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Where to volunteer in Kansas City: You can help your community at these worthy organizations
The Kansas City metro is lucky to have so many passionate groups working to uplift their communities, including animal rescues, literacy advocates, and food nonprofits. And all of them are looking for volunteer help.
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“Queer Ecologies II,” Charlotte Street Gallery
Contrary to what you might have been told, the natural world is full of queerness.
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Charlotte Street Announces 2026 Visual Artist & Generative Performing Artist Award Fellows
Visual Artist Award Fellows; Heehyun Choi, Eric Conrad, Mikey Yates; Generative Performing Artist Award Fellows: Dwight Frizzell, Karen Lisondra Kansas City, MO, March 9, 2026: Charlotte Street is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Visual A …
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Codifying Reality: What is Spoken and What is Felt?
Personal and collective histories lay at the center of Shifting Tongues at Charlotte Street Foundation.
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Honors: Vanessa Aricco
The Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Fellow pairs poetry, sound and pop culture with hula hoops and other unexpected props
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Charlotte Street Announces Recipients of 2026 Open Call for Exhibitions and Events/Programs
Kansas City MO, February 25, 2026: Charlotte Street is pleased to announce the selected projects from its 2026 Open Call for exhibitions and programs, which invite artists, curators, and cultural producers to propose new ideas for the Charlotte Street …
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Art helped Kansas City activists shape a protest movement. A new exhibit shows how
A new exhibit at Charlotte Street Foundation highlights the power of design in one of Kansas City’s most successful labor organizations, and how graphic arts has helped shape the struggle for economic justice among low-wage workers in Kansas City.
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Stand Up, Fight Back: Designing an Anti-Racist Movement for Worker Power; Upcoming Charlotte Street Exhibition Opens January 17
Image Credit: Steve Hebert Kansas City MO, January 8, 2026: Stand Up, Fight Back: Designing an Anti-Racist Movement for WorkerPower examines how sustained, intentional design has strengthened more than a decade of anti-racist, working-class organizing …
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Honors: Merry Sun
The 2025 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award winner merges sound and sculpture into compelling meditations on memory, migration and displacement
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Shifting Tongues Explores Ruptures and Reinventions of Language in the Charlotte Street Gallery
(From Left to Right, Top to Bottom): Renata Cassiano Alvarez, Nada Bayazid, Danqi Cai,Kiki Serna, Samantha Haan, Yoonmi Nam, Ranran Fan, Yangbin Park Kansas City MO, November 4, 2025: Charlotte Street presents a new exhibition titled Shifting Tongues, …
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Elizabeth Spavento Joins Co-Leadership at Charlotte Street
Elizabeth Spavento Spavento will serve as Co-Executive Director alongside Amanda Middaugh Kansas City, MO, October 16, 2025: Following a national search, Charlotte Street has selected Elizabeth Spavento as its newest Co-Executive Director. The organiza …
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Summer 2025 Crossroads Artboards Explore Transformation, and Collaborative Practice
July–September 2025 Crossroads Artboards by Kati Toivanen (left) andClay Yoga Sculpt (Casey Whittier/Andrew Castañeda/Erin Conyers) (right)r Hoard (left) and Yulie Urano (right) KANSAS CITY, MO, August 18, 2025: Charlotte Street is pleased to premiere …
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Charlotte Street Announces 2025 Cultural Producer Grant Recipients
Kansas City, MO, June 25, 2025:Charlotte Street is pleased to announce therecipients of the 2025 Cultural Producer Grants. This year, Charlotte Street has awarded 6 grassroots arts organizations and artist-run projects in Kansas City …
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Parade: A Celebration of Experimentation and Collaboration in the Charlotte Street Gallery
Marissa Shell, Float (Cloud Atlas), 2025 Kansas City MO, June 24, 2025: Parade opens at Charlotte Street (3333 Wyoming St., Kansas City, MO) on Friday, June 27–August 16, and explores the celebratory spirit of creative experimentation and artistic ass …
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Charlotte Street Announces 14 Artists for the 2025-2027 Studio Residency
(Left to right) Paris Williams; Grace Tuthill, Will Happen, 2025;Abby Oyesam, Florence, 2024; Ellie Naeger, Look Number 4, 2023 Kansas City MO, June 2, 2025: Charlotte Street is excited to announce the selection of 14 artists for the two-yea …
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Charlotte Street Responds to Loss of NEA Funding with Public Statement on the Role of the Arts in Democracy
Kansas City, MO, May 21, 2025: Charlotte Street today shared a public statement in response to the recent withdrawal of a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The organization, which has supported Kansas City artists …
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Charlotte Street Announces National Search for Co-Executive Director (Programs); Amanda Middaugh Promoted to Co-Executive Director (Operations)
Kansas City, MO, May 1, 2025: Charlotte Street, Kansas City’s preeminent nonprofit supporting contemporary artists, is excited to announce two transformative developments in its leadership structure: the official launch of a national search for a new …
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Geometrica Pop y Rucas: Charting Migratory Futurisms Through Aesthetic Cartographies at Charlotte Street Gallery
Behind | Jaasiel DT, frida x diego bridge, 2025;Front | Blas Isasi, A flower is just the shape of an idea (A), 2022 Kansas City MO, April 22, 2025: Charlotte Street proudly presents Geometrica Pop y Rucas, an exhibition curated by Yashi Davalos, Charl …
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Charlotte Street’s Annual Open Studios Returns April 26
Left | Charlotte Street Visual Artist Resident Juan Diego in his studio during Open Studios 2024; Right | Former Charlotte Street Performing Artist Resident Alexis Borth performs at Open Studios 2024. KANSAS CITY, MO, April 11, 2024: Charlotte Street’s …
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Spring 2025 Crossroads Artboards Explore Connection, Identity, and Heritage
April–June 2025 Crossroads Artboards by Adrienne Walker Hoard (left) and Yulie Urano (right) KANSAS CITY, MO, April 8, 2025: Charlotte Street is pleased to premiere Crossroads Artboards this spring by artists Adrienne Walker Hoard and Yulie U …