Rocket Grants

Rocket Grants is sponsored by Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City Region). 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. Projects must exist outside established venues.

Rocket Grants – The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Partner Charlotte Street Foundation Location Kansas City, MO Website rocketgrants. org ↗ Rocket Grants specifically encourage work that is inventive and “under the radar”, and that engages or benefits an audience OUTSIDE OF established arts venues, museums, theaters, art galleries or arts districts.

The program intends to encourage emerging and non-traditional art practices in the Kansas City region; contribute to a thriving artists’ community; and build bridges between geographic and cultural communities. Awarded projects are therefore evaluated not only on the artistic merits of the proposed projects, but also on their capacity to stimulate further growth.

Rocket Grants enable artists to take new risks with their work, push the scope and scale of their activities, develop and pursue collaborative projects, and/or engage with the public and public realm in inventive and meaningful ways.

2024 ROCKET GRANTS RECIPIENTS Multi-year Program Support Charlotte Street Foundation Rocket Grants Returns with Ten 2022 Recipients The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Expands Its Regional Regranting Program and Appoints Khadija Nia Adell as Regional Re-granting Program Manager The Andy Warhol Foundation for The Visual Arts Commits $1.

6 Million to Emergency Relief Funds Multi-year Program Support Charlotte Street Foundation The Regional Re-granting Program is established to recognize and support the movement of independently organized, public-facing, artist-centered activity that animates local and regional art scenes but that lies beyond the reach of traditional funding sources.