New Now 3: Recent Additions to the Collection
Featuring recently acquired paintings, prints, fiber art, ceramics, and photography by artists who include Alexis Rockman, Peter Pincus, Misty Gamble, Peter Voulkos, and Tom Huck.
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Sherry Leedy: The Weight of Light
Sherry Leedy’s pastel drawings of domestic still lifes are reflections of her skilled handling of form, pattern, color, light, rhythm, and line. Loaded with personal meaning, the drawings also tell a visual story about the beauty and depth of life that abounds in the world around her.
Summer Nights at the Daum presents: A Summer Social
Join us for a summer social that features new exhibitions, a gallery walk-through with museum director Thomas Piché Jr. at 6:30 p.m., and a wine tasting with Wildlife Ridge Winery. Thursday, June 22, 2017, at 6 pm. Free and open to the public. The Daum Museum presents four special events and extended evening hours on ...
Summer Nights at the Daum presents: SpoFest
As part of Summer Nights at the Daum, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art presents SpoFest, an evening of spoken word and music from area-based poets, writers, and musicians. Join us at the museum on Thursday, July 27, 2017, at 6 p.m., for an eclectic mix of readings by eight mid-Missouri writers with a musical interlude by ...
Summer Nights at the Daum presents: StoneLion Puppet Theatre’s “The Wind in the Willows”
As part of Summer Nights at the Daum, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art presents StoneLion Puppet Theatre’s The Wind in the Willows, a fast-paced musical based on the classic tale by Kenneth Grahame. Using bunraku puppets and interactive fun, the theater troupe offers an all-age production concerning the adventures of Mr. Toad and his daring ...
Anne Austin Pearce: Leaving Alone
In her installation titled collectively Leaving Alone, Anne Austin Pearce links five separate artworks through a blending of literature, ecology, and aesthetics. Pearce, who maintains a studio in Kansas City, is well regarded for her ink and acrylic paintings that feature layered, biomorphic forms and dazzling, saturated color. Her overlapping abstract shapes, resembling psychedelic amoebas, ...
Anne Austin Pearce: Gallery Talk
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, ...
