A Major Decision
Choose your path. KCAI offers 14 studio majors taught by award-winning faculty who are themselves, professional artists, designers and scholars.
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eligibility and portfolio requirements or transfer procedures.
It all starts at KCAI
KCAI Alumni build successful careers as artists, designers, architects, professors, curators and other creative professionals.
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A Stunning 16-acre Campus
Our beautifully serene, tree-shaded campus lies within KC’s arts corridor directly between the Nelson–Atkins Museum of Art, voted best U.S. museum based on Yelp reviews, and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Students often refer to the special feeling of community they experience on the central green, around which campus life revolves and where ideas and creativity take root.
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