Charlotte Street envisions Kansas City as a dynamic home for artists in various career stages and disciplines to thrive, while serving as a natural catalysts for an exciting, innovative, and culturally rich city.

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.

Charlotte Street provides annual cash awards, project based grants, special commissions and specific travel opportunities to visual and generative performing artists; free studios and performance and exhibition spaces to theater, dance, music, film/video and visual artists for the creation and presentation of new work; facilitates venues and opportunities for public exposure to these exhibitions and performances, and facilitate artistic collaboration and exchange; plans and collaborates on behalf of Kansas City artists and the arts community with philanthropic, business and civic leaders; and engages national philanthropic and cultural leaders with Kansas City artists and the arts community.