Current Works 2022

December 2, 2022 - February 25, 2023
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, 2012 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City, MO 64108

Juror: April M. Watson
Senior Curator, Photography at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO.

April M. Watson is 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.

Recent projects include the forthcoming Signs: Photographs by Jim DowArt of Illusion: Photography and Perceptual PlayGordon 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.

Current Works 2022 | Juror - April Watson

By KCSCP Society for Contemporary Photography

84 pages, published 1/5/2023

Kansas City Society for Photography's annual juried exhibition, Current Works catalog of chosen artists. This year's juror, April Watson is the Senior Curator of Photography at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo. This museum holds an extensive photography collection.

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Opening:  December 2, 2022

Juror’s Talk:  December 17, 2pm

Artists’ Talk:  January 14, 2023, 2 PM

                    February 11, 2023, 2 PM

Closes: February 25, 2023

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Watch Juror’s Talk from the 2021 Current Works Exhibition

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Current Works 2021 | Juror - Deanna Dikeman

Current Works 2021 | Juror - Deanna Dikeman

This is a catalogue of photographic works by artists selected to exhibit in Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography's annual juried show: Current Works. Current Works 2021 was juried by nationally and internationally known photographer, Deanna Dikeman.

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