Charlotte Street news from elsewhere.
Via KC Studio Magazine
2016 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award exhibition at Kemper at the Crossroads
Kemper at the Crossroads is the site of this year’s exhibit of works by winners of the prestigious Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards. Since 1997 the annual award has given more than $632,000 to 88 visual artists, including unrestricted $10,000 grants to this year’s recipients, Madeline Gallucci, Shawn Bitters and Rodolfo Marron III.
Via Kansas City Spaces Magazine
Kansas City Spaces Magazines features photos from the 2016 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards exhibition
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art partnered with Charlotte Street Foundation to present the work of Charlotte Street’s 2016 Visual Artist Awards Fellows on Sept. 2.
Via KC Studio Magazine
Setting the Agenda: KC Studio Talks to Eight New Top Players at Area Art Organizations, including CSF’s, Amy Kligman
Creativity was woven into family life during Amy Kligman’s growing up years in small-town New Washington, Indiana. Her mother was a florist and cake decorator who did folk ceramics; her grandmother made quilts.
Via The Pitch
Charlotte Street welcomes its new curator (and takes out the trash)
From her home base in Miami, and lately working in New York City with Creative Time, Lynnette Miranda has coordinated art conferences at the 2015 Venice Biennale, the Boys and Girls High School and Park Avenue Armory.
Via The Pitch
Pitch Weekly highlights the Studio Residency Performing Arts Showcase
The Charlotte Street Foundation presents a showcase of work by its resident performing artists at the Paragraph Gallery (23 East 12th Street) July 22, starting with MacKenzie Reed, Rosemary Bloom, Blake Freeman, Mariel Reynolds and Martika from noon to 1 p.m.
Via Kansas City Star
Kansas City LGBTQ advocate on ‘white fragility,’ latinx and finding support
Documentary filmmaker Randall Jenson, 32,RandallJenson.com, of Kansas City received a 2016 Rocket Grant from the Charlotte Street Foundation for an online video project by SocialScope Productions.
Via Kansas City Star
Rocket Grant winner melds science and art in beehive project for Kansas City Zoo
Jarrett Mellenbruch of Roeland Park was raised in Kansas City, Kan. He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting at Rhode Island School of Design and a master of fine arts degree at Maine College of Art in Portland.
Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/visual-arts/article85518432.html#storylink=cpy
Via Kansas City Star
Rocket Grant winner Melaney Mitchell wants to bring informality to art
Melaney Mitchell of Kansas City received a Rocket Grant from Charlotte Street Foundation for a “radical public programming” project for her Informality blog, informalityblog.com, which she started in 2013.
Via Kansas City Star
Kansas City Star Releases Announcement of Rocket Grants 2016 Award Winners
The Charlotte Street Foundation has announced winners of its prestigious Rocket Grants. Eleven projects, selected for innovation and their aim to reach audiences outside traditional arts venues, were awarded a total of $60,000.