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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
- Mission Support
- 2025-2026
Helping KC musicians thrive is our mission. Manor Records Foundation provides funding, resources, and performance opportunities, and this grant will...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company is a Kansas City multi-cultural repertory company that performs and presents dance works by diverse emerging...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
Composer Yunfei Li, creator of the Lullabies & Little Ears project, is leading an immersive chamber music concert designed to...
- Teri Rogers Film Grants
- 2025-2026
“We Need to Talk” delves into the story of a middle-aged Black Woman who hires an escort to get a...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
The KCYA mission is to engage all youth in the arts, promote creativity, and inspire success in education. KCYA works...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
The DynamitExperience aims to funnel its collective energy back into the community that created us. Exploring “The Declaration Series” together...
- Inspiration
- 2025-2026
Cassandra Gillig, a writer and archival researcher concerned with the preservation of Kansas City LGBT history, is chronicling the publication...
- 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,...
- Mission Support
- 2025-2026
As a 51-year-old professional theatre in the heart of midtown Kansas City, the Unicorn (a welcoming space for all), produces...
- Mission Support
- 2025-2026
City in Motion Dance Theater builds bridges in the KCMO community with a School of Dance, an annual performance series,...
- Inspiration
- 2025-2026
Becky Giles, a local Singer/Songwriter and Speech Therapist will present a live event titled “A Community Journal and Living History:...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
Synergy strengthens individuals and families via crisis intervention, shelter, counseling, advocacy & education. Free multiple-disciplinary art programming provided by staff...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
No Divide KC partners with Kansas City-based artists and organizations to create artistic events that are focused on the stories...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
The Social Symphony is a KC-based, community-driven orchestra founded in 2018. We play various events and concerts year-round. We welcome...
- 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
- 2025-2026
What iF Puppets inspires play and cultivates connections through puppetry. With performances and arts-integrated residencies, WiP supports early learners’ social-emotional...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
KANSAS CITY AREA YOUTH JAZZ is an enrichment program for high school and college students interested in jazz and professional...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
KC Contemporary Dance is a professional non-profit dance company presenting high-quality performances across the Midwest region that is committed to...
- Project Support
- 2024-2025
The Black Ancestors Awareness Campaign (BAAC) of Weston, Missouri will commission a mural to celebrate Weston’s Black Heritage: From Slavery...
- 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
The Midwest Music Foundation unites and empowers the Kansas City area music community by providing health care assistance, education and...
- Mission Support
- 2025-2026
KC VITAs (Kansas City Vibrating Internal Thyroarytenoids,) is a group of professional singers with the mission to promote the continued...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
Art as Mentorship’s (AM) mission is to empower young people, through music, to write their own success stories. Our programs...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
In Making Music, visual artist Olivia Michka combines her two greatest passions – music and art – by creating live-concert...
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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