This project will take the form of an interactive public-art installation at multiple pop-up venues throughout the greater Lawrence community. The proposal calls for the fabrication of a [...]
The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s most important forums for the dissemination of international contemporary art. Venice is a grand maze, and aside from the 2 main venues housing the [...]
One Struggle KC Engaging Art/Una Lucha KC Arte Atractivo works to empower, unite, and educate oppressed groups/communities within the KC metro area through art. This grant will enable One [...]
Goods Riddance is a project begun by Adriane Herman in June, 2014, two days after her beloved dog, Browser, died. Having just “let go” of her treasured companion, Adriane felt she [...]
Many Northeast Kansas artists and writers are actively engaged in seeking out and making creative responses to what they see as an extreme conservative political takeover of the state: Poets and [...]
Rocket Grants funding will enable the Columbus Park Skate Park to be executed on a larger scale than its scrappy beginnings, and to combine multiple features in a unique, functional design. Ben, [...]
Live TV Live (LTVL) celebrated it’s pilot debut in March, 2015 with “Fall of the Pollinators, Rise of the High-rise” (https://vimeo.com/119577128 ). The episode was warmly [...]
The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Cahokia Mounds was once a centrally located hub of Indigenous civilization. In 1200 AD it was larger than London, rising and falling before the European conquest [...]
While investigating the connections between Kansas City and the Myth of the American West, Jessica Borusky discovered a deep thread running between the Pioneer Trails (beginning in Independence, [...]
Artists: George Mayfield & Erlene Flowers Project: Unspoken Violence (R & D Award) Engaging 20 established and high school artists to create visual images, spoken word, and rap [...]