Barbara Williams’ Ozarks Rock Masonry Architecture exhibit

September 2, 2009
Contact: Paul K. Logsdon, Director of Public Relations and Publications (417) 865-2815, ext. 7292

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Barbara Williams will be showing “Photographs and Mixed Media collage pieces of Ozarks Rock Masonry Architecture” at Evangel University Sept.4-30 in the Barnett Fine Arts Gallery. The gallery is open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

An opening reception will be held Sept. 4 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. There is no charge for admission, and the public is invited to attend.

“This is part of an eight-year focus on the subject,” says Williams, art instructor at Missouri State University-West Plains. “I am working on a picture book of Ozarks rock masonry, as well.”

Williams describes the works as rock building photos combined with mixed media collage ‘snapshots’ of an Ozarks family, circa 1940-1950. Family members ‘pose’ in front of rock schools, churches, houses and service stations.

Her work has been shown in galleries in England, Italy, Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia and the United States. Williams graduated from Missouri State University, and from Southern Illinois University with the Master of Fine Arts in painting.

For additional information, contact Stan Maples at (417) 865-2815 ext. 7395.