MU Museum and Gallery Crawl

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
4:30 - 8:00 pm
Free and open to the public

Get your passport to culture and treat yourself to art, music, and dessert at the the fourth annual MU Campus Gallery and Culture Crawl on October 7. Starting at 4:30 p.m. and continuing until 8:00 p.m., attendees can experience art first-hand at the Museum of Art & Archaeology, The State Historical Society of Missouri, the George Caleb Bingham Gallery, the Museum of Anthropology, and the MSA/GPC Craft Studio.

This year the gallery crawl will feature a raffle (Top Ten Raffle Prizes >>) for the intrepid art explorers who attend all five locations. Prizes include T-shirts, art reproductions, a fair trade coffee and chocolate gift basket, and free do-it-yourself classes. To enter, pick up a postcard at one of the participating locations on the evening of the event, or print out a copy. Visitors who get their postcards stamped at each venue are eligible to win prizes. Entrants need not be present to win but must have all locations stamped and an email address provided on the entry card.

The MU Campus Gallery and Culture Crawl is free and open to the public.

Gallery and Culture Crawl map
Campus parking information
Gallery and Culture Crawl poster (pdf)
Gallery and Culture Crawl postcard (pdf)

Museum of Art and Archaeology

detail from painting Missouri through Lens and Palette (September 6–December 24, 1008). Artists and documentary photographers have recorded the people and lands of small-town Missouri throughout the twentieth century. While photographers consistently bring the subject into sharp focus, their approaches vary as do the styles adopted by painters. By bringing images from these dissociated realms together, this exhibition explores the differing visions of the ever changing and sometimes vanishing reality of the Missouri heartland.

The Museum of Art and Archaeology is the only accredited university museum in mid-Missouri. The collections span seven millennia and six continents with artifacts from the ancient world to modern and contemporary art. For over fifty years the Museum of Art and Archaeology’s collections have educated children and life-long learners of all ages. website >>

Museum of Anthropology

New Guinea figure Wooden Arts of New Guinea (August 1 – October 28). Wooden Arts of New Guinea features masks, arrows, carvings, and tapa (bark) cloth paintings from the island of New Guinea. The island is comprised of the country of Papua New Guinea and the state of Papua (formerly Irian Jaya) in Indonesia. The people of New Guinea are experts at wood working; from masks, to clothes: leaf skirts, to tools: bows and arrows, and decorations such as carvings and paintings.

The Museum of Anthropology’s permanent exhibition gallery in Swallow Hall focuses on Native American cultures from across North America, and Missouri history from 11,200 years ago to the present. The museum also features the Grayson Archery Collection, the most comprehensive archery collection in the world. website >>

The State Historical Society of Missouri

McKenney and Hall - Osage Woman - detail 100 Years of Editorial Cartoons and Engelhardt on Elections. In conjunction with the University of Missouri's celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the School of Journalism, The State Historical Society of Missouri presents the exhibitions 100 Years of Election Cartoons and Engelhardt on Elections. The first exhibit presents cartoons from every election year from 1908 to 2008 by some of the nation’s finest editorial cartoonists, including Daniel Fitzpatrick and S. J. Ray. The second show spotlights the work of St. Louis Post Dispatch cartoonist Tom Engelhardt, and his response to the contentious election issues of the 1960s, 70s, 80s and 90s.

The State Historical Society Gallery exhibits are drawn from the society’s collections of historical and contemporary art. In addition to original paintings, prints and drawings by artists including Missouri’s own Thomas Hart Benton and George Caleb Bingham, the Society holds one of the country’s largest collections of editorial cartoons by Pulitzer-Prize winning cartoonists such as Daniel Fitzpatrick and Bill Mauldin of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, John McCutcheon of the Chicago Tribune, and Rollin Kirby of the New York World. website >>

The George Caleb Bingham Gallery

Bingham image Exchange: University of Missouri Kansas City Art Faculty Show (September 22-October 10, 2008). The George Caleb Bingham Gallery is proud to host an exhibition by the renowned faculty from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. This exhibition will include painting, photographs, electronic media, printmaking, and graphic design by artists Ricky Allman, Barry Anderson, Elijah Gowin, Craig A. Subler, Kati Toivanen, and Paul Tosh. website >>

MU Craft Studio Gallery

Glorious Life, paintings by Ming Zhou (September 29 - October 11).
Ming Zhou, a Chinese MFA student at MU, carefully critiques China’s new middle class not with cartoons or satire but with color, contrast and acrylic on canvas.

The Craft Studio Gallery exhibits work of MU students and staff, as well as community members of Columbia. Our objective is to present shows of well-crafted and cohesive art works to broaden ideas about art. Often these shows introduce new artists by providing their first art exposure, but just as often the shows present the most recent works of seasoned artisans. The Craft Studio Gallery is here to foster the relationship between artist and art community. website >>