Charlotte Street Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of two Kansas City generative performing artists to receive unrestricted cash Awards of $8,500 each in 2012. The 2012 Fellows are composer/musician PAT ALONZO CONWAY and theatre creator and performer HEIDI VAN. They were selected by a panel of local and national performing arts professionals through a highly competitive process, beginning with an open call for applicants, and including in-person visits with 10 semi-finalists. A public performance of the work of this year’s Generative Performing Awards Fellows is October 5, 9pm at The Fishtank Theater. (more details to come)
Since launching in 2008, and including the 2012 Generative Performing Artist Fellows, Charlotte Street Foundation has recognized 11 Generative Performing Artists in Kansas City creating outstanding, innovative, original work in the fields of dance, theater, music, experimental music performance, theater/performance art, and hybrid/interdisciplinary versions thereof, with $75,000 in cash distributed. In addition, over 15 years Charlotte Street has recognized 77 Kansas City based visual artists with Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards totaling $512,500. These Awards recognized achievement and promise, and foster continued artistic and professional development. In doing so, they distinguish Kansas City as a place that values individual artists, and enhance its desirability as a place for artists to live and work.
About the artists:
Pat Alonzo Conway is a composer and creator of original music as well as a teacher, performing musician, and active collaborator with a wide range of other musicians, composers, and artists of other disciplines. Over the past two decades, Conway’s creative output has been primarily comprised of large ensemble musical compositions that strive to marry source materials gleaned from musical training in the academy and individual studies of musical traditions from other sources, primarily African based . . . read more in the full press release.
Heidi Van is creator, producer of experimental live theater, performer and actor. She is Co-founder and Curator of Fishtank Performance Studio, a storefront theater located at 18th and Wyandotte in the Crossroads area of downtown Kansas City. At Fishtank, she has produced and presented both a series of works of her own creation and co-creation –Rubble: A Window Play (2011), Brindsay Kardilton’s Bump (2011, co-created with David Wayne Reed), 53 Days & 52 Nights: A Clown Requiem (2010), White Nose Christmas: A Tabloid Nativity Of Rehab & Rebirth (2010, co-created with David Wayne Reed), and l’Histoire d’Amour: A Clown Love Story (2009)—as well as productions of the work of many other artists . . . read more in the full press release.
