Call Detail
Entry Deadline: 11/15/10
Application Closed
Application Closed
Work Sample Requirements
Images | Minimum:Min. 5, Maximum:Max. 15
Total Samples | Minimum:Min. 5, Maximum:Max. 15
Images | Minimum:Min. 5, Maximum:Max. 15
Total Samples | Minimum:Min. 5, Maximum:Max. 15
Call Type: Unspecified
Eligibility: Unspecified
State: Unspecified
Eligibility: Unspecified
State: Unspecified
Launched in 2003 as an initiative of the Charlotte Street Foundation, Urban Culture Project creates new opportunities for artists of all disciplines and contributes to urban revitalization by transforming spaces in downtown Kansas City into new venues for multi-disciplinary, artist-driven contemporary arts programming.
Over more than 7 years, UCP has transformed nearly a dozen spaces in the downtown area into new exhibition, performance, and studio spaces, creating a cross-disciplinary platform and hub for the generation and presentation of original work, projects, and ideas, and encouraging creative collaboration and exchange among artists and audiences from various disciplines and backgrounds.
Urban Culture Project’s vision is to serve as a hub for artists and cultural producers, and to contribute to the creative vitality of our area. Through its contemporary arts programming, UCP seeks to:
• Encourage and foster new and experimental work of the highest quality
• Provide a platform for presenting work that may be difficult to produce and show elsewhere
• Engage the participation of a diverse community of artists and cultural producers of all disciplines
• Bring together a mix of young, emerging, and established artists, including local, regional and national artists
• Foster collaboration and exchange among artists, arts and cultural organizations, and audiences.
Urban Culture Project offers a small honorarium in most cases to help support expenses directly related to presenting accepted projects to the public. UCP also manages promotion and press relations for all projects, including in most cases producing press releases, printed exhibition cards, emailers, etc. Installation and deinstallation is the responsibility of the artist or curator. Assistance can be arranged as available and appropriate.
Review process:
Proposals are reviewed by UCP’s Curatorial Committee, a multidisciplinary panel of Kansas City area artists and arts professionals. Notification of decisions will be provided within 12 weeks of submission deadline. Note, in some cases artist/curators will be contacted to revise/or further develop proposals based on feedback from the committee, to then be re-considered at a later date.
Review criteria:
Urban Culture Project will give preference to proposals that are:
• Original and contemporary
• Feasible based on project description and demonstrated ability
• Inclusive of more than one artist’s work (Paragraph + la Esquina)
• Inclusive of and responsive to ethnic, cultural, and ideological diversity
• Conducive to outreach/inreach opportunities, such as related public programs
Over more than 7 years, UCP has transformed nearly a dozen spaces in the downtown area into new exhibition, performance, and studio spaces, creating a cross-disciplinary platform and hub for the generation and presentation of original work, projects, and ideas, and encouraging creative collaboration and exchange among artists and audiences from various disciplines and backgrounds.
Urban Culture Project’s vision is to serve as a hub for artists and cultural producers, and to contribute to the creative vitality of our area. Through its contemporary arts programming, UCP seeks to:
• Encourage and foster new and experimental work of the highest quality
• Provide a platform for presenting work that may be difficult to produce and show elsewhere
• Engage the participation of a diverse community of artists and cultural producers of all disciplines
• Bring together a mix of young, emerging, and established artists, including local, regional and national artists
• Foster collaboration and exchange among artists, arts and cultural organizations, and audiences.
Urban Culture Project offers a small honorarium in most cases to help support expenses directly related to presenting accepted projects to the public. UCP also manages promotion and press relations for all projects, including in most cases producing press releases, printed exhibition cards, emailers, etc. Installation and deinstallation is the responsibility of the artist or curator. Assistance can be arranged as available and appropriate.
Review process:
Proposals are reviewed by UCP’s Curatorial Committee, a multidisciplinary panel of Kansas City area artists and arts professionals. Notification of decisions will be provided within 12 weeks of submission deadline. Note, in some cases artist/curators will be contacted to revise/or further develop proposals based on feedback from the committee, to then be re-considered at a later date.
Review criteria:
Urban Culture Project will give preference to proposals that are:
• Original and contemporary
• Feasible based on project description and demonstrated ability
• Inclusive of more than one artist’s work (Paragraph + la Esquina)
• Inclusive of and responsive to ethnic, cultural, and ideological diversity
• Conducive to outreach/inreach opportunities, such as related public programs