Crossroads Artboards 2027-2028

The Crossroads Artboards were launched in Fall 2008 as a partnership between Charlotte Street and Missouri Bank (now BOK Financial), and is currently supported in part by the Crossroads Community Association. The Artboards are exterior, double-sided billboards located at 125 Southwest Boulevard featuring new, commissioned works by Kansas City-area artists approximately every three months. From April 2027 through March 2028, new, commissioned images by Kansas City area artists will be presented and rotated approximately every three months. Selected artists are chosen through a competitive process, and receive artist stipends of $1,000 each for completing and delivering print-ready images for one set of side-by-side billboards. Over 100 artists have been featured on the Artboards to date. The Artboards exist in public space, to be a platform for artists’ voices and work in the center of the Crossroads, a neighborhood whose character has been very influenced by and connected to the arts community. Jurors will select artworks that are dynamic, engaging, and inspiring to the public; striking and aesthetically strong; and authentic to the creative spirit of the Crossroads neighborhood for display on the billboards.