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A print of a blue waterfall in a red landscape.

Opening soon: Better Days

Join us for the opening celebration of Better Days on Thursday, September 12th from 4-6pm. Free and all are welcome!

On view August 20–October 26, 2024

Reopening February 2025

What can art offer in difficult times?  In this exhibition artists respond to historical moments when uncertainty prevails and social connections fray.

Hollis Sigler, United States (1948-2001), From Me, All Things Proceed and to Me, They Must Return, 1991, color lithograph on paper, 36 x 67 inches. Purchased as part of The Sharkive, with funds from Kemper Family Foundations, UMB Bank; anonymous; Polly and Mark Addison; Karen and Don Ringsby; College of Arts and Sciences, Â鶹¹ÙÍø; Wayne and Nona Yakes and contributions from over 200 donors, S2019.663.  © Hollis Sigler / Shark's Ink.

A black print featuring white cut-outs of plants that create the shape of a bird and a bust. Over the top is a grey hood from a hoodie, and in the top corners are hands.

Upcoming exhibition

Join us in celebrating the opening of William Villalongo: Myths and Migrations on Thursday, September 12th from 4-6pm. Free and all are welcome!

On view September 13 – December 20, 2024

To cut and paste over and under, to cut and see through, to cut and back up, to cut and paint in and on is to enact on real material the felt experience of moving though the world in a racialized body, with a hope that it conveys something of the precarity of life itself and how we are all implicated in the struggles of others.
— William Villalongo

William Villalongo, Speak No Evil, 2016. Acrylic, paper collage, and cut velour paper. (c) William Villalongo. Courtesy of Hugh J. Freund.

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