Charlotte Street Foundation

The 2010 Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Performing Awards Fellows are composer/musician Brad Cox and cross-disciplinary director/writer/performer Stephanie Roberts.  Selected through a competitive, two-phased process by a panel of area performing arts professionals, they will receive unrestricted cash Awards of $6,500 each. A public performance of their work is planned for fall, 2010.

With these latest awards, Charlotte Street  has now recognized a total of 78 Kansas City based visual and generative performing artists, with a total of $490,500 in unrestricted cash grants distributed directly to the artists. Through its Awards 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.

The 2010 Generative Performing Awards Advisors responsible for selecting the recipients included David Ford, multi-disciplinary artist;  Michael Joy, Director of Artists and Educational Programs, Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey; Joette Pelster, Executive Director, Coterie Theatre; Managing Director, Kansas City Repertory Theatre; and Paul Rudy, Professor of Composition, UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance

Read full press release, including more about 2010 Fellows Brad Cox and Stephanie Roberts.

Read Kansas City Star article, “Performance artists win Charlotte Street Awards,” by Chuck Furlong, May 23, 2010.

Kansas City based artist and 2002 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow May Tveit has been selected by Art Omi’s selection panel to attend Art Omi International Artists Residency Program in June/July 2010.  Tveit is the sixth 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 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 Sandra Skurvida, an independent curator and historian based in New York City.

Read the 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 2010. Selected by a panel of local and national curators from a pool of 48 nominated artists, the recipients are Ari Fish, Sonie Ruffin and Caleb Taylor.

Charlotte Street Foundation has now recognized 71 Kansas City based visual artists with Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards, with a total of $452,500 in unrestricted cash grants distributed directly to visual artists over thirteen years.  (An additional $25,000 has been awarded to five generative performing artists, through CSF’s Generative Performing Artists Awards launched in 2008.) An exhibition of the work of the 2010 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards Fellows will presented at Grand Arts in fall, 2010. Read full press release. Press about the 2010 Awards fellows (click each for link): Kansas City Star; KCUR-FM, Kansas City Free Press, Review.

 As part of the 2009-10 Mary Atkins Series, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art hosts New York-based art critic and independent curator Gregory Volk for a conversation with three Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award recipients. Volk will kick off the evening with an introductory presentation featuring images of the work of David Ford, Elijah Gowin and Peregrine Honig, and a discussion of general themes and personal observations relative to their work. This will set the stage for a lively discussion with the artists about their work, practices, and experiences as artists based in Kansas City while frequently working and exhibiting elsewhere.

Tickets are $10 for members, $15 for non-members, $5 for students. Call 816.751.1ART or buy online at http://www.nelson-atkins.org/calendar/. This event is made possible through the generosity of Charlie and Jeanne Sosland, Brad and Linda Nicholson, Suzie Aron and Joseph Levin. Very special thanks to Mary Atkins Trustees Mary Lou Brous and Grant Burcham. Read full press release.

The 2009 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards Exhibition opens November 13, 6-8pm at the H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, 16 E. 43rd Street. The exhibition features new work by Kansas City based artists Dylan Mortimer, Jaimie Warren, and Andrzej Zielinski, who were each awarded $10,000 each earlier this year.

In addition, in celebration of the Artspace’s tenth anniversary, it has commissioned 2001 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow David Ford to create relax, a new work for the Artspace Project Wall, a large-scale billboard that serves as a site for temporary public art projects commissioned by the Artspace featuring regional and national artists.

Since 1997, the Charlotte Street Foundation has recognized and provided support for outstanding visual artists in Kansas City.  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 cash grants distributed directly to visual artists over twelve years.  Read full press release, which also includes information about public programs in conjunction with the exhibition.

Read Kansas City Star review of the exhibition by Alice Thorson.

Read Review article featuring the exhibition by Jeremy Mikolajczak.

The 2009 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards will be celebrated with a free public event featuring live performances by 2009 Awards Fellows Glenn North and Tiffany Sisemore on Thursday, December 10, 8pm at the American Jazz Museum’s Gem Theater, 1615 East 18th Street.  This event is presented in collaboration with the American Jazz Museum.

The evening will feature a “poetic memoir” by spoken word poet Glenn North, reflecting upon how poetry has shaped his personal development.  This retrospective of sorts will incorporate many poems that North performs on a regular basis along with a selection of new pieces.  It will also weave in music, visual imagery, film, and dance, to demonstrate how spoken word intersects with other art forms.   

Tiffany Sisemore will present four short dance works, representational of her personal movement exploration and invention spanning eight years. These include “Time Dilation,” a work built for nine female dancers, loosely representing the growth, disintegration, and redevelopment of a collection of women;”Tumescence,” a quirky duet performed as a whimsical interpretation of seduction; “Our Story Has Always Been Told Through Beats,” a series of solos developed from conversations with Glenn North surrounding the theme “a percussive approach,” which will be performed in tandem with North’s poem “Our Story Has Always Been Told Through Beats,” as well as a fourth work in progress.    

North and Sisemore received unrestricted cash awards of $5000 each from Charlotte Street Foundation earlier this year. A color brochure is being produced in conjunction with the event, featuring images and essays about the fellows by Michael Humphrey, a New York-based writer/journalist, and Mary Pat Henry, Professor of Dance at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at UMKC and Artistic Director of Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company. 

Read full press release.

Charlotte Street Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of two Kansas City generative performing artists to receive unrestricted cash Awards of $5,000 each in 2009. Selected by a panel of area performing arts professionals from a pool of nearly 30 nominated artists, the recipients are performance poet Glenn North and choreographer/dancer Tiffany Sisemore.

Launched in 2008, the Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards support and recognize artists creating outstanding, innovative, original work in the fields of dance, theater, music, experimental music performance, theater/performance art, and hybrid/interdisciplinary versions thereof.  The awards seek to foster the continued creative and professional development of the selected artists, provide the means for them to further focus on and develop their work, and increase exposure for their accomplishments, as the CSF Visual Artist Awards have done since 1997. Through its Awards 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. Read full press release. 

Read article about recipients by Robert Trussell in Kansas City Star.

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.

Four Kansas City artists - Jorge Garcia Almodovar, Mike Hill, Beniah Leuschke, and Adolfo Martinez - were selected by a panel of local and national curators to receive unrestricted cash Awards of $10,000 each this year. Charlotte Street Foundation has now recognized 65 Kansas City based visual artists with Charlotte Street Awards, with a total of $392,500 in unrestricted cash grants distributed directly to the artists over eleven years. An exhibition of the work of the 2008 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Fellows opens at the new Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College opens November 21, 2008, 6-9pm, and runs through February 1, 2009.  Read the full press release.   Read Alice Thorson’s review in the KC Star.  Read Dana Self’s review in The Pitch.