EXHIBITIONS
The Center collects Midwest Art, American Decorative Arts, International Folk Art, including a significant collection of Mexican Folk Art and the worlds' largest public collection of Haitian Art. Selections from our collections are always on display. We also feature changing exhibits in five separate galleries throughout the building.
GALLERIES
UP COMING EXHIBITIONS
CHRIS WUBBENA:
RECENT WORKS
On View November 25-April 12
Featuring interdisciplinary artist Chris Wubbena’s most recent bodies of work titled Demos and in the midst of things. His mixed-media sculptural compositions, multi-media installations, and large-scale public sculptures have been presented nationwide for the past two-and-a-half decades. He has a B.F.A. from UNI and an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University and is currently Professor of Sculpture at Southeast Missouri State University.
TIME AGAIN
On View December 2-March 1
Accomplished muralist, installation artist, and educator Brent Houzenga is a New Orleans-based artist originally from Fulton, IL. His work has been featured in publications such as Time Out Chicago, Art+Design New Orleans, and the Rizzoli book Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art. He is also the subject of an independent documentary film titled Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer. Houzenga is known for his portraits of anonymous people painted with a Pop aesthetic. His influences include punk rock, street art, comic books, mysticism, and psychology. He states, “I’m interested in portraiture, but I’m equally interested in abstraction and the space between representation and the void.”