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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art acknowledges it resides on the ancestral territory of the Osage, Kaw, and Otoe-Missouria, among other tribal nations forcibly moved to the region such as the Shawnee, Wyandot, Delaware, Potawatomi, Sac and Fox and Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo) nations. We recognize and support the continued vibrancy of Native communities and cultures today who continue to thrive, as well as the inherent sovereignty of tribal nations. We are compelled to serve and advocate for these communities in accordance with our public mission.

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Women to Watch Exhibition Checklist_FINAL.pdf

The Women to Watch exhibition series is a unique collaboration between the National Museum of Women Artists (NMWA) and its national and international committees. Each exhibition, held every few years, focuses on a specific medium or theme chosen by NMWA’s curators and features underrepresented, self-identifying women artists from each committee’s respective region. (Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art last participated in the series in 2019 with Paper Routes – Women to Watch 2020.)

This seventh installment of Women to Watch features five artists currently living and working within a 150-mile radius of Kansas City who envision a different world through their creative practice. Given the extraordinary events of 2020 including a global health pandemic, intense calls for social reform, and unprecedented political division, artists conjure and express visions of a new world.

Sun Young Park  (South Korean, born 1990), and

Mona Cliff/HanukGahNé (Spotted Cloud) (Aaniiih, born 1977)

These artists will have the opportunity to be selected by curators from the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA), Washington, DC, for the national Women to Watch exhibition in 2024.

This exhibition is juried and curated by Erin Dziedzic, director of curatorial affairs at Kemper Museum and presented in cooperation with the Greater Kansas City Area Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Mona Cliff/ Hanukgahné

Bianca Fields

Bev Gegen

Melanie Johnson

Sun Young Park

Installation view, A New World: Women to Watch 2024, June 24 - October 16, 2022, Sally Kemper Wood Gallery, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri. Photo: E. G. Schempf, 2022.

Mona Cliff evokes the subtle beauty of Kansas hills and sunsets with millions of tiny beads | KCUR

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WOMEN TO WATCH—A NEW WORLD: 2024, KC’S NEWEST ART EXHIBIT | Catcall Magazine