2024 Rocket Grants Award Ceremony

Saturday, September 28 from 6:00-8:00 PM

Charlotte Street and the Spencer Museum of Art are excited to celebrate this year’s recipients for the 2024 Rocket Grants Awards! Funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Rocket Grants provides $60,000 in direct funding to ten artists/collectives in the Kansas City region creating exceptional, under-the-radar, and artist-centered projects in public spaces.

An Awards Ceremony will be held on Saturday, September 28 from 6:00-8:00 PM. Join us for an evening of celebration where awardees will share a short presentation about their project.

This year’s awardees were selected from a highly competitive pool of 77 applications. Recipients will receive project-based grants of $6,000 for a total of $60,000 in funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Congratulations to the 2024 Rocket Grant Recipients:

▪️ Community Dabke (Fally Adani Ruzik)
▪️ Hip Hop in the Garden (Kadesh Flow)
▪️ It Was a Hell of a Mix-Up (Brian Hawkins)
▪️ I Need a Moment of Solitude (Aisha Imani Sanna)
▪️ Glitter!Bunny (April Marie Mai and Hollie Blakeney)
▪️1309 (Mazzy Mann)
▪️ El Arbol de Aguázate (Sofiana Olivera-Abalán)
▪️ One Mic Stand TV (Alex Harris, River McKenzie, One Mic Stand KC)
▪️ Bosque Beats (Alejandro Sabillón)
▪️ Adaptive Re-Imaginings (Julia Vering)