Women artists face challenges that can inhibit their creative work: raising children, beginning new careers, moving to a foreign country, facing a life-threatening illness, caring for aging parents, changing careers in mid-life. Nevertheless, She Persisted. Despite the unique challenges of womanhood, or because of these challenges, women continue to create…to heal, to express emotions not ...
Bones, Blooms, and Biomes brings together a selection of works from the Daum’s permanent collection that echo and expand upon themes explored by Georgia O’Keeffe. O’Keeffe’s legacy, often seen through a gendered lens, is reimagined through the voices of both female and male artists who engage with similar motifs across diverse media, eras, and cultural ...
Spectrum explores color as both a connective force and a human language. Drawing from the Daum collection, this exhibition brings together contemporary works that illuminate how color shapes not only what we see, but also how we relate to space, to one another, and ourselves. Here, color is not merely a visual experience, but a ...
Join us on Saturday, August 16, from 2-4 PM for a lively afternoon with an artist discussion panel, a photo booth, a musical performance, and light refreshments. Wear your craziest pants to honor the suffragettes who wore pants as protest! Discussion theme: "Legacies: Art and the Women Who Persist" Panelists: Meganne Rosen, Olivia Hawk, Jennifer ...
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 ...
Join us for a free yoga session inside the inspiring galleries of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Move, breathe, and flow. Find your balance surrounded by art. Dr. Nikki Freeman, Owner of Balanced State Wellness, LLC. Nikki has been teaching Yoga for nearly eight years in and around Sedalia. She specializes in Hatha ...
Join us for an engaging artist talk exploring The Patrons, a groundbreaking initiative empowering emerging artists through collaboration and mentorship, featuring Bryce Holt, whose vibrant, story-driven pop surrealism invites you to step into alternate worlds and reimagine the power of narrative in art. The conversation will also explore the intersection of art, creative writing, and ...
Join us for a free yoga session inside the inspiring galleries of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Move, breathe, and flow. Find your balance surrounded by art. Taught by: Dr. Nikki Freeman, Owner of Balanced State Wellness, LLC. Nikki has been teaching Yoga for nearly eight years in and around Sedalia. She specializes in ...