Charlotte Street Foundation: Generative Performing Artist Awards 2017

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. Artists must be generative artists—creators of original new work. The Awards aim to reward artistic accomplishment and support the continued development of artists' work and careers.

Each 2017 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Fellow receives an unrestricted cash grant of $10,000, recognition through media announcements and web-based marketing, and partnership with Charlotte Street to provide at least one opportunity for public engagement such as a presentation of work-in-progress, artist talk, or performance.

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 deadline and may not be currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program. If an artist has earned an undergraduate degree, completion must be at least 12 months before the deadline. Collaborative groups are eligible if well-established, creating generative work in an ongoing collaborative manner, with each member playing a generative role, and not incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit. Previous Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Award recipients are not eligible.

Applications must be submitted online by Monday, November 7, 2016, at midnight. Required materials include: artist's statement (500 words or less), artist intent/value of award statement (350 words or less), resume/CV (5 pages maximum), and work samples documenting up to three original works created within the past three years. Work samples should total no more than five minutes, preferably submitted as one edited compilation. Selection will be conducted by a panel of regional and national performing arts professionals. Semi-finalists will be notified in early February 2017 and will have 20-minute in-person visits with the panel in February 2017. For technical assistance, contact Charlotte Street Foundation at 816.221.5115 or [email protected].