2010 charlotte street visual artist award fellows announced

Charlotte Street Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of three Kansas City artists to receive unrestricted cash Awards of $10,000 each in 2010. Selected by a panel of local and national curators from a pool of 48 nominated artists, the recipients are Ari Fish, Sonie Ruffin and Caleb Taylor.

Charlotte Street Foundation has now recognized 71 Kansas City based visual artists with Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards, with a total of $452,500 in unrestricted cash grants distributed directly to visual artists over thirteen years.  (An additional $25,000 has been awarded to five generative performing artists, through CSF’s Generative Performing Artists Awards launched in 2008.) An exhibition of the work of the 2010 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards Fellows will presented at Grand Arts in fall, 2010. Read full press release. Press about the 2010 Awards fellows (click each for link): Kansas City Star; KCUR-FM, Kansas City Free Press, Review.