This year, 2021, is Missouri's bicentennial. As a native of Kansas, I learned next to nothing about the Show Me State growing up, and I continued that ignorance for the fourteen years I've lived here. (Sorry!) However, I do know that we have a plethora of talented artists and the Missouri Art Now exhibit is showcasing a few of us. My work from 2019, "How Soft the Hazy Summer Night" was selected as one of sixty pieces to celebrate the bicentenary in a traveling exhibition from March to November.
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| How Soft the Hazy Summer Night 36" diameter aluminum, vinyl, acrylic |
On the occasion of its bicentennial, it is important to recognize that Missouri has and remains a significant site for visual artistic production. The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri in Cape Girardeau, Hannibal Arts Council, Post Art Library and Spiva Center for the Arts in Joplin, and the Albrecht-Kemper Museum in Saint Joseph are collaborating to create Missouri Art Now, an exhibition featuring sixty works from artists throughout the State of Missouri, together demonstrating the vibrant visual arts culture in the state.
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| You can see it hanging at the opening March 5th in Cape Girardeau. photo credit: @Missouri2021 on Instagram |
And now some detail shots...
I slathered on the paint really thick and scraped an old mop brush through it before drying, adding texture. Then I sanded and did it again with a different color.
After all that was done I went to town with the vinyl orzos.
The title comes from the fourth stanza in a poem by Ellen P. Allerton called "On The Farm,"
How soft the hazy summer night!
On dewy grass the moon's pale light
Rests dreamily. It falls in town
On smoky roofs and pavements brown.
How tenderly when night is gone,
Breaks o'er the fields the summer dawn!
How sweet and pure the scented morn.
(Get up! Old Molly's in the corn!)
And, as it is a traveling show, here's where it can be found throughout the year:
March 5-27, 2021
Arts Council of Southeast Missouri in Cape Girardeau
April 9-May 15, 2021
The State Historical Society of Missouri in Columbia
May 29-July 17, 2021
Post Art Library and Spiva Center for the Arts in Joplin
July 23-September 6, 2021
Hannibal Arts Council in Hannibal
September 17-November 7, 2021
Albrecht-Kemper Museum in Saint Joseph
More info at www.missouri2021.org
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