STUDIO RESIDENCyWEEKEND

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS, PERFORMANCES & ACTIVITIES

FRIDAy, APRIL 28 + SATURDAy, APRIL 29Charlotte Street’s Studio Residency Weekend welcomes the public into our artists’ studios for a behind-the-scenes view of the Studio Residency Program. This is your chance to meet the artists; learn more about their work and processes; and attend live music and dance performances, readings, exhibitions, activities, talks, sales, and more. All events are free and open to the public.

FRIDAy, APRIL 28 6PM–10PMCHARLOTTE STREET TOwN PAVILION STUDIOS / 1100 wALNUT ST, 6TH FLOOR KCMO 64106

6:00PM KEVIN KINg / DANCE ROOM“Adult Topics in Queer Spaces” two ten-minute plays by Kevin King. (Recommended for adult audiences.)

6:30PM MT. ASTHER / BLACK BOXMt. Asther (composer/producers Stacy Busch and Cody Kauhl) is an indie electronic duo that pairs nuanced vocals with intricate electronic textures through the use of looping and live manipulation. Mt. Asther will be performing seven recent compositions in this style coupled with an interactive light show.

7:00PM LEO gAyDEN / DANCE ROOM“Stories Told by Street Dancers” with Leo Night Us and Zen “tropolis” Nguyen

7:30PM MNEMOSyNE QUARTET / BLACK BOXMnemosyne Quartet (Michael Miller, Russell Thorpe, Eli Hougland, and Ted King-Smith) will be performing “4-Channel Snapshot,” a set of improvisation pieces for wind instruments and electronics using a 4-speaker surround-sound setup.

8:00PM AMADO ESPINOzA / DANCE ROOM“10 Fingers/10 Strings” Start in the Andes Mountains and take a trip through Amado Espinoza’s borderless soundscape with his custom-made instruments.

8:30PM ARNOLD yOUNg’S ROUgHTET / BLACK BOXArnold Young’s Roughtet (Jack “Blackie” Blackett, Patrick Alonzo Conway, John Nichols, Jeff Shirley, Quin Wallace, Jay Witzgall, and Arnold Young) play busting jazz for the 21st century with influences including free improv, funk, world music and experimental electronic music. Original works composed by Arnold Young.

9:30PM SHINy JETS / BLACK BOXShiny Jets (Shanté Clair and Tucker Slough) debut “Set 1” which is the first of three sound exhibitions currently in development.

SATURDAy, APRIL 29 12PM–5PMPARAgRAPH gALLERy / 23 E 12TH STREET KCMO 64106

Purpose opens as part of the Studio Residency Visiting Curator Series curated by Mat Greiner and featuring the works of Monica Dixon, Andrew Lattner and Noël Morical.

gALLERy TALK 12:30–1:30PMExhibiting artists: Monica Dixon, Andrew Lattner, Noël Morical

wRITERS BLOCK 1:30–3:00PMResidency Writers’ public presentations: Poets Jen Harris and James McNamara plus Playwrights Kevin King and Kim Riley.

PERFORMANCE 3:30PMNDo and DJ Leo Night Us host a children’s pop-up art show and dance party.

PURPOSEAPRIL 29–JUNE 3PARAgRAPH gALLERy

if there are fundamentals shared by all art, one must be transformation. in our earliest history, earth was ground and mixed with water to create fi rst paint and then a picture. Stone and wood have been carved into representations and pleasing forms for the length of human history. in the hands and minds of artists, any material can become something new, something other.

The works in Purpose begin with materials that imply a particular function but are turned towards new manifestations and different accomplishments. These expressions demonstrate the profound possibilities for beauty, critique, concealment, and revelation in the people and things fi lling the fabric of daily life. This power is available to anyone. Need and will forge the mundane into extraordinary.

Purpose is curated by Mat Greiner, director of Chicken Tractor and The Residential in Des Moines, iowa, and features the work of Monica Dixon, Andrew Lattner, and Noël Morical.

STUDIO RESIDENCy wEEKEND LOCATIONSALL LOCATIONS wALKABLE IN DOwNTOwN, KANSAS CITy AND CLOSE TO STREETCAR TRANSIT

Paragraph Gallery and Town Pavilion are walkable within downtown KCMO and steps from the Power & Light District. FREE PARKiNG provided by Commerce Bank. Use the Commerce Bank parking garage located at 1025 Main Street/Commerce Bank.Park anywhere that is not reserved-lots of spaces available.

RESIDENT ARTISTS

1. ZOE CHRESSANTHIS

2. Z. HALL

3. JAMES McNAMARA

4. KIM RILEY

5. KEVIN KING

6. CODY KAUHL

7. FLANNERY CASHILL

8. TED KING-SMITH

9. MOLLY GARRETT

10. BENJAMIN ROSENTHAL

11. KATHY LIAO

12. JEN HARRIS

13. AMADO ESPINOZA

14. TORI LAWRENCE

15. LEO GAYDEN

16. SHINY JETS

17. ARNOLD YOUNG

18. MARK RAYMER

19. SHELBY BURCHETT

20. BOI BOY

21. MONICA DIXON

22. CARLOS ORTIZ-GALLO

23. NDo

24. KIMBERLY LaVONNE LUTHER

25. DESIREE MORALES

26. S.E. NASH

27. NOËL MORICAL

28. NEIL GOSS

A SPECIAL THANK yOU TO COPAKEN BROOKS FOR THEIR EXTRAORDINARy IN-KIND SUPPORT OF THE STUDIOS AT TOwN PAVILION

2017 STUDIO RESIDENT BIOSBOI BOy BOIBOY.COMBoi Boy obtained a BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute (Fiber ‘16). Their work tends to address issues related to dissociation, idealizations, and identity, in a playful oversaturated and over-stylized manner. Often their installations reference their Catholic upbringing as well as nostalgia for an alternative reality. They are heavily infl uenced by fi lm, set design, and narrative structure which is seen in the orchestration of a space, and the consideration as to how the audience will interact with the installation.

SHELBy BURCHETT GOO-WITCHING.COMShelby Burchett returned to Kansas City after obtaining a MFA in Textiles from the University of Kansas in 2016. Burchett’s studio practice explores “material magick” and her alter-ego, Goo-Witch, a persona which specifi cally utilizes her understanding of magick, science, individual spirituality, and experimentation as ritual.

FLANNERy CASHILL FLANLAND.COMFlannery Cashill is a writer and zine producer based in Kansas City, MO. She recently earned a MFA from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Cashill is interested in the thrill of anonymity and the things that threaten it. She currently collaborates on stop- animation projects with artist Rachel Mesplay Helm.

zOE CHRESSANTHIS ZOECHRESSANTHIS.COMBorn and raised in southern California, Zoe Chressanthis is heavily infl uenced by sprawling deserts and aquatic plants and forms. Her work intends to manifest worlds of ambiguous and esoteric ecosystems, while absent of any human touch. Chressanthis includes the use of sculpture, fi lm, animation, illustration, and sound into her current work. She received her BFA in Illustration from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2016.

MONICA DIXON MONICAJDIXON.COMMonica Dixon received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute (Painting ‘11). Her current studio practice encompasses installation, sculpture, collage, costuming, and movement workshops. Dixon constructs images, objects, spaces, and events meant to embolden people to accept and acknowledge what is uncomfortable or undesirable in order to engage more fully with the physical world.

AMADO ESPINOzA AMADOESPINOZA.COMAmado Espinoza, from Cochabamba, Bolivia, is a performing artist that celebrates the folk traditions of the Andes Mountains, while creating compositions that are sincere to his musical-wanderlust personality. He specializes in the Bolivian charango, a small ten-stringed guitar, but demonstrates mastery of over 40 instruments, including latin, African and Arabic percussion, and native fl utes from all over the world. A multi-faceted performer, Amado also guides sound meditations, recycled instrument workshops, and is a respected instrument maker in South America and beyond.

CARLOS ORTIz-gALLO CARLOS-MIGUEL-ORTIZ.COMCarlos Ortiz-Gallo, Peruvian-born and American-raised, questions the boundaries and intersections of hybrid cultural identities and reexamines the role of family history, traditions, myth, and religion within the fi rst-generation American experience. Ortiz-Gallo translates family photographs and appropriated magazine images through a range of analog processes that result in collaged prints and installations. Ortiz-Gallo received a BFA in Printmaking and Art History at the Kansas City Art Institute in 2016.

MOLLy gARRETT MOLLY-GARRETT.COMMolly Garrett is a visual artist working in fi lmmaking and video installation. They received their BFA in Animation and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2015. Garrett’s artistic practice is infl uenced by body, identity, and outdated psychological theories. Recently, their installations examine the mid-century systems through which identity is categorized. These video installations include projected animation, but also address the object used to hold or re-direct the projection. By using mirrors, engraving, fabric, and paint, they create an interdependent relationship between object/screen and projection.

LEO gAyDEN YOUTUBE.COM/CHANNEL/UCY5RKWE6M_PSWL9W0NNMUBALeo Gayden is a street dancer and DJ. He has been dancing in the Kansas City hip hop/breakdance scene over the last decade, which progressed to DJing. Gayden recently fi nished a two year project, “Let It Fall,” with choreographer, Jane Gotch. “Let it Fall” was presented in Kansas City, New York, and Philadelphia. Gayden is currently creating a new body of street dance incorporating methods of motion through music and video.

NEIL gOSS NEILGOSS.COMNeil Goss lives in Eudora, KS, where he focuses his art on Earth processes while responding to human impacts upon those processes. In 2012 he received two BFA’s in Design (Textiles and Ceramics) from the University of Kansas. Goss researches sustainable arts processes such as natural dyeing, weaving, utilizing hand-dug clay, and foraging art materials. When not in the studio or installing his public art, Goss presents workshops nationally.

z. HALL 360DEGREESZ.BLOGSPOT.COMZ. Hall is an art writer, essayist and poet. Her poetry features ekphrasis, and explores race, gender, and culture. Hall is co-editor of “Heartland! Poems of Love, Resistance, and Solidarity,” a PEN Prison Writing Mentor, and Executive Director and Producer of Salon~360, a monthly event that brings together artists whose work focuses on challenging societal issues, for which she was awarded an ArtsKC Inspiration Grant.

JEN HARRIS POETJENHARRIS.COMPoet Jen Harris is a Kansas City-based Spoken Word Poet, Women’s Rights and LGBT activist, published author, founder and host of KC Poetry Slam. She has won numerous poetry, activism and academic awards. Harris is currently fi nalizing her second book of poetry, a one-woman show, her fi rst spoken word album, and a cross-country tour.

CODy KAUHL CODYKAUHL.COMCody Kauhl is an electronic composer/multimedia artist, often collaborating with choreographers, spoken word artists, and other songwriters to create interactive multimedia concerts that seamlessly blend the human voice and movement with new media technologies. The resulting product often juxtaposes the delicate and visceral, the intricate and sparse, while maintaining an unabashed intimacy throughout.

KEVIN KINg WHIMPRODUCTIONS.COMKevin King is a playwright, producer and director. In 2015, he curated and directed a production of short plays called Alphabet Soup. Alphabet Soup has become an annual showcase of original short plays by Kansas City-area LGBT writers. King is also the Producing Artistic Director for Whim Productions. Founded in 2011, the company focuses primarily on irreverent and campy original scripts.

TED KINg-SMITH TEDKINGSMITH.COMTed King-Smith is a composer, educator, and saxophonist. His music synthesizes several different infl uences, musical and otherwise, into engaging works that emphasize variety, virtuosity, and improvisation. King-Smith’s compositions have been awarded and performed nationally and in Canada. King-Smith is also a founding member of the Mnemosyne (nem-o-zine) Quartet and Fusebox New Music collective.

NDo KCAIDEBTDAYCARNIVAL.TUMBLR.COMNDo is a socially engaged collaborative project created by Jahaira Aguilar and Andrew Lattner. The two artists graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute, Painting ‘16. Over the last two years, the artists have conceptualized projects that utilize conversations and relationships that unite people. NDo is currently researching and planning a new artist residency program.

MARK RAyMER MARKRAYMER.COMMark Raymer relocated to Kansas City after earning a MFA/Printmaking from the University of Kansas in 2016. Raymer was born in New Zealand and raised in Texas. Raymer’s large collages consist of found fabric and textiles combined with drawings, rubbings, and printmaking. His work is created through a science fi ction lens that address themes of environment, human nature, and legacy.

BENJAMIN ROSENTHAL BENJAMINROSENTHAL.COMBenjamin Rosenthal is a media professor at the University of Kansas that holds an MFA/Art Studio from the University of California, Davis and a BFA/Carnegie Mellon University. Rosenthal’s work has been exhibited internationally. Pulling from a variety of fi elds in the humanities and sciences, he questions the authenticity of our physical experience in an age where the boundaries between reality and the virtual become indistinguishable.

KIM RILEy CHARLOTTESTREETSTUDIOS.WORDPRESS.COM/CURRENT-RESIDENTS/KIM-RILEYKim Riley is a Kansas City based writer. Riley has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and MBA from University Missouri-Kansas City, Bloch School. She is currently completing a transformative play titled “Dinner at 7” that she plans to produce. Besides her own creative writing, Riley has organized urban youth book clubs and written book reviews for the Kansas City Call for over a decade.

SHINy JETS SHINYJETSMUSIC.COMShiny Jets is a collaborative art and music venture that incorporates found sound in conjunction with live instrumentation in an attempt to deconstruct common musical dialogues. The duo, singer/guitarist Shanté Clair (relocated from New York) and drummer Tucker Slough (Kansas City) have collaborated and recorded their music long distance since the project was conceptualized in Chicago in 2004. Currently, Shiny Jets is completing an ambitious three-part multi-media visual and auditory art installation.

ARNOLD yOUNg SOUNDCLOUD.COM/PRINCE-GUGU/EVER-EXPANDING-WHATNESSArnold Young is an established drummer that studied at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and West African Percussion at U.C. Berkeley. Over the last few decades, Young has performed with Sonny Simmons, Jaco Pastorius, Eddie Harris, along with several established Kansas City musicians. His current music project, the RoughTet (all composers), explore new territories in written and improvised music that incorporate non-Western traditional and standard jazz instruments.

2017 STUDIO RESIDENT BIOSTORI LAwRENCE TORILAWRENCE.ORGTori Lawrence is a choreographer and fi lmmaker who creates immersive site-specifi c dances, interdisciplinary performance installations, and dances for the camera. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Kansas. Lawrence’s live performances and fi lms have been presented nationally and internationally, including site-specifi c performance commissions by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia and the Lawrence Arts Center. Lawrence received a M.F.A. in Choreography at the University of Iowa, and a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College.

KIMBERLy LAVONNE LUTHER KLAVONNELUTHER.WORDPRESS.COMKimberly LaVonne Luther relocated to Kansas City in 2015 after receiving her MFA in ceramics at Indiana University. She currently teaches at the University of Central Missouri and exhibits her artwork internationally. Lavonne Luther’s sculptures take the recognizable and transforms it into something new, in order to hint at the occult wonders, mythologies, and obscure secrets she creates.

KATHy LIAO KATHYLIAO.COMKathy Liao recently moved to Kansas City, by way of Seattle, to pursue her career as a painting/printmaking professor. Liao, born in Taiwan, earned a degree in psychology before pursuing a BFA/painting from the University of Washington and a MFA/painting from Boston University. As a painter, Liao draws inspiration from her diverse Hakka Chinese and Japanese ancestries as she seeks to bring awareness to Asian stereotypes.

JAMES P. MCNAMARA ITSASADSADTHING.COMJames P. McNamara is a Kansas City based writer with a focus in poetry. His poetry often works within the framework of humanity in a diminishing present. Poetry that refl ects the physical structures that have evolved into refl ections of ideological structures.

NOËL MORICAL NOELMORICAL.COMNoël Morical completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. She recently moved to Kansas City in 2016. Working with a richly colored palette of paracord, Morical creates sculptures through the process of macramé. She produces works that relate to the practical and domestic, but stand as sovereign, otherworldly objects.

DESIREE MORALES CHARLOTTESTREETSTUDIOS.WORDPRESS.COM/CURRENT-RESIDENTS/DESIREE-MORALESDesiree Morales is a native of St. Louis, Mo and a 2016 graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute/Photography. Morales is interested in identifying the viewpoints of the world and the way things translate as an image. This is an idea that remains consistent throughout different bodies of work.

S.E. NASH SENASH.COMS.E. Nash, a visual artist and food fermentation experimentalist, recently moved to Kansas City from New York City in 2016. Nash’s sculptures and artistic engagements promote thinking with microorganisms. Part science workshop, part kitchen lab, the fermentation sculpture experiments are displayed, harvested and eaten as a culminating experience of exhibited sculptures.

CHARLOTTE STREET STUDIO RESIDENCy TO APPLy: www.CHARLOTTESTREET.ORg/CALLS-TO-ARTISTSDEADLINE: MAy 15, 2017

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ABOUT CHARLOTTE STREET STUDIO RESIDENCy PROgRAM

Charlotte Street’s Studio Residency Program advances the organization’s mission of challenging, nurturing, and empowering artists of exceptional vision by providing free studio space, rehearsal space, and related support that enables exceptional artists of all disciplines to advance their art practices and artistic careers. Charlotte Street Foundation’s Studio Residency Program has supported the development of many hundreds of artists.

The program aims to support creative production, artistic experimentation and collaboration, professional development, and close connection and exchange among the multi-disciplinary community of participating artists. Components include annual open studios, exhibition and performance opportunities at Charlotte Street’s nearby Paragraph Gallery & Project Space, monthly all-resident group meetings with artist presentations, studio visits, and mentorships. The studios are located at Town Pavilion (1100 Walnut St. Kansas City, MO) in downtown Kansas City and include dedicated spaces for visual artists and writers, and access to shared rehearsal spaces—including a dance stage with Marley floor—for performing artists, all with 24-hour access.

Visual artists, writers, and performing artists (composers/musicians, choreographers/dancers, theatre artists) are eligible for the year-long residencies, with terms beginning each September. Applications for the Studio Residency Program are accepted each spring.

ABOUT PARAgRAPH gALLERy23 E 12TH STREET, KC, MO 64106FRiDAY–SATURDAY 12–5PM AND BY APPOiNTMENT DURiNG SCHEDULED ExHiBiTiONS

Current residents are eligible to participate in the Visiting Curator Series at CSF’s Paragraph Gallery & Project Space, two of three public spaces operated by Charlotte Street Foundation. CSF selects and invites local and regional curators to create these exhibitions. The intent of the series is to amplify the impact of the residency program by providing resident artists with opportunities to gain valuable feedback from a variety of curators, strengthen networks, and enhance public exposure. The visiting curators and artists receive direct support throughout the entire process from Charlotte Street Foundation.

Paragraph Gallery (23 E. 12th) is an architecturally-awarded, approximately 1 ODO-square-foot space well-suited for presenting a wide range of work, from one-person shows to curated group exhibitions, as host for public programs, special events, receptions, screenings and intimate performances. This street-level, storefront space faces 12th Street, a busy thoroughfare in downtown Kansas City.

ABOUT CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATIONCharlotte Street identifies the needs and fuels the evolution of an ever-changing multidisciplinary arts ecosystem, acting as its primary provocateur. Charlotte Street cultivates the contemporary, the exceptional, and the unexpected in the practice of artists working in and engaging with the Kansas City art community. Since 1997, Charlotte Street has distributed over $1.1 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 www.charlottestreet.org.

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