Gear up for the Sixth Annual Arts Weekend! An 1890s Celebration of the Arts will be held in Georgetown October 10 – 12. Lots of fun activities are planned, something for everyone! October 10 & 11 at 7:00 pm and October 12 at 3:00 pm the Stage Left Theatre of Georgetown Community Theatre will perform “Magic Theatre II” at the Cooke Memorial Building, Georgetown College. $5.00 at the door.

On Saturday,October 11, 10am to 4pm, the Scott County Arts Consortium will hold an old-fashioned street fair on N. Water Street in front of the Arts & Cultural Center. Music by the Bullshippers will kick off the event at 10am, followed by the Shack Shakin’ Hoedowners at 11am, storytelling by Cheryl Connelly from 2-2:30, and more. Art demonstrations include weaving, spinning, pottery,and quilting. A magician, a juggler, and stiltwalker will entertain. Free and open to the public. Fun for the whole family! Pinto beans and cornbread, hotdogs, sausage biscuits, and drinks will be available, as well as brownies, cookies, cotton candy, popcorn and more.

Saturday evening a Variety Show will be held at the John L. Hill Chapel, 7:00 pm. $10.00 for adults, children free. Entertainment includes the Georgetown Choral Society, Scott County Children’s Chorus, Shack Shakin’ Hoedowners, Chords of Course Barbershop Quartet, a women’s gospel music trio, storyteller Mary Hamilton, soloists Joe Henderson and Rebecca Campbell, the Spirit Wind Dancers, and dramatic vignettes of Georgetown’s history. This is a lot of first class entertainment for a small fee! So please come on down and support the arts! 502-570-8400.

Sunday, October 12, 1 to 5:00 pm, brings the annual SCAC Tour of Historic Homes. Featured are 444 E. Main, the President’s House, home of Dr. William H. and Jan Crouch, Greek Revival style; 456 E. Main, the home of Bruce & Linda Lankford, Victorian Italianate; 513 E. Main, the darling 1920s bungalow style home of Ken & Mary Susan Kring; 222 N. Broadway, the home of the new Two:Twenty:Two Restuarant – 1840’s original construction with 1880’s addition; and last but not least the Arts & Cultural Center at 117 N. Water St., the renovated 1870s historic jailer’s house. Featured is the “United in Art” exhibit; refreshments will be served there. Tickets are $10.00 for the tour, available at the Country Peddler Shoppe, Georgetown Antique Mall, Arts & Cultural Center, by calling 502-863-0909 and from SCAC board members.

All weekend, dawn to dusk, you can visit the Yuko-En on the Elkhorn Japanese American Garden. Many festivities are planned from the dedication of the new Toyota-Tahara Four Seasons Environmental Education Building at 11:00 am on the 10th, to raku firing at the Kentucky Raku Center; sculpture exhibitions by Indiana sculptor Mark Wallis, and the “War Path” series, 4 to 6 pm, by our own Annie Brady. The Sunny Sixteens will offer a photography workshop, 9:00 am on the 11th.

The Scott County Arts Consortium, the arts partners, and so many others are proud to offer this celebration of the arts and artists, musicians, dancers, and performers, so much talent in this great community! We hope you will bring the family and your friends and join in the celebration!For information call Barbara at 502-863-0909.

If you weren’t there for the reception last Sunday, September 7, you missed a great time! Over the three hours we had nearly 100 persons stopping by to enjoy the beautiful art and the delicious food. Artists Shirley, Janice and Pam were very gratified by the turn-out. The show is a wonderful exposition of the multiple talents of these three fine artists. On display are oils, acrylics, pastels, charcoal drawings, and ceramics. Please make it an priority to come see the show, now through October 12, Tuesdays through Saturdays, 12 to 4 pm.

Food was provided by board members, volunteers, and by Georgetown’s new “Two Twenty-Two” restaurant, owned and operated by our own Spence Johnson. What a gorgeous display, almost too pretty to eat, but we managed! Please visit the Arts & Cultural Center and celebrate the arts. It’s there for you.

“We have a Georgetown frog!” say Georgetown College freshmen volunteers.

On August 22nd, the Scott County Arts Consortium and SCAC/ArtWorks, represented by Jan AtLee, welcomed a group of college freshmen to the Arts & Cultural Center as part of their freshmen orientation and community service day. They packed a lot of work and a lot of fun into just two hours.

The largest mold being stored in the historic jail basement was finally poured by this great group of young people learning about their new community, helping each other, and volunteering to help others. The students will return to the Arts & Cultural Center’s upstairs north studio to paint this great frog with glaze. It will be fired in the electric kiln at ArtWorks, where SCAC/ArtWorks Programming classes are held. The frog will be on display during the Festival of the Horse and the Arts Weekend events so the students can bring friends and family to see their clay creation.

The volunteers got an overview of the Arts & Cultural Center, historic preservation, restoration, renovation, and modernization to support our cultural heritage and arts education in Scott County. They were introduced to the difference between original clay creations and ceramic reproduction process to orient them to their morning’s volunteer task: to help prepare shelving for the hundreds of ceramic molds donated to SCAC/ArtWorks Programming by Mr. Henry Thomas. Volunteer opportunities, classes and events for the Arts & Cultural Center and ArtWorks Programming were presented as possibilities for future college group and family activities.

The college crew brushed, vacuumed, painted and stacked fifty-six cinderblocks for our ceramic mold storage shelves. Other tasks carried out by this wonderful group were to carry tables down from the second floor of the Arts & Cultural Center to the jail basement; and to move ceramic art pieces from one floor to another in preparation for the next exhibit which opens on September 7: “United in Art” featuring Shirley Smith, Janice Gray, and Pamela Clegg. We owe much to this crew, and greatly appreciate all the help! Thanks so much! We hope to see you all real soon!

Floral Fusion – Art & Nature” fun continues at the Arts & Cultural Center during the month of June. “Fun with Found Florals” On June 14 was truly a joyous occasion. Anticipation was high as a group of eager students gathered to learn from the best as designers Linda Glass and Annie Brady shared their expertise on creating lovely floral designs. Everyone brought whatever they could find in their gardens, backyards, fields, roadside, and neighbors’ yards to share in the floral funfest. Wild flowers, weeds, grasses, seed pods, daisies, hydrangeas, yarrow, ivy, you name it, were put together to form beautiful bouquets. All participants went home with their prize creations. The morning was so enjoyable with good company, delicious refreshments, and time out from busy schedules to just have some creative fun together.

June 18th’s “The Wedding, the White, and the Wardrobe” luncheon presentation by Cathy Taylor was delightful. Cathy’s well-researched “wedding fashions and customs of the past” was fun, informative and nostalgic. Cathy has an extensive collection of exquisite antique gowns and accessories, books and pictures, on the topic, which she has gathered over the years from estate auctions, sales, antique stores, etc. A delicious meal, prepared by SCAC board members and friends, was enjoyed by all.

More fun is yet to come! A reception is planned for June 27th, 7 to 9 pm. Floral design, pottery and fine art will be the order of the evening as the floral interpretations of the paintings will be put into place, using original pottery vessels by local and regional artists.

On June 29th from 1 to 5 pm some of the artists and florists will be on hand to talk with gallery visitors.

Also don’t forget to buy raffle tickets for Diana Link Forn’s original watercolor painting which will be raffled that evening. The painting can be viewed through June 20th at Central Bank, corner of Main and Broadway.