2013 Projects

Friday April 4th, 2014, 6:00PM : Civilian Stories, The Society for the Prevention of Unnecessary Demolition (SPUD), Urban Film and Design (UFD) and the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning [...]

The opening reception for the 2013 Rocket Grants The Artists for Life Project will be held on Friday March 28, at Artis Events Reception Hall at 3016 Cherry in Kansas City Missouri. Doors will [...]

What exactly is that urban feel everyone is talking about? Civilian Stories presents Project: Process by Jessica Borusky. Project:Process! is a two-channel video installation that personifies [...]

The editors of The Civilian would like to invite you to our open house at Front/Space (217 W. 18th). This Friday, February 7th from 6-9PM, we will welcome our incomparable contributors and the [...]

civilian (n.)  “relating to a citizen, relating to public life, befitting a citizen; popular, affable, courteous.”  -Online Etymological Dictionary From the Editors: Greetings! We are [...]

Quilted Friendship: The Art of NedRa Bonds and Nancy Dawson Curated by Anna-Maria Kretzer Quilted Friendship, an exhibition organized in support of the Hero Quilt Project, will be located on the [...]

Into the Night Sea is 70% funded! Thanks to the Rocket Grant project award, a grant from The Seeley Foundation, an Inspiration Grant from the ArtsKC Fund, and donations from individual arts [...]

Please stop by the Kansas City Artist Coalition this Friday  for the opening of A Very Long Night… my recent works in graphite, digital prints, and experimental animation. Oct [...]

If Da Dirt Could Talk, a collaborative 2013 Rocket Grants project by Nedra Bonds and Dr. Nancy Dawson, has begun its engagement with the students at Stony Point South Elementary School, a few [...]

One of the current Rocket Grants recipients Front/Space (see Leandra Burnett, Sarah Murphy and Kent Szlauderbach’s project Civilian Stories) is a surprise recipient of three year’s [...]