Charlotte Street Foundation: Generative Performance Award 2015

Charlotte Street Foundation invites artists living and working in the 5-County Greater Kansas City Metro Area to apply for its 2015 Generative Performing Artist Awards. Two Awards of $10,000 each will be distributed in 2015.

The Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards seek to recognize, encourage, and significantly support artists creating exceptional new work in the fields of dance, theatre, music, opera, sound art, performance art, multimedia performance, spoken word, puppetry, and hybrid/interdisciplinary versions of all above. Artists must be generative artists—that is, the creators of original new work, rather than solely performers or interpreters of works generated by others. Awarded artists will be those who are actively creating new, contemporary work, produce work that is innovative/experimental in terms of form, content, process, and/or presentation, and demonstrate a sustained commitment to deepening/expanding their work and generative practices.

Each 2015 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Fellow will receive an unrestricted cash grant of $10,000, be recognized by Charlotte Street Foundation at the time of Award announcement and throughout 2015 through announcements to media, web-based promotion, and commissioned writing about their work, and partner with Charlotte Street Foundation to identify at least one opportunity for public engagement in association with the Award.

Eligibility: Artists 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); be at least 21 years of age by the application deadline; be at least one year out of undergraduate school and not currently enrolled as a full-time undergraduate or graduate student, and must not have made arrangements to be a full-time student from January 1-December 31, 2015. Collaborative groups are eligible if the group is well established and creating generative performing work in an ongoing, deeply collaborative manner, the primary generative performing work of each member is as a member of the collaborative group, each member plays a generative role in the creation of the group's work, and the group is not incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Previous Charlotte Street Award recipients are not eligible to apply.

Selection Process: Applications will be reviewed December 2014-January 2015, with 10 semi-finalists selected for in-person presentations. Semi-finalists will be notified in early February 2015. In-person visits and final selection will occur February-March 2015, with semi-finalists providing 20-minute in-person visits including short presentations about their work and time to respond to panel questions. All semi-finalists will be notified of final decisions within three days of the final panel.

Application Requirements: Submit online through www.callforentry.org. Required materials include: 1) Artist's Statement (500 words or less) addressing the nature of your generative, performance-based work, intentions, ideas and influences, and processes; 2) Artist Intent/Value of Award (350 words or less) describing why the Award would be of value to you now; 3) Resume/CV including history of generative performance-based work (5 pages maximum); 4) Work Samples—documentation of up to 3 original works created within the past 3 years. Submit either one 10-minute compilation of work samples or 3 separate work samples totaling no more than 10 minutes in length. Panelists will review no more than 10 minutes of work samples.

Expectations for Award Year: Awarded artists will be expected to be residents of Kansas City or one of the eligible five counties for the Award year (2015). Awarded artists will keep Charlotte Street Foundation informed of all scheduled performances and public engagement opportunities throughout the Award year and will identify at least one scheduled performance or plan one public event during the Award year to be promoted or hosted in affiliation with the Award. Awarded artists are required to submit a year-end final report.

For technical assistance, contact Charlotte Street Foundation at 816.221.5115 or [email protected]. In-person assistance will be provided upon request.