Exhibitions • Performance • Music • Collaborations • Events
January
OPEN HOUSE
ft. CLOUDS Dance Company
In(SITE):
ft. Viktor Ancilla
Visual Artist Fellows Alumni Exhibition Opening Reception
Artist Market @ VA Fellows Exhibition Openning
February
30th Anniversary Dance Party:
Writer’s Circle
ProdoLAB
March
Beyond the Studio: Leslie Van Holten
@ Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
In(SITE): —1/3
ft. Shannon Stewart + Tahni Holt
Cultural Producer Grant Info Session
April
3rd, 3-5 PM
MdW Exhibition Opening Reception
3 | Artist Market @ MdW Exhibition Opening Reception
16 | Writer’s Circle
24 | ( )PEN STUDI( )S
December
Dec. 5,
Artist Resource Faire
Dec.
EMAS Presents
IT’S ALL HAPPENING HERE
Charlotte Street’s campus is a multidisciplinary, multifaceted facility that sets a new national standard for collaborative artist incubators. Located in a repurposed industrial factory, the renovated space embraces the building’s raw and resilient texture as a backdrop for the creation of innovative work. The facility includes the Stern Theater, Charlotte Street Gallery, Kemper Library, Studio Residency, Jedel Family Workshop, and Jon Puschek Courtyard.
The contemporary 20,000 sq. ft. campus is located at 3333 Wyoming Street in midtown Kansas City, Missouri, near Roanoke Park.
Charlotte Street’s free programming is hosted here.
CHARLOTTE STREET
GALLERY
Charlotte Street’s gallery is a 1,625 sq ft. exhibition space equipped with two 14 ft. wide moveable walls, multiple floor and ceiling outlets, and state-of-the-art lighting and projection systems. A garage door allows for load-in of large work directly from the north parking lot. Exhibitions are shown year-round with six-week run times.
Gallery Hours
TUES–FRI 12:00 PM-5:00 PM; SAT 11:00 AM-5:00 PM
CHARLOTTE STREET
STERN THEATRE
Charlotte Street’s campus includes a 1,750 sq ft. high-ceiling, black box style, flexible performance space. A garage door from the courtyard allows for load-in of large sets and equipment. A tech booth is located on the second floor of the building.
Unless otherwise noted, most performances that take place in the Charlotte Street Stern Theater start at 7:30 PM on their event day—seating is first come, first served.
CHARLOTTE STREET
KEMPER LIBRARY
Visitors are invited to the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust Library at Charlotte Street
to browse, research, or read our new collection of artist books, exhibition catalogs, music compositions, and archive of regional publications.
Know what you are looking for before you visit?
You can search our catalog from anywhere––
visit librarycat.org/lib/cstreetfoundation.
ABOUT RESERVING THE CHARLOTTE STREET KEMPER LIBRARY
Non-profit organizations, community groups, entities, and individuals with purposes that support and engage artists and community may request to use the William T. Kemper Charitable Trust Library at Charlotte Street for small private events or gatherings.
A completed online reservation request form must be filled out, including information describing the organization, group, or entity who will host the event, gathering, or meeting. We are able to accommodate a maximum of 35 people in the space.
To request a space, click here.
Library Hours
WED–SAT 12:00 PM-4:00 PM
Upcoming Events
Saturday, October 24, 2026; Sponsor Pre-party from 6-7 PM; Main Event 7-11 PM
2026 Gala: Rodeo Nouveau
The best art party ’round town is just ’round the corner!
Wet your whistle and enjoy fine vittles with fellow supporters at the best art party ’round town—immersive installations, performances, and activations from local artists and off-the-wall-activities! Enter the corral designed by Gaylin Eugene Nicholson, try for 8 seconds on Mecha-Moo the bucking robobull, clown around with our friends from The Emerald, encounter cowboy flash with The DynamitExperience, serenade a lonely cowpoke with Brodeo-kee, saunter into Hunter Silvey‘s absinthe-washed lounge, practice your lasso skills with President Your’Majesty Elbey riding in from Copper Boyz Ranch, saddle up for some ink from Tintoretta Tattoo Studio, and do-si-do the night away with DJ Dr. Violet Dream! We’ll have vittles from Allouise Pâtisserie, Casa Ama, Dispatch Pizza, Golden Brown, Nivis’ Minis, The Town Co./Dear Donna, Workman’s, andYoliTortilleria. Gala Sponsors will enjoy fine provisions from Clay & Fire. Wet your whistle with Beer Oro and custom cocktails from gala beverage director Nicole Dearing.October–December 2026
Crossroads Artboards: Caroline Honas / Arin Yoon
Charlotte Street is pleased to premiere Artboards this winter by artists Caroline Honas and Arin Yoon, to be installed at 125 Southwest Boulevard. The Artboards program captures the creative spirit of the Crossroads neighborhood and serving as an alternative outdoor platform where artists’ work can be viewed during all hours of the day. The current work will remain on view through the end of December 2026.
Caroline Honas says of her Artboards:
Rendered as oil paintings, these two images depict the vibrant duality of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. The prairie is a delicate, dwindling environment. These partnered paintings characterize this landscape through stylized flora and the interwoven patterns. The first image depicts woody encroachment, a natural phenomenon spurred on by climate change, wherein native and naturalized trees are slowly spreading across the plains, disrupting the tallgrass by occupying root space and blocking the sun. Woody encroachment is one of the biggest threats to the last remaining prairies. Growth, in this phenomena, means decline. The second image depicts evidence of controlled burning. This custodial practice is traced back to Indigenous land caretaking, and is used to promote soil health and burn off invasive growth. The charred grass stalks fertilize the soil which protects the deep roots. Fire, typically seen as a destructive force, becomes a symbol for regeneration.
Kansas City lies on the easternmost edge of the tallgrass ecoregion. These paintings blend imagery captured from the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, the Konza prairie, Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie Park, and the Flint Hills
My long-term project ‘To Be At War’ explores the social impacts of war on the military community. To understand my new role as a military spouse living on a remote military base, I began taking pictures to make sense of this life. I don’t recall at what point I realized that John had poor hearing. Service members are at a greater risk of hearing loss than their civilian counterparts due to repeated exposures to high intensity noise such as small arms fire and explosions from training exercises and deployments. It’s something I became accustomed to and now, my children too. John was shot in 2007 during the “surge” in Iraq. It was not until recently that the children were old enough to notice the scar on his right shoulder. “Will Daddy get shot by a sniper again?” my youngest asked. I began thinking about the trauma that we inherit through John’s experiences with war. I wanted to make a photograph of John’s hearing aid, which for me, symbolized this secondary trauma. When our son, Teo, drew close to his ear, his face close enough for John to feel the warmth of his breath, I knew this was the photograph that I was trying to make.
Date- April 18, 2021
Location- Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, USA
About the Crossroads Artboards
Since 2008, the Crossroads Artboards has featured over 100 commissioned works by Kansas City-area artists. The Artboards capture the creative spirit of the Crossroads neighborhood while serving as an alternative platform for contemporary art. For a complete listing of artists and more information, visit charlottestreet.org/crossroads-artboards.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026 from 6:00-9:00 PM
2026 Artist INC Live WorkShare
Wednesday, October 28, 2026 from 7:30-9 PM
EMAS Presents
EMAS Presents is an experimental and improvised music series curated by Seth Andrew Davis + Evan Verploegh. An extension of the collective Extemporaneous Music & Arts Society, EMAS Presents highlights local, national, and international music practitioners to grow Kansas City’s improvised music community.November 13 & 14, 2026
Nightshades Experimental Animation Festival
Nightshades is a free experimental animation screening by and for the animators of Kansas City, Missouri happening November 13 and 14, 2026! Applications are now open to the submit your work to be part of Nightshades! It is free to submit (and to attend).Requirements for submission:
- Filmmakers must live in or be from Kansas or Missouri
- Animation must be "experimental" in content, medium, or technique.
- Films should be approximately 15 seconds to 15 minutes in length.
- No AI
- Films must be finished (no in process work)
- Content is NOT required to be family friendly, but no racist, homophobic, or otherwise offensive content will be allowed.
Apply through this Google form: bit.ly/nightshades-apply
Thursday, November 19, 2026 from 6–7:30 PM
Beyond the Studio: Lisa Maione
