CSF news from elsewhere.
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Honors: Emiel Cleaver
The Kansas City Filmmaker and Musical Artist Received a 2019 Rocket Grant for a Film about Slain KC Civil Rights Leader Leon M. Jordan
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Arts Organizations Provide Financial Help to Artists Navigating the “Crazy Storm” of COVID-19
Kansas City singer and harpist Calvin Arsenia was booked for performances all over the country until COVID-19 shut those performances down.
“As an artist, all these contracts being turned to ashes means I have no income anymore,” Arsenia said. “A gig on the calendar is how I’m going to eat that month or that week or that day.”
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Arts News: Charlotte Street Renews Commitment to Cutting-Edge Choreography
Making Moves is moving.
After a successful establishment year, Charlotte Street Foundation renewed the monthly choreographic showcase for 2020 and is bringing it to the Foundation’s new location at 3333 Wyoming.
Previously, “Making Moves,” produced by Charlotte Street studio resident Kyle Mullins, was presented every second Thursday at the Charlotte Street Foundation’s Capsule Performing Arts Space at 1664 Broadway Blvd.
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Emergency Relief Fund Set Up To Assist Kansas City Artists
Starting May 1, arts organizations plan lottery distribution of $1,000 checks to artists hurt by coronavirus shutdown.
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Kansas City Artists Open Storefronts In Neighborhoods So More People Can Sit Down And Create
Pat Alexander, Charlotte Street's programming and studio residency manager, says a lot of thought went into the two locations. He and his staff attended neighborhood meetings and listened to community officers to learn what sort of programming would be of interest to residents.
"So they're not just popping in and saying, 'We're art. We're here. Like it,'" Alexander notes. Instead, they're asking themselves, "How are you really going to interact with these communities?"
Via The New Yorker
A Photographer’s Parents Wave Farewell
2006 Visual Artist Award Fellow Deanna Dikeman's portrait series doubles as a family album, compressing nearly three decades of her parents’ adieux into a deft and affecting chronology.
Via Informality Blog
Charlotte Street Announces Visual Artist Awards and Generative Performing Artist Awards for 2020
Charlotte Street Foundation (CSF) announces the 2020 Visual Artist and Generative Performing Artist Awards from the Kansas City region. A milestone on CSF’s giving is this year also marks the 100th Visual Artist Award granted.
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Rocket Grants Director Julia Cole Exits Program
Rocket Grants Director Julia Cole has vacated her position after a decade in that role.
Launched in 2009, The Rocket Grants program is “a partnership between the Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, MO and the Spencer Museum of Art at KU in Lawrence, KS, with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.“
Via KC Studio Magazine
A Room of Their Own
For three local arts organizations, the new year also means a new address — 2300 Independence Avenue in Kansas City’s Historic Northeast Neighborhood. It’s no coincidence. The African American Artists Collective, Kansas City Public Theatre and Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography have all been awarded Charlotte Street Start Up Residencies on the ground floor of the new Pendleton ArtsBlock.