The Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards seek to recognize, encourage, and significantly support Kansas City-based artists creating original, exceptional new work in all genres of performance.
Donor Name: Charlotte Street Foundation
States: Kansas, Missouri
Counties: Clay County (MO), Jackson County (MO), Platte County (MO), Johnson County (KS), Wyandotte County (KS)
City: Kansas City
Type of Grant: Award
Deadline: 11/13/2022
Size of the Grant: $10,000
Details:
Providing artists with financial support, critical recognition, and public exposure, these Awards aim to reward artistic accomplishment to date and to support the continued development of artists’ work and careers. Artists must be generative artists—that is, the creators of original new work.
Awarded artists will be those who:
- Create new, contemporary work
- Produce work that is innovative and/or experimental in terms of form, content, process, and/or presentation
- Demonstrate sustained commitment to deepening/expanding their work and generative practices
Through recognizing and supporting exceptional artists living and working in Kansas City, Charlotte Street seeks to empower and propel individual artists, enhance the artistic culture of their region, and increase Kansas City’s desirability as a place for artists to live and work.
Funding Information
An unrestricted cash grant of $10,000
Recognition by Charlotte Street Foundation at the time of Award announcement and throughout the year of 2023, including through announcements to media, online promotion, special events and more
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must currently live and have lived in the five-county Greater Kansas City Metro area (Clay, Jackson, Johnson, Platte, Wyandotte) for at least one year prior to application deadline.
- Artists must be at least 21 years of age by application deadline
- Applicants must not be currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program
Note: If the artist has earned a collegiate degree, the completion date must be at least 12 months earlier than the application deadline
Note: Applicants do not have to attend undergraduate or graduate school to be considered for this award
Additional eligibility requirements
- Awarded artists will be expected to be residents of the Kansas City (or one of the eligible five counties) for the Award year. Artists will still be able to, and are encouraged to participate in residencies, travel, etc., during the year
- Awarded artists will be expected to keep Charlotte Street informed of all scheduled exhibitions and public engagements throughout the period of the Award year for promotional support – Awarded artists will be expected to have work available for exhibition in the 2023 Visual Artist Award exhibition, and to work in a collaborative manner with the exhibition curator and other representatives in order to select and prepare work for the exhibition and associated publication (the exhibition is expected to open in the fall of 2023)
- Awarded artists will be expected, as reasonably as possible, to be available for associated Award events, receptions, public programs, etc.
Note: Previous Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award recipients are NOT eligible to apply
Criteria for Selection
- Strength of artistic work to date
- Promise for future artistic achievement
- Commitment to & demonstration of innovation/experimentation in terms of form, content, process, and/or presentation – Potential impact of Award on continued artistic development
For more information, visit Charlotte Street Generative Performing Awards.
