Charlotte Street news from elsewhere.
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Kansas City Collective Of Trans Women Seeks To Reclaim Queer History Of Electronic Music
Shopmaker, along with her two friends Mazzy Mann (CSF Studio Resident) and Lorelei Kretsinger, are three Kansas City trans women trying to set the record straight in terms of their community's artistic contributions. They are also Rocket Grants recipients.
Via The Daily Kansan
Mural celebrating women of color to feature in downtown Lawrence
The City of Lawrence gave final approval during an Aug. 7 city hall meeting for a Rocket Grants mural representing women of color to be painted outside of the Lawrence Public Library.
Via KC Studio Magazine
Arts News: Charlotte Street 2018 Visual Artist Awards
In late February, the Charlotte Street Foundation announced three recipients of its 2018 Visual Artist awards. Each received an unrestricted cash award of $10,000, and the winners’ works will be featured in the 2018 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards Exhibition later this year at H&R Block Artspace.
Via The Pitch
Gilda’s Club Kansas City and local arts luminaries partner for a cancer-centric collaboration this weekend
Gilda’s Club Kansas City was formed six years ago in recognition of this grim reality. A branch of the national organization named after comedian Gilda Radner (who died of ovarian cancer in 1989), the midtown location is a place for people living with cancer, and their families, to find support, education, advocacy, and social opportunities — all free of charge. The organization is growing locally: it served 475 members in 2015; 875 members in 2016; and 1,501 members in 2017. (Members include persons who have received a cancer diagnosis, caregivers, or family members.)
Via KC Studio
Meet the Artists: CSF’s 2017-18 Studio Residency Program
For the community, The Charlotte Street Studio Residency Program represents a talent factory — an incubator for the creative expressions that will occupy Kansas City’s galleries and stages in the years to come.
Via KC Studio
Let Your Freak Flag Fly at Alter: Art Space
It’s been called Big Fun Art and it’s making major waves throughout the art world. Kansas City has a fresh new venue for this multidisciplinary ain’t-nothin’-but-a-party art movement — that is, if you can find it. Enter Alter: Art Space, quite literally birthed last summer in the West Bottoms by recent Kansas City Art Institute graduates, Boi Boy and Bo Hubbard, who proudly refer to themselves as its “moms.”
Via KC Studio
Glyneisha Johnson: Collage as Metaphor
Artist Glyneisha Johnson, a May 2017 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, has received several honors in very short order.
Via KC Studio
Artist to Watch: Jillian Youngbird
The emerging Kansas City artist, known for her animal-inspired sculptures and environmentalist beliefs, racked up the exhibits in 2017 and has a busy 2018 planned.
Via Lawrence Journal World
Mural project to collect and depict stories of Lawrence women of color
Lawrence’s history has many well-known characters, but not many are women and even fewer are women of color. A new community history and mural project hopes to change that.