Community Event Calendar

June 3 – August 15 in the Art Gallery

In this series of photographs of live mantises, Regan Pufall invites the viewer to gaze closely at these inhuman creatures. The more we look, the more we see similarities between ourselves and these “alien” beings.

• Thursday, June 13, 2024: Patrons of the Arts Kick Off
• 6:00 PM
• Sunset Bluffs

Friday, August 23

5 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

East Central College’s Music Department will be kicking off their concert series with a free, outdoor music festival.  Bands in order of performance will be:   Woodshine, Pamwe marimba band, and Funky Butt Brass Band.

All proceeds from the festival will go towards manufacturing scholarships.

Supported by:  Metallica Scholars Initiative, ECC’s Music Department, and ECC Patrons of the Arts

August 26 – September 19 in the Art Gallery

Beth Livensperger creates an installation of work on paper, tailored specifically to ECC’s Art Gallery space.  This body of work grew out of her  experiences with strong female colleagues: mentors, competitors, friends, and advocates. The large-scale collages depict women navigating the banal, yet psychologically charged, space of office interiors.

• Friday, September 27, 2024: Golf Tournament
• 11:00 AM
• Wolf Hollow Golf Club
• eastcentral.edu/alumni/golf-tournament/

September 30 – October 24 in the Art Gallery

The dilemma of how to use drawing and painting media to resolve competing interests in the human figure, urban and domestic spaces, pictorial  depth, passage of time, narrative, and dynamic composition influenced by art history, contemporary art, and comics, were what initially motivated Chris Troutman’s artwork. Later, juxtaposing imagery from the US and Japan, the two places he lives each year, has created the potential for content that compares social and cultural differences and presents audiences with a global perspective, which has become more relevant in contemporary US culture.

November 4 – 29 in the Art Gallery
Reception: November 8, 5-7 p.m.

Mid-Missouri Fine Arts Society, an organization of local artists, annually presents their artworks at ECC.  Members work in a variety of media, including pastels, graphite, watercolor, oil paint, photography, and ceramics. The Mid-Missouri Fine Arts Society began in 1974 to promote and  contribute to the interest in fine arts.

• December 12, 2024: Cocktails & Cold Reads- Theatre (Time TBD)