**Charlotte Street** is currently seeking submissions from local artists who want their work considered for the Crossroads Artboards **2025-2026\.** Since 2008, 114 Kansas City based artists or collectives have been selected for their commissioned Artboards.

  
The Artboards are exterior, double-sided billboards at 125 Southwest Boulevard. From April 2025through March 2026, new, commissioned images by Kansas City area artists will be presented and rotated approximately every three months.

Artwork displayed on Artboards, double-sided billboards at 125 Southwest Boulevard.

  
Artist Fee: $1000

2025-2026 Charlotte Street Crossroads Artboards

The Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards recognize and significantly support Kansas City-based visual artists of all media who are creating exceptional contemporary work. Providing artists with financial support, critical recognition, and public exposure, these awards reward artistic accomplishments to date and support the continued development of artists’ work and careers.

  
Awarded artists will be those who:

* Generate exceptional new work as visual artist
* Create work that is accomplished, imaginative, and authentic
* Demonstrate sustained commitment to their work artistic practices

  
Through recognizing and supporting exceptional artists living and working in the Kansas City metro area, Charlotte Street seeks to empower and propel individual artists, enhance the artistic culture of our region, and increase Kansas City’s desirability as a place for artists to live and work.

Three recipients of the 2025 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award Fellow receive:

* An unrestricted cash grant of $10,000
* Recognition by Charlotte Street at the time of the Award announcement and throughout the year 2025—including announcements to media, online promotion, special event features and more
* Inclusion in the 2025 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Award exhibition at the Spencer Museum of Art, accompanied by a printed brochure with images and commissioned writing about their work

 2025 Charlotte Street Visual Awards 

The Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Awards seek to recognize, encourage, and significantly support Kansas City-based artists creating original, exceptional new work in all genres of performance. Providing artists with financial support, critical recognition, and public exposure, these Awards aim to reward artistic accomplishment to date and to support the continued development of artists' work and careers. Artists must be generative artists—that is, the creators of original new work.

Awarded artists will be those who:

* Create new, contemporary work
* Produce work that is innovative and/or experimental in terms of form, content, process, and/or presentation
* Demonstrate sustained commitment to deepening/expanding their work and generative practices

  
Through recognizing and supporting exceptional artists living and working in Kansas City, Charlotte Street seeks to empower and propel individual artists, enhance the artistic culture of our region, and increase Kansas City’s desirability as a place for artists to live and work.

Two recipients of the 2025 Charlotte Street Generative Performing Artist Fellow will receive:

* An unrestricted cash grant of $10,000
* Recognition by Charlotte Street at the time of Award announcement and throughout the year of 2025, including through announcements to media, online promotion, special events, and more

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