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Charlotte Street Foundation needs your help
Charlotte Street Foundation wants to know your opinions — as artists and as audience and community members — about their programs and activities. They need your input to help them improve programs and their impact on our community. Click here to take a short survey.
Charlotte Street Foundation wants to know your opinions — as artists and as audience and community members — about their programs and activities. They need your input to help them improve programs and their impact on our community. Click here to take a short survey.
Click this link to take a short 10-minute survey.
About Charlotte Street Foundation
Vision.
Charlotte Street Foundation was established in 1997 in response to needs articulated by artists and those who saw the arts as a valuable creative, social and economic resource to the city. At that time, Kansas City, in spite of a rich creative environment, was losing many of its artists and creatives. Charlotte Street Foundation’s vision describes a vibrant city where artists are cultivated, respected and admired by leaders in the business, political, philanthropic and civic communities, as well as by a significant segment of the general public. The resulting support for artists leads artists to participate more fully in our community and attracts artists from other cities and the region.
Mission.
Charlotte Street Foundation supports and recognizes outstanding artists in Greater Kansas City; presents, promotes, enhances and encourages the visual, performing and interdisciplinary arts; and fosters economic development in the urban core of Kansas City, MO. In all endeavors, CSF places artists at the center of its mission and has built an infrastructure that depends on and reflects their involvement. As a result, CSF is an organization that continually evolves in response to artist input and in relation to the city’s larger cultural ecosystem.
Initiatives.
• Cash grants and commissions to Kansas City artists, providing important financial support and validation
• Performance and exhibition opportunities, thus supporting artistic growth
• Studios, providing key space to create and make work
• Training for professional development/business skills, helping artists to sustain their art careers
(in collaboration with the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City and the UMKC Innovation Center.)
• Advocacy and planning on behalf of artists, to create more understanding of and support for artists in Kansas City
• National outreach, attracting awareness and recognition for individual artists in Kansas City and for our community of artists.
For more information visit http://www.charlottestreet.org/
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