Rocket Grants Cycle 4 now open!
You have between January 14, 2013 and March 25, 2013 to prepare your dream Rocket Grants project application. Check out all the information and resources available to you on the application page, including outreach sessions throughout the Kansas City region.
New Rocket Grants award winners announced!
Congratulations to the ten groups and individuals who received $4,000 cash awards for their proposed projects, all designed to unfold between June 2012 and June 2013! Over 66 artists (individuals or members of collaborative groups) from throughout the 80-mile eligibility zone applied. The selected projects are located in the Greater KC metro area, St. Joseph, … Read more
AP in KC : Response from AK of PP
A few weeks ago, contributors from Art Practical spent a whirlwind weekend in Kansas City studios and art spaces. The resulting issue of AP highlights and offers insight into some of the more risk-taking practices going on in the area, including Rocket Grant projects like “You Live Here Too”, “Haven”, and the controversy surrounding Amber Hansen’s … Read more
Art Practical’s Kansas City issue has been published!
Follow this link to see how four visiting writers from the San Francisco-based online magazine Art Practical engaged with Kansas City and our lively arts community! Information for this dedicated issue was gathered in February of this year when Patricia Maloney, Victoria Gannon, Christian L. Frock and Elyse Mallouk made a three-day visit to KC.
Shotgun!
Following their whirlwind tour, the Art Practical team is looking forward to sharing their impressions and conversations in the March 1 issue of the publication. But they are eager to present perspectives beyond their own and reiterate their invitation to the KC community to submit Shotgun Reviews. Shotgun Reviews are an open forum where the broader … Read more
We: Art Practical +the Rocket Grantees
During Art Practical‘s recent visit, all current and previous Rocket Grantees were invited to Plug Projects for a discussion about the effect of the Rocket Grant program, experimental programming, and dynamics behind the art ecology of Kansas City. Patricia Maloney pointed out that one of the things she had noticed in meeting one on one … Read more
Discourse about Discourse
Dialogue about dialogue. That’s how we spent Thursday night, at the Art Practical Open Forum at KCAI. Patricia Maloney’s publication, an online forum based in the San Francisco Bay area, demonstrates that its possible to contribute in a meaningful way to the local critical dialogue while gaining national visibility and readership, given some committed contributors … Read more
Chicago’s Propeller Fund announces new awardees
The slideshow shows some of the funded projects from the last two years. Rocket Grants sister program, the Chicago-based Propeller Fund, has recently published the recipients for its second round of awards. Administered by Gallery 400 and threewalls, and similarly funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Propeller Fund awards 5 grants … Read more
Winner announced for Rocket Grants Call for Experimental Critical Writing
Rocket Grants, a program of Charlotte Street Foundation and KU Spencer Museum of Art in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, is delighted to announce that Art Practical, a San Francisco-based online publication, has been awarded a special commission to critically engage with artist-driven activity in the Kansas City area. The … Read more
Ulysses Jenkins at Pacific Standard Time
2011 Rocket Grants juror Ulysses Jenkins has been involved in several exhibitions and performances associated with the Pacific Standard Time events in California this fall. His participation in the “Now Dig This” exhibition was called “KISSES”, and was a collaboration with Senga Nengudi & Maren Hassinger. Here is a review of the exhibition from the … Read more
