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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.
Via CityScene KC
ArtsBlock Creating a Cultural Haven on Independence Avenue
ArtsBlock, a new project near downtown on Independence Avenue, more than lives up to its name by offering places for artists to live and work, as well as an exhibition gallery and art class space for kids.
Via WGBH
Jared Bowen interviews Fatimah Tuggar
WGBH's Jared Bowen interviews 2019 Visual Artist Award Fellow Fatimah Tuggar about her current work at the Davis Museum.
Via The Pitch KC
The Stray Cat Film Center is keeping KC weird: Best of KC 2019
In a year when multiple arts spaces have shuttered or relocated, we’re looking for any excuse to remain optimistic about the scene. Stray Cat Film Center makes it easy.
Via Fox 4 News - Kansas City
Traveling artists coming to KC with mobile dark room on quest to photograph America
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Artists with an eye for photography are making their way to Kansas City to view what we have to offer through their lenses.
On Wednesday, artists spruced up the Black Box Performance Space, near 40th and Troost, for a big event this weekend.
The venue, along with the Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photographers and Charlotte Street Foundation, will host traveling photographers with Free Film: USA.
Via Informality Blog
On the Other Side: Reflections on William Plummer’s Passages to my Ā pó: Transplanted Joss
The word “melt” suggests potential, a process triggered by a reaction. What triggers is numerous, but how do traditions, roles, definitions, entire notions of being and selfhood begin to melt away through our work? What gets left behind? The artists featured in the exhibition Melt, as stated by curator Camile E. Messerly, “are in-transition,” but where are they going? And are we as viewers on this same journey? This work required to proceed from one place to another–whether physical, spiritual, mental, or emotional–occupied me as I analyzed William Plummer’s installation Passages to my Ā pó: Transplanted Joss.
Via KCUR 89.3 FM
This Kansas City Art Institute Grad Helped Taylor Swift Tell People To ‘Calm Down’
Former Rocket Grant recipient Megan Mantia recently helped produce Taylor Swift's new video.
Via Informality Blog
Truth In Memory – Photographs by Lauren Whitacre
Melt showcases artists working in the realm of the in-between. The in-between relies on objects and sensations to unpack our understanding of home. Located somewhere between documentary and fiction, Lauren Whitacre’s images hint at the relationship between generations of women. Specifically, Whitacre explores her own relationship with her mother by means of constructed joint memories.