Hindman Settlement School

Hindman Settlement School Supporting education, cultural heritage and community service in the mountains of Appalachia since 1902.

We are so excited to have students back on campus! Today our five-week intensive Summer School program began as well as ...
06/15/2026

We are so excited to have students back on campus! Today our five-week intensive Summer School program began as well as our first ever Hindman Summer Camp. There is a lot of energy, fun, and learning happening on the banks of Troublesome Creek!

Looking for a meaningful activity for your child this summer? Hindman Settlement School is hosting TWO summer day-camps ...
06/10/2026

Looking for a meaningful activity for your child this summer? Hindman Settlement School is hosting TWO summer day-camps on a this June & July for ages 3rd through 8th grade! Come explore Art, Theater, Photography, & Creative Writing on the beautiful and historic campus of Hindman Settlement School.

$50 admission includes lunch, snacks, and day of fun activities that encourage creativity, personal expression, and mindfulness. Parents who volunteer as group chaperones will receive free admission for their child. Scholarships available. Register soon as space is limited to 18 students per camp.

June 15-17: Art & Theater Camp for 3rd through 5th grades
In collaboration with the Appalachian Artisan Center
Register here - https://bit.ly/4dBJ0ee

July 13-15: Photography & Creative Writing for 6th through 8th grades
Register here - https://bit.ly/3RkmD5D

Help support and represent our Ironwood Writers' Studio by pre-ordering this year's t-shirt! This shirt features origina...
06/10/2026

Help support and represent our Ironwood Writers' Studio by pre-ordering this year's t-shirt! This shirt features original, one-of-a-kind artwork created by local Kentucky artist, Hayden Miles. This is a limited-time offer and we will only be printing one batch, so don't wait! Order today at https://bit.ly/4fXHTZ6

We're happy to have Switchback on its way! This anthology celebrates the Settlement School's cohort of writers who parti...
06/08/2026

We're happy to have Switchback on its way! This anthology celebrates the Settlement School's cohort of writers who participated in the 2025 National Stafford Challenge to write a poem a day for a year. Contributors include:

Sarah Stoltzfus Allen, Michelle Russel Barger, Tyler Barrett, Corinne Boyer, Loren Crawford, Colette Crown, Jean K. Dowdy, Lisa Farthing, Linda Meg Frith, Melissa Helton, Jane Hicks, Sarah Insalaco, Patsy Kisner, Patti Miller, Sarah Josephine Pennington, Catherine Perkins, Samantha Renee Ratcliffe, Amy Le Ann Richardson, Brian Rohr, Rosemary Royston, Jennifer Susan Smith, Jessica Swafford, Hillary M. Tucker, Clinton W. Waters, T Wimer, and Lisa Woods.

The cover photo is by Francesco Aglieri Rinella, an Italian photographer who served as Artist-in-Residence at Appalshop in Whitesburg, and who frequently visits and photographs Eastern Kentucky.

Order your copy here: https://bit.ly/3QNzo8k

This week the 4-H Art Club group of Clark County visited Hindman Settlement's campus and completing a tour as well as a ...
06/07/2026

This week the 4-H Art Club group of Clark County visited Hindman Settlement's campus and completing a tour as well as a "Landscape Embroidery" project. Students were first provided with a demonstration on the running stitch and satin stitch. Then they worked to sew a mountain scene resembling our Appalachian region.

At the end of May, our second Writer in Residence program took place at Leslie County High School. Matthew Parsons worke...
06/06/2026

At the end of May, our second Writer in Residence program took place at Leslie County High School. Matthew Parsons worked with four sections of LCHS’s Media Arts classes, presenting a unique curriculum of creative writing. Matthew taught concepts and exercises in creative nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and songwriting to 40 students ranging from grades 9 - 12.

Last week, students enrolled in our afterschool Art Club at Emmalena Elementary finished up their last session of the se...
06/05/2026

Last week, students enrolled in our afterschool Art Club at Emmalena Elementary finished up their last session of the semester. During this session students completed a landscape painting project and received individual awards and gifts for their dedication to the program. It's been such a fun year with this group!

Fiddles and banjos filled the radio-waves on May 21st when students from Hindman Settlement School's Pick & Bow program ...
06/04/2026

Fiddles and banjos filled the radio-waves on May 21st when students from Hindman Settlement School's Pick & Bow program traveled to the WMMT Studios in Whitesburg to perform a live radio show! Pick & Bow is a free afterschool music program for 4th through 12th graders to learn traditional Appalachian and bluegrass music. Hindman Settlement School hosted weekly lessons this Winter and Spring and the Pick & Bow Radio show was a celebration of everything our dedicated students accomplished! Instructors Melanie Turner and Dellena Sparkman, co-hosted the evenings program as the "Mel & Del Show", bringing some Hee-Haw humor to the stage. The show was broadcast live on 88.7 WMMT and featured our students playing bluegrass, old-time and country songs like Cripple Creek, Folsom Prison Blues, Walking After Midnight Foggy Mountain Breakdown, and Shady Grove.

You can hear an archived recording of the show at https://bit.ly/4al0FWD

Submissions are open for the 2026 collection for TroublesomeRising.org, the digital anthology and companion website for ...
06/04/2026

Submissions are open for the 2026 collection for TroublesomeRising.org, the digital anthology and companion website for Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky, which documented the deadly 2022 that affected campus and the region. We’re looking for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, art, song, sound pieces, video, and scholarly work related to the ’22 flood or other floods, pieces about the climate crisis, natural disasters, and disaster response and recovery, and other ways to examine human experience of and interaction with the environment and climate. We’re interested in work that documents such events and also work that interrogates their causes and potential solutions.

To submit click here: https://bit.ly/4gGbXae

Submissions are open until July 1.

Send up to 5 poems (Word document, no PDF), 10 images (jpeg or png). Video or sound clips must be hosted somewhere online. Please send the link.

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PO Box 844
Hindman, KY
41822

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Monday 8am - 4pm
Tuesday 8am - 4pm
Wednesday 8am - 4pm
Thursday 8am - 4pm
Friday 8am - 4pm

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