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| The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center Inspiring the Creative Spirit  The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center is a multidisciplinary arts venue for all ages and provides events, educational programs, and art exhibitions to the Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati community. With five art galleries, a magnificent, newly renovated turn-of-the-century theatre, and a newer education center, The Carnegie is the largest arts venue in Northern Kentucky. The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center is located in Covington, Kentucky ten blocks south of the Ohio River and downtown Cincinnati. The Carnegie is having an exciting year. We just completed our first year as an Associate Member of the Fine Arts Fund; won the 2004 Governor’s Award in the Arts in Arts Education; won the 2003 Post Corbett Award for Best Arts Organization and was a finalist for the 2005 Post Corbett Award. This year also marks the long awaited start of renovations to the facility’s beautiful and historic auditorium. The468-seat gem will be home to arts, family and community events. With the completion of the theater in March of 2006, the Otto M. Budig Theatre at The Carnegie becomes the premiere arts venue in Northern Kentucky. The December 2005 issue of Cincinnati Magazine named the Carnegie Theatre renovation as number one in its annual “Best of the City” issue. Within The Carnegie’s education programming over the past year, we have doubled the amount of education service hours provided to the disadvantaged children we serve to almost 15,000 hours. We have formed new partnerships with other groups serving at risk children, such as Boys & Girls Clubs, Children Inc., Covington Independent Public Schools, Holy Family and Prince of Peace Schools and Project Connect. New programs have been added including Carnegie Family Saturdays, open to the entire area, and an original and innovative program called “Time Travel Television” for Covington Public Schools. In The Carnegie Galleries, the 2006 Call to Artists had the largest number of entries ever and the director, Bill Seitz, was named “Arts Leader of the Year” by the Northern KY Challenger and The Carnegie as its “Best Art Center.” Our fall openings have had record breaking attendance. The Carnegie has recommitted itself to the surrounding community by hosting more than two dozen events free of charge to local groups including the Northern KY NAACP Job Fair and the Day of Peace rally against domestic violence. This outreach has brought more than 4,000 new people to The Carnegie. The Carnegie just won the “Agency of the Year” from the Eastside Covington neighborhood organization, OASIS, in recognition of those efforts. Operational Support for The Carnegie is provided by:
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