic Field Trip to Horse Cave Theatre
- Electronic Field Trip to the Kentucky Center for the Arts
- Electronic Field Trip to the Kentucky Opera
- Electronic Field Trip to the Mountain Homeplace
- Electronic Field Trip to the Speed Art Museum
- Electronic Field Trip to White Hall State Historic Site
- See also: All KET Electronic Field Trips
Folk/Traditional Arts
- World of Our Own: Kentucky Folkways (with downloadable guide and guide cover in PDF format)
- See also: From the Shadows of the River (contemporary Native American visual artist inspired by ancient culture); Old Music for New Ears (traditional music/various cultures); Telling Tales (storytelling); Winter: Season of Darkness and Light (traditions from various cultures)
Literary Arts
- An Electronic Conversation with George Ella Lyon
- Everyday Voices: Adult Writers’ Workshop
- Reading Room: The Kentucky Bluegrass Awards
- Signature (with downloadable guide in PDF format, in two sections: Part 1; Part 2)
- SignatureLIVE
- Words Like Freedom/Sturdy Black Bridges (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- Write Ideas (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- See also: American Shorts; bookclub@ket; James Still’s River of Earth; Living by Words; Liz’s Circus Story
Media Arts
Multidisciplinary
- Art to Heart (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- Arts Express (with downloadable guide in PDF format, in four sections: cover; Part 1; Part 2; Part 3)
- Arts Toolkit
- Electronic Field Trip to the Kentucky Center for the Arts (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- Winter: Season of Darkness and Light (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- See also: In Performance at the Governor’s Mansion; Kentucky Life; Mixed Media
Music
- Arts Toolkit: Music
- Creating Stories and Music (with downloadable guide in PDF format, by program: Program 1; Program 2; Program 3)
- Electronic Field Trip to the Kentucky Opera
- Hymnody of Earth (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- Old Music for New Ears (with downloadable guide in PDF format, in two sections: Part 1; Part 2)
- Richard Davis on Jazz (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- See also: Arts Express; Jubilee; Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story; The Secret Commonwealth, Part II: The Road; Winter: Season of Darkness and Light
Visual Arts
- Art On-Air (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- Arts Toolkit: Visual Arts
- Electronic Field Trip to the Speed Art Museum
- From the Shadows of the River (with downloadable guide in PDF format)
- See also: Arts Express; Ellis Wilson—So Much To Paint; Imperial China: The Art of the Horse; Looking at Painting
