2025 Luminary Arts & Creative Small Business Award Application Question Title * 1. Business Name: Question Title * 2. Owner(s) Name(s): Mr./Ms./They: Mr./Ms./They: Mr./Ms./They: Question Title * 3. Is your business headquartered in the Kansas City region? Yes No Question Title * 4. What year was your business founded? Question Title * 5. How many employees does your business have? Full time: Part time: Question Title * 6. Is your business: Minority Owned? Women Owned? Disabled Owned? Veteran Owned? LGBT Owned? None of the above Question Title * 7. Please choose a category for your art business. If your business’ work cannot be categorized in any of these ways, please choose "Other," and write a quick detail in the next question field. (Check all that apply.) Visual Music Dance Theatre Literature / Poetry Fashion Film Other (please specify) Question Title * 8. Please upload your CV, including biography and artist statement, if applicable. PDF, DOC, DOCX file types only. Choose File No file chosen Remove File Please upload your CV, including biography and artist statement, if applicable. Question Title * 9. Please describe your business model including brief descriptions of your products/offerings. Question Title * 10. Please describe your art form including how it’s created and if it’s created by hand. Question Title * 11. Is the owner or are the employees the source of creative/original work? Owner Employees Other (please specify) Question Title * 12. Please upload at least 5 work samples and/or samples of products you offer through your business. (Please include all examples in one file up to 16MB. If your file exceeds 16MB please email Vicky Kulikov kulikov@kcchamber.com.) PDF, PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF file types only. Choose File No file chosen Remove File Please upload at least 5 work samples and/or samples of products you offer through your business. (Please include all examples in one file up to 16MB. If your file exceeds 16MB please email Vicky Kulikov kulikov@kcchamber.com.) Question Title * 13. Have there been any major changes in the operating budget from the previous year? If so, please explain. (Feel free to share any substantive financial information.) Question Title * 14. What are the artistic goals of your business? Question Title * 15. Please describe your business’s achievements in the last three years. Question Title * 16. How does your creative business support and advocate for the arts in Kansas City? Next