Public Art Shines: New Artists Announced for Crossroads Artboards in Kansas City
By Elizabeth Snell
July–September 2025 Crossroads Artboards, Kati Toivanen, Chimera (image proposal)
Have you heard? The artists for the 2025-2026 Crossroads Artboards have been announced!
Mid-America Arts Alliance is honored to partner with Crossroads Community Association and Charlotte Street to support this public art program. Located in the heart of Kansas City’s vibrant Crossroads Arts District, this initiative showcases eight incredible KC artists on double-sided billboards at 125 Southwest Blvd.
Charlotte Street recently announced in a press release that from April 2025 to March 2026, these artboards will explore themes of memory, identity, and transformation through stunning works by:
Jackson Daughety
Max Dlabick
Eric German
Adrienne Hoard
Nora Snyder
Kati Toivanen
Casey Whittier, Andrew Castañeda, Erin Conyers
Yulie Urano
The Crossroads Artboards have been featuring the work of Kansas City-area artists since 2008.
The call for proposals opens each fall with the next application opening fall 2025.
Artists are chosen through a competitive jury process and receive artist fees of $1,000 each. Artists must live within the five county Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area (Jackson, Platte, and Clay counties in Missouri and Johnson and Wyandotte counties in Kansas).
See the 2025-2026 Artboards schedule on Charlotte Street’s website.