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These are some of the excellent press reviews that have been written so far about the Rocket Grants program and individual projects.

Kansas City Star article about the new Rocket Grants program: kc-star-rocket-grants-boost-local-artists-6062010 and an update review in January 2011: KCStar-review_1_1_11

Warhol Foundation link to Star article about the Rocket Grants program: http://www.warholfoundation.org/foundation/37_detail.html

Lawrence.com announcement of 2010-2011 award recipients: http://www.lawrence.com/news/2010/jun/03/winners-rocket-grants-announced/

BroadwayWorld.com announcement of awards ceremony for 2010-2011 grant recipients: http://kansascity.broadwayworld.com/article/Recipients_of_Rocket_Grants_for_20102011_Announced_Ceremony_Held_615_20100615_page1

Reviews of Johnny America: JohnnyAmericaPresentMagazineDec2010, JohnnyAmericaReviewMagazineDec2010

Article about Johnny America and WorkArtOut: JA/WAOLawrenceJournalWorld11.10

Article about ASP/SPA/PAS: ASP-SPA-PASReviewMagazineDec2010

Article about Kurt Flecksing and the S’mores Cart: kurt_flecksing_kc_confidentiaAug2010l

Article about Endless Boundless: Endless_Boundless_KC_Star_August2010

Article about WorkArtOut: WAO_ereview_1-11

Brief article about WE: WE_KCStar_3-26-11

Review of WE: WE_KCStar3-27-11

Radio broadcast about WE on KCUR National Public Radio: WE shakes up relationship between audience and performer

KC Star article about Jarrett Mellenbruch’s Haven: Working Sculpture is a Haven for Honey and Bees

KCUR National Public Radio interview with Jarrett Mellenbruch on “Up To Date”, starts at 42:30 into the podcast: 
http://kcurstream.umkc.edu/UTD/UTD_6-10-2011.mp3

NBC Action News spot about Haven: http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/lifestyle/beehive-sculpture-in-kansas-city-has-community-buzzing

KCUR National Public Radio interview with A. Bitterman : Point of Interest Explores Significance Closer to Home

Kansas City Star Article about Point Of Interest: Nature is everywhere, including artist’s Brookside yard

New York Times Magazine shout out to Point of Interest: Our Favorite Reader Mail, Ever

National press (the Architect’s Newspaper) for Point of Interest: Front Lawn Wayfinding in Kansas City

Warhol Foundation report on 2011-2012 award recipients: http://www.warholfoundation.org/foundation/42_detail.html

UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance announcement about award to Dark Matter Presents: Ascent: http://conservatory.umkc.edu/news-release-detail.cfm?id=210

Lawrence Journal World article about 2011-2012 award recipients Judith Levy, Eric Dobbins and Kelly John Clark, July 15 2011: Rocket Grants reward local artists for their creativity 

UMKC College of Art and Science NEWS, recognizing Caitlin Horsmon‘s  2011-2012 Rocket Grants award for Resistant History

Lee’s Summit Journal article about the upcoming Dark Matter Ascent balloon launch

KC Star article about the opening of PLUG projects KC artists plug into a new gallery in the West Bottoms

Pitch review of Julia Vering‘s You Live Here Too at the Brick

KC Star review of Amber Hansen‘s Story of Chickens Art project destined to end in slaughter of chickens

Lawrence Journal World review of Amber Hansen‘s Story of Chickens Controversy swirls around artist’s plans for project detailing the life – and death – of chickens

Lawrence Journal World follow up article: Poultry not in picture now (features Story of Chickens)

Lawrence Journal World commentary by George Gurley: Eating chicken raised to an art (features Story of Chickens)

Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS)  included the Ascent balloon launch as part of their promotional materials: Brochure for the aerospace engineering program

Pitch article about Amber Hansen’s Story of Chickens: Suffer the chickens says Lawrence artist Amber Hansen

Legal Sonar: No chicken shall die in Lawrence by our hands (features Story of Chickens)

Series of posts by United Poultry Concerns, entertainment section, beginning February 8 2012 concerning The Story of Chickens

ArtInfo.com on the Story of Chickens: Dead Chicken Art Ruffles Feathers

KC Star article about the Story of Chickens: Animal activists celebrate as Lawrence blocks chicken art project

Associated Press story about the Story of Chickens picked up by twelve national/international publications

US news msnbc: City: Chicken slaughter art project is cruel (features Story of Chickens)

Compassionate Spirit.com: Slaughter as Art and Slaughter as Art Update (features Story of Chickens)

The University Daily Kansan: Artist Upsets Animal Rights Community with Chicken Project (features Story of Chickens)

Wonderwall: Chicken Slaughter Art Project ruffles Feathers (features Story of Chickens)

Gallerist NY: Local artist in Lawrence, Kansas will not kill chickens in public (features Story of Chickens)

Art Practical issue dedicated to public-oriented art practices in Kansas City, featuring several Rocket Grants recipients, including Julia Vering, Jarrett Mellenbruch, Albert Bittterman, Amber Hansen, Caitlin Horsmon, Jose Faus and Sean Starowitz

KC Star article about Jaimie Warren, Peggy Noland and Cody Critcheloe’s Dust: Local filmmakers stir up ‘Dust’

Youtube trailer for the Dust movie: A New American Film

Pitch article about Kurt Flecksing’s S’mores Grant project: Kurt Flecksing’s ideas about public space taste like S’mores

Kansas City Business Journal article about the S’mores Grant project: Kansas City food cart aims to offer s’more money for creative types

KC Star review of PLUG Projects‘ Remasters exhibit: Building on the Past

Pitch Review of PLUG Projects‘ Superstruct: Stair Cases

Bad At Sports broadcast of an interview of PLUG Projects by Art Practical

Pitch Review of PLUG Projects‘ Dramatic Chromatic: At Plug Projects, every color five artists could think of

Huffpost Arts and Culture: Artists vs. Animals: 15 artists  who have enraged animal rights activists (features Amber Hansen)

Art21 blog: Gastro-vision, the best in food art 2012 (featuring The Story of Chickens)

KC Studio magazine article A Project of Passion featuring Resistant History

KCUR interview: A New Kind of Wash, Dry, Fold: Art in the Laundromat featuring Byproduct: Laundromat

Lawrence.com article on One man’s Trash: Artist’s project highlights unusual gift economy in downtown alley featuring Give Take Give

Kansas City Star article on An artist’s film takes a satiric look at KC and its creative core featuring NV in KC

Lawrence Journal World story about NV in KC: Jealous? Artist, filmmaker, explores difficult topics in ‘NV in KC’

KC Studio Story about NV in KC: NV in KC: A story about artists and envy in Kansas City