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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.
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Time’s Not Listening Radio Story
KJHK sent a member of their Arts & Culture staff to look into the one-time event, Time's Not Listening.
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Short film by Louisburg native explores ‘tapestry of our lives’
Looking at quilts his grandmother had made, Louisburg native David Reed knew he wanted to make a movie about them. A seed had been planted and, as Reed constructed the movie in his head, it grew. Studying the quilts, Reed realized how much some of them looked like agricultural land when viewed from the air and his idea for the movie grew to include his parents’ Miami County farm. “I found a crazy quilt at my grandmother’s house and it just looked like a landscape from above, a large, verdant landscape,” Reed said. “It stirred something in me, how the tapestry of the landscape was like the tapestry of our lives.”
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Rodolfo Marron III live on KCUR’s Central Standard
For an artist, one year is plenty of time to develop new techniques and mature. Today, we check in on local artist Rodolfo Marron, who, after two residencies in New York, has returned to Kansas City with a new exhibit.
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Charlotte Street Foundation and Mobank announce 2018 Artboards artists
The Charlotte Street Foundation, alongside Mobank and with support from Outfront Media, are happy to announce the artist selections for the 2018 “Artboards” series. The 2018 Artboards artists are the Argot/Nots (Logan Acton & Meghan Skevington), Jo …
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Area Filmmakers Make Art Out Of Lessons Women Learned From Failed Relationships
Can you name one practical thing you learned from a former partner? This question was the seed of "Lessons from Exes," a new short film featuring five vignettes by Kansas City filmmakers. “I was making some popcorn in a pan on the stove,” Lyn Elliot remembers, “and the thought came into my mind that a particular ex-boyfriend had taught me how to do that.”