Lexington Arts Council Inc

The Lexington Arts Council seeks to provide cultural opportunities not otherwise available in the community, by enlisting an entirely volunteer organization (no paid staff personnel) to undertake the production of both popular and classical music events, to be made available to the public for free or at modest cost.

Key strategies:
(1) Engage the community by offering both popular and classical music productions;
(2) To do so using an entirely volunteer organization, drawn from the community;
(3) To seek out high quality performance talent to assure continuing community support and
(4) To continually seek new opportunities within the organization's mission and strategic goals.

Capabilities:
(1) Volunteers: a 15 member board of directors supported by up to 100 volunteers, who have successfully produced 9 "Music in the Park" concerts and the 3 concert "Lexington Bach Festival" each year for over 20 years.
(2) A network of performers for the "Music in the Park" series, who ask to be invited back, often at discounted performance fees.
(3) A Music Director and two festival administrators that organize and recruit, annually, a forty member Festival Orchestra together with solo performers, and who develop the Series Theme and music selections for each Festival.

The Arts Council has successfully produced the "Music in the Park" series for over twenty years, with audiences increasing year over year. It has also successfully produced the "Lexington Bach Festival" for eighteen years, including September, 2001 when national air travel was disrupted. In addition, the Council successfully transitioned the Festival Music Director position to a successor director with the retirement of the original director with no loss of Festival talent or quality.

Through this history, the Council has maintained fiscal stability, and with the support of its volunteers, patrons, contributors and granting bodies, has proven that it is sustainable in its mission.