Vox Narro presents a cultural celebration of Kansas City’s Liberian community

Please join Michelle Pond, Judith Towse Roberts & Rhiannon Ross, Kansas City artists, writers and members of Rocket Grants 2012 Award winning team Vox Narro, for an afternoon celebrating [...]

2014-15 Rocket Grants Awards announced!

Charlotte Street Foundation and the Spencer Museum of Art are delighted to announce this year’s selections to receive Rocket Grants Awards, a program funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the [...]

Civilian Stories/SPUD: Visualizing Vacancy

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 [...]

Artists for Life reception Friday March 28 5 PM

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 [...]

Last KC Metro outreach for this year

This coming Saturday, March 1, at 5 PM, FOKL: 556 Central Avenue, KCK. Map. 2013 Rocket Grants Award winners Jessie and Thaddeus Christian will share information and insights from their Hard 50 [...]

Civilian Stories: Open Office

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 [...]

No More Hyperlocal Literature: The Civilian

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

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 [...]

If Da Dirt Could Talk, First Quilt

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 [...]

Those Things That Protrude, now installed!

. Please join 2012 Rocket Grants Award winners Rie Egawa and Burgess Zbryk to celebrate the installation of their 2012 Project Those Things That Protrude. Friday June 7, from 6-9 PM, 1824 Grand [...]

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