My Mother's Tongue: Charlotte Street 2026 Visual Artists Award Exhibition 

Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, KS

Aug 26, 2025--Jan 4, 2026

Jurors: Samantha Best (SAM), Alex Paik (Tiger Srikes Astroid), Alex Santana (The Latinx Project at NYU), Sydney Pursel (The Spencer Art Museum)

The 2025 Charlotte Street Awards were selected through a competitive process beginning with an open call for applications from artists based in the five-county Kansas City Metro Area and in Douglas County, Kansas. Selections were made by a panel of arts professionals from across the country: Alex Paik, Samantha Best, Alex Santana, and Sydney Pursel. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the artists and Charlotte Street. The Spencer Museum of Art is honored to host this exhibition for the first time featuring the selected artists for 2025: Noelle Choy, Hùng Lê, and Merry Sun. All three artists explore themes of cultural mythmaking, memory, and migration through a range of media.