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Find similar grantsRocket Grants is sponsored by Charlotte Street Foundation. Rocket Grants enable individuals and groups of artists to take new risks with their work, push the scope and scale of their activities, develop and pursue collaborative projects, and engage with the public and public realm in inventive and meaningful ways.
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Rocket Grants - Charlotte Street Encourage and support inventive, under-the-radar, and public-facing work in non-traditional spaces. Rocket Grants award up to $6,000 to individuals and groups of artists for projects that exist outside of established institutions. Artists are encouraged to address the community at large to address the arts community, or to choose a smaller, targeted audience.
Rocket Grants will also support proposals from artists or groups who are interested in expanding their studio practice in new ways, and developing new audiences. Awards are provided to artists living within an 80 mile radius of metropolitan Kansas City.
The program is funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts , and is implemented through a partnership between the Charlotte Street in Kansas City, and Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. 2025 Rocket Grants Panelists Executive Director, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA artist and organizer, Kansas City, MO Katherine Simóne Reynolds artist and curator, St.
Louis, MO Executive Director of Native American Affairs for the state of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Cultivating an environment where contemporary art and artists thrive 2027 Visual Artist + Generative Performing Artist Awards Apps Open Now! Deadline: Sept. 4 @ 11:59 PM on Submittable.
Cultural Producer Grants Recipients Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives African American Artists Collective Startup Resident Recipients 2018-2019 Startup Residents www. straycatfilmcenter. com Stray Cat Film Center is an artist-run non-profit media arts organization and neighborhood microcinema space.
Stray Cat is dedicated to offering our community film programming that reflects the diversity of voices and visions in cinematic expression and using cinema as a conduit to inspire, educate and explore.
2019-2020 Startup Residents Driven by artists and community leaders from the Troost Corridor and the east side of Kansas City, Blackbox on Troost hosts community theater performances, learning workshops, cross-disciplinary media collaborations and more. Cynthia Hardeman, former Neighborhood Artists Resident and Founder of Drama Time , will lead the ongoing transition from the NAR residency site into a community performance space.
Kansas City Public Theatre (2019-20 StartUp Residents) 2300 Independence Avenue, KCMO https://kcpublictheatre. org Kansas City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public.
This mission is carried out in two activities: first, through producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works and reimagined classics which reflect the unique history and concerns of the Kansas City community; and second, to cultivate civic-minded artists, audiences, and citizens through community-based devised theatre workshops.
By providing quality theatre productions free of charge to the public, Kansas City Public Theatre envisions theatre as an essential cultural good which should be fully accessible to all members of the community. Kansas City Society of Contemporary Photography (2019-20 StartUp Residents) 2300 Independence Avenue, KCMO Kansas City Society of Contemporary Photography (KCSCP) is an artist centric organization.
They focus on providing opportunities for photographers to exhibit and promote their photographic work in Kansas City and surrounding areas. KCSCP offers a minimum of four exhibits a year with no boundaries put on what type of work can be submitted so long as it be founded in some way on a photographic process.
They have several members working in alternative processes, so KCSCP intends to offer more programing featuring those mediums–wet plate, cyanotype, digital collage and printing to unusual substrates are of interest to members and non-members alike.
KCSCP offers workshops and demonstrations and plans to create an atmosphere of collaboration with the Northeast neighborhood and greater community by offering talks and hands-on experiences that are appealing to various ages.
Marie Bannerot McInerney , 2018 Jarrett Mellenbruch, 2018 Jorge Garcia Almodovar, 2008 Donald Ross (“Scribe”), 2003 Mark Schweiger (“Gear”), 2003 Marcie Miller Gross, 2002 Archie Scott Gobber, 1998 Tony Allard & Kristine Diekman, 1997 Generative Performing Artists Award Recipients Stephonne Singleton, 2023 Calvin Arsenia Scott, 2022 The Black Creatures, 2022 Patrick Alonzo Conway, 2012 Carolina Aranibar-Fernandez Danielle Anderson (Danielle Ate the Sandwich) Rev.
William Ellis Bradley List of Studio Residents prior to September 2013 Charlotte Street Annual Donors Donor listing as of March 5, 2025 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Louetta M. Cowden Foundation Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Neighborhood Tourism Development Fund, City of Kansas City, MO Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc Richard J.
Stern Foundation for the Arts Ruth Foundation of the Arts PIONEERS ($10,000-$24,999) Cade Black, LLC / Emily and Todd Voth Hallmark Corporate Foundation Lisa Schmitz Interior Design Charlie and Jeanne Sosland 21c Museum Hotel Kansas City Creative Planning Foundation Kissick Construction Company Mid America Arts Alliance Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP Joan and Bert Berkley, Blue Heron Foundation Gretchen Calhoun and Neil Karbank Collection Elizabeth Oran Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Shirley & Barnett Helzberg Jr. Jane E.
Ratcliffe Charitable Fund Leonard and Irene Bettinger Philanthropic Fund Martha Lee Cain Tranby Music Enrichment Fund Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art Newkirk Novak Construction Lisa and Charles Schellhorn Elvis Achelpohl and Kimberly Carlson Jennifer Davidner Cattano Margaret and Jack Chilcoat Dr. Mark and Diane Davidner Donor Advised Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City Dr. Regina Nouhan and Mr. John Eck Habitat Contemporary Gallery Kim Klein and Jeffrey Goldstein Casey Claps and Justin Graves Greenwood Consulting/Sara and Paul Greenwood City In Motion Dance Theatre Inc Lydia Butler and Art Kent Matthew and Heather Mellor Lawrence and Barbara Schulte Jill Downen and Char Schwall Maria Miller/Miller Distributing
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Artists, curators, collectives, collaborations, partnerships, and artist-run spaces residing within an 80-mile radius of the Kansas City metropolitan area, including Lawrence, Kansas. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows $2,000 - $6,000. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Rocket Grants is funded by Charlotte Street Foundation. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
This opportunity targets applicants in Kansas. If your organization operates elsewhere, check the official notice for location requirements.
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