Charlotte Street Foundation

In celebration of Charlotte Street Foundation’s 15th Anniversary, Charlotte Street and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art present Charlotte Street Artists’ Walks, a series of tours and talks at the Museum led by Charlotte Street Awards Fellows.At these Friday evening events, visitors will see the Nelson’s collection through the eyes of some of Kansas City’s most exceptional artists as they are led on tours of works in the Nelson’s collection that particularly inspire and resonate with Charlotte Street Award Fellows.In conjunction with the tours, each artist will present a short slide talk about their own art.

Charlotte Street Artists’ Walks

Dates: Friday, January 13 + Sunday, January 15– Peregrine Honig + Mark Southerland
Friday, February 10 – Anne Lindberg – tours/talks combos begin at 6 + 7pm – FULL, NO TICKETS LEFT
Sunday, February 12 – Anne Lindberg – tours/talks combos begin at 1 + 2pm – REGISTER NOW (follow link then click  ”in gallery programs” on sidebar)
Friday, March 9 – Tom Gregg – Registration coming soon
Friday, May 11 – David Ford – Registration coming soon

Cost: FREE; space is limited so registration is required
Location: Nelson-Atkins Museum

Find all the details in the press release.

The Charlotte Street Awards to Generative Performing Artists supports artists living in the Greater Kansas City Metro Area (Clay, Jackson, Johnson, Platte & Wyandotte Counties). Launched in 2008, these awards specifically recognize innovative, generative artists working in the fields of dance, theater/performance art, music/sound & hybrid/interdisciplinary/new media versions thereof. These awards recognize generative artists, meaning individuals actively creating original, new work in their fields- i.e. they are composers, playwrights, choreographers- in addition to very often being performers as well. All eligible artists are encouraged to apply. Two Awards of $8,500 each will be distributed.

APPLICANT TECH HELP SESSIONS:
Need technical help uploading/submitting audio and visual files with your Generative Performing Award Application? Charlotte Street is hosting two free three-hour sessions providing one-on-one technical assistance to applicants at the Charlotte Street offices, 1000 West 25th Street, on Wednesday, January 25, 3-6pm, and Thursday, February 9, 5-8pm. PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

TO REGISTER FOR TECH HELP:
Send an email to info@charlottestreet.org and type “Performing Awards Application Assistance” in the subject line. In the email, include your full contact information and availability during the two time blocks above. Charlotte Street Foundation will reply with confirmation email. NOTE: these sessions are to provide technical assistance submitting PREPARED audio and video documentation; advisement on the choice of work samples to submit or on the editing of documentation will NOT be provided.

Download the full details or go directly to the application.

performARTS Series Launches in KC Studio November/December Issue and on KCPT’s The Local Show November 10, 2011 at 7:30 p.m. Charlotte Street Foundation will be featured in the May/June issue of KC Studio; air date on KCPT’s The Local Show TBD.

Townsend Communications in Kansas City, MO along with KCPT, Kansas City Public Television, presents a new series called performARTS. Underwritten by Speas Memorial Trusts and the Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts, the series will be part of the next six issues of KC Studio and will include installments about some of Kansas City’s best artistic organizations. The six featured performARTS organizations were selected out of hundreds of arts organizations across this metropolitan community.

Along with the printed story in KC Studio, KCPT will produce a piece on each of the selected groups airing multiple times over the next 12 months on KCPT’s The Local Show.

The performARTS participants for this inaugural assembly are:

- Charlotte Street Foundation
- Coterie Theatre Read the performARTS Coterie Theatre article Named by Time Magazine as “One of the five best theaters for young audiences in the U.S.”, the Coterie Theatre has been delighting audiences, young and old alike, for over 30 years. This Thursday, November 10th at 7:30 pm on 19.1 HD,  on KCPT’s primetime public and cultural affairs program, THE LOCAL SHOW, in the first of our performArts series in conjunction with KC Studio Magazine, Randy Mason goes behind the curtain at the Theatre’s home on the first floor of Hallmark’s Crown Center shops to see how Producing Artistic Director Jeff Church & Company produce a variety of youth-oriented shows and community programming. From their current show Seussical and their New-York bound musical Lucky Duck to the Young Playwrights’ Festival and the free classroom-touring Dramatic Aids Education Project, the Coterie continues to provide important entertaining and educational theater to Kansas City audiences and beyond.
- The Kansas City Chorale
- Quality Hill Playhouse
- Kansas City Actors Theatre
- Paul Mesner Puppets

Charlotte Street Foundation invites applications from artists wishing to be considered for the 2012 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards. These annual unrestricted cash grants recognize visual artists living in the Greater Kansas City Metro area who are creating outstanding artwork, and provide financial support, critical attention and increased exposure for these artists. All eligible artists are encouraged to apply. Three Awards of $10,000 each will be distributed.

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This event honors the work of playwright/director Kyle Hatley and composer James Mobberley, who received Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards of $7,500 each earlier this year. Hatley and Mobberley were selected for the Awards by a panel of regional and national performing arts professionals through a highly competitive, two-phase process. The event will feature live performances of work by both fellows.

Performance Date: October 22nd, Curtain at 8pm
Venue: H&R Block City Stage at Union Station
Tickets: FREE and open to the public; however, ticket reservation required. Reserve tickets at www.unionstation.org
After-Party: Pierpont’s at Union Station!  Plus, if you have dinner at Pierpont’s the evening of the performance, 10% of your food check will be donated to Charlotte Street! Dinner reservations are recommended.

For full details, including performance descriptions, read the press release!

The Charlotte Street Foundation 2011 Visual Award Fellows, Ricky Allman, Andy Brayman, and Peggy Noland, were selected by a curatorial panel of awards advisors (composed of regional and national members) following studio visits with ten semi-finalists. The Kansas City based artists received unrestricted cash grants of $10,000 each. Curated by Nerman Museum director Bruce Hartman, the 2011 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards Fellows Exhibition features new work by each of these artists.

Exhibition Opening: Friday, September 9, 6-8pm, free public reception
Runs: September 9 – December 4
Artists’ Lectures: Friday, September 9, 7pm, free public lectures
Location: Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College

For full details, see the press release.

Read a review from the KC Star.

Composer James Mobberley and playwright/director Kyle Hatley have been selected as the 2011 Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Performing Awards Fellows.   Selected through a competitive, two-phased process by a panel of performing arts professionals from 29 nominated artists, Mobberley and Hatley will receive unrestricted cash Awards of $7,500 each. A public performance of their work is planned for fall, 2011.

Since launching in 2008, the Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards have now recognized 9 Kansas City based artists creating outstanding, innovative, original work in the fields of dance, theater, music, experimental music performance, theater/performance art, and hybrid/interdisciplinary versions thereof, with a total of $58,000 in unrestricted funds distributed to these 9 artists. Recipients are selected based on the quality of their work and accomplishments to date, for their promise for continued creation and development as generative artists, and for the relevance of their work in relation to the broader field of contemporary art and performance.

Read full press release for more about the 2011 Fellows.

Charlotte Street Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of its 2011 Visual Artist Awards Fellows: Ricky Allman, Andy Brayman and Peggy Noland.  Selected by a curatorial panel of Awards Advisors following studio visits with ten semi-finalists, these three Kansas City based artists will receive unrestricted cash grants of $10,000 each.  Their work will be featured in the 2011 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards Exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, opening September 2011.

Charlotte Street Foundation has now recognized 74 Kansas City based visual artists with Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards distributed annually since 1997, totaling $482,500.  (In addition, Charlotte Street launched Awards to Generative Performing Artists in 2008, with a total of $53,000 now distributed to nine artists through that program.)  These Awards aim to recognize achievement and promise, and to foster continued artistic and professional development.  In so doing, they seek to distinguish Kansas City as a place that values individual artists, and to enhance its desirability as a place for artists to live and work.

Read the full press release for more about the 2011 Fellows. 

See the article in the Kansas City Star

For the first time in history, Charlotte Street Foundation is inviting applications from all eligible artists wishing to be considered for the 2011 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards, which recognize and support outstanding artists based in Kansas City with unrestricted cash grants, an exhibition of their work, and related exposure. (Previously, consideration has been given only to artists nominated by a panel of Awards Advisors and Community Nominators.)  It is expected that three awards of $10,000 will be distributed in 2011. Deadline for applications is November 1, 2010.

To be eligible, applicants must: Be a visual artist who has resided (not just worked or maintained studio space) in the five-country Metropolitan Kansas City area (Jackson, Clay, Platte, Wyandotte, Johnson counties) since at least November 1, 2009; Be 21 years of age or older as of November 1, 2010; If applicable, have graduated from undergraduate school prior to June 30, 2009 (note, applicants need not have attended college); Not be a full-time student or plan to be a full time student during the period November 1, 2010-June 30, 2011. Artists who have previously received Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards are NOT elibilble to apply.

Submissions will be considered by the Awards Selection Panel through a two-phased process, culminating with in-person studio visits to a short-list of semi-finalists on February 2&3, 2011. Artists submitting applications should plan to be available on these two days if selected as a semi-finalist. Semi-finalists will be notified by January 15, 2011.

The Awards Selection Panel will be comprised of: Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Kris Kiramatsu, independent curator based in Los Angeles/curator for the Collection of Eileen Harris Norton; Stacy Switzer, Artistic Director, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO; Chris Cook, Director/Curator, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Jeremy Mikolajczak, Gallery Director/Curator, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO.

ALL artists are required to complete their submission through CaFE (callforentry.org). To view the complete guidelines and access the online application, click here.

Read press release.

Charlotte Street Foundation is pleased to announce the 2010 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards Event on Monday, October 11, 8pm at Johnson County Community College’s Polksy Theatre, 12345 College Boulevard, Overland Park, KS.

Free and open to the public, the event will include live performances featuring  the work of actor/creator/writer/singer/songwriter/musician/teacher Stephanie Roberts and composer/musician Brad Cox, who received unrestricted cash awards of $6500 each from Charlotte Street Foundation earlier this year.

Stephanie Roberts’ presentation  will present a short segment of her one-woman film-noir mask play, The Mask of the Broken Heart,  as well as a new theatrical clown piece devised by herself, Matt Weiss and fellow Dell’Arte grad, Gulshirin Dubash.  Brad Cox’s presentation will feature new compositions, structured improvisations, and excerpts from a larger work, “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream,” written originally for Owen/Cox Dance Group. Performing will be a nonet featuring Rich Wheeler (tenor saxophone), Matt Otto (tenor saxophone), Jeff Harshbarger (bass), Gerald Spaits (bass), Scotty McBee (drums), Kent Burnham (drums), Sam Wisman (percussion and samples), Patrick Alonzo Conway (percussion and baritone saxophone), and Brad Cox (rhodes).  The performance will conclude with a collaborative piece involving both artists and several of their colleagues.

Through its Awards to Generative Performing Artist and Visual Artist programs, CSF seeks to contribute to the vitality of Kansas City’s art community and to enhance Kansas City’s desirability as a place for artists to work and live. Since 1997, the Charlotte Street Foundation has now recognized 78 Kansas City based artists with unrestricted cash Charlotte Street Awards, with a total of $490,500 in unrestricted cash grants distributed directly to artists.

Read full press release.

Read The Kansas City Star review

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