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Charlotte Street partners with M-AAA to deliver Artist INC Kansas City. Sessions take place over the course of eight Tuesday evenings, from 6:00-9:00 p.m., September 2, 2025-October 28, 2025. Sessions will be held at Charlotte Street, 3333 Wyoming, Kansas City, MO, 64111.
Tuesdays 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. CST
Applications will be open April 14, 2025-June 9, 2025.
Charlotte Street centers Kansas City’s most forward-thinking visual artists, writers, and performers—acting as the primary incubator, provocateur, and connector for the region’s contemporary arts community, and its leading advocate on the national stage. Since 1997, Charlotte Street has distributed over $2 million in awards and grants to artists and their innovative projects, and connected individual artists to each other and to the greater Kansas City community. For more information about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visit the Charlotte Street website.
Artist INC KC 2024 artists are: Emily Alvarez, Molly Routhieaux Braley, jess bressler, Ian Y. Chung, Kadesh Flow, Alex Eickhoff, Stuart Hamby, Niolaj Hmelijak, Lynnie Holl, Phyllis Jenkins, Leon Jones, Meredith Lucius, David Morris, Alberto Racanati, Steve Rands, Julie Reed, Dee Roof, Nia Lovemore, and Nora Snyder.
Peer Facilitators are: Jose Faus, Cory Imig, Kimi Kitada, Eddie Moore, and Phil Shafer.
Artist INC KC 2023 artists are: rae atakpa, Callie Parrott Bower, John Brewer, Elaine Clifford, Celina Curry, Jackson Daughety, Kelley Gant, Marísa Adame Grady, Luke Harbur, Canese Jarboe, Hùng Lê, Jamil Lee, Katherine Looney, Lauren Philips, Hannah Ratliff, Socorro Reyes Ramirez, Lauren Sanders, Taylar Sanders, Marissa Shell, Wilson Smith, Lori Stanziola, Bernadette Esperanza Torres, Marshall Trammell, Carolyn Wiedeman, and Kendrick Wilkins.
Peer Facilitators are: Vanessa Aricco, Summer Brooks, Jose Faus, Kendell Harbin, Cory Imig, Phil Shafer, and Chico Sierra.
Artist INC KC 2022 Artists: Jasmine Ali, Mark Allen, Emily Bartlett, Stephanie Becker, Summer Brooks, Jamie Campbell, Michelle Chan, Courtney Collado, Lorrie Eigles, Indigo Gaydusek, Jillian Haun, Anne Herrero, Elizabeth Howard, April Marie Mai, Josie Mai, Tanner Martine, DJ Matheny, Mathew Meunier, Julia Othmer, Cari Payer, Jennae Pero, Chico Sierra, Harold Smith, Jeffrey Tamblyn, and Joy Zimmerman.
Session Facilitators: Beau Bledsoe, Chris Dahlquist, Jose Faus, Sarah Hearn, Madison Mae Parker, and Phil Shafer.
Artist INC KC 2020 artists are: Georgianna Londre Buchanan, Colton Cox, Karla Deel, Susan Ferguson, Elise Gagliardi, Onnissia Harries, Jenea Havener, Gonzalo Hernandez, Bo Hubbard, Marcia Hurlow, Marianne Kunkel, Ben Lee, Angela Olsson, Shelly Pinto, Dennis Porter, Jamie Pratt, Benjamin Rosenthal, Jeremy Ruzich, Michael Andrew Smith, John Sutton III, Isaac Tapia, Annie Woodfill, and Jason Zeh
Kansas City Peer Facilitators for this session are: Beau Bledsoe, Chris Dahlquist, Jose Faus, Erica Iman, Kyle Mullins, and Phil Shafer.
Danielle Anderson, Allison Bowman, Lorrie Boydston, Anna Brake, Robert Castillo, Emily Cramer, Brandon Forrest Frederick, Zoe Green, Poet Jen Harris, Melinda Hedgecorth, Jessica Heikes, Melanie Johnson, Annie Kalahurka, Susan Kiefer, Nancy Kramer Bovee, Taj Mattingly, Jeffrey Mundinger, Madison Mae Parker, Kris Schmolze, Kyle Selley, Wick Thomas, Will Vannerson, Leah Watts
Spring
Jessica Ayala, Cameron Cox, Johana Garcia, Carl Hanson, Ryan Head, Myra Holt, Kelley Hunt, Juliana Jumper, Tonia Ko, Jim McCullough, Molly McLaughlin, Melaney Mitchell, Kyle Mullins, Natalie Beer, Dan Ney, Laurel Parks, John Raux, Sav Rodgers, James Singleton, Gerry Trilling, Michelle Tyrene Johnson, Jon Ulasien, Jennifer Wetzel, Ryan Wilks, Manda Wylde
Spring
Bruce Banit, Gary Cadwallader, Brad Cunningham, JT Daniels, Jefferson Donald, Matthew Dunehoo, Genevieve Flynn, Megan Gallant, Neil Goss, Alison Greene, Kelly Hams Pearson, Erica Iman, Kevin King, Kathy Liao, Sean Mawhirter, Kevin McKinney, James P. McNamara, Ben Parks, Katrina Revenaugh, Gary Rockhold, Lauren Sobchak, Karen Steen, Elizabeth Stehling, Gemma Tornero, Brittany Vega
Fall
Jennifer Appell, Sylvia Augustus, Michelle Bacon, Kenn Ball, Justin Border, Katie Caruthers, Diego Chi, Enrique Chi, Chad Crenshaw, Elizabeth Davis, Kirk Decker, Patrick Dobson, Joseph Felton, Noria Gugliotta, Zahra Jahanyfard, Melanie Johnson, Sandy Leppin, Aisa Palomares, Victor Penniman, Andy Perkins, Meghan Rowswell, Kyla Strid, Lee Walker, Jillian Youngbird
Spring
Calvin Arsenia, Debbie Barrett-Jones, Elaine Buss, Rebecca Clews, Morgan Cooper, Betse Ellis, Emily Evans Sloan, Noor Higley, Brian Huther, Camry Ivory, Jesse Kates, Michael McClintock, Sydney Pener, Danielle Prestidge, Cydney Ross, Michael Schliefke, Brandon Segelke, Phil Shafer, Anson the Ornery, Jen Watson, Paul Wenske, Casey Whittier, Don Wilkison, Clarke Wyatt, Cody Wyoming
Conservatory Artists
Halie Augustus, Andrew Bonci, Eman Chalshotori, Mario Cortez, Anthony Deffenbaugh, Rachel Lovelace, Stephanie Meyer, Gabrielle Padilla, Zane Winter, Dillon Worthington
Spring
Donna Bachmann, Wes Benson, Chad Brothers, Nick Carswell, Christopher Cook, John Currey, Samuel Davis, Chandra DeBuse, Scott Dickson, Jana Evans, Simon Fink, Meagan Flynn, Johnny Hamil, Mary Holzhausen, James Isaac, Kairy Kosheoeva, Heather Lamanno, Art McSweeney, Sandra Moran, Robyn Nichols, Luis Portillo, Trill Ray-Carter, Marc Shank, Mikal Shapiro, Bryce Young
Conservatory Artists
Carly Atwood, Matt Baldwin, Jacob Bigus, Briana Bosworth, Shenequa Brooks, Brock Bryan, Jordan Buccholz, Amanda Castro, M. Christy Cisneros, Casey Holden, Krystal Jolicoeur, Rachael Kim, Teddy Krulewich, Chimy Li, Sam Ludwig, Lauren McGill, Laura Millar, Sophia Motta, Tobiah Murphy, Alyssa Murray, Nate Nall, Aryana Nemati, Eric Oatts, Inwook Park, Veeder Ransom, Alex Ryan, Melanie Sherman, Kate Sikora, Emily Spirk, Emmett Starkey, Joel Stratton, Julian Stropes, Katherine Turner, Kevin Walsh
Spring
Maryanna Adelman, Justin Beachler, Jennfer Bricker-Pugh, Annie Cherry, Kate Clements, Jon Davis, Kaley Debrick, Alessandra Dzuba, Adam Finkelston, Sara Glass, Molly Hammer, Kate Horvat, Laura Pensar, Bernal Koehrsen, Vanessa Lacy, Andi Meyer, Stephen Proski, Kasey Rausch, Jon Robertson, Angela Roulette, Erica Sword, Russell Thorpe, Michael Tipton, Brad Ultican, Robin VanHoozer
Summer
Philip Bakala, Jenny Beauregard, Gloria Britez-Scolari, Jiyoun Chung, Sunni Cole, Rachael Colman, Philip DeWalt, Kei Fukuda, Kendell Harbin, Cody Kauhl, Karen Kushner, Hannah Lodwick, Sarah Faye McPherson, Will Meier, Andrew Ordonez, Teri Quinn, Hillary Sametz, Matthew Scrivner, Lynn Thonet Gross, Alison Trent, Frederick Vorder-Bruegge, Malory Ward, Dan Welch, Nika Winn
Spring
Cheryl Eve Acosta, Lynn Benson, Miles Bonny, Victoria Sofia Botero, Robin Case, Cassidy Creek, Paul Donnelly, Lyn Elliot, Michael Forester, Amy Fredman, Diallo French, Katie Gilchrist, Lea Griggs, John Hachmeister, Christian Hankel, Maria Harman, Charles Hoffman, Giuliano Mingucci, Kirsten Paludan, Grace Peterson, Mike Sandbothe, Janet Satz, Stephanie Summers, Megan Turek, Shannon White
Summer
Erik Blume, Emily Connell, Chris Daharsh, Chadi El-Khoury, Vashti Goracke, Ben Harle, Sarah Hazelwood, Brett Jackson, Kari Johnson, Joshua Jones, Alli Litwicki, Skye Livingston, Whitney Manney, Katy McRoberts, Nicholas Missel, Eddie Moore, Erin Russell, Janet Simpson, Maegan Stracy, Brad Van Wick, Danielle Warner, Natalie Young, Meghan Zuver
Spring
Daniel Avazpour, Marci Blank, Derrick Breidenthal, Diane Burchett, Beth Byrd-Lonski, Maria Calderon, Paul Cholewa, Lindsay Deifik, Elise Del Vecchio, Scott Easterday, Andrew Erdrich, Alex Espy, Israel Alejandro Garcia Garcia, Sheri Hall, Jami Hamilton, Adam Long, Akilah Mosley, Nicholas Naughton, Mel Neet, Marco Pascolini, Phil Peterson, David Piecha, Angelica Sandoval, Paul Anthony Smith, Patrick Sullivan
Summer
Ashley Anders, Justin Balk, Sean Thomas Blott, Brendan Bondurant, Youming Chen, Gregory Gagnon, Ryan Heinlein, Alice Huang, Krystal Kuh, Chiung Wen Liang, Arron Linscheid, Adriana Luna, Natalia Olinetchouk, Whitney Ricketts, Jessica Salley, Jaclyn Senne, Leah Sproul Pulatie, Nihan Yesil
Fall
Jane Almirall, Jeran Avery, Rebecca Bell, Jennifer Coates, Kyle Dahlquist, Shay Estes, Katie Ford, Katy Guillen, Greg Haynes, Diana Heise, Alison Heryer, Rachael Jane, Angie Jennings, Anthony Ladesich, Peter Lawless, Kim Lindaberry, Hunter Long, Barclay Martin, Frank Norfleet, Eugenia Ortiz, Martin Pyle, Kirk Scott, Geo Sipp, Sabrina Staires, Jeff Tackett
Spring
Sarah Baldwin, Rebecca Blocksome, Kate E. Burke, Hector Casanova, Jonah Criswell, Bowie Croissant, Michelle Dreher, Matthew Farley, Maura Garcia, Cory Imig, Cat Johnson, Calder Kamin, Phil Kinen, Kareen King, Judith Levy, Erica Mahinay, Marilyn Mahoney, Erin McGrane, Elaine McMlilan, David Wayne Reed, Tammy Smith, Lisa Stewart, Caleb Taylor, Jaimie Warren, Rick Wheaton
Summer
Brie Blakeman, Scott Blasco, Christopher John Bostwick, Colleen Suzanne Burner, Chun-Chien Chuang, Sara Cramer, Daniel Eichenbaum, Megan Ewert, Anna Garcia, Andrew Harms, John Hilger, Brook Hsu, Matt Jacobs, Erika Kinser, Robert Christopher Larios, Erin Muenks, Brian Padavic, Mauricio Salguero, Jane Winget Sheldon, Gavin Stewart, Tess Stillwell, Jerad Colton Tomasino, John Villaveces, Kerwin Young
Fall
Gustavo Adolfo Aybar, Jesse Bonny, Lisa Cordes, Maria Creyts, Sarabeth Dunton, Kim Eichler-Messmer, Luke Firle, Richard Fritz, Ritchie Kaye, Amy Kligman, Misha Kligman, Cara Long, Edna Madera, Nicole Mauser, Colleen Maynard, Kreshaun McKinney, Nancy Morrison, George Rousis, Adrianne Russell, Barry Sher, Heidi Van, Cynthia van Roden, Leralee Whittle, Todd Wilkinson
Spring
Patrick Alexander, Julie Denesha, Deborah Drake-Huff, Nicole Esquibel, Amy Farrand, Stanton Fernald, Kurt Flecksing, Sue Friesz, Dan Frueh, Rachelle Gardner Roe, Elton Gumbel, Kevin Hiatt, Reilly Hoffman, Elaina Michalski, Jason Needham, Laura Nugent, Lyndsey Ogle, Jade Osborne, Robert Quackenbush, Karen Schory, Margaret Shelby, Charles Stonewall, Sandra VanTuyl, Tina West
Fall
Eric Bashor, Jane Booth, Bonnye Brown, John Davis Carrol, Jose Faus, Suze Ford, Jane Gotch, Caitlin Horsmon, Meredith Host, Lisa Lala, Julie Little-Finger, Erin McAllister, Rachel McMeachin, Kat Nechleba, Kynan Ramsey, Ann Reckling, Deborah Riley, Joel Schlotterer, Blair Schulman, Cheryl Gail, Heinrich Toh, Sarah Vandersall, Tara Varney, Maria Vasquez Boyd, James Ward