Charlotte Street Foundation 2020 Generative Performing Artist Award

The Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards seek to recognize, encourage, and significantly support Kansas City-based artists creating original, exceptional, new work in all genres of performance. 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 2020 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Fellow receives an unrestricted cash grant of $10,000 and recognition through announcements to media, web-based marketing and promotion, and special events. Awarded artists will be those who create new, contemporary work; produce work that is innovative/experimental in terms of form, content, process, and/or presentation; and demonstrate sustained commitment to deepening/expanding their work and generative practices.

Eligibility: 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. Collaborative groups are eligible if well-established, creating generative performing work in an ongoing, deeply collaborative manner, with each member playing a generative role and the group not incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Previous Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Award recipients are not eligible to apply.

Applications must include: artist's statement (500 words or less), artist intent/value of award statement (350 words or less), resume/CV (5 page maximum), and work samples (documentation of up to three original works created within the past three years, totaling no more than 5 minutes). Work samples are the most important component of the application. Panelists will review applications November 2019-January 2020, conduct in-person visits and final selection on February 7, 2020, and publicly announce award recipients on February 11, 2020. Contact: [email protected] or 816.221.5115.