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
Article by Sean Starowitz about his project Byproduct: The Laundromat, in Temporary Art Review
UMKC School of Art Newsletter, reflecting on alumni from the 2013-14 Award Winners
KC Magazine (KCmag.com) August 2013 issue: page 40 profile of De De DeVille’s First Lady?
KC Magazine (KCmag.com) August 2013 issue: page 58 article about Dr. Nancy Dawson and Nedra Bond’s If Da Dirt Could Talk
KCUR, national public radio, Darryl Chamberlain and two other artists from the Light in the Other Room interviewed on Up To Date about The Artists For Life Project.
KCUR, national public radio, Laura Spencer updates Jarett Mellenbruch’s Haven project (starts at 42.30)
KC Metropolis article In Dreams and Nightmares about Laura and James Isaac’s collaborative project Into The Night Sea.
Sean Starowitz is interviewed about Byproduct: The Laundromat in DopeKC
KCUR, national public radio, Laura Spencer talks with NedRa Bonds about Stories From Da Dirt
Front page article from the Kansas City Star, Alice Thorson talks to Darryl Chamberlain about The Artists for Life Project
Huffington Post article by Blair Schulman about the Self-Fulfilment of Socially Engaged Art, referencing Sean Starowitz and Byproduct: The Laundromat, as well as The Artists for Life Project
KCUR National Public Radio story about Civilian Projects: Looking at Kansas City’s Vacant Land as Opportunity (features Rocket Grants recipient Jacob Wagner)
Article by Alice Thorson about Stories From Da Dirt: Quilts in KCK project tell a story of history, pride
Pitch story promoting the début of The Hard 50 Farm Zine Mobile: Zine lovers: Pioneers Press has you covered with nearly 2,000 titles in Lawrence this weekend
Liberty Tribune article about The Artists for Life Project: Art exhibit targets handgun violence
Pitch article by David Hudnall about Civilian Stories: Slow-jamming the news with Rocket Grant-backed journal Civilian
Channel 41 story about the Universoul Circus referencing Darryl Chamberlain from The Artists for Life Project
Parent Teacher Conference interview with Chris Demencha Milbourn: Destroy & Rebuild: MO State Rep. Brandon Ellington, King Kihei & Deceit Talk KCPSD
Channel 5 story on Artists for Life: Liberty Police Officer fights crime with pencil, paper
Beep goes the Weasel on the Inter Urban Art House blog
Story about Artists for Life in the Kansas City Star: Artists for Life is happy to be part of the solution to violence
Travel guide to Kansas City by Jaimie Warren in Juxtapoz Art Culture magazine, mentioning the Rocket Grants program (page 104).
50/50 story in January 2015 KC Studio A Creative Transition
Hard 50 Farm Zine Mobile (September 2014 interview): This zine brought to you by a converted animal trailer
Mini Vinnie Bini (September 2015) in The Pitch: The Mini Vinnie Bini is where a maximalist First Friday starts
Mini Vinnie Bini Flatland (October 2015): A little version of some big art: The Mini Vinnie Bini
50/50 in Temporary Art review (December 2015): 50/50: An interview with Cambria Potter and Hannah Lodwick
50/50 inspiration for container gallery in Philly (IndyStar January 2016): What’s the deal with that big red box in front of Bru Burger on Mass. Ave?
50/50 and crowd funding (KC Studio, January 2016) Crowdfunding kickstarts the arts in Kansas City
One Struggle/Una Lucha: (January 2016) Diane Burkholder and Celia Ruiz on KKFI Artspeak
Traces and Trajectories exhibition in KC Studio (February 2016): Traces and Trajectories at La Esquina Gallery
Maker Village KC: KCUR (February 2016) Maker Village KC Hopes To Prompt Innovation Through Old-Fashioned Workspace
One Struggle/Una Lucha: KCUR (March 2016) Kansas City Art Activists Add Social, Political Depth To The Coloring-Book Trend
Columbus Park Skate Park: Fox 4 TV (April 2016) Young residents continue to build skating facility at Columbus Park despite knowing it will eventually be torn down
Haven: KC Studio (May 2016): At KU, art meets science in the battle against a deadly disease
2016 Projects: Rocket Grants 2016 winners include projects about queer space, a socialist salon, KC Star (May 2016)
Haven: KC Star (June 2016): Rocket Grant winner melds science and art in beehive project for Kansas City Zoo
Maker Village KC: Up to Date (KCUR) (June 2016): The Maker Movement’s Evolution In Kansas City
Transforming Resiliency while Queering Violence: KC Star (July 2016): Kansas City LGBTQ advocate on ‘white fragility,’ latinx and finding support
Goods Riddance: Off Putting: Paris of the Plains, August 2016: Mo Dickens (Throwing Things Away)
Goods Riddance: Off Putting: The Pitch, May 2016 First Friday plus streetcar equals crowds — and plenty of art for them to see
Maker Village KC: in Spaces magazine, July 2016: http://spaceskc.com/articles/making-case-making/
Columbus Park Skate Park: Young residents continue to build skating facility at Columbus Park despite knowing it will eventually be torn down, Fox 4 KC, April 2016
Columbus Park Skate Park: How Harrison Street’s DIY skatepark turned a blighted, vacant lot into a local treasure, 435 Magazine, June 2019
Goods Riddance: Off Putting: Artists Encourage Kansas City Residents To Ride A Bus And ‘Let It Go!’, KCUR, May 2016
Artists for Life: Getting the message to stick, Issu Magazine, Spring 2015
Stories From Da Dirt Nedra Bonds: The angry quilter, BBC, September 2016
No More Nomads: Proust Eats A Sandwich blog, March 11 2016
Wak’ó Mujeres Phụ nữ Women Mural: Stories of Kansan Women of Color: Mural project to collect and depict stories of Lawrence women of color, Lawrence Journal World, October 2017
The Floor: Cat Mahari: Centering Blackness, KC Studio Magazine, November 2017
Lessons from Exes: Kansas City Filmmakers Make Art Out Of Lessons Women Learned From Failed Relationships, KCUR, Dec 2017
50/50: A Contemporary Arts Collective Housed In A Shipping Container, Alive Magazine, May 2017
Lessons from Exes: Film explores the practical side of lost romance, Issu magazine, Spring 2018
Open House: At This Kansas City Art Space, Loitering Is Both Subversive And Neighborly, KCUR, May 2018
Informality Radical Public Programming: Amid Kansas City’s First Friday Festivities, Guerrilla Docents Try To Actually Talk About Art, KCUR, June 2018
Lessons from Exes: Showing at Free Range film festival in Wrenshaw MN, 2018
Eternal Harvest: David Wayne Reed Draws Artistic Inspiration From His Family’s Kansas Farm, KCUR, May 2018
Eternal Harvest: Film Project On Family Farm Earns ‘Prodigal Son’ Status For Kansas City Performer: They say you can’t go home again. But what if you bring drones, quilts and a marching band? KCUR, May 2018
Eternal Harvest: Short film by Louisburg native explores ‘tapestry of our lives’, The Miami County Republic, Nov 2017
Wak’ó Mujeres Phụ nữ Women Mural: Stories of Kansan Women of Color: Mural celebrating women of color to feature in downtown Lawrence, The University Daily Kansan, August 2018
We Are Here to Plant a Tree: KC artist and scientist Don Wilkison says that in art and life, ‘failure doesn’t matter, Interview in Spaces Magazine October 2018
Alter: You Need to Check Out Kansas City’s Madcap Queer Party Scene, Vice, Blair Schulman, October 2018
One Struggle/Una Lucha: Activists, brown and black, unite for an event of art and healing, Kansas City Star, Feb 2016
One Struggle/Una Lucha: Kansas City Art Activists Add Social, Political Depth To The Coloring-Book Trend, KCUR, March 2016
One Struggle/Una Lucha: KC Activists Use Art to Heal – University News, Feb 2016
Black & Blue: Rocket Grant recipient’s documentary to focus on conflict between black communities and black law enforcement, The University Daily Kansan, June 2017
Black & Blue: Solomon Bass talks about his documentary film on KCUR, August 2018
Wak’ó Mujeres Phụ nữ Women Mural: Stories of Kansan Women of Color: Lawrence Journal World, Nov 25, 2018: Mural illustrates stories of Lawrence women of color
Bordes Carnosos: This Kansas City Artist Traveled 2,000 Miles To Report From The U.S.-Mexico Border, Israel Garcia Garcia interview on KCUR, Dec 2018
Battery Tour: Over 1 Billion People Lack Electricity Intro – Battery Tour
Before an Immense Sky: Local film exploring different perspectives in marriage to be made for seeing, blind viewers, Lawrence Journal World, May 2019
#GetWoke: Pride of the Heartland: How Kansas City’s Divided LGBTQ Scene Reflects Queer Culture As a Whole, Into More, June 2018
Eternal Harvest: Honors: David Wayne Reed, KC Studio Magazine, Sep 2019
Julia Vering/Unicorns in the Snow: Senior Citizens and Multimedia Currealism Collide in Julia Vering’s Unicorns in the Snow, The Pitch, October 2019
RubiX: Four art events you should not miss in November InKC Magagzine, Nov 1 2019
RubiX: Honors: Haley Kostas, KC Studio, Jan 16, 2020
RubiX: Selected as 21C Kansas City Hotel as the main event for 2019