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POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEARLY $2.7 MILLION IN NEW GRANTS
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation revealed that it would award grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to 106 artists and nonprofit organizations across the globe. The recipients represent sixteen countries and sixteen states. The grants are meant to provide artists and organizations with professional support, enabling them to create new work, purchase materials, rent studio space, prepare for and mount exhibitions and attend residencies. Funds may also be used to offset living expenses.
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Charlotte Street presents Handiwork: Art, Craft, and the Space Between
Kansas City, MO, July 21, 2022: Charlotte Street presents a new group exhibition, Handiwork: Art, Craft, and the Space Between, on view from August 12-September 24, 2022, curated by Kimi Kitada, Charlotte Street Jedel Family Foundation Curatorial …
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New Crossroads Artboards Installed for the Summer of 2022
Kansas City, MO, July 20, 2022: The newly installed Charlotte Street Crossroads Artboards featuring artistsDerrick Benitz and Christopher Spaw are now on view at 125 Southwest Boulevard. The Artboards program is a collaboration with the Crossroads Comm …
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Meet Kansas City’s Emerging Art Curators
Three young talents bring their ideas to bear on the presentation of art from KC and beyond. As anyone familiar with Kansas City’s cultural milieu knows, the community is exceedingly fortunate to boast such a diverse and talented pool of visual artists. And although these creators deserve their well-earned recognition, what happens behind the looking glass at every gallery opening or museum exhibit remains more elusive and mysterious to the public. And thus it is important to contemplate the energy and labor that the city’s curatorial teams put into showcasing the work of its artists. In 2022, despite the burdens of a pandemic and economic malaise, there is a cohort of relatively new curators accomplishing incredible things by bringing art to the people.
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Charlotte Street Foundation’s Free Community Block Party celebrates organization’s 25th anniversary
The Charlotte Street Foundation has been located in its headquarters at 3333 Wyoming Street for a year now. While Charlotte Street is known for its considerable calendar of events, the staff’s original plans for a block party at the new building were pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On July 17, 2022, these plans were finally realized in a celebration of 25 years of supporting local artists.
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Kansas City auction way for owners to emotionally let go of possessions
The 'emotional value' auction hosted by the Charlotte Street Foundation, is a new form of sale that does not involve money. For art professor Adriane Herman, the idea came to her in a flash while talking with the Yarmouth Historical Center in Maine. The center kept getting offers of objects from local residents who didn't want to throw away or donate their things to strangers, but that the center didn't have the capacity to accept.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Reverberations
An internationally renowned visual artist of African descent has been commissioned to produce artwork for Charlotte Street and is inviting those who have suffered direct or indirect gun violence to share their impact stories. The artist is coming to this project as a survivor of a shooting incident in Memphis, Tennessee, in January 2013. This project aims to draw attention to the indirect long-term consequences of the aftermath of shootings.News
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Emotional Value Auction
Capitalizing on the power of witnessing to release blocks and facilitate letting go, an Emotional Value Auction is a participatory witnessed exchange grounded in reciprocity. For the Charlotte Street Block Party, objects will be collected and displayed …
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Ruth Foundation for the Arts Launches $440 Million Philanthropic Effort
The Milwaukee-based Ruth Foundation of the Arts, established with a $440 million endowment from the late bathroom-fixture heiress Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, has announced its presence with an initial $1.25 million in unrestricted grants to seventy-eight unsuspecting US nonprofit arts organizations. The grantees, each of whom received $10,000, $20,000, or $50,000, were chosen by a diverse panel of nearly fifty artists from around the country representing a variety of practices and career stages. Because the grants are invitation-only, many recipients were shocked to learn they were receiving funding.
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Charlotte Street’s 25th Anniversary Community Block Party
Charlotte Street is producing a free community block party to celebrate our 25th Anniversary on Saturday, July 16th from 1 PM to 5 PM at the Charlotte Street Campus located at 3333 Wyoming Street, Kansas City, MO 64111. Guests will enjoy campus-wide fa …
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WARHOL FOUNDATION AWARDS GRANTS TOTALING $3.9 MILLION
The Warhol Foundation today revealed that it will award $3.9 million in grants to fifty US arts organizations scattered across eighteen states and the District of Columbia. Nineteen of those receiving funding are first-time recipients. In order to assure the long-term recovery and continued stability of the arts, which were hard hit by the Covid-19 crisis, the foundation announced that with this round of funding it would continue its practice, established during the pandemic, of allowing grantees to use up to 50 percent of the award money for administrative expenses.
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Kansas City Zine Con (KCZC) goes hybrid June 11 for its seventh year of promoting outsider publications
This year’s Kansas City Zine Con (KCZC) will celebrate seven years of promoting self-published publications in the Midwest. The event will be hybrid, with the in-person section at Plexpod Westport Commons June 11 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Masks are required. Panels will also be live-streamed and the online portion will include a virtual table experience to view digital portfolios. The convention is free to attend, and attendees can exhibit, sell, buy, and trade a variety of DIY publications.
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Several KC arts organizations win National Endowment for the Arts Grants
Eight Kansas City area arts organizations received nearly $2 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). The NEA distributed more than $91 million nationwide during this second round of grants for fiscal year 2022. The Arts Asylum was one of the recipients, receiving $75,000 for their ‘Our Town’ initiative.
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Artist to Watch: Craig Auge
Embracing transience and change, the Kansas City artist mines old and new to create works that are eclectic, singular and visually intelligent Craig Auge is no stranger to the ephemeral terms of existence. It’s something that informs his artistic sensibilities and philosophies. Auge has developed a philosophy of artmaking that plays on his notion that what he is creating might be ever evolving or transient. “I grew up in West Virginia, where you have this mixture of new and old and the city and the woods . . . I find aged aesthetics and patchwork qualities (that) visually excite me and remind me of home. I then start to make connections in my mind with humanity,” says Auge. “I’ve just always been attracted to that thing that’s kind of the rust or that wears the elements of time and age.”
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Kostas Contemporary steps into company launch with In All Forms performance
Kostas Contemporary could have been just another dance company, but instead, creator and choreographer Haley Kostas wanted to tap into something greater. This movement arts troop officially soft launched Thursday, May 19, with the first performance of its dark commentary on mental illness, In All Forms, at the Charlotte Street Foundation’s Stern Theater (3333 Wyoming Street). Kostas co-produced the show with composer Conner Giles. Their mission was to lift the curtain on Kostas Contemporary with a tone-setter that would firmly land it as one of Kansas City’s most intense arthouse projects.
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“Sweeping the Chimney through the Mantle of the Earth,” Charlotte Street Foundation
Curated by Charlotte Street resident Andrew Ordonez, “Sweeping the Chimney through the Mantle of the Earth” is an exhibition about the decay of the world. Each artists tackles their own concept of ruin through painting, sculptures, photography, film and drawing. With all the exhibition’s artists living in the Central Time Zone, the show provides a cross section of America and Mexico, focusing on shared experiences of finding tragic beauty in our recent past. Jose Villalobos’s installation “Lo Que Existe Entre Paredes” is a large cinder block wall, painted white and topped with dozens of broken Coca-Cola and Juarito’s bottles, planted like dangerous flowers. Across the wall, a single line of homophobic graffiti is scrawled “PUTO el que lo leea” (roughly meaning “gay if you read this”). Behind the wall, one can look at a photograph and see that the entire scene is a recreation of an actual wall near his grandfather’s house in Juarez, Mexico. The homophobic machismo of the graffiti becomes smaller and pathetic as Villalobos defiantly transplants it into the gallery space, unafraid of expressing his own queer identity.
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Arts News: Charlotte Street Foundation Announces New Awards Fellows
Twenty-five years ago, a group of like-minded artists and their supporters met informally yet regularly at a bungalow on Charlotte Street. A few years before, the National Endowment for the Arts, for political reasons, stopped awarding individual grants for visual artists throughout the United States, and there was little money anywhere for local artists. Some of the Charlotte Street regulars decided to do something about the paucity of funding for artists in Kansas City, and they began raising money for artist grants annually.
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Rocket Grants are Relaunching on May 13, 2022
Kansas City, MO, May 12, 2022: Charlotte Street Foundation and the Spencer Museum of Art are thrilled to relaunch Rocket Grants, with the call for artists opening May 13, 2022. 50/50 Gallery, 2014 Rocket Grant Project With support from The Andy Warhol …
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25: Celebrating 25 Years of Charlotte Street Award Fellows With A Yearlong Exhibition Series
Kansas City, MO, May 4, 2022: Charlotte Street is pleased to present 25, a series of installations and performances at Charlotte Street’s campus celebrating Charlotte Street’s 25th Anniversary and two and a half decades of grantmaking to indi …
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Charlotte Street Presents: IN ALL FORMS By Haley Kostas and Conner Giles
Kansas City, MO, April 29, 2022: IN ALL FORMS is a dark commentary on the experience of mental illness, explored through the connection between shape and sound. The show premieres May 19th-22nd at Charlotte Street Foundation’s Stern Theater in Kansas C …