Kay Holland, Tyler Hall, and Trans Lawrence Coalition
TLC: Building Trans Community is an experimental documentary that brings together archival footage, mixed media, professional interviews, and public testimonies to portray the multitudes of perspectives, experiences, and methodologies that make up Trans Lawrence Coalition’s past, present, and future.
Camry Ivory
The Coloratura Collective is a six-month pilot program designed to explore how Coloratura, an innovative audiovisual instrument, can be adapted and integrated into artistic, educational, therapeutic, and community contexts. Coloratura is a project developed by interdisciplinary artist and musician Camry Ivory over the last ten years.
Rachel Krause
Oddball Hoedown is a gender-inclusive, queer-centered folk dance event based in Kansas City that blends the rich Midwest traditions of old-time fiddle music with a commitment to inclusivity, joy, and belonging. Organized by Rachel Krause and collaborators, Oddball Hoedown envisions a thriving folk arts scene in Kansas City where everyone belongs.
Evan Maddox
Oracle is a community archiving project founded by Evan Maddox and published by ASTR (Astringent) Press. This project is distributed as a free quarterly publication for transgender people living in the Midwest. It features information on connected histories, social gatherings, local & national resources, as well as transgender books, films, music and visual art.
Brendan McInerney
Land Back to the Future is a short documentary film about the cyclical nature of history and the many centuries-long relationship between Native American peoples and the wetland ecosystem on the campus of Haskell Indian Nations University. Filmmaker Brendan McInerney will organize an outdoor screening for the Haskell community in front of the Haskell Wetlands.
Miguel Morales
Envisioned by artist Miguel Morales, this project will support farmworker youth in creating a poetry and art chapbook. Morales has been working with youth education programs for over twenty years. He will lead writing workshops to help students create work for the chapbook.
Anthony Rea and Isaac Tapia
“Super Flea Portraits” is a collaborative project led by artists Anthony Rea and Isaac Tapia, designed to document and celebrate the cultural richness of Kansas City’s Historic Northeast. Centered at the Super Flea Market, the project aims to amplify the voices and visibility of underrepresented communities through contemporary portraiture and site-specific installations.
Michael Andrew Smith
The Object is a “living eulogy to the printed word” in the shape of a newspaper. Conceived by Editor-in-Chief Michael Andrew Smith, The Object’s mission is to investigate the nature of the newspaper as an art object while highlighting the diverse visions, cultures and languages that comprise Kansas City today.
Jeanne Vaccaro
Reading is Transcendental is a site-specific public art installation that transforms the bathroom into an intergenerational reading room and community library. Organized by Jeanne Vaccaro with artist Chris E. Vargas, the work will be a printed wallpaper of original drawings representing the real-life bookshelves of Vargas’s community.
Alex Kimball Williams, Leah Evans, and Tai Amri
Featured artists from the BLACK Lawrence artist collective will host a public presentation and anniversary celebration of BLACK Lawrence’s community contributions. This project will explore how the work of these artists catalyzes uniquely positive impacts in Kansas and ties their contemporary practices to similar work of historic Black Kansas artists.