Rocket Grants receive support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and are developed and implemented though a partnership between the Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City, MO and the Spencer Museum of Art, at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.
Donor Name: Charlotte Street Foundation
State: Missouri
City: Kansas City
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/27/2022
Size of the Grant: $6,000
Grant Duration: 12 months 19 days
Details:
Rocket Grants provide direct funding to artists in the Kansas City region who are creating exceptional, under-the-radar, and artist-centered projects in public spaces. Artists, curators, collectives, and collaborative groups residing within an 80-mile radius of the Kansas City metropolitan area are eligible to apply.
These grants provide opportunities for Kansas City area artists to make and share experimental work and ideas in public spaces around the region – by providing direct support for exceptional, under-the-radar, artist-driven, and artist-centered projects.
Rocket Grants fund projects that:
- add energy and diversity to the arts in the region
- happen in unexpected places
- challenge mainstream methods of thinking, making or presentation
- encourage the development of new kinds of audiences
- connect with, and provide opportunities for creative growth, to either the artist community, or the general public (projects could address both)
Grant Information
The Rocket Grants program for 2022-23 will provide grants in the amount of $60,000 total.
- Full Project Awards: Cash grants of up to $6,000 each, to area artists, performers, curators, and writers – as individuals or groups – to support the creation and presentation of NEW work/projects. Artists with ongoing projects or practices are welcome to apply, providing the application proposes significant evolution or adaptation that will open up entirely new directions in the work – even if for only one year. The majority of grants are awarded at or near the $6000 level. Artists will receive $2,000 up front, and then the bulk of their implementation funds once a firm date and venue have been confirmed. Projects that have not advanced to this stage by March 1, 2023 may forfeit the remaining award.
Supported projects may include visual art, performance, film screenings, video, new media, writing, public programming, social practice and interdisciplinary projects. Performing artists and writers are eligible to apply, but ALL work should include a strong VISUAL component, and performers/authors are encouraged to form collaborations with visual artists.
Eligibility Criteria
- Artists, curators, collectives, collaborative groups, partnerships, and artist-run spaces residing within an 80-mile radius of the Kansas City metropolitan area are eligible to apply.
- If applying as an artistic group, this group can be long-standing or created specifically for this project.
- Nonprofit, 501(c)3 organizations are NOT eligible to apply.
- All artists must be over 21 at the time of the application, and may not be full-time students at any time during the application or award period (May 13, 2022 to June 1, 2023).
- All exclusions apply for the entire period of the application and award (May 13, 2022 to June 1, 2023).
- Artists may not be awarded a Rocket Grant for two sequential rounds of funding. Artists who are part of incomplete projects may not reapply until a year after the project is completed.
For more information, visit Rocket Grants.
