Charlotte Street Foundation

Urban Culture Project presents Jutting and Swerving, an evening of new dance works by Jane Gotch and Tiffany Sisemore at La Esquina, 1000 West 25th Street, KCMO, 64108, Friday and Saturday, May 1st and 2nd at 8pm.  Doors open at 7:30 pm. Admission is $10 at the door; $8 for students and seniors.

The evening features Still Within, a new work choreographed by Jane Gotch set to music by The Clogs, Zoe Keating, Four Tet, and The Notwist. Four dancers weave in and out of group, solo, and duet arrangements, with movements that range from stop motion to dynamic and driving, as physical and spatial relationships and the interplay between external and self are explored. Tiffany Sisemore creates a euphoric environment within her newest piece, Now We Are A Coda, through the melding of dance movement, color movement, and sound movement.  The dance is an open narrative created in response to the eclectic music of Animal Collective and the vibrant video work of Daniel Colman. Using vignettes of movement bound by a quirky sensibility, Now We Are A Coda encompasses oscillating moments of calculated pandemonium and lulling stillness to produce a stage of nonsensical reality.

This performance is supported by Charlotte Street Foundation, ArtsKC Fund, and Kansas City Young Audiences.  Read the full press release. Read article in Present Magazine.

Curated by Kate Hackman, Associate Director, Charlotte Street Foundation, Happy Tree Friends (or Standing: Tree as Agent, Index, Object of Desire) is a two-part exhibition project featuring works that depict, reference, incorporate, document, and otherwise derive or draw inspiration from trees.  The exhibition is being organized in partnership with the Spencer Museum of Art, University of  Kansas, which will concurrently present the exhibition Trees and other Ramifications: Branches in Nature & Culture.

Happy Tree Friends (Part I) at la Esquina, March 6-April 18 includes works by: Barry Anderson (Kansas City), Jeff Badger (Portland, Maine), Carnal Torpor (Kansas City/Omaha, NE), Julia Cole (Kansas City), Mark Cowardin (Kansas City), Jeanna Darby (Chicago), Dominique Davison + Robert Riccardi (Kansas City), Kristina Estell (Deluth, MN), Cari Freno (Richmond, VA), Diane Henk (Kansas City), Michael Krueger (Lawrence, KS), Sarah Luther (Milwaukee, WI), Kacy Maddux (Kansas City), Johnny Naugahyde (Kansas City), Benjamin Potter (Portland, Maine), Shawn Sanem (Kansas City), Margaret Shelby (Kansas City), Carlos Rosales-Silva (Austin, TX), Deanna Skedel (Kansas City), Jesse Small (Kansas City/China), Corine Smith (Detroit, MI), Maranda Stebbins (Kansas City), Davin Watne (Kansas City) , and Jennifer Whiteford (Kansas City).

Read full press release, which includes information about public programs organized in conjunction with Happy Tree Friends, and well as information about Part II, opening April 17 at UCP’s Paragraph gallery. Listen to KCUR-FM feature on exhibition. See The Kansas City Star’s review. See The Pitch’s review. See article in Review. View photos of the exhibition.

Upcoming:

First Friday April 3, 6-9pm - reception, with gallery talk with artists + curator at 6pm, and Try#2, a meal by Carnal Torpor.

Saturday, April 18, 2pm; departing from la Esquina - Urban Tree Identification Walk, led by Heartland Tree Alliance

Kansas City Electronic Music Alliance returns to Urban Culture Project’s la Esquina, 1000 West 25th Street, on Saturday, April 11, 8 pm (doors open at 7:30; $5 suggested donation),  for a one-night concert of live electronic music and video, featuring music for bass clarinet and electronics, homemade instruments, and video of Kansas City’s unused and reclaimed industrial space.  Included will be performances by Brad Baumgardner, Michael Miller, and Scott Blasco. Music by Brad Baumgarnder, William Lackey, Jen-Kuang Chang, Richard Johnson and Christopher Biggs, Kyong Mee Choi, and Adam Hardin.

The Kansas City Electronic Music Alliance (KCEMA) was founded in 2007 to promote electronic and experimental music of all types and genres across the Kansas City area.  More about KCEMA.

Read full press release.

Charlotte Street Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of three Kansas City artists to receive unrestricted cash Awards of $10,000 each in 2009. Selected by a panel of local and national curators from a pool of 34 nominated artists, the recipients are Dylan Mortimer, Jaimie Warren and Andrzej Zielinski.

Charlotte Street Foundation has now recognized 68 Kansas City based visual artists with Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards, with a total of $422,500 in unrestricted case grants distributed directly to the artists over twelve years.  An exhibition of the work of the 2009 Charlotte Street Awards recipients will presented at the H & R Block Artspace in fall, 2009.

Read full press release, including more about this year’s Fellows and the selection process. See Kansas City Star feature about 2009 Awards Fellows. Listen to Laura Spencer’s feature and interviews with awarded artists on KCUR-FM.

Read Jeremy Mikolajczak’s review.

Kansas City artist and 1997 Charlotte Street Award Fellow Anne Lindberg has been selected by Art Omi to attend the three-week Art Omi International Artists Residency Program in Upstate New York, July 2009. Lindberg is the fifth Kansas City based artist selected to attend Art Omi through a partnership between Charlotte Street Foundation and Art Omi launched in 2004. Through this partnership, one CSF Visual Artist Award Fellow per year is awarded a slot at the prestigious three-week residency program, where they work alongside other selected artists from around the world, and gain access to prominent visiting critics, curators, gallerists, and artists. This year’s critic-in-residence, on hand to lead discussions and make one-on-one studio visits, is Frances Richard, a critic and writer for ArtForum Magazine. Read about Art Omi’s 2009 selected artists.

Read the full press release.