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ArtsKC’s programs and services are designed to “advance lives through the arts.” This includes programs for the arts community and those engaged with the arts in the local Kansas City area. Additionally, ArtsKC works with local government and civic leadership to advocate for the arts.
FY24 IMPACT BY THE NUMBERS
Organization grants awarded
Funds awarded to arts organizations, arts projects, and artists in the greater Kansas City area
Artist grants awarded
WHO WE SUPPORT
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
The Martin City Melodrama presents WIZARD OF PAWS @ the Grandview Amphitheater. Summer 2024. Featuring children of all ages, the...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Arts in prison uses the arts to motivate and inspire the incarcerated. Visual Art, Textiles, Performance, Writing – Bringing them...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC) is a charitable nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness in Kansas City and...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Sascha Groschang is a cellist, composer and a champion for new music. Shapeshifter is a new recording project featuring all...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
EarlystART promotes its mission of “Building bridges. Inspiring minds. Impacting Futures” through the arts. Arts@EarlystART supports daily arts instruction, performances,...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
CHWC’s arts programming engages community members in visual and performing arts activities, increases public art, and contributes to excellent quality...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
KC Fringe Festival is a two week festival that provides a platform for visual and performing artists to share their...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
LAF brings forth the fiercely authentic voice of underrepresented and under resourced Latino communities through art, culture, cultural identity and...
- Teri Rogers Film Grants
- 2023-2024
Set in 1925, The Monrovians Vs. The Klan depicts the true story of an actual baseball game played between the...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
KANSAS CITY AREA YOUTH JAZZ is an enrichment program for high school and college students interested in jazz and professional...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
The Social Symphony is a KC-based, community-driven orchestra founded in 2018. We play various events and concerts year-round. We welcome...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Owen/Cox Dance Group creates new music and dance collaborations, presents high-quality contemporary dance performances with live music, and engages as...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Kirk Decker is a photographer who is taking a step back from the algorithms and so-called enhancements of his high-tech...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
“Rhythms of Resilience” by TWOCC celebrates Black queer artistry in Kansas City with performances, art, and advocacy. It fosters community,...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
OboeKC is seeking to provide private instruction and reeds to students who would be financially unable to afford these resources,...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Isaac Villaroya is a Kansas City based composer. His music seeks to express the totality of a given idea through...
- Creative Initiatives Impact Funding
- 2023-2024
“Visualizing Math: Art and Social Change” featured community and middle school art-making workshops that resulted in a temporary fine art...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
In Making Music, visual artist Olivia Michka combines her two greatest passions – music and art – by creating live-concert...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Mixed Media artist, Marissa Shell will be participating in Tangle Roots, an annual exhibition at InterUrban ArtHouse in Overland Park....
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Band of Angels fosters the talent and participation of kids across the Kansas City area by creating equal opportunities for...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
KC VITAs (Kansas City Vibrating Internal Thyroarytenoids,) is a group of professional singers with the mission to promote the continued...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Gary Enrique Bradley-Lopez is a playwright and director based in Kansas City, Kansas. He intends to produce his play, “A...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
The Arts Asylum has been a safe place to create and a staple within the artistic community of Kansas City...
- Creative Initiatives Impact Funding
- 2023-2024
Harris Park’s arts programming will increase access to the arts for residents of the Ivanhoe neighborhood of Kansas City. The...
MEDIA / PRESS
New Program The Drop Aims To Make The Arts Accessible
Kansas City Magazine, Arial Blankenship
Groundbreaking Study Reveals Economic and Social Impact of $615 Million from the Nonprofit Arts and Culture Sector throughout Greater Kansas City
ArtsKC – Regional Arts Council, is proud to announce that the nonprofit arts and culture
The latest
Photo courtesy of Marissa Shell, 23-24 Round 1 Inspiration Grant Recipient.
Photo courtesy of Base Academy of Music, Project Support Grant recipient 22-23.
Thank You to Our
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