Exhibitions

This show contains a selection of ceramics from the permanent collection and is located in the Goddard Gallery.

Judy Chicago (b. 1939) is a pioneer feminist artist who came to prominence in the late 1960s and is probably best known for her installation The Dinner Party (1979). This was a ground-breaking work made to celebrate women throughout history. In celebration of her 75th birthday, the Daum will debut a recently acquired portfolio of ...

The exhibition features recent artworks by four instructors in the State Fair Community College’s art department, with media to include painting, ceramic sculpture, and print making. The artists represented are Paul Allen, Damon Freed, Don Luper, and Shaun Southers. The exhibition celebrates the department’s impressive range of talent, and provides an opportunity for students and ...

David Levinthal: Uncle Tom's Cabin, a new acquisition at the Daum, will also be on display this spring and opens on Saturday, January 31. Here's a little more information about this upcoming show. David Levinthal’s photography practice consistently centers on small toys and props whose usual connotations the artist upends in dramatically staged tableaus. His ...

This exhibition will survey four recent series of work by Kansas City-based artist Tanya Hartman, including her most current undertaking, now in development, which will premiere at the Daum. Throughout her art practice, Hartman has created work that has spiritual depth and social meaning—poetic, intelligent, empowering—but one that also stands on its own as pure ...

This occasion will mark the exhibition debut of a recent, significant addition to the Daum’s permanent collection, Kara Walker’s series of 15 lithographs and screenprints entitled Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) (2005). Each of the large-scale prints in Walker’s portfolio began with an enlargement, using offset lithography, of a woodcut plate from ...

The annual student exhibition, a State Fair Community College tradition dating back to the late 1960s, is open to all students currently talking studio art classes at the college. Interested student-artists collaborate with art department faculty to select work that best represents them. Each year, some 50 students exhibit close to one hundred artworks in ...

Nora Othic refers to herself as a neo-regionalist artist, and she does share many traits common to the American Scene painters of the 1930s. Chief among these characteristics is the sincere desire to portray everyday life in the rural areas and small towns of mid-America. Her multi-figure tableaus and animal studies are rendered in pastel, ...