Phone: (606) 633-0108
FAX: (606) 633-1009

URL: www.appalshop.org
Email: ssavell@appalshop.org

Appalshop
91 Madison Ave.
Whitesburg, KY 41858

Appalshop began in 1969 as the Community Film Workshop Council of Appalachia, a War on Poverty initiative to train young people of color and poor youth in film and television production. The students turned their cameras on the local life around them, finding a new appreciation for the region’s culture and its pressing social concerns and forming their own not-for-profit organization. Appalshop is devoted to perpetuating the culture of the mountain region of Kentucky, working to break down negative stereotypes about mountain people and rural life. Appalshop has since grown to include Roadside Theater, June Appal Recordings, Appalshop Center Programs, WMMT-FM radio, and The American Festival Project, and has evolved into an internationally recognized, multi-disciplinary rural arts and education center.

Appalshop looks to find artists interested in deepening its partnerships with community members, willing to commit to working in an under-resourced area, and with a dedication to creating challenging art of the highest quality. Appalshop puts most of its presenting resources into developing extended, process-oriented residencies that stimulate our local communities to discuss, analyze, and address issues affecting them. Appalshop has sponsored residencies in media, performance, traditional music, and the visual arts. The primary mechanism for non-residency presenting comes each June through the annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival, a celebration of our local community and traditional mountain arts.