Visitors could very well be overwhelmed by a feeling of nostalgia when they see artist Bruce McCombs’ prints at the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art.
That’s the feeling McCombs himself got when he saw photos of the prints on the museum’s Web site earlier this week.
“I haven’t seen these in probably 20 years,” McCombs says.
Anyone who walks into the first-floor gallery space of the Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building on the Northwest Missouri State University campus in Maryville won’t see any paintings on the wall or sculptures on display. Instead, they’ll see a computer, a projector and a short film being played on a screen.
The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art will reveal two new exhibitions from 4 to 7 p.m. today: One from a large group of Midwestern artists and another from a rural Kansas painter.
The Midwest Paint Group’s “Works From Perception” features pieces from 10 different artists mainly from Missouri, Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. Six of the members studied at the Kansas City Art Institute, including Bob Brock, William Foust and Jeremy Long.
There aren’t too many people who can say they learned hip-hop dance moves, made a basket, played African drums, sang like a pop star, designed jewelry and developed their acting skills in one day. But for students entering grades 3-10 in the next school year, Artscape makes that a possibility.