Unions' Public Art Blog

Campus Inspiration:  The University of Missouri's Fine Artists   Since its founding in 1821, Columbia, Missouri has served as home to numerous visual artists, but the city's visual arts community flourished after the founding of the University of Missouri in 1839. MU not only brought in educators and students, but new residents who also worked as artists. While these artists have played an integral role in fostering a vibrant visual arts community, Columbia has also informed their body of work. The works featured here highlight the beauty of MU's campus and its inspiration to locally and nationally recognized artists.  Brooke Bulovsky Cameron, A Country Drive in the City , 1983, photolithograph Brooke Bulovsky Cameron was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin. Cameron earned her BA (1963) in art education from the University of Wisconsin and her MFA (1966) in printmaking from the University of Iowa. Cameron became a member of the University of Missouri's Art Department

  Curator of Public Arts, 2021-22 Audrey Florey  Ph.D. Student, Visual Studies The Missouri Student Union's Curator of Public Arts has witnessed a transition this summer.  Kaitlin Grimes, 2021 Ph.D. in Art History & Archaeology and former Public Arts Curator of the Missouri Student Unions' Public Arts Collection, successfully defended her dissertation this Spring and will be leaving the Unions at the end of July. Audrey Florey, is the new Curator of Public Arts for the 2021-22 academic year.  Audrey is a Ph.D. student in the Art History program in the School of Visual Studies and works under the advisement of Dr. Kristin Schwain. She studies nineteenth- and twentieth-century American art, focusing on visual and material cultural, museum studies, and object-centered education. She received her M.A. in Art History & Archaeology in the Spring of 2020 at MU. Audrey's M.A. thesis, "Helen Torr: Navigating the Woman's Experience in American Modernism," contex