Resident Exhibition: Celebration

November 14, 2025 – January 24, 2026
Zhou B Art Center KC | 1801 E. 18th St, Kansas City, MO

In this year’s annual Resident Exhibition, Celebration, artists of the Zhou B Art Center Kansas City were invited to consider a simple yet profound question: What do you celebrate?

From this prompt unfolds reflections on self, heritage, community, resilience, and expression. Each artist was asked to contemplate where celebration lives within their lives and practices. Is it found in the quiet victories, the milestones, the rituals, or the everyday joys that keep us connected to our humanity?

The resulting works span a spectrum of emotion and form: some exuberant and loud, others tender and introspective, but all share a common thread: the honoring of life in motion. Whether through identity, memory, culture, connection, or transformation, each artist reveals how celebration becomes not just a moment, but a practice of being present with what is sacred, fleeting, or deeply personal. Celebration reminds us that art itself is an act of joy and resilience and a way to honor where we’ve been, who we are, and the beauty of our continued becoming.

Anita Easterwood, Bryan Boone, Bryce Holt, Charlie Tebow, Crissi Rice, Don Wilkison, Emmalee Rathsam, Galina Pikheeva, Janine Carter, Jean McGuire, Jenny Johannsen, Kayla Traxel, Kenya Martin, Kim Alexis Newton, Mark Raddant, Melissa DiPeri, Milton Lovell Christian, Misty McNally, Mol Mir, Nam Nguyen, Oli Carioti, Phyllis Jenkins, Shayna Strahm, Susan Walter, Zachary Bendrick