Urban Culture Project

Website: www.urbancultureproject.org

About The Urban Culture Project:
Urban Culture Project (UCP) transforms empty spaces in the core of downtown Kansas City into dynamic arts venues. Third Friday monthly events feature exhibition openings and events at all the spaces, drawing significant crowds and vital activity to the downtown loop. The spaces also host regular daytime hours and nightimte events.

About PARAGRAPH Gallery:
PARAGRAPH is an artist-run exhibition space showing emerging Kansas City-based artists, designers, and architects alongside mid-career national and international artists working in a variety of media. The gallery is committed to activity that connects diverse media, genre, and dialogues. Programming includes exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, and events.

Paragraph is located on the ground floor of the Chambers Building, owned by DLS Real Estate. The recipient of an American Institute of Architects Merit Award, it was designed by architect Brad Satterwhite of BNIM Architects and artist and PARAGRAPH director Hesse McGraw. The highly visible storefront space is extremely flexible, particularly suited to site-specific installations and work that engages the surrounding urban environment.

About Project Space:
Launched in Spring 2005 in the former home of Review magazine`s editorial offices, Urban Culture PROJECT SPACE presents solo and group exhibitions and installations of all media, changing on a monthly/bi-monthly basis. The long, narrow space also serves as a possible site for public programs, interdisciplinary events, and live performances. Located adjacent to Paragraph Gallery and sharing a central set of movable walls on tracks, PROJECT SPACE will also on occasionally team up with Paragraph Gallery to present larger exhibitions that fill both spaces.

Urban Culture PROJECT SPACE is located on the ground floor of the Chambers Building. The highly visible storefront space is particularly suited to site -specific installations and work that engages the surrounding urban environment. The gallery welcomes proposals on an ongoing basis, which will be reviewed by the Urban Culture Project Curatorial Committee.