Students in the MCC Art Department represent an incredibly broad range of backgrounds and individual educational goals, but they all share one common attribute: the passion for art and design.

Participation in the Student Art Show juried exhibition at MCC Gallery is an important tradition culminating the academic year.  Students gain experience in photographing their work, responding to a call for entry, and showing their work in a professional gallery while having the opportunity to win scholarship awards to further support their academic study and career pursuits in the visual arts.  To view the application, visit: CaFÉ. Submission deadline is March 23rd at 11:59pm.  

Meet our jurors for 2025:

Award-winning photographer Tom Klare taught photography and computer graphics in the Art Department of MCC for 15 years before retiring as faculty emeritus in 2021. Previously, he spent two decades as a commercial photographer and editorial illustrator in Southern California, working with clients like National Geographic, The Nature Conservancy, The Dallas Morning News, and The San Diego Union-Tribune. His internationally recognized work has won numerous awards from Prix de la Photographie Paris, IPA, ND, and Budapest International Foto Awards.  A dedicated educator, Tom has led many workshops for Arizona Highways Magazine, and his photography has even traveled to space aboard a SpaceX Dragon Capsule.     www.tomklare.com    @klaretr

As a curator and educator, Joy Hyatt’s work centers around community-based participatory methods that weave together innovation and lifelong learning through visual culture. Her organization, Community Joy Projects facilitates interdisciplinary experiences that coalesce connection, memory and place empowered from and for the communities she partners with. Currently, her research and art practice explore the role of female artists and the expansion of art history through film, installation art, quilt and fiber media. A proud former community college student herself, she now holds a B.A. in Art History and an M.A. in Museum Studies with concentrations in Film & Media Studies and Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies. 

Susan Allred is a mixed media artist who manipulates fibers to explore the ways they affect and reflect our daily lives. Her work expresses her thoughts and feelings about society's expectations for women, their bodies and labor. She was an artist member at Eye Lounge contemporary art space and served as co-president for two years. A residency at the Ceramics Research Center at the ASU Art Museum gave Allred space to scale up her work; she created two large versions of her Walking Skirts, which explore the costs women pay for exercising their freedoms. As a student at MCC, she won the Best in Show award at the Annual Juried Student Art Show in 2020 and 2022.  @susanallredstudio