Two projects by Lawrence artists have been chosen as recipients of 2015 Rocket Grants, the Spencer Museum of Art announced Friday.

Rocket Grants, a joint program of the museum and the Charlotte Street Foundation, supports innovative, artist-driven projects that take place outside established art venues such as museums or galleries. This year’s grants awarded a total of $59,000 for 11 projects by Kansas City-area artists, the largest grant amount in the program’s history.

Lawrence residents Nicholas Ward and Robert Baker received a Full Project Award (which grants between $4,000 and $6,000) to their video series “Live TV Live,” described as “an ad-hoc platform for taking back the local media with contextual history, sardonic wit and theatrical, inclusive, community-based journalism.”

The Lawrence-based “Rest Assured, You Are Under Video Surveillance” also received a Full Project Award. A team of local artists — D. Bryon Darby, Aaron Long, Cotter Mitchell and Aaron Paden — aim to engage thoughtful conversations about rights, privacy and individual liberties by creating a series of pop-up installations of zen gardens containing hidden cameras concealed in faux-landscape stones.

Video from the installations at this month’s Free State Festival (locations include the Lawrence Arts Center at 940 New Hampshire St. and the Cider Gallery at 810 Pennsylvania St.) will be streamed during festival programming at the Arts Center lobby.

For more information on this year’s Rocket Grant winners, visit www.rocketgrants.org.