Making, Keeping and Revitalizing the Arts in Appalachia

Authors

  • Geraldine Maschio University of Kentucky
  • Geraldine Maschio University of Kentucky

Keywords:

Creative Placemaking, Creative Placekeeping, rural arts, Kentucky arts, Creative communities, cultural vitality, Appalachia.

Abstract


 

 

 

Abstract

As Tom Anderson has stated, the arts are essential to the health, the very life, of the community (Anderson, 2003). Arts administrators and artists have long known this, but in the past fifteen years or so the term “Creative Placemaking” has taken hold in the arts, urban planning, and in community development circles, “branding,” if you will, the ideas put forth by Anderson in 2003. But Creative Placemaking also occurs in rural communities, far from urban planners, cultural districts, and gentrifying groups. This paper explores the country’s first County Extension Agent for the Arts and the success of her Creative Playmaking in Pike County, Kentucky, a coalmining community of 63,000 (quickfactscensus.gov).

Author Biographies

Geraldine Maschio, University of Kentucky

 

Geraldine Maschio received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She is a professor at the University of Kentucky where she teaches Arts Administration and Theatre. She has spent most of her career in administration, serving as Associate Dean, Department Chair, and the founding director of the Arts Administration Program.

 

Her research has been quoted in a wide variety of print and on-line resources, including books and articles on vaudeville, Mark Twain, Irish Americans, theatrical costumes, and in a number of law reviews.

 

Dr. Maschio has received multiple teaching awards, including American Theatre and Drama Society’s “Betty Jean Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching” and the Carnegie Foundation's "Professor of the Year" award for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Associate Professor in the Departments of Arts Administration and Theatre

 

 

 

Geraldine Maschio, University of Kentucky

Geraldine Maschio received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. She is an associate professor at the University of Kentucky where she teaches Arts Administration and Theatre. She has spent most of her career in administration, serving as Associate Dean, Department Chair, and the founding director of the Arts Administration Program.

 Her research has been quoted in a wide variety of print and on-line resources, including books and articles on vaudeville, Mark Twain, Irish Americans, theatrical costumes, and in a number of law reviews.

 Dr. Maschio has received multiple teaching awards, including American Theatre and Drama Society’s “Betty Jean Jones Award for Outstanding Teaching” and the Carnegie Foundation's "Professor of the Year" award for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

 

 

 

 

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Published

2016-12-27

Issue

Vol. 8 (2016): Creative Placemaking

Section

Special Call - Creative Placemaking - 2016

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