Student Art Exhibit Opens in May
The Department of Art and Art History is hosting the 2011 UMKC Student Art Exhibition in Room 106 of the Fine Arts Building’s Gallery of Art, 5015 Holmes St., Kansas City, Mo. The opening reception was on Thursday, May 5 at the Gallery of Art, and the exhibition will run through July 30. UMKC Gallery hours are 1-5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and 1 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
The exhibition is open to any student enrolled in classes at UMKC and includes painting, photography, sculpture, prints, graphic design, video and motion graphics. Featuring works by 37 artists, this year’s exhibition is juried by Cara Megan Lewis. Lewis is the curator at Cara and Cabezas Contemporary and works independently on curatorial projects in Kansas City and San Francisco. Lewis received her Master’s Degree in June 2007 from the Curatorial Practice Program at the California College of the Arts. Her professional experience includes three years as a registrar at Fraenkel Gallery, registration work on the Diane Arbus Retrospective at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and curatorial assistance for the arts programming at Mamá Art Cafe in San Francisco.
For more see: http://cas.umkc.edu/art/
