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Charlotte Street Foundation Announces 2022-2023 Artboards Participants
Angie Jennings, He flips his skirt while dancing, 2022 Eight artists have been selected to participate in Charlotte Street’s 2022-2023 Crossroads Artboards program. Located in the heart of Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District at 125 Southwest Blvd, K …
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Call Open for the Charlotte Street Foundation 2022-2024 Studio Residency Program
DEADLINE: MONDAY, MARCH 28, 2022 Charlotte Street Foundation is now accepting applications for its Studio Residency Program. Visual artists, performing artists, and writers interested in its two-year-long Studio Residency Program in Kansas City, M …
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Charlotte Street Announces the 2022 Call to Artists for Cultural Producer Grants
Charlotte Street is excited to announce the second year of the Cultural Producer Grant Program, with $50,000 in total funds for low-budget grassroots arts organizations and artist-run projects in Kansas City. The funds are …
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Charlotte Street Foundation Announces 2022 Visual Artist and Generative Performing Artist Fellows
Charlotte Street Foundation is excited to announce the three local recipients of the 2022 Visual Artist Awards and two local recipients of the 2022 Generative Performing Artist Awards. This year, Charlotte Street’s Visual Artist Awards were given to An …
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Charlotte Street Fellows create portals at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
I wasn’t ready to travel into new dimensions on a Tuesday afternoon. But at the Nerman Museum, the artworks of Charlotte Street Foundation fellows glyneisha, Cory Imig, and Kathy Liao created portals that shaped the space around me in new ways. Cory Imig’s abstract installations, glyneisha’s sacred spaces, and Kathy Liao’s massive drawings constitute the Portals show housed within the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College.
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For experimental musicians in Kansas City, sometimes a traditional concert hall just won’t do
The grand concert hall may not host experimental music as much as traditional performances, but musicians creating new, more avant-garde compositions are finding homes and audiences for their work. With vaccination cards in tow, Kansas City's music lovers have ventured back to venues where they can enjoy the anticipation of a live performance, buoyed by the energy of the musicians.
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Charlotte Street Foundation grants opportunities for Kansas City artists
The long-time supporter of the arts has been approved for a $35,000 grant to support studio and startup residencies. Two programs will be supported by this grant from the National Endowment of Arts: studio residency and startup residency. Charlotte Street’s studio residency program provides visual artists, writers, and generative performing artists with free studio and rehearsal space, professional development, exhibition and performance opportunities, and mentorships. Jada Patterson, a current studio resident says she's benefited from the program. It allows her to interact with other artists and bounce ideas off her peers. Engaging with other artists is something Jada says she really thrives on and was unable to do during the pandemic.
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New Crossroads Artboards Installed for Winter 2022
Installation view of Sundiata Moon west-facing ArtboardsLeft: Rashad, Patrice, and Jerimiah, 2021 Right: One Love, 2021 Kansas City, MO, January 21, 2022: Located at 125 Southwest Boulevard in the heart of the Crossroads, viewers can catch a glimp …
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Cultural Producer Grants Unveiled in Kansas City
Charlotte Street Foundation’s New Grant Series Breathes Life into Kansas City’s Grassroots Art As the broader Kansas City cultural landscape reemerges from the depths of a pandemic, the Charlotte Street Foundation has inaugurated a new funding stream to benefit some of the community’s smallest creative organizations. Unveiled in 2021, the Cultural Producer Grants are the product of an intensive collaboration between the Charlotte Street Foundation team and David Hughes, Jr., the group’s founder and emeritus director. Although Kansas City’s arts community is fortunate to have the support of innumerable generous benefactors, the Cultural Producer Grants are specifically geared toward assisting small, artist-run operations that typically subsist on modest budgets. Amy Kligman, executive director of the Charlotte Street Foundation, explains how these organizations “have historically been underfunded and are primarily run on the volunteer efforts and funds of the organizers . . . we are hoping to contribute to more sustainable and equitable ongoing operations for the grantees.”
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A Conversation on Climate Grief and Environmental Anxiety in the Exhibition Not Quite Fatal
Kansas City, MO, January 6, 2022: Opening to the public on Saturday, January 15 is Charlotte Street’s new exhibition Not Quite Fatal. Bringing together the work of seven visual artists practicing in printmaking, sculpture and drawing, this exhibition e …
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Worth Waiting For
After a year deferred, the 2020 Charlotte Street Foundation Fellows finally get their exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. Recognized for their excellent work and chosen by a panel of local and national curators, the artists receive financial support and exposure through their exhibition.
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CALL TO ARTISTS CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION 2022-23 ARTBOARDS
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 2021 summer Artboard instalation,Rachel Ferber, Buttered Toast:take one December 16, 2021 (Kansas City, MO): Charlotte Street is currently seeking submissions from local artists for the Crossroads Artbo …
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Why You Won’t Hear Any Jazz Standards At Eddie Moore’s New Series
Since Eddie Moore arrived in Kansas City in 2010, he has been a trailblazer on the jazz fusion scene and beyond. His original music draws heavily from hip-hop with live sampling and looping, as well as soul and rock, all while remaining deeply rooted in the improvisatory nature and tradition of jazz. His 2013 debut album as a bandleader, The Freedom of Expression by Eddie Moore & The Outer Circle, gained momentum and was awarded a solid review from Downbeat Magazine. In August, in conjunction with Charlotte Street Foundation, Moore launched a one-of-a-kind multimedia performance series: ProdoLAB. The series brings together creatives of all types, combining improvised music and visual art.
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New Crossroads Artboards Installed for the 2021 Fall Season
Installation view of Ariana Chaivaranon’s Now You See Us Kansas City, MO, October 5, 2021: Driving down Southwest Boulevard, viewers can catch a glimpse of the newly installed Crossroads Artboards featuring local artists Ariana Chaivaranon and Israel G …
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“With Liberty and Justice” Charlotte Street Foundation
Organized by the Charlotte Street Foundation’s Jedel Family Foundation Curatorial Fellow Kimi Kitada, “With Liberty and Justice” features the works of nine contemporary artists looking closely at American history. As Kitada stated on the foundation’s website, “the show provides a space to re-learn histories, focusing on the omissions and erasures of BIPOC voices in American history.”
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Kansas City Underground Film Festival, Charlotte Street Foundation
If there is something close to cinema withdrawal, it would be the sensation of having just returned from a trip to someplace both exotic and familiar. The Kansas City Underground Film Festival, which opened Sept. 16 and runs through Sept. 26, features 114 films, culled, says KCUFF’s director and co-founder Willy Evans, from 800 submissions requiring 400 hours of viewing by the KCUFF board. Represented are 27 countries, and 39 of the films are from filmmakers in Missouri and Kansas. The festival succeeds in presenting the familiar in its weirdness and the exotic in its commonplace.
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Charlotte Street Foundation exhibit confronts incomplete histories of America
The Charlotte Street Foundation Gallery recently opened a new art exhibition, “With Liberty and Justice.” Artists from across the country have paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos and poetry on display. The exhibition provides views from different racial and cultural backgrounds that create a more complete image of American history. “I ask that you enter this space with a lens of empathy,” Kansas City artist Courtney Faye Taylor told visitors. “Most of all, I ask that you be changed.”
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“Aftermaths” at the Charlotte Street Foundation, USA
The visual regimes of photography and film have long been accomplices to imperialist enterprises and state sanctioned-violence in rewriting the terms and tellings of history. Images, still or moving, have a way instructing us as much as they help us remember, and it is in this duality that parallel histories of dissent and oppression can be read simultaneously. Aftermaths is an exhibition bringing together artists with attachments to Latin America and the Arab world who engage photographic and filmic archives in order to unfurl the complexity of history and its visual records.
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In Kansas City, a 20,000-square-foot Arts Campus Aims to Bring Together the City’s Artists
KANSAS CITY — Smack in the middle of flyover country and situated in the semi-industrial yet woodsy Volker neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, a shiny new beacon for community-driven arts incubation opened its doors in a former medical parts factory. The brand new, 20,000-square-foot Charlotte Street Foundation building celebrated its grand opening on June 11 and 12 with a ribbon-cutting, multiple exhibitions, and open studios. The $10 million transformation is evidence that sometimes DIY grassroots efforts can conduct multi-million dollar capital campaigns to build a state-of-the-art facility, while at the same time steadfastly holding on to an artist-driven core mission to support and catalyze a local artistic community.
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Charlotte Street Pushes for Artist Diversity with New Grant
Arts funder Charlotte Street Foundation is widening the circle for a new grant. The group's arts funding is making a series of grants totaling $25,000 available to just Kansas City's minority groups. The amount is 50 percent of the $50,000 Cultural Producer Grant Program. While half is allotted to any applicant, the other half has been reserved for creators who identify as persons of color, members of the LGBT community or who are artists with a disability.