Threads That Bind offers a new lens into the complex visual history of Women’s Work. Through a diverse range of mediums, including paintings, photographs, sculptures, and a challenging representation of textiles, this show aims to reframe traditional gender norms and offer a fresh, empowering perspective on what it means to be a woman artist. ...
The Daum Museum will be closed for State Fair Community College's spring break March 20-24, 2023. The museum will be open both the weekends before and after with normal hours of 1-5 p.m.
To close out Coalescence: Exploring Contemporary Ceramics and Artist Communities, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting a panel discussion and a pottery demonstration with artists from our current exhibitions Coalescence: Exploring Contemporary Ceramics and Artist Communities, Threads That Bind: Elucidating Diverse Voices of Womanhood, and from our upcoming show, Long Way Home: C. ...
absence • presence is an exploration of Daum’s collection built upon the framework of contrast. This context provides a method of amalgamation for dialogue about identity and existence across modes of representation and generations of makers. Kara Walker’s disruption of a historical text to tell the story of the American Civil War from the perspective ...
Synthesis brings together artists from across the region who are actively participating in local artist communities. It is the first of many exhibitions that seek to identify and support the artists who help to define our cultural landscape. This exhibition is open to members of the Sedalia Visual Art Association, Mid-Missouri Artists, Inc., Columbia Art ...
In the colorful, experiential art of C. Finley, incandescent paintings designate sites for community, exhibitions are laboratories, and representational power is decentralized. Her art and public works produce the conditions needed to change our world, encouraging other artists to create alongside her in spaces defined by vibratory beauty where all are welcome to glimpse the ...
This exhibition looks at the idea of place from a variety of perspectives and approaches to making. Utilizing both representational and conceptual approaches, a wide range of manifestations of place serve to show us what is familiar and quite different from our own piece of the world. These works are meant to serve as a ...
color–shape–line is a selection of works from the Daum collection that focuses on abstraction since 1965. The exhibition showcases artists from around the world who have utilized the visual language of color, shape, and line to communicate their subjective experiences. Approaches from geometric to lyrical abstraction are present in this grouping. While the degree of departure ...
In anticipation of Missouri Photo Workshop’s return for its 75th anniversary, this exhibition features work from the 1980 MPW that took place in Sedalia. The Missouri Photo Workshop has been documenting small-town America for over seven decades. The roots of the Missouri Photo Workshop are embedded firmly in six decades of rich tradition; current workshops ...
This exhibition takes the form of a familiar childhood game and is meant to enhance the desire and ability of visitors to creatively think and question the work presented. Most visitors will have heard of or played Twenty Questions, which is sometimes called animal, vegetable, or mineral. Other visitors will be familiar with the Linnaeus ...
