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hello everyone my name is Jaime Menon with k-state research and extension program today we have the pleasure of having the Kansas creative arts industries commission and Peter ha so here to tell you a little bit more about what Kansas Commerce with the creative arts injuries Commission has on offer and what they're all about so with that here you go Peter all right thanks everyone so yeah I'm the director of the Kansas creative rights Industries Commission and I am its sole employee at the moment so I'm going to take you through basically the programs that we have to offer starting with our grant programs and then going through some of our other partnership programs and some events that we have coming up right now they've names but Morgan okay Oh we'll figure it as we go on so basically the the kids creative arts industries Commission is the official state arts agency of Kansas we do receive funding from the National Endowment for the Arts they are a member of the Mid America arts island which is our regional organization in a second we're located within the Kansas Department of Commerce we have 11 commissioners that are pointed that are appointed by both the governor and the legislature and one director which is myself we support the role of the arts play in economic and Community Development and we believe that the arts are essential to all areas of community life in regards to Mid America Arts Alliance that is a regional organization that includes six member states of which Kansas is one and by being a member that allows arts organizations and artists to access their programming as well and there are two main programs are a regional touring program which would allow you to bring artists from the five other member states to your community and a program called art artistic innovations which allows for slightly larger arts projects either from individuals or from organizations okay so next I might talk about the grant programs we have two main categories and I'm gonna go through them one at a time so the first main category is the strategic investment program and this program helps to strengthen the creative assets in communities the eligible applicants are primarily 501c3 nonprofit arts organizations what we're looking for in this category is essentially impact and this says external it's actually internal impact of a program on the organization itself so things that help the organization let's say grow their capacity or become more sustainable or have a positive effect on the organization itself now within the within that we have three main sub categories and I'm through those first is organizational development and these would be activities that essentially help strengthen the organization so they could be things like sending staff to a conference or participating in training or hiring a consultant to do a strategic plan it could also involve marketing materials as long as those materials marketing for the organization so you know getting new marketing materials or enhancing those materials in addition the the second category is new and expanded works which this is more of a programmatic category so if your organization wants to let's say start a new program a good example is in Saint Francis they had an arts organization that was talking to the community and they noticed that a lot of the younger audience wanted to participate in filmmaking classes and they hadn't offered that before so they wanted to try out a filmmaking class do they believe that that would expanded their audience so it could be creating a new program or maybe there's a program that you started and you want to expand it you know you started a pilot maybe it's your youth done a program in one school and you'd like to expand it to other schools or you started a program that has one hour and now you want to expand it to a couple arts disciplines so programs of that nature and then finally equipment and technology so this would be purchasing equipment or materials that might help you again you know either help strengthen the organization so it could be like computers or it could be materials that help you know enhance the the quality of your program offerings so another example would be like lighting at a feeder the caveat in this category is that it can't involve any sort of capital enhancement or improvement so can include any kind of construction labor and it can't include items single items that are worth $5,000 or more because there are a lot of federal regulations when you start getting into that level of value so as long as each you know you can do a bunch of things that add up to five thousand but no single component can be worth five thousand or more and it cannot involve any kind of construction labor to install so when I say lighting for feeders it would be like the kind of lights that would go up on it on a bar you know for example or swapping out with LED lights that might be another example okay the next the next category the second category is arts integration and these supports through these support the role of the arts play to enhance all areas of Community Development in this case I got this mixed up it actually focuses on the external impact that the organization has on the community eligible applicants here would include arts organizations but it could also be non arts organizations nonprofits 501 C 3 s that have arts programming and it could involve units of local government and just to go back one second in the previous category the new and expanded works because it's a programmatic category could also include units of local government because we recognize that in some communities the main delivery system for arts programming could be for example a library or a Parks and Rec Department so while units of local government wouldn't qualify for the organizational development or the equipment and materials they would qualify for new and expanded works if they had a new program in this case in arts integration everything is programmatic so the type of applicants is expanded of it arts integration also has three subcategories the first is visiting artists and this would be if you wanted to bring an artist into your community the artist can come from anywhere it doesn't have to come from Kansas could come from could it come from another state they have to not only do some kind of public performance or exhibit because they can come from any discipline but they also need to do some kind of supplementary activity within the community and this would include things like workshops master classes presentations lectures whatever and I always encourage folks to try to think outside the box you know in terms of yeah you could do something at a school or you could do something at a Senior Center but you know maybe it's doing something at the chamber of commerce or maybe it's doing something at the at the hospital so so in any event performance as well as some kind of supplementary activity the second category is integrated arts education and this would be some kind of educational activity that combines arts learning with non arts learning so for example we had one we had one grant that taught both computer programming and music theory so they had the students build electronic instruments and use programming to help play those instruments but then also use musical theory to compose the songs that went on those instruments so they were learning both an arts discipline which would be music and computer programming and engineering so it doesn't have to be quite that technical but it could be combining arts and history or arts and math those kinds of things and usually it's usually in the K through 12 realm but I think we consider we we consider adult as well there's something innovative in that space and then finally innovative partnerships and this would be programming between a non arts organ and an arts organization that would affect sort of a variety of community or economic development goals so this is our largest category in terms of in terms of the amount that you can request all of our other categories have a five thousand dollar cap for now that may increase next year but innovative partnerships can go up to fifteen thousand dollars and so we're looking for things that are that have a you know significant scope but also are looking at ways in which the arts can be used as a resource for the you know for the community so on this slide you'll see a program called Bango and Laurance and that basically uses the arts to help give workforce training to at-risk youth so at-risk and youth entered the program through the arts they learn job skills and then they help them and then they get employment in a variety of different industries not just not just the arts but the so ed so that's definitely a partnership between arts and on arts those those are the kind of things I'm looking for there it could be arts and corrections could be arts and transportation could be arts and could be arson tourism if the scope is large enough if you're looking at a really yet a new big festival that might be something we would consider depending on the scope and to go along with that we manage something called the Kansas artist touring roster and this is a list of artists that have been there gone through an application process have been reviewed by their peers and they provide arts performances and experiences that kind of fit along with that Visiting Artist category that we were talking about the benefit of being on the artist roster is that don't talk a little bit about this later but we have two main deadlines during the year but with if you're going to engage someone on the Kansas artists touring roster you can apply at any time as long as it's 30 days before the activity in addition you also can get $1,000 credit so you could apply for $6,000 versus $5,000 and if you know of artists that you think would be good to be on there we usually open that up yearly usually in the fall but basically they would have to describe sort of what their performance or exhibition would be it could be any discipline again and then what they're complementary services so that way when you engage them you sort of know what what they can offer in the community and that can be accessed through that and then funding for that would go through either a unit of local government or a nonprofit organization in your community accessing it through the visiting artist Crean xed so all of our grants require a one-to-one match meaning that if you apply for let's say $5,000 you'll also need to put in $5,000 however your match can include 50% in-kind expenses and for us and kind means things for which no cash changes hands at any point so that could be things like volunteer labor or donated goods goods and services you can sort of evaluate that so for example the for volunteer labor depending on what they're doing you just have to show kind of how you're evaluating that based on what you would have paid them or would have paid somebody for a similar service in addition communities that have populations under 15,000 can claim a hundred percent in kind match so it makes a little bit easier for smaller communities to meet that one-to-one match requirement again everything is capped at $5,000 for the moment except for the innovative partnerships which is capped at 15,000 that may change next year we'll see what happens again we have two deadlines per year they're usually in the fall and spring we're still we're kind of waiting for the budget process to go through but it'll probably be around August we'll be there kind of the first deadline and then the second deadline will probably be around January December January and August September so I be looking for those there and then you can submit multiple applications the way we do it currently is that during the first round we'll review all of your applications and if all of them are approved you'll get to select the one that you want funded all the rest of the applications will be moved to the second round and once everyone's has a chant has that a chance to get at least one then if we have money left over we'll award you know a second or third one the way the review process works just for those of you who haven't been through it is we assemble a panel usually comprised of other arts organizations from around the state who don't have an application in that round and they review it and you're allowed to listen in be a conference call on that review so they will then make they will then make recommendations to the commission that the Commission will approve their recommendations and usually that's more of a formality unless there's some extenuating circumstance but I do find it I do find that organizations that listen in find that to be really helpful because you can hear sort of where an application may have fallen short or you know are you know what kind of things they're looking for occasionally they may the panel may say you know we will recommend this with a condition and will allow you to follow up on that but but going back to the multiple applications you know if you do have an idea for let's say two projects sometimes it's good to go ahead and submit those on the first round because you'll hear the review and if one of them doesn't get approved you'll hear why and you'll be able to edit that and fix that for the second round so it is helpful in that in that sense currently we are we have a program that's lasting through the fiscal year which is hence June 30th or 2019 those organizations that have not ever received a grant through KC AIC or may have received one grant in their lifetime but don't have any currently open we will accept applications on a rolling basis from now until June 30th and we'll consider those on a monthly basis those because of that turnaround probably won't go through the panel review process those will probably be approved by the Commission itself but this is to kind of help communities that may not have access to our services or heard of our services before kind of get into the system and get used to the process to help with that we've recruited three regional representatives who work in the in the field and they're on your screen there so for north west and north central Kansas Ericka Nelson out of Lucas for Southwest and south central Kansas Kate Manstein house out of Wichita and then for northeast and southeast Kelley freighter out of Manhattan and what they're doing over the next few months is reaching out to organizations helping to answer questions if you have any you know ideas for projects or you're not sure how your project might fit in they would be a good first point of contact to help you work through it they've all either been involved in some of our programs or have gotten grants in the past and in addition they're also trying to assemble regional communication networks so that way we can start you know making sure everyone's connected to each other and then ultimately to this to this day okay next I'm going to talk about our partnership just going back to the grant programs those are our current grant offerings again well I don't see those going away next year we may add to those so definitely those updates and we will have a sign-up for email blasts that go out so I usually announce all those things via an email blast as well all right next time I talk to you a little bit about the our partnership programs and these are some other programs that we do largely with largely with other state and regional institutions that's for now we may be able to branch out and partner with other non-state institutions later but right now these are programs that are co-owner that are co-owned and administered by us and other cities usually these are universities and community colleges they all involve an application interview process for participants they build on the assets and identity of the area where the institutions are located they can sometimes highlight specific discipline areas that the institutions are known for but these programs primarily benefit the community so they're not designed to primarily benefit the students of those institutions that are designed to primarily benefit the community and I'll walk through some of those so the first one is t
e tall grass artist residency this is a partnership with several organizations but including the Beach Museum at Kansas State University we accept applications from artists from all over the country this year I think we had over a hundred and twenty applications and that girl is pretty much every year's third or fourth year doing it the selected artists we select eight to ten artists and they each spend two-week periods of in residence at one of several small town art spaces in the Flint Hills area primarily Matt field green and the picture there's of the art bank space in matte fill green they create works that are inspired by the tall grass prairie National Preserve and the environment and they get access to that Preserve and partnership with the Park Service and then once everyone's gone through they know they spend two big periods over the summer and they all come back in the fall to participate in a day-long symposium at the Beach Museum and they all submit a work that is on exhibit in a group show at the bank art space and Ethel green so in addition while they're there during those two big periods they usually do some kind of workshop or community outreach so it's a great program it's been going on I said three or four years and the number of applications continues to grow so it's berating another one is the new dance lab which is a partnership with Johnson County Community College we bring in national choreographers from again across the country to work with professional dance companies to premiere newly commissioned works but in addition we we take aspiring dance professionals for Kansas through an application process paired them up with their choreographers Nate in one-on-one professional development workshops with those choreographers they get to sit in on the on the rehearsals and they get to attend the performances at the end so it primarily provides professional development for local dancers and choreographers the new play lab is a program that we do in partnership with independence Community College we have we take applicants from playwrights from across the country we select about 25 this year we had over 200 applications from across the country these 25 playwrights submit short plays that are usually 30 minutes or less in length and then the selected ones come to the William Inge Theatre Festival they participate in workshops with some very prominent theatre professionals for those who haven't been to the William Inge Festival they bring very prominent Broadway professionals some of their past honorees have included like Neil Simon and Stephen Sondheim and Edward Albee and all just a whole a whole host of folks so they get to participate in workshops with those people as well as some of the other professionals that come in to conduct workshops from across the country the in addition they have a live public reading of that work with professional regional actors some from the Kansas City area I think this year there'll be a few more Kansas companies that will participate in that and the public and some of the theater professionals will watch the reading and then give feedback to the playwright so again it's a that's a very popular program and if you attend again you get to watch the the stage readings you get to deliver feedback and you get to interact with them the playwrights and the perfect end of the Broadway professionals that happens every May [Music] martsin medicine program started last year it's a partnership that we have with Emporia State the the Emporia State Emporia State has some of the oldest art therapy departments in the country it was founded by a gentleman who bob auld who also founded the American Association for our therapists so this is a program that where the applicant the applicants are medical organizations or institutions that provide medical services to certain populations and those institutions will apply the faculty and staff and students there graduate students at Emporia State University will then select the ones they think they can they can help most effectively design in our therapy program and then go out during the year and deliver those art therapy services to those institutions across the state last year was our first year of doing it we had five institutions that were selected and it was very successful program we should be doing that again next year so if you have medical organizations or institutions that would like professional art therapy services in their facility and have them look out for that for that program because we're looking at trying to get into a lot more communities next year and then our most recent program is called the indigenous arts initiative and that was a partnership with kayuu both the lead Center and the Spencer Museum of Art in conjunction with their indigenous cultures festival so the the idea behind this is that there will be a rotating a rotating series of arts labs that will provide you needs to expand their professional networks do some professional development with sort of master artists and gain leadership skills so this year was our first year we had to sort of master artists Stephen grounds and Sterling Harjo one was a a visual artist though there was a filmmaker and then we paired them through an application process with emerging indigenous artists from across the country so this year we started with two I think we'd like to expand it to five disciplines next year but also a very successful program the participants basically kind of work in mentorship with the master artists they created their own works they also collaborated with with those master artists on on sort of community works and then they they participated in a bunch of roundtable discussions and communities community discussions both a kayuu and Haskell and just for the community at large and the other one we do is Poetry Out Loud and this is a partnership program with the National Poetry Foundation in the NEA it's an annual program that they've been doing for a while but it's held in all 50 states it's sort of a kind of a tournament style program high school students from across the state compete in local and regional competitions and then there's a state competition where the winner from each region goes to the state competition we have a state competition and the winner from that goes and competes at the national finals held in DC and the students have to recite I believe it's three poems and they're sort of judged by panel of poetry professionals both on a regional level and on a state level usually that panel includes the poet laureate for the state of Kansas and then they're judged on sort of their presentation their ability to memorize the material and how they convey that but it's a great problem because they get a free that the winner gets a all-expense-paid trip to Washington DC as well as their teacher and I believe they received some funds for the furthers for the school as well on both the state and the national level and then this year we started a series of events that were calling professional development Institute's and those are essentially events that are aimed and programmed for arts organizations of a specific type or discipline so for example Arts Council's or theater or performing arts venues and this first year what we're doing is bringing down professionals usually from national organizations to kind of talk about their organizations their services maybe trends in that in that field and then allowing for some networking time amongst the participants and the hope is that these will be annual events people will get used to going to them they'll convey to you know take some ownership of the events and let me know for example what they would like to hear about any given year and then we can bring professionals down to take maybe deep dives into things like you know public art or residency's so that's that's hopefully how this will go but I'll go through the ones that we will be doing this year or have done already this year so the first one is actually a little bit different this one's called our distinct and it kind of fits in the professional category although it's not exactly one of these events this is a partnership that we do with Mid America Arts Alliance that regional organization that I was talking about earlier this is a program that they've developed over the past several years that provides professional development training to individual artists it basically kind of helps them with a career it gives them it helps them learn business skills and it does so by assembling a co or individual artists within a certain community and takes them through sort of an eight week course over the over the years they've developed a few different versions of this so they have a full eight week course that's usually done in a larger city they've worked out a kind of a weekend express version that can be done in smaller communities and then they have a single day workshop that kind of gives people a taste that can be done at various conferences and other other events right now we have the eight-week course going on in Lawrence and they're on their third cycle and we have the eight-week course going on at Wichita they're on their second cycle and they also take artists from the surrounding communities so like in Lawrence there's sometimes some Topeka artists and some of the you know some of the lying outlined communities in the in the counties and same with Wichita we've done the single day workshops at several events and other communities like McPherson and Pratt and Salina and we're talking to Mid America about trying to do the weekend Express in a couple of other regions so if that's something you're interested definitely let me know you can help sort of set those up but it's a great program you'll see their each session involves it's usually there's a topic like legal or taxes or marketing they'll bring down a professional to talk a little bit about that particular topic and then the the group will break into small group sessions to kind of do some planning discussions about their career and envision and it culminates in a a sort of a presentation style or each each person has five minutes to talk about their career and their work and where they see themselves going and what we found is that even after the weeks those cohorts usually stay together and basically it becomes they're sort of a peer network and they usually meet on their own even long after the program's done so and we're currently working on ways to connect those networks so this year a group from Wichita came up to Lawrence to wash their and presentations and next year we're gonna be talking about ways to kind of get those two communities connected with various events and hopefully grow the network statewide earlier this year we had a we had a professional development Institute for a film festival organizers that was held on October 18th I am at the tallgrass Film Festival which is in Wichita that was kind of a small group discussion we had about 12 film festivals and our communities that were looking at starting at film festivals that was facilitated by Jackie and delimit O'Connor of the film festival Alliance which is sort of the National Organization for film festivals across the country and we're looking at doing that again probably at the Cannes International Film Festival in Johnson County in October again and we'll be bringing some other film festival professionals down for that coming up on April 24th at 8:30 at the Lawrence Arts Center is a event for Arts Council's arts centers and I just want to be clear that while its while the programming is aimed at Arts Council's and arts centers anyone interested in the topic can attend attend but that's sort of the audience that we're programming for this is going to have a series of presentations from some pretty prominent national organizations that will include art place America which is the probably the premier creative placemaking organization in the country out of New York the Alliance for artist communities which again is the premier National Organization for artists residences in the country the Center for performance and civic practice this is a organizations a theatre organization that facilitates discussions on behalf of state and local governments so they use theater to help state and local governments work through things like eradicating poverty or even urban planning it's a really innovative organizations they'll talk a little bit about the work they do the real Policy Research Institute this will be somebody named John Davis who used to be the executive rector of the Lanesboro Art Center in Minnesota but she really transformed these two rural towns in Minnesota Lanesboro and New York Mills through the arts and creative placemaking and really blended the arts and economic development so his his story of how he did that is really inspiring and we just added the project for public spaces which is again one of the premier placemaking organizations in the country they opened with the Brookings Institute to help States figure out how to how to transform public spaces so all those presentations I think will be really interesting and they'll all talk about out of their organization's trends in their respective fields and the services that they provide that they can provide to your organization and this will be moderated by Jonathan Katz who is the former head of the National Assembly of State Arts agencies and he's he worked there for I think like something like 25 years but prior to that in the 70s he was the head of the Kansas Arts Commission so he has a connection to the state he's a really really great guy and he'll do a great job you can register for that on our web site and I think Jeanne will share the website we had a change at the web site so it's not the URL isn't the most succinct in the world but we'll make sure to get that out to you following that the next day in Junction City will be one for performing arts venues and presenters this is April 25th 1 p.m. at Junction City Opera House it'll feature presentations by Randy Cohen of Americans for the Arts and Mario Durham who is the executive director of the Association for Performing Arts professionals which is the premier National Organization for performing arts venues and professional showcases and it will show cases all over the country so in keeping with that we will also have our first annual Kansas touring roster showcase six artists from the roster will each give about a 15 minute performance and talk about the programming and supplementary programs that they're able to provide and that'll be kind of like in a concert style in the evening so it should make for for a great day community theaters and theater ensembles theatre professionals will be doing that tentatively on May 23rd it will happen during the William in a festival kind of in conjunction with our new play lab program that we talked about this will feature presentations by the American Association for up community theaters the dramatists Guild fun the theatre communications group and the Latin next theatre comments so again all major institute national institutions they're gonna be talking about trends and community and professional theater how to grow audiences and and then again they'll always be time for networking with the folks that have gone there and just seeing who's registered for the two that are coming up it's a good mix from across the state several communities from rural areas and and metropolitan areas will be attending so it's a good chance for you to meet your peers in these area in these areas these disciplines on May 28th we'll be doing kind of a subject specific one this will be an art and ecology symposium that we're doing in partnership Institute out of Salina part of this one will be for various reasons this will be back in Lawrence the exact we're still setting up the exact time but it'll be on May 28th and it'll feature presentations and QA with some of the leading residency and organizational programs in this space from across the country this includes the worm farm Institute the cross hatch a Center for Arts and ecology the land lab at the shell close Center in Philadelphia playa a studio in the woods out of Lo
isiana the marble marble house project and then the as I said before the land institute oh this this will also be moderated by a gentleman who founded the Pacifica Center for Arts in ecology out in Oregon but who also happens to be a native Kansan and so his first chance to come back and talk about this this a subject which he's an expert in in right now he he is a consultant for arts residency's in this space both here and in Canada so it'll be an exciting time to have him back and help kind of what the programming options are for us here in Kansas and we're looking at trying to get you know in addition to our guest artist residency sort of growing the kind of residency's that were able to provide so there may be some programming things that come out of this with the land institute and and some other things looking at food deserts and and other other programming opportunities in this space and other partnerships with people who are you know started working in this industry and then finally we'll be having in - arts integration symposiums and this is actually arts integration education this is primarily for educators usually teachers K through 12 will have two one is in Kansas City at the Kauffman Foundation conference center that we do in conjunction Community College the other one will be at West High School in Wichita and we're working with arts partners there in Wichita but this will bring professionals Kennedy Center trained professionals to kind of train teachers in the concept of arts integration and I know the Wichita one will also be looking at social and emotional learning and in specific so it wouldn't hurt to go to both of those there'll be different topics at both of those but you know going to one going to one I think is gonna significantly increase the knowledge of an educator of how to integrate the arts into all areas of the curriculum so if you know of a teacher who is able to make it to one of those those would be some really great professional development opportunities I think there may be like some some credit or or things that are available for them as well and professional development credits but that's also available or will be available on our web site for registration and finally that's those are the those are the programs that we have on offer this year I expect that list grow and all of those different areas but that's what we have till June 30th 2019 and we expect all those to still be available in 2020 and hopefully that grows the website the general car Kansas Commerce website is up there Kansas Commerce if you scroll down there's a tab for the creative arts industries as I said I'll give the exact link to Jamie's hip chips you can send that out that's me that's my phone number and that's my email address so feel free to contact me at any time I'm always happy to a lot of people through the grant process or any of the application processes that I talked about you know we want to help communities we want to get we want to fund good projects so anything that we can do to make that process easier and help walk you through it you know feel free to reach out and we'll make sure that gets done and that is all my handlers fantastic all right we have some questions in the chat box and Jan was nice enough to post that link to the registration he found that and put it in there so first question our museum has received a significant donation of original materials that target the theme of our collection we would like to add cabinetry to property display and new materials would that qualify for new and expanded or what a better fit as equipment and technology yeah I would definitely consider that equipment and technology because basically you're gonna be purchasing essentially a piece of equipment I think the biggest things to think about there is just um it doesn't I don't think it would take any construction labor to install so it's just the value of each cabinet just make sure that that's not five thousand dollars or more but equipment would be where that would work great and so then another comment this is an exciting opportunity we have found that these programs often require minimal cost it's really the staff that make especially the education integration programs happen are there any staffing costs allowed oh under the grant programs yeah you can factor those in I mean sure yeah you can factor those in and you know we can kind of work through the budget to see like what what what side of the equation it may be on usually if it's it fits what I would consider operational cost versus staff that's already kind of getting paid whether you get the grant or not I usually prefer those to be in the match category but if it's someone that you're paying let's say on an hourly basis or on a project-by-project basis for a contractor then I think those I have less of a problem being in the grant category but essentially yes M staffing can be figured into the to the equation awesome and so this is a point if you have any other questions go ahead and type them in the chat box if you like and you can also unmute yourself if you like I I went in and muted a few people so all mute them their phones so I wanted to I don't know what happens so when I do it versus they do like the [Music] sorry could you explain the difference between the one hundred percent and fifty percent in kind match yeah so basically um with the one match let's say you want to request five thousand dollars in grant funds so but the one one match you need to have at least five thousand dollars and other expenses right so basically the the program needs to cost at least ten thousand dollars now if you can do that all in cash great I mean that's that's the simplest way to do it but we allow communities to factor in 50% of their match as in-kind and again that would be something for which no money changes hands at any so if you're paying staff for example we would look and we would consider that cash because you're paying that that person cash right but if somebody's volunteering let's say that would be a good example they're never getting paid then twenty five hundred of that five thousand on your side can be volunteer labor or donated services so in that sense the project only needs to cost seventy five hundred dollars in actual cash expenses and these are reimbursement grants so you're gonna show me once you get the grant you're gonna show me what those expenses are and you're gonna give me some kind of documentation that those you know were actually expended we said that this is kind of a another point we can take future expenses as long as there's some kind of documentation so for example like if you're gonna through name engage an artist you could submit their contract that states how much they're gonna get paid even though you may not have paid it so that's so that's that's what most communities will be dealing with now to help smaller communities we've made it a little bit easier by saying all of your match can be in-kind and by smaller communities we set the bar right now at fifteen thousand population or less and that means that if you request five thousand dollars from us youse need to show that you put in $5,000 of sweat equity value you know again those volunteer labor for donated services so the actual cost of the project can be you know just five thousand dollars the other thing to think about with this is also that you know there are allowable and unallowable expenses so a good example is like food right if you're gonna have a reception grant money can't pay for that reception in any way but it could go in the match column so if you're one of those communities that's gonna you know use 100% in-kind you just got to make sure that if you're gonna have food for example you can't count that on the on the grant side the grant money can't pay for that but you could count it on the match side so that's gonna be a cash expense that you're gonna have to pay for but that's the difference it's just that fifteen thousand mark you'll either be paying twenty five hundred in cash expenses or none in cash expenses if that makes sense hopefully that makes some sense all right I had there was a question before that that I'm gonna note the partnership program sounds interesting would like to facilitates colors and artists working in residency in multiple Kansas communities would this be possible potentially I mean I'd have to see a little bit more I mean the thing about partnership programs is as we develop them you know we need to look at sort of you know where it makes sense for this state to really own a project versus supporting it through one of our grant categories so it would depend on like what you know how that's structured and what that looks like so for example the tall grass you know it's sort of a state treasure right like even though it involves certain communities it really has a statewide impact and so being involved with this tall grass artist residency makes sense from a statewide from from us from the state's point of view to sort of take it out of the grant supporting category so it could be but I would need to know more about what you know why those communities are chosen and sort of how that works and if it's you know there's sort of a regional impact and and what the hook is around that so but I'm open to those discussions for sure all right I have do you have any professional development events planned or in the works in the western end of the state not at the moment our goal is to try to move those around a lot of these really got developed rather quickly so and were held in conjunction with some other other things so that's why a lot of them ended up being in in Lawrence or some of those surrounding communities but our goal is to move those around every year so that way they're in different areas of the state and it's a little easier for other communities to to get to them but that is the go awesome I see in addition to teaching art in a K through 12 school in Attica I'm also on the board of directors for the Art Center of Harper County I would like or I would be able to apply for a grant for each organization in the same year or I would have to choose one this year and one next year so if they're the app it would be the organization so in that case if you have two different organizations those are two different applicants so you could you could write the grant for both both organizations but from our point of view those would be two distinct organizations so they would both be allowed one in the first round and then if there was money left over we would look at we could look at a second for that institution so for example uh the Harper Arts Center we could look at that at a second one during the second round of the same year of the same year but it sounds like those are two different organizations so those those could each apply and they would be considered two different applicants unless I'm mistaken about how their structure works okay so the next is a comment says I asked about the partnership program because my organization is interested in sending scholars and artists that artists to multiple communities to explore innovative ways to address the challenges of rural communities sort of attempting to align with the lieutenant governor's efforts toward rural or vytas a revitalization oh yeah sorry interesting I'd be you might be I'd be happy to speak you know to talk more about that so I would say reach out to me and we can we can start a conversation on what that might look like all right so the next is what is the single day artist ink workshop look like how many hours is the session we are having an Art Walk on Friday August 23rd and it might be a neat component to add for our participating artists if we are able to hold it during the morning and early afternoon for example yeah the single day workshops called with the waterworks workshop and I think it's only like it's like two hours and so it's not super it's not super long it's kind of designed to fit within other events so yeah it's about two hours so that might be something that that might work again just reach out to me and I can see if those are managed by Mid America Arts Alliance so part of its just kind of working out the schedule but yeah sounds like possibility alright I have with some matching requirement do we need our match secured before we apply to you or can we apply for a match through another grant funder and you oh sorry and you and hopefully secure both yeah so we don't we're less concerned about where them the money comes from as you know as what's what is spent on so we're more concerned that you've spent the match on the organization I mean on on the project and because it's done on a reimbursement like if you don't like if you're not able to raise the entire match just the amount of money that you'll request will will decrease proportionately to what you're able to get so for example if you if you requested five thousand and you were you know you were hoping to get an additional five thousand but then you only ended up getting three thousand in matching funds then we would only give you the three thousand and grant funds so you don't have to have it all secured upfront but just know that you know as you work through the grant the amount that you the amount that you're awarded is sort of like the maximum I guess is what you would kind of consider it and then it may decrease based on the math that you're able to raise all right so there's one more comment says thanks for the clarification on the partnership program sounds like our idea might be more suitable as a grant application you know like I said it really just depends but um I mean it sounds interesting so like I said I'd be willing to talk further and if it's something that you know that you're that you think would work kind of like you know year to year like would be sort of an ongoing sort of thing might be interesting but yeah I mean it also sounds like something that would also work easily with with a grant application as well all right sounds like they're send you an email about it - all right anybody else if you have any questions and like I said you can unmute yourself if you like I'll give it a minute to see if anybody how it has anything all right well in the meantime thank you so much Peter for coming on and and letting us know about all of these amazing opportunities I had no idea myself you know but that's the thing is that you can you know website can only do so much or conversation can only do so much you know yeah exactly yeah and hopefully you know if I ever get more staff I totally understand that yeah but you know I think the the biggest thing is just contact me I'm happy to answer literally any question or walks I mean I've walked people through the application process I've done all that some I'm happy to do that for for anybody absolutely and in the future if you have other opportunities feel free to send them to us we like to promote them on our Facebook and in our newsletter so and I guess anybody I guess I could put that out there if anybody wants to be a part of our you know those sorts of opportunities we do others pride at KSU edu is our email address that PR IDE at KSU edu if you'd like to be on our newsletter list or something like that but but yeah definitely no more question looks like but thank you so much again and hopefully we'll have something like this again another time or and feel free again like I said to send stuff our way cool thank you alright thank you
