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Saturday, July 20, 2024 from 1:00-3:00 PM
Sketchbook Club – July 2024
Sketchbook Club is a no-barriers drawing club for participants of all ages and abilities, led by Amy Kligman. Mixed media materials and snacks are provided in this low-pressure making environment. Participants are welcome to use Charlotte Street’s collaborative sketchbooks or bring their own! Can't make it to this Sketchbook Club? Join us next time on the following Saturdays from 1:00-3:00 PM: August 17 September 21 November 16
Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Spirit in Sonic Art: AMDUAT
Join us for the debut of the new series, Spirit in Sonic Art, produced by Rev. Dwight Frizzell. An exploration of sound as medium, Spirit in Sonic Art will occur four times this fall at Charlotte Street. The first iteration, Spirit in Sonic Art: AMDUAT, is on August 1 at 7:00 PM and will explore the Sun-God Ra’s transformative journey through the underworld based on the world’s first graphic novel from Ancient Egypt, 1470 BCE, performed by Myth-Science Ensemble.
Saturday, August 3, 2024 from 1:00-3:00 PM
Movement Lab – August 2024
Movement Lab is a free guided movement workshop for dancers, dance enthusiasts, movers, and shakers of all levels. No experience is required! This program is in partnership with Kostas, founded by past Charlotte Street Studio Resident Haley Kostas. Can’t make it to Movement Lab? Join us next time on the following Saturdays at 1:00-3:00 PM: September 7 October 5 November 2
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 from 6:00-8:00 PM
Timbre Arts Writing Incubator: Exhibition Review
Interested in writing your first exhibition review? Learn about the basic components of a review from writing to editing to publication. As a prerequisite for this workshop, participants will select a local exhibition to visit and review.Thursday, August 15, 2024 from 6:00-7:00 PM
The Guest Curator: Carlos Quijon, Jr.
Join us for an in-depth curatorial lecture with Carlos Quijon, Jr. on his curatorial practice on Thursday, August 15. Quijon is an active writer and scholar, who works between Manila and New York. He was recently a Curator-in-Residence at ISCP in New York. With his recent experience as a curator for the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Carlos will articulate his experience of working on the biennale, as well as speak about his research interests as a C-MAP Fellow at The Museum of Modern Art. Contemporary artists working in Kansas City who would like to be considered for a studio visit with Carlos Quijon, Jr. may submit a request by sending these materials: a short artist bio (around 150-200 words), website of your work, and 3-5 images of current work to [email protected]. We will schedule the studio visits for Friday, August 16. ABOUT Carlos Quijon Jr. Quijon (b. 1989) is an art historian, critic, and curator based between Manila and New York. He is the C-MAP Fellow for Southeast and East Asia at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He was a fellow of the research platform Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (MAHASSA), convened by the Getty Foundation’s Connecting Art Histories project. He has written exhibition reviews for publications such as e-flux,Frieze, Artforum. His essays are part of the books Writing Presently (Philippine Contemporary Art Network, 2019) and From a History of Exhibitions Towards a Future of Exhibition-Making: China and Southeast Asia (Sternberg Press, 2019), and SEA: Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia (Weiss Publications, 2022). In 2017, he was a research resident in Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul and a fellow of the Transcuratorial Academy both in Berlin and Mumbai. He was a curatorial resident at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York (funded by the Asian Cultural Council) in 2023 and the Singapore Art Museum in 2024. He curated Courses of Action in Hong Kong in 2019, co-curated Minor Infelicities in Seoul in 2020, and the traveling exhibition series Afro-Southeast Asia: Pragmatics and Geopoetics of Art during a Cold War in Singapore (2021), Manila (2021-2), and Busan (2022). He curated the ongoing traveling exhibition series Archipelagic Futurisms(2022-). He is the curator of the Philippine Pavilion at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale in 2024.Saturday, August 17, 2024 from 1:00-3:00 PM
Sketchbook Club – August 2024
Sketchbook Club is a no-barriers drawing club for participants of all ages and abilities, led by Amy Kligman. Mixed media materials and snacks are provided in this low-pressure making environment. Participants are welcome to use Charlotte Street’s collaborative sketchbooks or bring their own! Can't make it to this Sketchbook Club? Join us next time on the following Saturdays from 1:00-3:00 PM: Septemeber 21 November 16
Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 7:00-11:00 PM
2024 Gala
Join us at Charlotte Street’s 2024 Gala - Wonder Worlds on Saturday, October 19!Proceeds benefit Charlotte Street’s work to center our region’s most forward-thinking visual artists, writers, and performers, connecting artists to each other and our community.
Charlotte Street is stepping into a peculiar landscape of duplicates and disorientation at this year’s Gala—inviting you into alternate universes filled with fantastical discoveries and uncanny experiences. Sponsors will begin the evening at our VIP Studio Pre-Party where guests will enjoy drinks and appetizers with fellow supporters and have the opportunity to be costumed and styled by Kansas City’s premiere designers and makeup artists. Guests will then transport into the main event, featuring a wildly creative immersive experience that includes installations and performances by local artists, only-at-Charlotte-Street interactive elements, and an array of creative food and drinks.