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Dreams: Sedalia Visual Art Association Members’ Exhibition
A celebration of diverse artworks by members of Sedalia’s oldest visual arts organization. SVAA’S members are award-winning artists from throughout west-central Missouri. Selections range from paintings and watercolors, collage and photographs, to sculptural objects in metal.
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Summer Nights at the Daum presents: A Summer Social
Thursday, June 27, 2019, 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public. A summer social is the opening reception for the Daum's summer exhibitions, including Sarah Nguyen: Winged Eclipse, Momentary Shadows, Constructions and Interventions: Photographs from the Collection, Salon Style: Contemporary Prints from the Collection, and Dreams: Sedalia Visual Art Association Members’ Exhibition. Thomas Piché Jr., Daum Museum director, will give a gallery talk at 6:30 p.m. The Daum Museum presents four special events and extended evening hours on the…
Find out more »Sarah Nguyen: Winged Eclipse, Momentary Shadows
Storytelling is central to Sarah Nguyen’s recent series of cut-fiber panels. Her blade-cut, intricate compositions are mostly landscape based and feature symbolic motifs—flora, fauna, and an ever-changing moon—to elicit childhood memories of myths, fables, and folklore. The large sheets are hung from the ceiling and away from the wall so that directed light casts strong shadows behind them, a nod to the flickering, fire-lit rituals of our paleo ancestors. Fiber cutting is a means of making drawing three-dimensional for Nguyen,…
Find out more »Constructions & Interventions: Photographs from the Collection
The prints in this exhibition are the culmination of the photographer’s inventiveness and synthesis of ideas, departures from traditional notions of photographic documentation and reportage. From John Pfahl’s intervention in the Utah landscape to Linda Connor’s interpretation of the Birth of Venus, this exhibit highlights the many varied approaches with which images may be constructed and manipulated.
Find out more »Salon Style: Contemporary Prints from the Collection
This exhibit features an extravagance of prints that well-illustrate how contemporary artists have found opportunities to expand their creativity through the print mediums’ varied avenues of investigation.
Find out more »Summer Nights at the Daum presents: Kay Brothers and Burney Sisters
6 p.m., Thursday, July 25, Stauffacher Theatre. Free and open to the public. The Daum will welcome the Kay Brothers and Burney Sisters in concert. Where the Brothers salute the stompgrass music traditions of the Ozarks, the close harmony of the Sisters produces an indie folk-pop sound. Together they'll have you dancing in your seats. Join us this summer as Daum Museum presents extended evening hours (until 8 p.m.) and special events on the fourth Thursday of the month, beginning…
Find out more »Summer Nights at the Daum presents: SpoFest
Summer Nights at the Daum presents: Spofest, an evening of spoken word and music. Thursday, August 22, at 6 p.m. Free and open to the public. In the final Summer Night event, the Daum will host SpoFest, a community group that promotes the writing and sharing of poetry and prose in the Sedalia area. Readers include Missouri's current poet laureate Aliki Barnstone, Missouri's first poet laureate Walter Bargen, Faith Bemiss, Doug Kiburz, Debbie Noland, and Mark Pearce. Music will be…
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