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A Conversation on Climate Grief and Environmental Anxiety in the Exhibition Not Quite Fatal
Kansas City, MO, January 6, 2022: Opening to the public on Saturday, January 15 is Charlotte Street’s new exhibition Not Quite Fatal. Bringing together the work of seven visual artists practicing in printmaking, sculpture and drawing, this exhibition e …
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Worth Waiting For
After a year deferred, the 2020 Charlotte Street Foundation Fellows finally get their exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Recognized for their excellent work and chosen by a panel of local and national curators, the artists receive financial support and exposure through their exhibition.
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CALL TO ARTISTS CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION 2022-23 ARTBOARDS
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 2021 summer Artboard instalation,Rachel Ferber, Buttered Toast:take one December 16, 2021 (Kansas City, MO): Charlotte Street is currently seeking submissions from local artists for the Crossroads Artbo …
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Why You Won’t Hear Any Jazz Standards At Eddie Moore’s New Series
Since Eddie Moore arrived in Kansas City in 2010, he has been a trailblazer on the jazz fusion scene and beyond. His original music draws heavily from hip-hop with live sampling and looping, as well as soul and rock, all while remaining deeply rooted in the improvisatory nature and tradition of jazz. His 2013 debut album as a bandleader, The Freedom of Expression by Eddie Moore & The Outer Circle, gained momentum and was awarded a solid review from Downbeat Magazine. In August, in conjunction with Charlotte Street Foundation, Moore launched a one-of-a-kind multimedia performance series: ProdoLAB. The series brings together creatives of all types, combining improvised music and visual art.
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New Crossroads Artboards Installed for the 2021 Fall Season
Installation view of Ariana Chaivaranon’s Now You See Us Kansas City, MO, October 5, 2021: Driving down Southwest Boulevard, viewers can catch a glimpse of the newly installed Crossroads Artboards featuring local artists Ariana Chaivaranon and Israel G …
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“With Liberty and Justice” Charlotte Street Foundation
Organized by the Charlotte Street Foundation’s Jedel Family Foundation Curatorial Fellow Kimi Kitada, “With Liberty and Justice” features the works of nine contemporary artists looking closely at American history. As Kitada stated on the foundation’s website, “the show provides a space to re-learn histories, focusing on the omissions and erasures of BIPOC voices in American history.”
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Kansas City Underground Film Festival, Charlotte Street Foundation
If there is something close to cinema withdrawal, it would be the sensation of having just returned from a trip to someplace both exotic and familiar. The Kansas City Underground Film Festival, which opened Sept. 16 and runs through Sept. 26, features 114 films, culled, says KCUFF’s director and co-founder Willy Evans, from 800 submissions requiring 400 hours of viewing by the KCUFF board. Represented are 27 countries, and 39 of the films are from filmmakers in Missouri and Kansas. The festival succeeds in presenting the familiar in its weirdness and the exotic in its commonplace.
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Charlotte Street Foundation exhibit confronts incomplete histories of America
The Charlotte Street Foundation Gallery recently opened a new art exhibition, “With Liberty and Justice.” Artists from across the country have paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos and poetry on display. The exhibition provides views from different racial and cultural backgrounds that create a more complete image of American history. “I ask that you enter this space with a lens of empathy,” Kansas City artist Courtney Faye Taylor told visitors. “Most of all, I ask that you be changed.”
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“Aftermaths” at the Charlotte Street Foundation, USA
The visual regimes of photography and film have long been accomplices to imperialist enterprises and state sanctioned-violence in rewriting the terms and tellings of history. Images, still or moving, have a way instructing us as much as they help us remember, and it is in this duality that parallel histories of dissent and oppression can be read simultaneously. Aftermaths is an exhibition bringing together artists with attachments to Latin America and the Arab world who engage photographic and filmic archives in order to unfurl the complexity of history and its visual records.
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In Kansas City, a 20,000-square-foot Arts Campus Aims to Bring Together the City’s Artists
KANSAS CITY — Smack in the middle of flyover country and situated in the semi-industrial yet woodsy Volker neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, a shiny new beacon for community-driven arts incubation opened its doors in a former medical parts factory. The brand new, 20,000-square-foot Charlotte Street Foundation building celebrated its grand opening on June 11 and 12 with a ribbon-cutting, multiple exhibitions, and open studios. The $10 million transformation is evidence that sometimes DIY grassroots efforts can conduct multi-million dollar capital campaigns to build a state-of-the-art facility, while at the same time steadfastly holding on to an artist-driven core mission to support and catalyze a local artistic community.
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Charlotte Street Pushes for Artist Diversity with New Grant
Arts funder Charlotte Street Foundation is widening the circle for a new grant. The group's arts funding is making a series of grants totaling $25,000 available to just Kansas City's minority groups. The amount is 50 percent of the $50,000 Cultural Producer Grant Program. While half is allotted to any applicant, the other half has been reserved for creators who identify as persons of color, members of the LGBT community or who are artists with a disability.
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Charlotte Street and Spencer Museum of Art announce fourth cycle of Rocket Relief emergency artist grants for visual artists
KANSAS CITY, MO, August 17, 2021: Charlotte Street and Spencer Museum of Art, with underwriting from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, are launching the fourth cycle of the Rocket Relief emergency grants program. Applications may be submi …
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Untold Narratives of American History in Upcoming Exhibition: With Liberty and Justice
Kansas City, MO, July 23, 2021: Charlotte Street Foundation presents With Liberty and Justice, an exhibition of nine contemporary artists, on view from September 10-October 23, 2021 and curated by Kimi Kitada, Jedel Family Foundation Curatorial Fellow. …
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Upcoming Exhibition Aftermaths Explores History through Archives
Kansas City, MO, July 15, 2021: Premiering on Friday, July 30, Charlotte Street Foundation presents Aftermaths, a group exhibition featuring artists with attachments to Latin America and the Arab world who engage photographic and filmic archives in ord …
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ARTSPEAK RADIO with Danna York and Amy Kligman
Wednesday, July 7, 2021 - Producer/host Maria Vasquez Boyd welcomes author/artist Danna York and Charlotte Street Foundation Executive/Artistic Director Amy Kligman.
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“Who We Were, Who We Are, Who We Will Be,” Charlotte Street Foundation
The Charlotte Street Foundation is celebrating the grand opening of its new facilities with the exhibition: “Who We Were, Who We Are, Who We Will Be.” Featuring ten artists working in a range of mediums, the exhibition is a fitting representation of the wide range of art happening in and near Kansas City.
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When/Time: New Work from Stacy Busch Presented at Charlotte Street Foundation
There’s a lot of music out there about drinking, but how much about the hard journey to sobriety and healing? Composer and performing artist Stacy Busch took on that challenge in the premiere performance of “When/Time,” presented in the Charlotte Street Foundation Black Box Theater Friday evening, one of the first performances in their new space at 3333 Wyoming Street. Busch was named a 2020 Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Performing Artist. This project, intended for 2020, was delayed due to the pandemic. With three actors and three musicians, the presentation was an amalgam of concert and theater performance, in the façade of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. The work was written and directed by Kalli Siringas.
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Charlotte Street Foundation partners with Founder David Hughes, Jr. to launch Cultural Producer Grants for Small Artist-Run Organizations
Kansas City, MO, July 1, 2021: Charlotte Street Foundation is excited to announce the launch of the Cultural Producer Grant Program. This program has been developed with major contributions in thought leadership and funding from David Hughes, Jr. (Char …
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CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES 2021-2022 ARTBOARDS PARTICIPANTS
Wednesday, June 30, 2021: On July 1, images by local artists Jill Downen and Rachel Ferber will be installed on a double-sided billboard in the heart of the Crossroads District at 125 Southwest Blvd, Kansas City, MO. From July 2021 through March 2022, …
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Charlotte Street Foundation seeks Communications + Volunteer Coordinator
Charlotte Street Foundation is currently hiring for a Communications + Volunteer Coordinator for 2021 and beyond. If you have a strong desire to help Kansas City’s contemporary artists and feel compelled to build connections within Kansas City’s local …