Exhibition Dates: March 20-May 1 st, 2026

 soft opening: Friday March 20,

 First Friday Reception and Award Ceremony: Friday April 3, 

Closing First Friday Reception: Friday May 1. 

Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat, 11AM – 5 PM

Kansas City Artists Coalition is excited to exhibit the 31st iteration of our Undergraduate Student Juried Exhibition!

Each year, a different juror is tasked with judging the work submitted by undergraduate students in Missouri and Kansas. Jurors select the most interesting, compelling, noteworthy, and highest quality artwork, which is exhibited in the Main Gallery KCAC. A variety of media is 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.

Three of the finalists are selected, by the juror, to receive scholarships generously donated by the The Leigh Rosenberg Earnest Memorial Fund, awards totaling $2,250 in scholarships to exhibition participants , distributed in tiers of $1,000 $750 and $500.

The 2026 Juror is Jessica Hong, Chief Curator at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, KCMO. Former senior curator of modern and contemporary art at Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH),  Hong is a curator and cultural worker who has dedicated her practice to highlighting under-recognized narratives and stimulating generational change within institutional sites.