An innovative initiative designed to empower and support emerging artists; The Patrons focus on the collaborative aspect of artmaking by building networks of support. Their work fosters a community where artists can thrive through mentorship, shared knowledge, and reciprocal exchange. Their approach helps to cultivate new spaces for artistic innovation while nurturing the next generation ...
"This series is a pleasure project inspired by my childhood of growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, where I spent time by the ocean and watched the sky for the Aurora Borealis. The work takes Alaskan imagery and abstractly layers it in a way that references memory. As my place of origin, it captures a kind ...
This exhibition considers growth and decay as interdependent forces within a cyclical continuum. Decay, often regarded as an endpoint, is instead a generative process through which matter is transformed rather than extinguished. Organic life decomposes, metals corrode, and materials undergo transformation, underscoring the fundamental condition of existence. Arthur González’s Sprout exemplifies this principle by staging renewal through ...
c9 – Contemporary Printmaking brings together artists from Missouri and its 8 bordering states whose practices are shaped by the landscapes, histories, and communities of the central United States. Grounded in a region defined by labor, agriculture, industry, and migration, the works in this exhibition use printmaking to reflect on how place informs identity and ...
Design shapes how we see, think, and engage with the world. In Elemental, the Daum Museum provides a dynamic resource for learners and makers of all ages. Drawing from the diverse works within the Daum Museum collection, this exhibition explores the foundational principles and elements of design as both tools of artistic practice and keys ...
Join us for a live reading of original poetry, prose, and reflections. Writers and readers alike are invited to share original works. To participate, send your submission to Submissionsroadwriters@sfccmo.edu. Thursday, February 19, 2026 3:30–4:30 PM Location Daum Museum of Contemporary Art3201 West 16th Street, Sedalia, MO 65301On the State Fair Community College Campus Free and open ...
Join us on Monday, March 2, at 10 AM in the Stauffacher theatre for an artist's lecture by Lindsey Dunnagan. Lindsey Dunnagan is currently exhibiting her artwork in her exhibition "Temporal Terrain" at the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. This series of watercolor and oil painting is inspired by her childhood in Anchorage, Alaska. Lindsey ...
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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 ...
The American West occupies a complex space in the cultural imagination, shaped by frontier narratives, industry, land use, migration, resilience, and mythmaking. Contemporary Visions of the West seeks work that reclaims or reimagines Western identities and landscapes beyond nostalgia or stereotype. Artists are encouraged to consider how ideas of the West intersect with issues of ...