By MATT PIKE
St. Joseph Post
The recent weather storm also affected the Albrecht Kemper Museum of Art, delaying the launch of the 50th annual membership exhibition in the museum.
Executive Director Eric Fuson says the annual exhibition shows off the talent of existing members at the museum
"People come in all the time and say I'm just kind of blown away by the level of work," Fuson tells KFEQ Hotline host Barry Birr. "There are professionals and there are kind of middle range and beginners, there's all levels in that, and it's such a great thing to put your work out in front of people and get some feedback and be able to see it in a different light, it's really, really fun."
Fuson says over 140 artists submitted 245 works of art to the exhibition which will be in the upstairs gallery of the museum starting Friday.
The weather also pushed back the opening of an exhibition titled Stillness and Life in Colored Pencil featuring works from Wanda Taylor.
Executive Director Eric Fuson says the work Taylor does with a colored pencil is amazing.
"So many times, I hear somebody say it looks like a photograph, and it really. really does, until you get really, really close and then you start to see oh it is a drawing isn't it," Fuson explains. "The downstairs galleries are just full of her work."
Fuson says nearly every work in the downstairs gallery was done over Taylor just over the last two years. Both exhibits are scheduled to open on Friday.