2026 Gala: Rodeo Nouveau

Wet your whistle and enjoy fine vittles with fellow supporters at the best art party ’round town—immersive installations, performances, and activations from local artists and off-the-wall-activities! Enter the corral designed by Gaylin Eugene Nicholson, try for 8 seconds on Mecha-Moo the bucking robobull, clown around with our friends from The Emerald, encounter cowboy flash with The DynamitExperience, serenade a lonely cowpoke with Brodeo-kee, saunter into Hunter Silvey‘s absinthe-washed lounge, practice your lasso skills with President Your’Majesty Elbey riding in from Copper Boyz Ranch, saddle up for some ink from Tintoretta Tattoo Studio, and do-si-do the night away with DJ Dr. Violet Dream! We’ll have vittles from Allouise Pâtisserie, Casa Ama, Dispatch Pizza, Golden Brown, Nivis’ Minis, The Town Co./Dear Donna, Workman’s, and Yoli Tortilleria. Gala Sponsors will enjoy fine provisions from Clay & Fire. Wet your whistle with Beer Oro and custom cocktails from gala beverage director Nicole Dearing. CJ Charbonneau Tara Leonard Mark Allen Gretchen Calhoun Estuardo Garcia Cory Imig Andrew Johnson Haley Kostas Donna Mandelbaum Jessie McKinney Josue Montes David Wayne Reed Jess Rogers Lisa Schmitz Linda Shipp Sarah Sosland Matt & Mandi Strange Amy Wright [unitegallery simple_slider catid=14] Creative Confluence Fund: Artists LOI Deadline Extended to October 5; Organizations Deadline November 24! Apply here. Roaming Center for Magnetic Alternatives African American Artists Collective Stray Cat Film Center 1662 Broadway Blvd, KCMO www.straycatfilmcenter.com Stray Cat Film Center is an artist-run non-profit media arts organization and neighborhood microcinema space. Stray Cat is dedicated to offering our community film programming that reflects the diversity of voices and visions in cinematic expression and using cinema as a conduit to inspire, educate and explore. Blackbox on Troost 4001 Troost Avenue, KCMO Follow them on Facebook Driven by artists and community leaders from the Troost Corridor and the east side of Kansas City, Blackbox on Troost hosts community theater performances, learning workshops, cross-disciplinary media collaborations and more. Cynthia Hardeman, former Neighborhood Artists Resident and Founder of Drama Time, will lead the ongoing transition from the NAR residency site into a community performance space. Kansas City Public Theatre (2019-20 StartUp Residents) 2300 Independence Avenue, KCMO https://kcpublictheatre.org Kansas City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public. This mission is carried out in two activities: first, through producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works and reimagined classics which reflect the unique history and concerns of the Kansas City community; and second, to cultivate civic-minded artists, audiences, and citizens through community-based devised theatre workshops. By providing quality theatre productions free of charge to the public, Kansas City Public Theatre envisions theatre as an essential cultural good which should be fully accessible to all members of the community. Kansas City Society of Contemporary Photography (2019-20 StartUp Residents) 2300 Independence Avenue, KCMO http://kcscp.org/ Kansas City Society of Contemporary Photography (KCSCP) is an artist centric organization. They focus on providing opportunities for photographers to exhibit and promote their photographic work in Kansas City and surrounding areas. KCSCP offers a minimum of four exhibits a year with no boundaries put on what type of work can be submitted so long as it be founded in some way on a photographic process. They have several members working in alternative processes, so KCSCP intends to offer more programing featuring those mediums–wet plate, cyanotype, digital collage and printing to unusual substrates are of interest to members and non-members alike. KCSCP offers workshops and demonstrations and plans to create an atmosphere of collaboration with the Northeast neighborhood and greater community by offering talks and hands-on experiences that are appealing to various ages. Max Adrian Archive Collective Argot/Nots Carolina Aranibar-Fernandez Craig Deppen-Auge Justin Beachler Boi Boy Jessica Borusky Thayer Bray Shenequa Brooks Tim Brown Hannah Carr Michelle Chan Miranda Clark Christopher Daharsh Rena Detrixhe Drea DiCarlo Molly Dillon Eric Dobbins Lindsey Eskind Lindsay Fernandez Amy Fredman Madeline Gallucci Juan Diego Gaucin Fredy Gebuardy Mariah Gillespie Brett Ginsburg Rachel Helm Adriane Herman Paige Hinshaw Rachel Hubbard-Klein Mary-Clara Hutchison Laura Isaac Glyneisha Johnson Matthew Johnson Leon Jones Melanie Johnson Matthew Krawcheck Tommy Lomeli Lacey Lynn Tink Rodolfo Marron Bailey Mastin Zachary Miley Cristina Muniz Gwendolyn Murphy Carrie Musick S.E. Nash NDo Kadie Nugent Daiana Oneto Andrew Ordonez Jada Patterson Seyhr Qayum Matthew Roche Dean Roper Benjamin Ros