Charlotte Street is excited to announce the 3rd year of the Cultural Producer Grant Program, with $50,000 in total funds for low-budget grassroots arts organizations and artist-run projects in Kansas City.
Donor Name: Charlotte Street Foundation
State: Missouri, Kansas
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/18/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Kansas City has long enjoyed a thriving and diverse ecology of small artist-run spaces, collectives, groups and organizations, which have sometimes suffered from lack of support needed to establish sustainability. While each may be small, the collective impact both to their arts community and to our city have been enormous. Whether permanent or temporary, these groups nurture and grow artists creatively and become powerful engines of community. Financial backing for these organizations often goes “under the radar” for larger institutional support. These new Cultural Producer Grants aim to both draw attention to these critical elements of our arts ecosystem as well as direct some much needed support their way.
Program Goals
- To encourage a rich, flourishing, and diverse ecosystem of arts and culture in Kansas City
- To contribute to the sustainability of low-budget artist-run organizations, collectives, groups, projects, and initiatives
- To provide support for small arts and culture grassroots organizations and artist-organizers building larger scale projects that have an important impact on Kansas City’s arts and culture scene, despite smaller budgets and less access to capital
Eligibility Criteria
- For applicants applying as an organization:
- This opportunity is open to: Artist-run initiatives and arts and culture operations, or fiscally sponsored artist collaboratives, collectives, or companies (can include art spaces, festivals, LLCs, nonprofits, ongoing operations, or one-off events).
- Applicants must have at least 24 months of operating history if applying as a collective, organization, or company.
- Organization cannot have an annual operating budget over $50K or own assets worth over $50K.
- For applicants applying as an individual with a proposed project:
- Unaffiliated artist-organizers may be eligible if pitching projects that have been in operation for at least 24 months and provide opportunities for a number of artists beyond the primary organizers of the project.
- The budget for the project cannot be over $50k annually
- For ALL applicants:
- Primary contacts must be an artist of any discipline and over 21 years of age as of the application deadline.
- Primary contacts cannot be currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program, and must have completed their studies at least 1 year prior to application deadline.
This opportunity is open to:
- Applicants located in the 5-county region of the Kansas City metro (Jackson, Platte, and Clay counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas)
- The following disciplines: visual art, film, dance, theatre, spoken word/performative poetry, multidisciplinary, new media, new/experimental music, social practice, arts publications/arts writing, conceptual or social design projects
- This opportunity is not open to current Charlotte Street Startup Residents, Rocket Grantees who have not completed final report, or to directly support programming on Charlotte Street’s campus.
- Funding requests are annual. Applicants can be funded for up to 2 years in a row but then must sit out a year before applying again.
For more information, visit Charlotte Street Foundation.
