Eight artists have been selected to participate in Charlotte Street’s 2022-2023 Crossroads Artboards program. Located in the heart of Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District at 125 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, MO, the Artboards will feature eight different works for three months each on the exterior, double-sided billboards. The artists selected for the 2022-2023 cycle are Derrick Bennitz, Austin Dearth, Angie Jennings, John Kline, Cesar Lopez, Christopher Spaw, Fred Trease, and Johanna Winters.
The 2022-2023 Artboards schedule is as follows (subject to change):
April – June: Cesar Lopez (east) + Angie Jennings (west)
July – September: Christopher Spaw (east)+ Derrick Bennitz (west)
October – December: Johanna Winters (east) + Austin Dearth (west)
January – March: John Kline (east) + Fred Trease (west)
The jury for the Artboards consists of four professional artists in a variety of media, curators, educators, critical art writers, and cultural activists – all from the Kansas City region with at least one juror who lives or works in the Crossroads Arts District. The jurors for the 2022-2023 cycle were Rie Egawa, Sherry Leedy, Andrew Ordonez, and Caleb Taylor.
ABOUT CROSSROADS ARTBOARDS
The Crossroads Artboards were launched in fall 2008 as a partnership between Charlotte Street Foundation and Missouri Bank (now BOK Financial). The Artboards program is sponsored in part by the Crossroads Community Association. 96 Kansas City area artists have been featured on the ARTBOARDS to date. For a complete listing and more information, go to https://charlottestreet.org/awards/crossroads-artboards/
ABOUT CROSSROADS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
The mission of the Crossroads Community Association shall be to support, promote, advance, and encourage the revitalization of the community as a thriving, safe and attractive center of art, history, enterprise, commerce, culture, residence, entertainment, education and other activity; to inform and educate the members of this association and the public about community issues; to provide a forum to address community objectives and issues; to build a strong community through communication, cooperation, planning and leadership; to build a strong partnership between business owners, property owners, tenants and residents to ensure community involvement; and to enhance the quality of life within the community. For more information visit https://kccrossroads.org/about/cca/
ABOUT CHARLOTTE STREET
Charlotte Street centers Kansas City’s most forward-thinking visual artists, writers, and performers—acting as the primary incubator, provocateur, and connector for the region’s contemporary arts community and its leading advocate on the national stage. Since 1997, Charlotte Street has distributed over $2 million in awards and grants to artists and their innovative projects and has hosted countless exhibitions, performances, convenings, and conversations connecting and challenging Kansas City’s contemporary art ecosystem. For more information about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visit www.charlottestreet.org.
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