Summer Nights at the Daum presents: SpoFest, an evening of spoken word and music. Thursday, August 23, 2018, at 6 pm. Free and open to the public. Readers include former Missouri Poet Laureate Walter Bargen, Faith Bemiss, James Bryant, Rick Everitt, Damon Freed, Doug Kiburz, Lela Merrell-Savage, Debbie Noland, Eddie Osborne, and Dustin Walbom. Music ...
By the mid-1960s, Los Angeles had become the locus of a loosely structured art movement, referred to variously as Light and Space, Finish Fetish, or California minimalism. This art form was concerned primarily with how geometric shapes and the use of light could affect the environment and perception of the viewer. The artists employed space-age ...
Los Angeles-based artist Gisela Colon is well regarded for her meticulously fabricated, glowingly iridescent wall sculptures, referred to as “pods.” These are large-scale, three-dimensional, non-representational objects, asymmetrical and biomorphic in shape, with perfectly smooth surfaces. The sculptures are made from blow-molded acrylic plastic, laminated and layered with iridescent and fluorescent pigments. They provide a perceptual ...
Join us for Gisela Colon's artist lecture on Thursday, October 25, at 6 p.m., in the Stauffacher Theatre. Free and open to the public. Los Angeles-based artist Gisela Colon is well regarded for her meticulously fabricated, glowingly iridescent wall sculptures, referred to as “pods.” These are large-scale, three-dimensional, non-representational objects, asymmetrical and biomorphic in shape, ...
The Daum Museum will be closed for Thanksgiving Break Wednesday, November 21-Friday, November 23, 2018. The museum will return to normal hours the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Weekend hours at the Daum are Saturday-Sunday, 1-5 p.m.
The Daum Museum will be closed for winter break Wednesday, December 19, 2018-Tuesday, January 1, 2019. The museum will return to normal hours Wednesday, January 2, 2019. Happy Holidays!
A recent bequest to Daum Museum of Contemporary Art greatly expands the museum’s holdings in the area of twentieth century American landscape photography. The gift comes from the late P. John Owen, a native Sedalian, who left the artworks to the Daum in memory of his parents, P. Cecil Owen and Marceille F. Owen, also ...
The Daum Museum will be closed for State Fair Community College's spring break from March 18-22.
In conjunction with the exhibition The Hill Becomes the Valley: American Landscape Photography from the P. John Owen Collection, Daum Museum presents an illustrated lecture by Keith Davis, Senior Curator of Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on Thursday, March 28, 2019, at 6 p.m., in the Stauffacher Theatre on the State Fair Community College campus. Free ...
