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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.
FY25 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
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
KCVLAA provides low to no cost legal and accounting services in the KC area to artists and arts organizations from...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
The Weavers Guild of Kansas City is presenting an exciting exhibit of handmade textiles and conducting live demonstrations hand weaving,...
- Inspiration
- 2025-2026
What Work Is, is a project-based group exhibition curated by Adams Puryear and Nina Littrell featuring over 60 Kansas City-based...
- 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...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
OboeKC is seeking to provide private instruction and reeds to students who would be financially unable to afford these resources,...
- 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
Mattie Rhodes Center’s after-school arts program provides access to high-quality arts education to low-income, underserved children in a safe, creative...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
To better the lives of underserved urban youth through artistic, technical, health, and educational skills. Young entrepreneurial artists produce visual,...
- 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
Unicorn Theatre is a 49-year-old professional theatre in the heart of Mid-Town KC. They produce bold new plays that tackle...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
The Youth Chorus of Kansas City offers singers in grades 3-12 the opportunity to pursue excellence through performance, build skills...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
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 Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC) is a charitable nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness in Kansas City and...
- 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...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
Join the 2024 stART the conversation exhibition by Wyandot Behavioral Health. Experience art as a therapeutic medium for recovery and...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Khyneesha Edwards is a graphic designer, born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. In partnership with yoga instructor Joshua Davis,...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
Nika Renee, Writer/ Poet , Publish a Magazine called the black Kansas City Renaissance Magazine to spark a creative renaissance...
- Teri Rogers Film Grants
- 2023-2024
From Me to You is a short film by Vy Nguyen with plans of being in production by April 2024....
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
KC Clay Guild is a nonprofit ceramic arts center. KCCG offers classes for all skill levels, open pottery studios, and...
- Teri Rogers Film Grants
- 2024-2025
Project: “High Value” A lonely and clumsy man seeks the advice of a popular dating guru to woo love interests...
- Inspiration
- 2023-2024
Nia Danielle Lovemore, a fantasy artist from Lawrence, KS, she is inspired by haunting beauty and the melancholic essence of...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
Creature Creation—This master class will teach artists how to build the giant illuminated puppets StoneLion is known for. It is...
MEDIA / PRESS
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
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
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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