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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
- 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...
- Project Support
- 2024-2025
The 18th & Vine Arts Festival Foundation celebrates Black artists through the Arts Honors Awards and the 18th & Vine...
- 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
Stray Cat Film Center is an artist-run, non-profit microcinema and community space. Curated and run by volunteers, Stray Cat screens...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
Taylar Sanders is a visual artist and muralist. She is dedicated to creating work that evokes emotion within the viewer,...
- 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...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
Creative Emajinations mission is to offer arts education and mentorship, ensuring that every child in our community has access to...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Summit Art encourages, promotes, educates and recognizes local artists. We inspire and engage our community by advancing an appreciation for...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
Bookends is a show of artist made bookends, books, a reading room, bookmaking workshops, and a book themed screening at...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
To better the lives of underserved urban youth through artistic, technical, health, and educational skills. Young entrepreneurial artists produce visual,...
- 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
- 2023-2024
Nick May, saxophonist and composer, is the creator of the I Exist Project, which amplifies the richness and diversity of...
- 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...
- Creative Initiatives Impact Funding
- 2023-2024
Somos el Futuro / We are the Future project mission is to provide an environment for youth to increase leadership...
- Inspiration
- 2024-2025
Allison Bowman, artist and arts advocate, presents Prairie In The Parks a sticker vending machine featuring local visual artist designs...
- 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...
- Creative Initiatives Impact Funding
- 2023-2024
“Sustaining African American Heritage thru Music” offers free music lessons to youth in the Ivanhoe Community. We are dedicated to...
- Mission Support
- 2024-2025
plug is a curatorial collaboration with the mission of bringing fresh perspectives and conversation to the local cultural community. Our...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
City in Motion Dance Theater, Inc. has been a part of Kansas City for 38 years. Our mission is to...
- Mission Support
- 2023-2024
Creative Emajinations mission is to offer arts education and mentorship, ensuring that every child in our community has access to...
- Project Support
- 2023-2024
Join the 2024 stART the conversation exhibition by Wyandot Behavioral Health. Experience art as a therapeutic medium for recovery 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
KC VITAs (Kansas City Vibrating Internal Thyroarytenoids,) is a group of professional singers with the mission to promote the continued...
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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