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Applications are now open for Kemper Museum's Teen Arts Council! Apply by Monday, August 3, 2020.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art stands in solidarity with every member of our community who condemns the murder of George Floyd and countless other Black Americans.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art welcomes fifteen community leaders as the inaugural members of Creative Action Initiative, a new annual project to design a collaborative response to community needs and desires using contemporary art, with Kemper Museum as its platform.
Applications are now open for Kemper Museum's 2020 Teen Arts Council! Apply by Monday, December 2, 2019.
In response to the recent focus on Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, UMB, and a detention facility in Rhode Island:
Kemper Museum fully supports a safe and welcome space for dialogue and discussion on topics that are important to the community and its future, thoughtfully exploring issues and solutions.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI––August 29, 2019–– Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing, with an opening reception taking place Thursday, September 12, from 6:00–8:00 p.m.
On Saturday, August 24, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art will continue the museum’s twenty-fifth anniversary celebration with our fifth annual FREE Summer Block Party, taking place from 6:00–10:30 p.m. throughout the Museum grounds.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI––May 10, 2019––In celebration of the Museum’s twenty-fifth anniversary year, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the first acquisition of 2019 to the Museum’s Permanent Collection is Noctilucent (2018), by world-renowned Los Angeles-based artist