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CSF and Mobank showcase new Artboards in Crossroads Arts District through August 2018
Kansas City, MO, June 4: Charlotte Street Foundation and Mobank are excited to announce that the next lineup of Mobank Artboards was recently installed in the Crossroads District of Kansas City. The Artboards will be up for the months of June through A …
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CSF & Spencer Museum of Art announce 2018-19 Rocket Grants Award Winners
Kansas City, MO, May 29, 2018: Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO) and Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, KS) are excited to announce this year’s crop of award winners for the 2018-19 Rocket Grants. The grants are funded by the Andy Warhol Foun …
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Arts News: Charlotte Street 2018 Visual Artist Awards
In late February, the Charlotte Street Foundation announced three recipients of its 2018 Visual Artist awards. Each received an unrestricted cash award of $10,000, and the winners’ works will be featured in the 2018 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards Exhibition later this year at H&R Block Artspace.
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Charlotte Street Foundation is accepting applications for new Office & Volunteer Coordinator position
Charlotte Street Foundation (CSF) cultivates, challenges, and cross-pollinates the contemporary art ecology of Kansas City. Charlotte Street provides annual cash awards, project-based grants and studio residencies; and manages multiple venues providing …
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CSF is accepting 2018-19 Studio Residency applications through May 15, 2018 for area artists
Charlotte Street Foundation is now accepting applications for its Studio Residency Program. The year-long studio residency runs from September 2018 through September of 2019. Applications are due by Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 11:59 PM (CST). Applications …
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Fishtank Theatre partners with Charlotte Street Foundation for the regional premiere of Belfast Girls on April 7, 2018
Kansas City, MO, April 2, 2018: Charlotte Street Foundation is proud to partner with Fishtank Theatre for the regional premiere of Belfast Girls in La Esquina Gallery (1000 W 25th St. Kansas City, MO). The play is set to premiere on Friday, April 7 at …
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Gilda’s Club Kansas City and local arts luminaries partner for a cancer-centric collaboration this weekend
Gilda’s Club Kansas City was formed six years ago in recognition of this grim reality. A branch of the national organization named after comedian Gilda Radner (who died of ovarian cancer in 1989), the midtown location is a place for people living with cancer, and their families, to find support, education, advocacy, and social opportunities — all free of charge. The organization is growing locally: it served 475 members in 2015; 875 members in 2016; and 1,501 members in 2017. (Members include persons who have received a cancer diagnosis, caregivers, or family members.)
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Charlotte Street Foundation announces addition of three new members to Board of Directors
Kansas City, MO, March 21, 2018: The Charlotte Street Foundation is proud to announce that three new members have been added to its already robust Board of Directors. Charlotte Street is happy to welcome Darren Abbott, Cathy Beaham Smith and Jean-Paul …
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Charlotte Street congratulates recipients of 2018 Art Omi Fellowship and Byron C. Cohen Award
Kansas City, MO, March 13, 2018: The Charlotte Street Foundation is excited to announce the selection of Rashawn Griffin as the Charlotte Street Fellow of the Art Omi International Artists Residency Program for the summer of 2018. Additionally, Charlot …
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Meet the Artists: CSF’s 2017-18 Studio Residency Program
For the community, The Charlotte Street Studio Residency Program represents a talent factory — an incubator for the creative expressions that will occupy Kansas City’s galleries and stages in the years to come.
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Let Your Freak Flag Fly at Alter: Art Space
It’s been called Big Fun Art and it’s making major waves throughout the art world. Kansas City has a fresh new venue for this multidisciplinary ain’t-nothin’-but-a-party art movement — that is, if you can find it. Enter Alter: Art Space, quite literally birthed last summer in the West Bottoms by recent Kansas City Art Institute graduates, Boi Boy and Bo Hubbard, who proudly refer to themselves as its “moms.”
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Glyneisha Johnson: Collage as Metaphor
Artist Glyneisha Johnson, a May 2017 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, has received several honors in very short order.
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Artist to Watch: Jillian Youngbird
The emerging Kansas City artist, known for her animal-inspired sculptures and environmentalist beliefs, racked up the exhibits in 2017 and has a busy 2018 planned.
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CSF and Mobank showcase new Artboards in Crossroads Arts District through May 2018
Kansas City, MO, March 5: Charlotte Street Foundation and Mobank are proud to announce that the recently installed Mobank Artboards from March through May will showcase three of the most vibrant Kansas City artists throughout the beginning of spring. T …
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Mural project to collect and depict stories of Lawrence women of color
Lawrence’s history has many well-known characters, but not many are women and even fewer are women of color. A new community history and mural project hopes to change that.
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Charlotte Street Foundation announces recipients for 2018 Visual Artist Awards and 2018 Generative Performing Artist Awards
Kansas City, MO, February 26, 2018: The Charlotte Street Foundation is proud to announce the three recipients of the 2018 Visual Artist Awards, as well as the two recipients of the 2018 Generative Performing Artist Awards. Winners of the 2018 Visual Ar …
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2018 Rocket Grant applications are now open
These are grants for experimental, public-facing, artist-driven and artist-centered projects, in any discipline or medium with a strong visual component. Interested artists can download a complete application guide and budget forms by going to rocketgr …
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“May Tveit: Universal Boxes,” Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
May Tveit’s “Universal Boxes” in the wedge-shaped Kansas Focus Gallery at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, features eight immaculate cardboard sculptures densely installed for this solo exhibition.
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Working In ‘Magical’ Cardboard, A Kansas Artist Finds Herself In A Universal Box
Cardboard has a smell. You notice it as soon as you walk into the glass-encased Kansas Focus Gallery at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, where eight of May Tveit’s cardboard sculptures emerge from the walls like sentries, layers of flat, precision-cut cardboard stacked into pyramids arranged in various rectangles. You recognize the smell; you just weren't expecting it in an art gallery.
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Seven Collages By This CSF Resident Inspired Seven New Poems By Area Writers
“I think about collage as a metaphor to describe black culture,” says Glyneisha Johnson, a recent graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute and Charlotte Street Foundation resident artist.