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Saturday, February 15, 2025 from 1:00-3:00 PM
Sketchbook Club—February 2025
Sketchbook Club is a no-barriers drawing club for participants of all ages and abilities. 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!Saturday, February 15, 2025 from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Level Up!! Digital Media Tools for Artists w/ Ian O’Neill
Level Up!! is a series digital tech workshops for artists across six intensive Saturday sessions for artists and by artists seeking support in producing digital media content. In the second workshop, Digital Media Tools for Artists, Ian O'Neill leads a 3-hour workshop showcasing various tools and techniques to help artists with social media, digital documentation, and setting their work apart in the digital ecosystem. The focus is tools that are accessible/ low cost to create and present via phone streaming, documentation, and social media video.This workshop is designed for artists, visual or time based, who may never have used social media or technology to amplify their creative practice. The "I do not do social media" crowd or those who want to know more about how the phones they already own can be used for low-cost support in their art practice.
Maximum of 10 Artists. To express interest in participating in this workshop or other workshops in the Level Up!! series, please fill out this form. Participants will be notified of registration status prior to the date of the workshop.Wednesday, February 19, 2025 from 7:30-9:00 PM
EMAS Presents: Marshall Trammell’s Pedagogy of the Surveilled
"Listen Like Lovers: Pedagogy of the Surveilled" is Music Research Strategies' vagabond, audience-participant and active listening conduction system and shared intellectual property, graphic score developed with an Insurgent Learning Ensemble for the 2024 Sonic Acts Biennial (Amsterdam,The Netherlands). Ensemble members responded to an "open call" focusing on personal histories of navigating migration management policies and practices in everyday life as a way to resist surveillance by Levantine and North African participants in an experimental, critical improvised music performance-constellation and context. The photographic images that comprise the graphic score were made with fire, metal and wood during a tactical media-making Insurgent Learning Workshop (ILW) by respondents using Underground Railroad (UGRR), hosted by 2024 Sonic Acts Biennale curator Maud Seuntjens and co-developed with Ghenwa noiré of SALWA Foundation.. The metal used are branding irons from Music Research Strategies' collection of UGRR quilt code-inspired ILW elements. Corresponding to the image-array, or the ILW-generated, interculturally-situated new codes, are the subject of the conceptual and Improvised performance of narrative of the "Pedagogy of the Surveilled." Offering an array of 14, 2'X2', double-sided, graphic scorecards that make up the of "Listen Like Lovers: Pedagogy of the Surveilled" and three active listening directives. Active Listening directives are in place throughout the performance-curriculum to transmit performance-worker instructions for both the Insurgent Learning conduction and performing ensembles to a) perform their individual dynamics or disciplined practice, with scorecard or instrument (vertical, y-axis); b) perform while looking and listening collectively (horizontal, x-axis); and, c) perform your discipline within the full, voluminous, three-dimensionality of the performance container (z-axis). On February 19, Music Research Strategies' continues the quest to generate new narratives of critical discourse and Improvisational cultural weaponry to "Listen Like Lovers," "Listen Like Lawyers," and "Listen Like Wolves" in the Pedagogy of the Surveilled, with the support of the Extemporaneous Music and Arts Society (EMAS), and Charlotte Street. The "Listen Like Lovers: Pedagogy of the Surveilled" program invites audiences to participate as conductors to form the "Insurgent Learning Conductor Ensemble - KCMO" in two iterations. First, audience-conductors will perform the debut conduction for Music Research Strategies' solo percussion, performance-composition practicum of the "Pedagogy of the Surveilled," with a static set of original "sound-events" (referencing Wadada Leo Smith's nomenclature) corresponding to each scorecard image for an unpredictable and ever-changing narrative determined by an ever-changing, active listening prowess of Insurgent Learning Conductor Ensembles as the work tours indefinitely. After a brief intermission, the, now tempered, Insurgent Learning Conductor Ensemble - KCMO will perform the conduction for a second time, but to an Insurgent Learning Ensemble - KCMO curated by members of EMAS, joined by Music Research Strategies. Self-styled Music Research Strategies is, simultaneously, the Creative Music percussionist Marshall Trammell cultural work persona and community engagement platform. ILWs are an ongoing interculturally-situated, Performing Political Education platform designed to amplify the voices, experiences and celebrations of oppressed and discontented communities through Critical Improvised Music technologies, praxeologies (complexity theory and project management), field and case studies in Research Justice, Participatory and Collaborative Research and collective reimaginings of the tactical media from Underground Railroad-era for today's political landscape. Performances are led by self-styled Music Research Strategist and percussionist Marshall Trammell communal archival practice where participants sharpen their ‘cultural weaponry’ by expanding the breadth and depth of their beloved culture and heritage, supporting the intercultural life in their host countries and sharing their expertise garnered through their own stories as a form of collective research on immigration in relation to technological developments and the current political atmosphere.Friday, February 21, 2025 from 6:00–9:00 PM
Fem-utility Closet: Cohabitate | Opening Reception
Join us for the opening reception of Fem-Utility Closet: Cohabitate, Friday, February 21 from 6:00–9:00 PM in the gallery! Charlotte Street presents a new exhibition titled Fem-utility Closet: Cohabitate, curated by Melissa Dorn, February 21—April 5, 2025. This immersive installation, a cross between a utility closet and a cozy cocoon, unites the work of eight feminists who work in the realm of craft, creating physically or conceptually labor intensive works. Artists include Stephanie Alaniz (Emporia, KS), Morgan Chandler Bouldes (Milwaukee, WI), Summer Brooks (Kansas City, MO), Hadley Clark (Kansas City, MO), Melissa Dorn (Milwaukee, WI), Bernadette Negrete (Kansas City, MO), Kate E. Schaffer (Milwaukee, WI), Valaria Tatera (Milwaukee, WI). Fem-utility Closet: Cohabitate encourages people to give time and space to fully feel, engage with, and contemplate the world they’ve entered, potentially evoking a sense of wonder and delight. As they move closer to the objects and materials, they may begin to think about the everydayness of what is around them and the labor, most often unseen, that goes into our collective everydayness. Melissa Dorn aims to create a space for maintenance, which she defines as the essential act of caring for oneself and one’s community, viewing it as a necessity rather than an indulgence. She is particularly interested in how craft can serve as a form of maintenance. The featured artists share works that they believe enhance their well-being and the well-being of their community. These often soft, tactile, and repetitive pieces foster collaboration with viewers through sensory memory. Fem-utility Closet: Cohabitate is a soft place to land in a world full of indifference and the hard edges of patriarchy and capitalism. It is a place to reflect on how we interact with maintenance. CURATED BY Melissa Dorn FEATURED ARTISTS Stephanie Alaniz (Emporia, KS), Morgan Chandler Bouldes (Milwaukee, WI), Summer Brooks (Kansas City, MO), Hadley Clark (Kansas City, MO), Melissa Dorn (Milwaukee, WI), Bernadette Negrete (Kansas City, MO), Kate E. Schaffer (Milwaukee, WI), Valaria Tatera (Milwaukee, WI). Cover Image (From Top to Bottom, Left to Right): Morgan Chandler Bouldes, Stephanie Alaniz, Melissa Dorn, Valaria Tatera, Kate E. Shaffer, Hadley Clark, Summer Brooks, Bernadette NegreteSaturday, February 22, 2025 from 11:00 AM–1:00 PM
Fem-utility Closet: Lap Work
After the opening of Fem-utility Closet: Cohabitate on Friday, February 21, let’s circle up for conversation and crafting on Saturday, February 22. Please join artists Melissa Dorn, Kate E. Schaffer, and Morgan Chandler Bouldes for a public program following the opening. Participants will fortify themselves by viewing the exhibition and through chosen craft/art processes. As audience members find comfort in connecting, they may focus discussions around maintenance, feminism, and labor. Please come with any craft/art project that can be done on your lap.Thursday, February 27, 2025 from 7:30-9:00 PM
ProdoLAB—February 2025
ProdoLAB is a bimonthly experimental platform in partnership with musician/composer Eddie Moore that pairs Kansas City time-based artists, producers, and musicians to collaborate on a new piece for a one-night-only showcase at Charlotte Street. Each performance is followed by a Q&A session with the artists.Saturday, March 1, 2025 from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Level Up!! Light Right w/ Micah Thompson
Level Up!! is a series digital tech workshops for artists across six Saturday intensive workshops for artists and by artists seeking support in producing digital media content. In the third workshop, Light Right, Micah Thompson will showcase raditional and affordable approaches to lighting live staged performances for video/streaming production on a budget. Participants will learn terminology and equipment required/ hands-on LED light kit operation, lighting placement, proper complexion lighting.Maximum of 10 Artists.
To express interest in participating in this workshop or other workshops in the Level Up!! series, please fill out this form. Participants will be notified of registration status prior to the date of the workshop.