Charlotte Street Foundation 2017 Visual Artist Awards

The Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards seek to recognize and significantly support Kansas City-based visual artists of all media who are creating exceptional contemporary work. These awards provide artists with financial support, critical recognition, and public exposure to reward artistic accomplishment and support continued development of artists' work and careers.

Each 2017 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow receives an unrestricted cash grant of $10,000, recognition through media announcements and web-based marketing, and inclusion in the 2017 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award exhibition at Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art with a printed brochure featuring images and commissioned writing about their work. Selection criteria include strength of artistic work to date, promise for future artistic achievement, commitment to innovation and experimentation in form, content, process, and/or presentation, and potential impact of the award on continued artistic development.

Applicants must currently live and have lived for at least one year prior to the application deadline in the five-county Greater Kansas City Metro area (Clay, Jackson, Johnson, Platte, Wyandotte). Artists must be at least 21 years of age by the application deadline and may not be currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program. If the artist has earned an undergraduate degree, the completion date must be at least 12 months earlier than the application deadline. Previous Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award recipients are not eligible to apply. Collaborative groups are eligible if all members meet eligibility criteria, the group is well established and creating work in an ongoing, deeply collaborative manner, the primary work of each member is as part of the collaborative group, each member plays an essential role, and the collective is not incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

Applications must be completed online and include an artist's statement (500 words or less), resume/CV (5 page maximum), work samples (up to 10 images, or up to 5 videos totaling 10 minutes maximum, or a combination), and a work sample list with relevant details. The selection process includes an open call followed by competitive review by a panel of regional and national visual arts professionals. Semi-finalists will be notified in early February 2017, and 10 finalists will receive 30-minute in-person studio visits in February/March 2017 for final selection. Awarded artists are expected to remain residents of the eligible area during the award year, keep Charlotte Street informed of exhibitions and public engagements, have work available for the Fall 2017 exhibition, and be available for associated award events and public programs as reasonably possible.