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Publication | Ripple Effects Mapping
By Dr. Nicole Breazeale, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Published
on Jul. 1, 2022
Much of what we do in Extension is educational in nature. Our evaluation methods have thus historically focused on individual-level impacts, such as what our participants have learned or are doing differently because of our programming (Chazdon, 2022). But what about the broad community-level impacts of our work?
Report | The Importance of Agriculture for Kentucky
By Dr. Alison Davis, Professor and Executive Director, Blueprint Kentucky and Simona Balazs, Research Director, Blueprint Kentucky
Published
on Mar. 22, 2022
The total economic impact of agriculture in Kentucky in 2019 equaled $49.6 billion, representing an 8.8% increase from the economic impact of $45.6 billion in 2012. Download Full Publication
Publication | Growing Successful Community Gardens
By Amanda Beavin,
Bethany Pratt,
and Dr. Nicole Breazeale, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Published on Mar. 16, 2022
How do we make community gardens more successful and help them persist through time with less reliance on Extension?
Publication | Story Circles: A Powerful Engagement Technique
By Dr. Nicole Breazeale, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Published
on Dec. 1, 2021
A story circle is a highly structured engagement technique that comes out of the field of cultural community development. Story circles involve a group of people who each share a personal experience based on a specific storytelling prompt, with no conversation allowed until the debriefing and analysis stage at the end (“cross- talk”).
Studio Guide | Clay Recycling
By Community Arts and Jessica Evans, Community Arts Senior Extension Associate, Blueprint Kentucky
Published
on Nov. 22, 2021
An integral part of pottery studio maintenance is recycling scrap clay. This allows resources to be stretched, reduction in studio waste, and the organization of working areas of the studio. You may also find that knowledge gained from fully utilizing clay in all its forms increases both skill and creativity.
SPARK! Extension Toolkit for Creative Placemaking
By Dr. Jayoung Koo, Blueprint Kentucky Extension Specialist and Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Melissa Bond, Extension Director for CED and Community Arts, Blueprint Kentucky
Published
on Nov. 9, 2021
This publication, SPARK! Extension Creative Placemaking Toolkit, provides thirteen activities that Extension professionals can use to integrate creative placemaking efforts in extension programming.
Activity Guide | Community Mural
By Community Design
Published
on Aug. 6, 2021
Across the state, there are murals that capture countless aspects of each community. Some murals portray a piece of history that had a great impact on the city. Others are fun and artistic, an expression of the community in a more abstract way.
Activity Guide | Where Your Sidewalk Begins
By Community Design
Published
on Jul. 6, 2021
In the poem, "Where the Sidewalk Ends, the author Shel Silverstein encourages readers to think in a “childlike way”. He contrasts the imaginative world of children with the grey and unchanging world of adults. In the activity below, you will imagine a sidewalk in your community that is unlike anything we have seen before.
Activity Guide | Chalk & Talk
By Community Design
Published
on Jun. 6, 2021
The ‘Chalk and Talk’ program seeks to engage people in a creative and accessible way about their feelings, thoughts and views on their city’s downtown. In essence it is a way to informally gather and summarize the varying views and experiences of attendees of local festivals and events about the city while they are immersed in it.
