Crossroads Artboards

The Crossroads Artboards were launched in Fall 2008 as a partnership between Charlotte Street and Missouri Bank (now BOK Financial), and is currently supported in part by the Crossroads Community Association. The Artboards are exterior, double-sided billboards located at 125 Southwest Boulevard featuring new, commissioned works by Kansas City-area artists approximately every three months.

Selected artists are chosen through a competitive process, and receive artist stipends of $1,000 each for completing and delivering print-ready images for one set of side-by-side billboards. Over 100 artists have been featured on the Artboards to date.

Visual Artist Awards

Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards recognize and significantly support Kansas City-based visual artists of all media who are creating exceptional, contemporary work. 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.

Three unrestricted cash grants of $10,000 annually

Awarded exhibition in respected Kansas City Art Institution, such as Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art and H&R Block Artspace

Byron C. Cohen Award

The Byron C. Cohen Award provides one Kansas City-based visual artist annually with funding to attend a leading national/international art fair of their particular interest. The award is administered by Charlotte Street and funded by contributions made to Charlotte Street in memory of Byron C. Cohen. The artist for the annual award is selected by a panel of local and national curators as part of Charlotte Street’s annual Visual Artist Awards selection process.

The Byron C. Cohen Award honors gallerist and collector Byron C. Cohen and his passion for art, artists travel, and his desire to connect Kansas City and its artists to the national and international art world.

Generative Performing Artist Awards

The Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards aim to recognize and significantly support Kansas City-based artists producing exceptional performance-based work that is original, innovative, and progressive. 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.

Two unrestricted cash grants of $10,000 annually

The 2025 Charlotte Street’s Visual Artist Fellows are Noelle Choy, Hùng Lê, and Merry Sun.

Recipients of the Generative Performing Artist Fellowship are Vanessa Aricco and Jass Couch.

VISUAL ARTIST AWARDS JURY

Sydney Pursel (Curator for Public Practice, Spencer Museum of Art at KU)

Alex Santana (Independent Curator, Writer and Assoc. Editor, Intervenxionsat The Latinx Project, NYC, NY)

Alex Paik (Independent Curator, Writer, Founder and Director Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA)

Samantha Best (Senior Manager for Exhibitions and Publications, Seattle Art Museum)

GENERATIVE PERFORMING ARTIST AWARDS JURY

AD Boynton II (writer, poet, artist, and Lecturer at KU)

Damon Davis (Emmy-award winning, Post Disciplinary Artist, STL, MO)

Maria Rowinska (Program Manager & Performance Instructor, Material Institute, New Orleans, LA)

Rachelle Rafailedes Mucha (Director of Foundation and Gov Grants, Director of Artist Residency, LA Dance Project)