Staff bios
David Hughes
David H Hughes Jr. is the Founder and Director of Charlotte Street Foundation. Prior to devoting full time to CSF, Hughes worked in various marketing and sales positions for American Century Investments for 12 years; he previously had worked in marketing, government affairs and public relation capacities for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City and for Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (a small private bank) in New York. His interest in the non-profit sector has been long-standing through board service for numerous visual art, theatre and dance organizations, including Kansas City Art Institute. He also has worked for the Hall Family Foundation and as part of the philanthropic decision-making team while at American Century. Hughes is an avid devotee of many local artists and has given most of his walls to their efforts. He grew up in Kansas City; he graduated from Stanford with a BA and Yale with a Masters in Public and Private Management.
Kate Hackman
Kate Hackman is Associate Director of Charlotte Street Foundation. Previously Assistant Director of Exit Art, a non-profit, multi-disciplinary contemporary art space in New York City, she relocated to Kansas City in 1998 and has been immersed in the area’s arts community since. As Founding Editor of Review magazine, 2000-2003, she launched and edited two editions of the Review Architecture and Urban Planning Annual. She has contributed art reviews and art-related writings to Review, Kansas City Star, New Art Examiner, Ceramics Monthly, and Sculpture; curated exhibitions in Kansas City at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University, H&R Block Artspace at KCAI, and Urban Culture Project’s la Esquina, Paragraph, and Project Space galleries; and has written exhibition essays for museums and galleries including the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art and Belger Art Center.
Kate previously served as half-time Director of Art in the Loop Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to commissioning public artworks for Downtown Kansas City. In addition, she has taught at Kansas City Art Institute and frequently lectures about artists and the arts community in Kansas City. She earned her BA in Art History from Williams College in 1995.
