Current Works 2022

This is Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography's annual juried exhibit. It is intended to showcase what photographic artists are doing today. Works must have been produced in 2020-2022. We want to exhibit a broad range of photography styles and processes that represent the diversity of our membership.

We are thrilled to announce this year's juror is April M. Watson, Senior Curator, Photography at The Nelson-Atkins of Art in Kansas City, MO. During her fourteen year-tenure at the Nelson-Atkins, she has curated numerous exhibitions from the museum?s renowned Hallmark Photographic Collection and organized several major loan exhibitions.

Subject matter is open. All images must be created from your original photography as the foundation of your work and within the time frame mentioned above.
Original works will be accepted in all photographic mediums, such as, digital, film, alternative processes, black and white or color. No pornographic or defamatory images.

ELIGIBILITY and FEES
Must be a resident of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas

A submission of up to 5 images is $45. KCSCP members pay only $36. The discount code MUST BE input at the time of entry and before checkout is completed.
Email kansascityscp@gmail.com for membership verification to receive the discount code.

Schedule

  • Call Closes: September 30, 2022

  • Notifications: October 15, 2022

  • Accepted works delivered: November 26, 11-5PM  

  • Install:  November 30th

  • Opening:  December 2, 2022

  • Artists Reception and Juror’s Talk:  December, 2022 TBD

  • Artists’ Talk:  January, 2023 TBD

  • Pick up work: January 27th-28th

About our Juror

April M. Watson is Senior Curator, Photography at The Nelson-Atkins of Art in Kansas City, MO.Duringher fourteen year-tenure at the Nelson-Atkins, she has curated numerous exhibitions from the museum’s renowned Hallmark Photographic Collection and organized several major loan exhibitions.Recent projects include the current exhibition Signs: Photographs by Jim Dow and recent past exhibitions, Art of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual Play; Gordon Parks X Muhammad Ali: The Image of Champion, 1966/1970 (organized with the Gordon Parks Foundation); L.A. Landscapes: Photographs by Anthony Hernandez; and Eugene Richards: The Run-On of Time (a retrospective co-organized with the George Eastman Museum). She is currently working on an exhibition of work by Evelyn Hofer, co-organized with the High Museum of Art. Watson has also contributed essays to artist’s monographs, featuring the work of Jocelyn Lee, Bjorn Sterri, and Joni Sternbach, among others.

Read application thoroughly. Details that will get your entry deleted: Not naming your image files as described and watermarks or copyright signature on the images.

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