Project | Winchester Design Studio

By Community Design
Published on Sep. 1, 2022

In 2019, Blueprint Kentucky (formerly CEDIK) and the College of Design at the University of Kentucky launched the Winchester Design Studio.

Article | Arts Preparedness

By Jessica Evans, Community Arts Senior Extension Associate, Blueprint Kentucky
Published on Aug. 17, 2022

Emergency Response Planning Disaster never strikes at a convenient time. In fact, if you could plan the timing for a disaster, chances are you might still not be ready when it arrives. A good plan will help your organization develop categorized strategies for managing unforeseen circumstances.

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).

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 | Universal Playground

By Community Design
Published on Sep. 1, 2021

 

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.