POP! Garden Post / Trading Party

POP! GARDEN POST | TRADING PARTY SATURDAY MAY 25TH, 2013 THE CORNER GARDEN AT 17TH AND SUMMIT STREETS 11AM – 3PM PUBLIC TRADING + MUSIC, DANCE & ACTIVITIES! 4PM POTLUCK TRADER VICTORY PICNIC [...]

DUST goes to Barcelona

2010 Rocket Grants Award recipients Peggy Noland, Cody Critcheloe and Jaimie Warren will be screening their collaboratively produced film “DUST” in conjunction with an exhibition [...]

Into the Night Sea

Into the Night Sea is a multimedia project navigating the unsettling world of childhood nightmares. The collaborative team of musician James Isaac and visual artist Laura Isaac will create a [...]

First Lady?

De De DeVille will write, produce, and star in a one act play about first lady Deidre Russell’s rise to fame, and how she deals with being the first first lady in drag. It will be a [...]

If Da Dirt Could Talk

This project is designed to interpret the lives of former enslaved Africans who built Quindaro, an African American, post-Civil War community in Kansas City, KS. Nedra Bonds and Nancy Dawson, [...]

No More Nomads

Nomadic and impoverished societies are credited with being the “taste makers” and originators of cultural ideas, movements, and images. With the recent rise in nationalism, many such cultures [...]

KC Drag University

This project could not be completed as planned. The artist returned the funding, and this will be redistributed to other Rocket Grants projects. Jaimie Warren proposes to create a workshop series [...]

Civilian Stories

Civilian Stories is a magazine, newsroom, and research center for civic literacy and art in the public interest. Working collaboratively with artists, writers, and community organizers, Civilian [...]

Hard 50 Farm Zine Mobile

The Hard Fifty Farm Zine Mobile will be a traveling zine gallery and shop with an exhibition of more than 1,200 literary and visual arts zines. The collection, curated by Pioneers Press owner [...]

Public Service Announcement – KC Endangered

Jackson County, Missouri has over 15,000 vacant properties. Jake Wagner and Yozo Suzuki will develop a counter-narrative to the notion that vacant properties have no value, using a hybrid [...]