The College of Central Missouri (UCM) Gallery of Artwork and Design presents two new exhibitions: “Communication: The Annual Exhibition of Mid-Missouri Artists Inc.” and “The Issues We Don’t Discuss About.”
Each exhibitions will likely be displayed from July 9 to Aug. 6 within the UCM Artwork Heart.
Mid-Missouri Artists Inc. (MMA) is a regional arts group that helps artists and promotes the humanities. The members meet repeatedly to debate artwork and the enterprise of being an artist. Additionally they exhibit collectively not less than twice yearly, together with the annual summer time exhibition on the UCM Gallery of Artwork and Design. This 12 months’s exhibition theme is “Communication” with every artist deciphering the theme by way of a variety of media, together with portray, drawing, pictures, combined media and sculpture. “Communication” will likely be within the Essential Gallery.
“The Issues We Do not Discuss About” is a photographic portrait exhibition curated by Katie Jacobs, Ph.D., professor of Psychological Science at UCM. The exhibition explores the hidden realities of psychological well being challenges. The nucleus of the exhibition is a musical idea album by artist Ramona Clay, additionally titled “The Issues We Do not Discuss About.” Every {photograph} within the exhibition is a portrait of an actual particular person and a personification of 1 monitor on the album. A narrative concerning the particular person accompanies every portrait. The photographs have been taken by Ellie Whitesell, a current Artwork and Design graduate. “The Issues We Do not Discuss About” will likely be in Gallery 115. Jacobs will supply a gallery discuss at 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 16.
The general public is invited to a reception celebrating each exhibitions from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 16, within the Artwork Heart. The New Century Dulcimer Ensemble will play in the course of the reception, and refreshments will likely be served.
The UCM Gallery of Artwork and Design is open from 8 a.m. to five p.m. Monday by way of Friday. Admission is free and open to the general public.
For extra data, contact Gallery Director Jamie Platt at gallery@ucmo.edu or (660)543-4498.
Within the picture: “Howdy There” is an interactive multimedia sculpture by artist Mike Byrne.
