Charlotte Street Grants + Awards
2024-2025 Cycle | Role: Program Admin
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
Art Omi International Residency
Every year, Charlotte Street offers an opportunity for one artist to attend the Art Omi Residency in Ghent, New York. All past local Visual Artist award fellows currently living in Kansas City are eligible to apply, as well as nominees from former Art Omi Residents. Art Omi guarantees one spot to a Charlotte Street artist and selections are facilitated by the Art Omi selection panel. The chosen artist receives a three week, fully-funded residency. Art Omi invites 30 artists from around the world, representing a wide diversity of artistic styles and practices, to gather in rural New York for four weeks each summer to experiment, collaborate and share ideas.
https://charlottestreet.org/grants-awards/