Artists: Paul Donnelly, Erica Iman, Meredith Host, Alex Watson, Rain Harris, Jana Evans & Chandra DeBuse
Project: KC Urban Potters Project Space (R & D Award)
A cooperative exhibition space providing an environment to create, educate, and engage, sparking dialogue between makers and non-makers about the importance of handmade pottery in our daily lives.
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Project: The ToTLuck (R & D Award)
A series of 3 one-night-only cross-disciplinary installations, including photography, music, dance and spoken word in and on a 1960 Airstream trailer with public “potluck” meals.
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Project: Where We No Longer Gather (Modified R & D Award)
A photographic, site-specific, public engagement piece documenting an unrecorded history of a displaced community, and asking questions about a community’s removal and the lack of a public Queer space.
.Artists: Melaney Mitchell, Blair Schulman, Patricia Bordallo Dibildox
Project: Informality Radical Public Programming (Modified Project Award)
A year-long series of public interventions designed to grow a more dynamic audience, by means of public programs like Pop Up Guerrilla Docents and a new video criticism series.
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Artists: Father-Daughter Confessional (Don Wilkison & Sarah Wilkison)
Project: Cut Your Hair in the Socialist Style (Modified Project Award)
A salon-within-a-salon that takes place in the culminating months of the 2016 US presidential election cycle, creating safe zones for public debate about contentious issues.
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Project: The Floor (Project Award)
A multimedia, immersive art engagement at 31st & Brklyn – a new performance venue for emerging and experimental, contemporary artists of color -in conversation with difference and the U.S. Great Black Migration.
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Artists: Lara Shipley & Ann Friedman
Project: The New Rural (Project Award)
A project investigating rural communities near Kansas City, using audio interviews and photographs to document the realities of individual youth experience, and resulting in a publication and website.
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Project: Haven Hive Monitor (Project Award)
A prototype solar-powered monitor installed inside a living beehive sculpture, continuously streaming information about the bees to a website and converting the data into accessible, visual graphics.
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Artists: Randall Jenson & Ash R Allee
Project: Transforming Resiliency while Queering Violence (Project Award)
SocialScope Productions, a LGBTQ multimedia organization, will create an online video healing project, lifting up the voices of transgender and gender nonconforming youth and trans people of color.
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Project: Arts Dojo (Project Award)
A venue inside an active Aikido dojo will be an incubator for visual, literary, musical, and performing arts – a place where artists can take it to the mat and throw down.
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Project: Two Strangers Meet Alone in a Vacant Parking Lot (Project Award)
Two small-scale architectural structures exemplifying and orchestrating the face-to-face meeting of two complete strangers in a former Dillon’s parking lot in Topeka, KS, with a publication featuring artist prints of the architectural drawings.