26th Annual Undergraduate College Student Exhibition

Written By Courtney Wasson

APRIL 2 – 30, 2021
3200 Gillham Rd.

JUROR 
JADE POWERS, KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 

Jade Powers is the assistant curator at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri where she organizes exhibitions including Deconstructing Marcus Jansen, Abstracted Wonders: The Power of Lines, Color Application, Child’s Play: An Exploration of Adolescence, Atrium Project: Joiri Minaya, and Dawoud Bey: Selections from Night Coming Tenderly, Black­­. Before joining Kemper Museum, Powers was the 2017-2018 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow at Saint Louis Art Museum. There, Powers created the first museum-wide gallery guide to comprehensively highlight works by artists of African descent. Powers has also been a Visiting Critic at Kansas City Art Institute, University of Kansas, and Washington University St. Louis as well as a juror for several artist awards. Powers is currently the visiting lecturer for the MFA graduate seminar in the Department of Visual Art for the 2020-2021 Academic Year at the University of Kansas.

Courtney Wasson
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