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In the mood for a movie? KC Underground Film Festival hosting two weeks of free screenings
The Kansas City Underground Film Festival is bringing free entertainment to the city until Sept. 24. Low-budget but high quality independent films take center stage at Charlotte Street Foundation on 3333 Wyoming St.. This marks the third year of the festival that started because Willy Evans, Kari Bingham-Gutierrez and Courtney Bierman wanted to fill the void left by The Tivoli Theater’s closing in 2019.
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A Robust Spectrum: Kansas City Underground Film Festival Starts Sept. 14
“Film is an integrating art and everything that happens in your life, or the stimuli you receive, influences your films,” says Arturo Dueñas Herrero, whose Pessoas, a bittersweet travelogue, plays at the Kansas City Underground Film Festival (KCUFF), which runs this and next weekend at the Charlotte Street Foundation (3333 Wyoming St.). Herrero is among the nearly 100 directors whose films among eight headings — Animated, Documentary, Experimental, Feature Film, Horror, International, Local, Short Film — were selected for this year’s festival. Ranging in length from five-minute shorts to hour-plus features, this year’s festival offers a robust spectrum of subject matter for festival attendees, particularly those deprived of the stimuli of travel. Or of a perspective that informs us of the unknown here at home.
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Charlotte Street Honors its Past and Celebrates its 25th Anniversary with the Upcoming Exhibition Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
Kansas City, MO, September 9, 2022: Charlotte Streetis excited to present the exhibition Everybody Eats When They Come to My House opening Saturday,October 8 from 2-6PM, and will be on view through November 5, 2022. Everybody Eats When They Come to My …
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ROCKET GRANTS RETURN, AWARD $60K TO 10 REGIONAL ART PROJECTS
The 2022 Rocket Grants have awarded a total of $60,000 for 10 artist projects in the Lawrence and Kansas City area. Collectively these projects will uplift narratives of the LGBTQ+ community, trans women of color, Black histories and Indigenous voices, including a public mural by Lawrence-based artist Mona Cliff.
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These Kansas City musicians are just making it up as they go along — but that’s the plan
There’s nothing more pure and unfettered than improvisation, from a child’s first babblings to the wild strains of Kansas City's Charlie “Bird” Parker, a legendary jazz innovator during the 1940s and ‘50s. But improvisation shows up in many art forms. During the 18th and 19th centuries, classical performers like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clara Schumann, or Ludwig van Beethoven would never have dreamed of performing a written out cadenza. That was an artist’s time to shine — and improvise.
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Rocket Grants Returns with Ten 2022 Recipients
Kansas City, MO, September 7, 2022: The Rocket Grants are back. Charlotte Street and the Spencer Museum of Art are thrilled to announce the 10 recipients of the 2022 Rocket Grant awards. The awardees were selected from a highly co …
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Kathy Liao Named 2022 21c Kansas City Artadia Awardee
21c Museum Hotels and Artadia have announced Kathy Liao will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds as the 2022 21c Kansas City Artadia Awardee. Liao was selected from three finalists, including Ruben Castillo and Jill Downen. According to Artadia’s website: “The 21c Artadia Award is designed to provide essential funding and recognition to artists at pivotal points in their careers, strengthen arts communities, and spur new levels of career achievement.”
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Fourth Installment of the 25 Series: With Performances by The Black Creatures and Calvin Arsenia
Performance shot of The Black Creatures from Charlotte Street’s 2021 Gala Magic Mirror Ball, photo by E.G. Schempf Kansas City, MO, July 21, 2022: Charlotte Street announces the fourth installment of 25: Celebrating 25 Years of Charlotte Street Award F …
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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.