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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.”
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Charlotte Street Foundation announces new participants for Neighborhood Artists Residency pilot program
The Charlotte Street Foundation is excited to announce the seven artists who are selected to participate in an 18 month-long Neighborhood Artists Residency pilot program at 4001 Troost Avenue, starting in December 2017 and running through the end of Ma …
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CALL TO ARTISTS: 2018 VISUAL ARTIST + GENERATIVE PERFORMING AWARDS
Charlotte Street Foundation is excited to announce they are now receiving applications for the 2018 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards and 2018 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards. The call for applications is open from October 6, 2 …
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Charlotte Street Foundation Hosts Screening of Madsen Minax’s Kairos Dirt & the Errant Vacuum on October 13
Kansas City, MO, October 6, 2017: Charlotte Street Foundation is excited to announce that they are working in collaboration with PLUG Projects to present Madsen Minax’s new cult classic, Kairos Dirt & the Errant Vacuum, on Friday, October 13. The s …
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Local artists offered chance to display on Crossroads ARTBOARDS
Charlotte Street Foundation (CSF) and Missouri Bank are once again calling on local artists for the chance to display their art on the Missouri Bank Crossroads ARTBOARDS.
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To Mark Charlotte Street’s 20 Years, Kansas City Musicians Plan A Sonic Space/Time Warp
“Time's Not Listening,” on Saturday, September 30, at the Folly Theater, is the musical centerpiece of the Charlotte Street Foundation's 20th-anniversary "Every Street is Charlotte Street" celebration, a year-long series of performances and programs by more than a hundred artists involving 20 venues and organizations across the city.
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Charlotte Street Foundation is accepting proposals for Crossroads Artboards until November 13
Kansas City, MO, September 25, 2017: Charlotte Street Foundation, in collaboration with Missouri Bank, is now seeking proposals from artists wishing to be considered for the Missouri Bank Crossroads ARTBOARDS. The ARTBOARDS are exterior, double-sided b …
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Charlotte Street Announces Neighborhood Artists Residency
The Charlotte Street Foundation is excited to announce the beginning of their Neighborhood Artists Residency program. This is a pilot program that looks to build off of CSF’s established reputation to help artists and communities in the KC area.
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Slide Slam 2017
Slide Slam is an informative and entertaining evening featuring 3-minute slide presentations (think Pecha Kucha on amphetamines) from each of the 30 incoming studio resident artists.