Pearce’s installation titled “Leaving Alone” links five separate artworks through a blending of poetry, nature, and art. The exhibition introduces a large, free-form mural inspired by the myth of Icarcus. Other components are influenced by authors Margaret Atwood and Virginia Woolf. Each work or group of works probes a different branch of the overarching story, ...
Kara Walker creates challenging artwork that confronts the legacy of slavery in American culture. Since the late 1990s, she has been creating satirically subversive renditions of the pre-Civil-War South that challenge viewers to wrestle with lingering racial and gender stereotypes, caricatures, and myths. Walker is especially renowned for her large-scale, cut-paper silhouettes and narrative tableaus. ...
Oklahoma-based artist Brandon Reese will exhibit a selection of new ceramic sculptures that well illustrate the artist’s decade-long exploration of monumental, open-worked forms. His ceramics refer to human-made, archetypal constructions: towers, shelters, and circular enclosures, among them. Reese works mostly with salt-fired stoneware, minimally colored. His practice embraces a hybrid aesthetic that makes clear connections ...
Contingent Structures: Recent Ceramics by Brandon Reese until May 27, 2018 Artist-led gallery talk on Thursday, April 5, at 6 p.m. Free and open to the public. Contingent Structures: Recent Ceramics by Brandon Reese until May 27, 2018 Artist-led gallery talk on Thursday, April 5, at 6 p.m. Free and open to the public.
The annual student exhibition, a State Fair Community College tradition dating back to the late 1960s, is open to all students currently taking 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 100 artworks in a ...
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art will host Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey in a production of Setting the Stage on Thursday, May 24, 2018, at 6:00 p.m., in the Stauffacher Theatre, on the campus of State Fair Community College. The performance is free and open to the public, and is the first event of the ...
Members of the Sedalia Visual Arts Association will present “Shadows,” an artwork exhibit, from May 26 to Aug. 19 in the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art’s Goddard Gallery at State Fair Community College on the Sedalia campus. Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Admission ...
Blue . . . the color of harmony, spirituality, infinity, and sadness. Artists have used blue since the time of the Egyptians, when it was derived from minerals at great expense and difficulty. It is the favorite color of the half the people questioned in an international survey. In this permanent collection review, the color ...
Join us for a summer social and a visit with the following exhibitions Matt Rahner: Fair Pictures Summertime Blues: Selections from the Collection Shadows: Sedalia Visual Art Association Members' Exhibition Thursday, June 28, 2018, 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public. Gallery talk with museum director Thomas Piché Jr. at 6:30 p.m. Complimentary ...
