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
State: Kansas, Missouri
County: Clay County (MO), Jackson County (MO), Johnson County (KS), Platte County (MO), Wyandotte County (KS)
Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes
Deadline: 11/11/2024
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
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 the region, and increase Kansas City’s desirability as a place for artists to live and work.
Funding Information
Two recipients of the 2025 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Fellow will receive:
- An unrestricted cash grant of $10,000.
- Recognition by Charlotte Street at the time of Award announcement and throughout the year of 2025, including through announcements to media, online promotion, special events, and more.
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.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must currently live and have lived in the five-county Greater Kansas City Metro area (Clay, Jackson, Johnson, Platte, Douglas, Wyandotte) for at least one year prior to application deadline (between November 11, 2023 and November 11, 2024).
- Artists must be at least 21 years of age by application deadline.
- Applicants must not be currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program.
Note on collaborative groups:
- The Generative Performing Awards are intended to recognize and support outstanding generative performing artists as individuals. Collaborative groups are eligible to apply if:
- The group is well established and creating generative performing work in an ongoing, deeply collaborative, committed manner as a group
- The primary work of each individual member of the group is as a member of the collaborative group, rather than as an individual
- Each member of the group is playing a generative role in the creation of the group’s work
- The group is not incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.
Additional eligibility requirements:
- Awarded artists will be expected to be residents of Kansas City (or one of the eligible five counties) for the award year. Artists are, however, able and 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, in collaboration with Charlotte Street, identify at least one scheduled performance or plan one public event (open rehearsal, artist talk, etc.) during the term of the Award year to be promoted or hosted in affiliation with the Award.
For more information, visit Charlotte Street.
