By Jeff Murphy,
March 1, 2023
WARRENSBURG, MO 鈥 The 55th Annual Citation Show will open March 13 in the main gallery
of the 欧美视频 Gallery of Art and Design. The exhibition is
one of three art shows and a visiting artist鈥檚 lecture that are planned at the gallery
during the same month.
Each year, during the spring semester, the gallery invites students with declared
majors and minors in Art and Design to submit their best works of art for inclusion
in the Citation Show. An arts professional is selected to jury the exhibition, awarding
cash prizes to the top artworks across numerous categories.
鈥淭he Citation Show is a chance to see the best work of our students and to celebrate
their accomplishments in the classroom,鈥 said Dr. Rahila Weed, chair of Art and Design.
鈥淚t is a window into our programs, highlighting the incredible talent of our students
and faculty.鈥
This year鈥檚 juror is Amy Kligman, executive and artistic director of the Charlotte
Street Foundation in Kansas City. Kligman will not attend the reception but the public
is invited to hear her talk about her work at 4 p.m. Monday, March 27 in Wood Building,
Room 100, where she will be the Kleppe Visiting Artist
Lecturer. This lecture will be simulcast over Zoom. Free Zoom registration is required,
and individuals can register online at . It is also easy to find the sign-up link on social media. The Gallery of Art and
Design is on Instagram @ucmartgallery and on Facebook as UCM Gallery of Art and Design.
The Citation Show will be on view through March 31. The public is invited to attend
the show reception from 4-6 p.m. March 29. Awards will be announced at 4 p.m. All
events are free and open to the public.
Also part of the spring art offerings, in Gallery 115 of the UCM Art Center, 鈥淚nvented
Personas鈥 will also open on March 13. Works in this exhibition represent a curated
selection of artworks completed by UCM鈥檚 Foundations II students working with visiting
artist Johanna Winters. Students were asked to create large-scale papier-m芒ch茅 masks
that present and reflect upon invented personas and their aestheticized representations.
In commenting on the show, Director of Gallery Events, Jamie Platt, noted, 鈥淚f you
only see one UCM art show this year, do yourself a favor and get down here for Invented
Personas. I鈥檝e been watching the projects develop over the course of a couple weeks
and they are truly strange and compelling.鈥
Winters鈥 name may be familiar for anyone who has been keeping up with events in the
Gallery of Art and Design this semester. She is a sculptor and conceptual artist whose
recent body of work is a series of meditations on what it is like to age as a woman.
In addition to working with students in a workshop and curating "Invented Personas,"
Winters has curated a five-person exhibition called 鈥淪ide Stage,鈥 and has twice been
a guest lecturer in the Kleppe Visiting Artist Lecture Series, once speaking about
her own work and the others as a moderator for a panel discussion with the artists
of Side Stage.
Invented Personas will be on view through March 31. The reception for this event coincides
with the reception for the Citation Show on March 29.
Among the March offerings, the annual high school art show opens on March 13. The
High School Art Exhibition at UCM features a selection of outstanding artwork made
by high school students from within a 150-mile radius of Warrensburg, Missouri. Students
are allowed to submit two pieces of work and can enter any original drawing, painting
(oil, acrylic, opaque watercolor), mixed media, printmaking (serigraphy, relief, intaglio),
fibers, design/graphics, photography, ceramics or sculpture. Upper-level students
can sign up for a day of live art competition and workshops with UCM faculty and students
at the annual High School Art Contest Day. Both events are free and open to home-schooled,
public and private high school students. The exhibition will be on view through March
31. The public is invited to a reception for the High School Art Exhibition from noon
to 2 p.m. March 25. Admission is free.
This work by Naomi Rendell, a student at Lee鈥檚 Summit West High School, is an example
of the items on display during the High School Art Exhibition at the University of
Central Missouri Gallery of Art and Design. The show runs March 13-31.
Learn more about upcoming events at the Gallery of Art and Design by visiting its
website. Anyone who has questions about gallery events is encouraged to contact Jamie Platt
at jplatt@ucmo.edu.