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Boon Area 1 is a surprise community asset reclaiming KC’s tarnished history
When I meet up with Carl at the site on a cold January Friday evening, it’s yellow grass, soft earth and a hand-sculpted ferrocement rain barrel. It’s a living project, requiring tending to and a long-term vision. It is art as environmental justice. It’s racial justice. It’s Boon Area 1. Carl Stafford, founder of MyRegionWins!, created Boon Area 1 to be an “environmental, nature-based, interactive, functional art installation that generates revenue.” The site has a way to go before it’s completed, and unless you lived in the neighborhood, the site in winter might seem unremarkable, something to go unnoticed.
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Charlotte Street to Host Earth/Work: A Climate Conscious Speaker and Activity Series this Spring
Photo Credits: EarthWork promotional image photography (clockwise): “Slope” linocut by Matthew Regier, Tallgrass Prairie Preserve photo by Elizabeth Snell, and farm and veggies photos courtesy of Brooke Salvaggio. Kansas City, MO. February 27, 2023: Th …
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Charlotte Street Announces 2023-2024 Artboards Participants
(left to right) Dry, Wet, Jessica Heikes KANSAS CITY, MO, March 1, 2023: Eight artists have been selected to participate in Charlotte Street’s 2023-2024 Crossroads Artboards program. Located in the heart of Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District at 125 …
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Artist to Watch: Seth Andrew Davis
The Kansas City composer seeks to bridge the performing and visual arts and help curate the Midwestern music scene In just under 10 years, Kansas City composer Seth Andrew Davis, 28, has turned the role of the traditional musician on its side, combining the roles of performer, composer, improviser, producer, technologist and electric guitarist into one holistic endeavor.
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Call Open for the Charlotte Street 2023-2025 Studio Residency Program DEADLINE: MARCH 27, 2023
Gwendolyn Murphy a second year resident in her studio during Open studios, 2022Photo by Beeh Becvar KANSAS CITY, MO, February 23, 2023: Charlotte Street’s call for Studio Residency Program applications opens February 23, 2023. Visual artists, perf …
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New Music Competition Call Seeks Scores by Queer Composers
(Left to right) Kyle Blake Jones, SA and Nathan Mertens from the performance KWEe(a)r(e)Photo by Estuardo Garcia Kansas City, MO, February 21, 2023: Charlotte Street is excited to announce a call for music scores for the New Music Compositions Competit …
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Charlotte Street’s Upcoming Exhibition clock:work Draws from Sports to Examine Societal Issues
Versuz (AWAY), Tay Butler, 2022 Kansas City, MO, February 16, 2023: Charlotte Street is pleased to present the upcoming exhibition clock:work, opening March 17, 2023, from 6-9 PM at the Charlotte Street Gallery. clock:work is a multimedi …
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Charlotte Street Announces 2023 Visual Artist and Generative Performing Artist Fellows
Sunyoung Park, Finger Language, 2022 Kansas City, MO. February X, 2023: Charlotte Street is excited to announce the three local recipients of the 2023 Visual Artist Awards and two local recipients of the 2023 Generative Performing Artist Awards. This y …
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Crossroads 2023 Winter Artboards on View Now
Installation view of Fred Trease’s west-facing Artboards, Exuberance, 2023 Kansas City, MO, January 31, 2023: This winter, Charlotte Street is pleased to premiere Artboards by artists John Kline and Fred Trease, currently installed at 125 Southwest Bou …
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Charlotte Street Premieres New Compositions by Queer Artists in Upcoming Concert kWEe(a)r(e)
(Left to right: Kyle Jones, Nathan Mertens; Bottom: Spectrum Ensemble) Kansas City, MO, January 20, 2023: Join us for the exciting premiere of kWEe(a)r(e) (pronounced “Queer”) at the Charlotte Street Stern Theater, on Saturday, February 4, from 3:00-5: …
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NEA grant funds Kansas City’s Charlotte Street artist residency program
Kansas City-based Charlotte Street, an incubator for the area’s artistic community, is celebrating a recent grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. This month, the NEA awarded a $35,000 grant to Charlotte Street to support the organization’s artist residency programs. The program provides visual artists, writers and performing artists a space to build community, connections and experiment. The space is free and accessible 24 hours a day.
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Charlotte Street to Receive $35,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Kansas City, MO, January 10, 2023: Charlotte Street is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $35,000. This grant will support Charlotte Street’s Artist Resid …
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Upcoming Exhibition Housewives of the Queer Hearth Opening January 27, 2023
Housewives of the Queer Hearth, Rosa Nussbaum and Kevin Brophy Kansas City, MO, January 4, 2023: Charlotte Street is thrilled to announce the first exhibition of 2023, Housewives of the Queer Hearth Featuring HotQH TV. An openingreception will be held …
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“The Law for Falling Bodies: A Queer Print Media Exhibit,” Charlotte Street Gallery
Gravity is a force that affects all bodies — tethering and tying us to this mortal plane of existence. In Galileo’s law of falling bodies, all objects fall at exactly the same rate with variances arising only from air resistance. Melding scientific conceptions with their artistic practice, curators and artists Shawn Bitters and Matthew Willie Garcia explore this idea through the lens of queerness and the medium of printmaking in their exhibit, “The Law for Falling Bodies: A Queer Print Media Exhibit.” This collection of work on display at Charlotte Street Gallery investigates queer realities through the varying perspectives of Bitters and Garcia as well as the other featured artists: Ash Armenta, Ruben Bryan Castillo, Kat Richards and Erin Zona. The title, pulled from Galileo’s theory, examines a different kind of gravitational pull in terms of queerness, one that opens people to their true selves aside from mainstream society’s expectations.
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Three New Startup Residents Selected for the 2023 – 2025 Term
Kansas City, MO, December 20, 2022: Charlotte Street is excited to announce the recipients of the 2023-2025 Startup Residency. The Startup Residency Program aims to foster the development of up-and-coming, innovative startups such as artist-run co-ops, …
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Crossroads Artboards on View Through the End of the Year
Installation view of Austin Dearth’s, Midwest Meditations west-facing Artboards, 2022 Kansas City, MO, December 8, 2022: The Artboards by artists Austin Dearth and Johanna Winters installed at 125 Southwest Boulevard will remain on viewthrough the end …
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Episode 826: Confluence Studio and Charlotte Street Foundation
Live from our tailgate at the MdW fair we bring you part two of a series we are doing with the organizing members of the MdW and a wrap up conversation that looks at the current state of arts organizing. But this week we have Confluence Studio, Duaba Unenra and Sam Gould, then are joined by Amy Kligman of the Charlotte Street Foundation. We learn about contemporary policing practice in MN and how residents mobilize through art and stories. Then we shift over to Kansas City MO and touch the other side of artist run culture through a 25 year old entrenched arts org. Good times had by all!
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“2022 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards,” H&R Block Artspace
Featuring new work from three Charlotte Street Fellows — Andrew Mcilvaine, Harold Smith, Jr., and Johanna Winters — this year’s Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards exhibition is a study in what it means to be seen. And although each artist embraces their own perspective and motivations, the concepts of identity and how people perceive one another permeate the installations.
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Call to Artists for the 2023-24 Crossroads Artboards
Derrick Benitz, West facing Artboards Kiss, Summer 2022 Kansas City, MO, November 21, 2022: Charlotte Street is currently seeking submissions from local artists who want their work considered for the Crossroads Artboards 2023-2024. The Artboards a …
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The Black Creatures: A Scrappy DIY Hip-Hop Duo with a Sci-Fi Bent
Storyteller musicians Jade Green and Xavier Martin are ‘going places others have not’ The Black Creatures are intergalactic storytellers, a scrappy DIY hip-hop duo with a sci-fi bent. The Black Creatures — Jade Green (they/them) and Xavier Martin (he/him) — are also 2022 Generative Performing Artist Fellows for Charlotte Street.