Charlotte Street and the Spencer Museum of Art are thrilled to announce the ten recipients of the 2025 Rocket Grant awards!
This year’s awardees were selected from a highly competitive pool of 114 applications. Recipients will receive project-based grants of $6,000 for a total of $60,000 in funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The selected projects speak to urgent concerns of artists in this socio-political moment, particularly the merging of art, science, and music, the power of the written word, and resources for LGBTQ+ communities.
Congratulations to the 2025 Rocket Grant Recipients:
- Kay Holland, Tyler Hall, and Trans Lawrence Coalition
- Camry Ivory
- Rachel Krause
- Evan Maddox
- Brendan McInerney
- Miguel Morales
- Anthony Rea and Isaac Tapia
- Michael Smith
- Jeanne Vaccaro
- Alex Kimball Williams, Leah Evans, and Tai Amri
ABOUT ROCKET GRANTS
Rocket Grants provide direct funding to artists in the Kansas City region who are creating exceptional, under-the-radar, and artist-centered projects in public spaces. Artists, curators, collectives, and collaborative groups residing within an 80-mile radius of the Kansas City metropolitan area are eligible to apply.
Rocket Grants award up to $6,000 to individuals or artist groups for projects that exist outside established venues such as museums, galleries, theaters or arts districts. Artists are encouraged to address the community at large, or choose a smaller, targeted audience. The long-term goals of the Rocket Grants program are to encourage emerging and non-traditional artistic practices in the Kansas City region; to contribute to a thriving arts community; and to build bridges between geographic and cultural communities.
Rocket Grants were launched by Charlotte Street in Kansas City, MO and the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, KS, with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Each year around ten projects are selected to receive up to $6,000.
