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Cultivating Connection: Our 2025 Year in Review
Nov 25, 2025
Cultivating Connection: Our 2025 Year in Review
Nov 25, 2025

Celebrate our impact this year!

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Nov 25, 2025
Celebrating Commonwealth connectivity at The Golden Thread 2025
Nov 7, 2025
Celebrating Commonwealth connectivity at The Golden Thread 2025
Nov 7, 2025

This year’s event featured a visionary slate of cross-sector leaders and artists from across KY.

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Nov 7, 2025
Meet our 2025 Intercultural Microgrant recipients!
Sep 25, 2025
Meet our 2025 Intercultural Microgrant recipients!
Sep 25, 2025

This year, we funded 16 teams across Kentucky, with supporting totaling over $23,000.

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Sep 25, 2025


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The Bond of the Story // RUX Third Weekend Guest Blog
The Bond of the Story // RUX Third Weekend Guest Blog

Read Chris Clair's reflections on Third Weekend and the RUX storycircle.

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Member Spotlight, Third WeekendKYRUXNovember 14, 2024
Kentucky is #BetterTogether
Kentucky is #BetterTogether
KYRUXNovember 4, 2024
Lincoln's Logs // RUX Third Weekend Guest Blog
Lincoln's Logs // RUX Third Weekend Guest Blog

Read Emma Bryan's reflections on Third Weekend and a dance party in Lincoln's Logs.

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Member Spotlight, Third WeekendKYRUXNovember 1, 2024
Here's to 10 more years of RUX! (The Golden Thread 2024)
Here's to 10 more years of RUX! (The Golden Thread 2024)

To close out our first decade and enter our second, The Golden Thread 2024 brought together visionary leaders & performers from across Kentucky, and the RUX alumni & partner network.

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News Updates, Golden ThreadKYRUXOctober 24, 2024Golden Thread Recap
Meet our 2024 Intercultural Microgrant recipients!
Meet our 2024 Intercultural Microgrant recipients!

This year, we funded 21 teams across Kentucky, with supporting totaling over $30,000.

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KYRUXOctober 8, 2024
Celebrate 10 years of RUX & National Kentucky Day at The Golden Thread!
Celebrate 10 years of RUX & National Kentucky Day at The Golden Thread!

Celebrate 10 years of RUX at this mainstage event at The Kentucky Center on October 19, 2024!

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Golden Thread, News UpdatesKYRUXSeptember 5, 2024
Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange awards over $35,000 to Artists Respond grant cohort
Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange awards over $35,000 to Artists Respond grant cohort

With support from our partners at the Creative Change Coalition, meet our 11 grant recipients for Artists Respond: Community, Culture, and Commonality in the Commonwealth.

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KYRUXAugust 20, 2024
RUX launches 2024 Intercultural Microgrant Program
RUX launches 2024 Intercultural Microgrant Program

All Kentuckians are invited to submit proposals up to $2,000.

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KYRUXAugust 12, 2024
RUX returns to Owensboro & Daviess County
RUX returns to Owensboro & Daviess County

The RUX cohort explored local arts, culture, cuisine, faith & identity, and more.

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News Updates, CohortKYRUXJuly 15, 2024
Read With RUX: 2024 Intensive Season
Read With RUX: 2024 Intensive Season

Learn along with the cohort with these resources from the 2024 Community Intensive regions.

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CohortKYRUXJuly 10, 2024
RUX featured in The New York Times
RUX featured in The New York Times

RUX was featured in The New York Times, featuring our commitment to bridging divides.

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News Updates, PressKYRUXJune 21, 2024
RUX announces Artists Respond: Community, Culture, and Commonality in the Commonwealth grant opportunity
RUX announces Artists Respond: Community, Culture, and Commonality in the Commonwealth grant opportunity

This new grant opportunity supports KY artists addressing rural-urban connection.

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MicrograntsKYRUXJune 21, 2024
RUX kicks off the 2024 Community Intensive season in Campbellsville & Taylor County
RUX kicks off the 2024 Community Intensive season in Campbellsville & Taylor County
Cohort, News UpdatesKYRUXMay 23, 2024
RUX announces the 2024 cohort
RUX announces the 2024 cohort

Meet the rising cohort of statewide leaders.

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Cohort, News UpdatesKYRUXMay 2, 2024
Bluegrass Sojourn – What does Kentucky sound like?
Bluegrass Sojourn – What does Kentucky sound like?

Bluegrass meets hip-hop as seven musicians came together from across KY as part of an Intercultural Microgrant project.

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Microgrants, ICM 2023KYRUXApril 4, 2024
High schoolers come together for a cross-county poetry slam
High schoolers come together for a cross-county poetry slam

Two RUX alumni brought together Jefferson County and Estill County sophomores.

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Microgrants, ICM 2023KYRUXApril 4, 2024
Dyeing & dancing at Cowan Community Center in Whitesburg
Dyeing & dancing at Cowan Community Center in Whitesburg

RUX alumni organized a silk flag dyeing and dancing workshop with the local community.

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Microgrants, ICM 2023KYRUXMarch 20, 2024
Learning about Kentucky fibers at Yeiser Art Center in Paducah
Learning about Kentucky fibers at Yeiser Art Center in Paducah

Three RUX alumni share their individual and collective expertise & experience in the field of textiles in a Paducah workshop.

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ICM 2023, MicrograntsKYRUXMarch 13, 2024
Uncovering hidden histories of enslaved people in Campbellsville, KY
Uncovering hidden histories of enslaved people in Campbellsville, KY

RUX alumni organize the EPoCH Legacy Project with RUX microgrant support.

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ICM 2023, MicrograntsKYRUXMarch 6, 2024
Meet the 2024 RUX Steering Committee›
Meet the 2024 RUX Steering Committee›

Meet the creative leaders committed to bridging divides in our Commonwealth.

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Member Spotlight, News UpdatesKYRUXFebruary 20, 2024
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