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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
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
Elaine Elizabeth Clifford combines a passion for literature, history, and theatre by exploring creative storytelling methods to bring new life...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
The Arts Engagement Foundation of Kansas City (AEFKC), a 501(c)(3) promotes engagement and increases participation in the arts in Kansas...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Sascha Groschang is a cellist, composer and a champion for new music. Shapeshifter is a new recording project featuring all...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
I am Melinda Hedgecorth, Flamenco Dancer, Choreographer and Founder of 45° Flamenco. We will perform at Rosehill elementary school and...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
My name is Hugo Juarez-Avalos and I am a graphic designer, archivist, and illustrator based in Kansas City. I plan...
- 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...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Whispering Prairie Press is an all-volunteer publisher of two annual magazines that feature visual art, poetry, and prose: Kansas City...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey presents the Ailey II Company in residency in 2024. KCFAA’s arts education programs teach...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
Join the 2024 stART the conversation exhibition by Wyandot Behavioral Health. Experience art as a therapeutic medium for recovery and...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
Owen/Cox Dance Group creates new music and dance collaborations, presents high-quality contemporary dance performances with live music, and engages as...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Spire Chamber Ensemble inspires, educates, and enriches the Kansas City metropolitan community through the transformational power of great choral music...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
Synergy strengthens individuals and families via crisis intervention, shelter, counseling, advocacy & education. Free multiple-disciplinary art programming provided by staff...
- Project Support
- 2024-2025
The Visiting Writer Series & Creative Writing Anthology brings talented local writers into Literacy KC’s classrooms to introduce students to...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Jenny Molberg’s Elaine: Writing against Silence is a book project, written in poetic and hybrid forms, that explores the work...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
No Divide KC partners with Kansas City-based artists and organizations to create artistic events that are focused on the stories...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Paris Williams is a young multifaceted and eclectic Musician, Producer, and Rapper. Originally moving to Kansas City, Missouri from Muskegon,...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
Nasir Anthony Montalvo (b.1999) is an award-winning transdisciplinary journalist and memory worker based in Kansas City, MO. Montalvo uses archival...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Art as Mentorship’s (AM) mission is to empower young people, through music, to write their own success stories. Our programs...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Ensemble Ibérica showcases music from Iberia (Spain and Portugal) and its diaspora, enlightening the public about the rich tapestry of...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
Kaitlyn B. Jones is an artist, independent curator, and writer whose continuing scholarship on Black-American history and culture manifests at...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
Caleb Taylor is a visual artist developing ‘…and their shadows,’ a multi-channel video projection made using darkroom photogram processes exploring...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
The Folly Theater enhances lives through the power of the arts. As Kansas City’s oldest theater, the Folly serves as...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Our mission is to provide access to performing arts through free community concerts, educational opportunities for area young musicians, and...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
Mattie Rhodes Center’s after-school arts program provides access to high-quality arts education to low-income, underserved children in a safe, creative...
MEDIA / PRESS
Policy Alert: Federal Grant Freeze and Reversal – What You Need to Know
Late Monday night (1/27/2025), the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a
ArtsKC will join a cohort of 200 nonprofit cultural organizations from across the U.S. and U.K. to improve essential digital infrastructure
Kansas City Region (January 3rd, 2025) – ArtsKC—Regional Arts Council is proud to announce that
ArtsKC Awards $215,000 in Mission Support Grants to Multi-year Recipients
KANSAS CITY, MO ArtsKC – Regional Arts Council is thrilled to announce this year’s Mission
ArtsKC Awards $42,000 in Inspiration Grants to 12 Regional Artists
KANSAS CITY, MO ArtsKC – Regional Arts Council is proud to announce the recipients of
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.
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