31st Annual Undergraduate Student Juried Exhibition and Come Into My Heart

Main Gallery, 31st Annual Undergraduate Student Juried Exhibition

Each year, Jurors select the most interesting, compelling, noteworthy, and highest quality artwork. from submissions made by currently enrolled undergraduate college students in Missouri and Kansas. The exhibition will occupy the Main Gallery KCAC; A variety of media will be represented, and viewers will be immersed in a panoply of diverse perspectives, approaches to art, colors, textures, and forms. The exhibition is an opportunity for students to be recognized as emerging artists in an established and professional art gallery, while introducing the collecting community to the artists who will be entering the arts scene over the next several years.

The 2026 Juror is Jessica Hong, Chief Curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, KCMO.

The Leigh Rosenberg Earnest Memorial Fund awards a total of $2,250 in scholarships to exhibition participants , awarded by the juror and distributed in tiers of $1,000 $750 and $500.

This First Friday event will include the Award Ceremony for the top three juried pieces!

Snap Space Gallery: Come Into My Heart by Sophia Gaeun Lee

In the Snap Space, Sophia Gaeun Lee presents Come Into My Heart, A multimedia exhibition of sound, sculpture, highlighting themes of identity, addressing and memorializing topics of heritage, cultural duality, religion, relationships, gratitude, and traditions. At a time when otherness is becoming something to fear instead of being celebrated, Lee is working to build out a multi-sensory experience for the viewer that opens their own heart to ideas and experiences that may be outside their own. This is Lee’s First Solo Exhibition

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Kansas City Artists Coalition, 3200 Gillham, Kansas City, United States

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