Charlotte Street Foundation

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

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.

Charlotte Street Foundation’s support for individual artists and its impact on the local arts community was spotlighted in late 2008 with two front-page arts section features in the Kansas City Star.  On November 30, Steve Paul reported on a long weekend of back-to-back CSF-related events in his article, “Culture Thrives on the Street Where Art Lives,” writing “hooray for Charlotte Street for funding an art party and an urban ecosystem that pushes the boundaries all the way to outer space.” Read the full article.

Two weeks later, Alice Thorson gave high praise to the 2008 Charlotte Street Awards exhibition at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, drawing the conclusion that “the money is significant, but you can’t put a price on the program’s exposure and validation – for the artists and for Kansas City.” Read the full article.

Hear CSF Founder/Director David Hughes along with Associate Director Kate Hackman and artist/CSF Award recipient Marcie Miller Gross speak with Walt Bodine and Gina Kauffman about Charlotte Street’s history and activities, as well as the strength and impact of Kansas City artists and arts community.

The October issue of Art in America features a 6-page “Report from Kansas City” profile by New York-based writer Stephen Maine. “A supportive community of artists, respected museums, low rents and an innovative philanthropic apparatus are the big pluses of the Kansas City scene,” Maine writes.

Calling Kansas City an emerging “culture hub,” the article calls attention to CSF’s Awards for visual and generative performing artists, Urban Culture Project, and our new Art through Architecture program, a partnership with American Institute of Architects-KC.

To read the full Art in America article, click here.