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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.
FY26 IMPACT BY THE NUMBERS
Organization grants awarded
16 New Orgs
18 Second Year Orgs
Funds awarded to arts organizations, arts projects, and artists in the greater Kansas City area
Total artist grants awarded
WHO WE SUPPORT
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
My name is Vesta Flowers, and I am a visual artist. I plan to design, produce, and sell eight fully...
- Mission Support
- 2025-2026
InterUrban ArtHouse enriches KC’s cultural and economic vibrancy by supporting diverse artists through studios, exhibitions, education, and community arts programs...
- Teri Rogers Film Grants
- 2026-2027
Amidst an epic bat migration in rural Kansas, two women grapple with mother/daughter relationships in a mechanically impaired airplane in...
- 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
- 2024-2025
Art as Mentorship’s (AM) mission is to empower young people, through music, to write their own success stories. Our programs...
- Inspiration
- 2025-2026
Kenny Watson Jr., a Kansas City–based drummer and composer, will create and premiere an original multidisciplinary jazz suite titled “Those...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Nick May, saxophonist and composer, is the creator of the I Exist Project, which amplifies the richness and diversity 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...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
A Flat Music Studio is an art organization that provides instrumental music lessons to the youth of the urban core...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
To better the lives of underserved urban youth through artistic, technical, health, and educational skills. Young entrepreneurial artists produce visual,...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
My name is Ian Chung and I am a composer. Kansas City’s Artistic Landmarks Through Musical Composition is a music...
- 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
KC VITAs (Kansas City Vibrating Internal Thyroarytenoids,) is a group of professional singers with the mission to promote the continued...
- Inspiration
- 2025-2026
Larry Hernandez is a Salvadoran-Mexican-American cellist and co-founder of Lienzo Piano Trio, a chamber ensemble formed by musicians of Latin...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Spinning Tree connects young artists with and without disabilities to professional artists to collaborate on and create theatre. We believe...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC) is a charitable nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness in Kansas City and...
- 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
Paris Williams is a young multifaceted and eclectic Musician, Producer, and Rapper. Originally moving to Kansas City, Missouri from Muskegon,...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
The Arts Asylum has been a safe place to create and a staple within the artistic community of Kansas City...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
Composer Yunfei Li, creator of the Lullabies & Little Ears project, is leading an immersive chamber music concert designed to...
- Creative Initiatives Impact Funding
- 2023-2024
Footprints Heroes Home Gate seeks to provide access to the Arts as a way to cope with PTSD and other...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
As Theatre for Young America celebrates its 50th Anniversary Season we continue to be a beacon of inspiration for fun/educational...
- Project Support
- 2024-2025
The 18th & Vine Arts Festival Foundation celebrates Black artists through the Arts Honors Awards and the 18th & Vine...
- 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...
MEDIA / PRESS
ArtsKC Announces 2026-2027 Recipients of The Teri Rogers Film Grants for Filmmakers and Screenwriting
ArtsKC, in partnership with the Kansas City Film Office, announces the 2026-2027 Recipients of the Teri Rogers Film Grants for Filmmakers and Screenwriters.
The Drop Brings Broadway’s Wicked Within Reach for Kansas City Community Members
Partnership with the City of Kansas City, MO and The American Theatre Guild delivers more than $3,500 in ticket value to Drop members
Creative Confluence Fund Launch
ArtsKC, Charlotte Street, and the Hall Family Foundation are transforming arts investment to honor and amplify the creative power alive in Kansas City, announcing the launch of the Creative Confluence Fund, a two-year, $1.4 million pilot grant program supporting artists and arts-engaged organizations in three key geographic areas.
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
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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