Upcoming and Previous Exhibitions

The Cabot Gallery features exhibitions from student and professional artists of all ages.

Recurring exhibitions include Students of Students, various professional artists, along with local and regional area middle and high school shows.

SUMMER 2026

Research and Conservation of Art and Artifacts Conference Poster Presentations by Students of Missouri State University’s Museum Studies Program

July 13-31

This exhibition of five posters showcases research and conservation by students from the ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts class of Fall 2024 and by two students who elected to complete conservation and restoration projects for their summer 2025 MST495 Museum Studies Internship.  Both ART/MST488 and MST495 are Citizenship and Service-Learning Integrated courses taught and supervised by Dr. Billie Follensbee, Coordinator of the Museum Studies Program.

In the ART/MST488 course, the students receive training in basic preservation, cleaning, stabilization, exhibition, and storage of art and artifacts, as well as limited training in repair and restoration. Each student completes a final course project, independently analyzing and researching one or more objects that were loaned to the program by different Community Partners; then they apply their course training to conserve, repair, and/or restore the objects.

Students may then elect to extend and apply the training learned in the ART/MST488 course to a MST495 conservation and restoration internship project arranged through the Museum Studies Internship program with a Community Partner – in this case, with Bob and Barb Kipfer, proprietors of the Cobb-Keeton Cemetery, and with the History Museum on the Square.

Under Dr. Follensbee’s mentorship, these five students subsequently developed their project research further into poster presentations, which they successfully presented at the Missouri Archaeological Society 2026 annual meeting and/or the Missouri Academy of Science 2026 annual meeting.

“Restoration of the Cobb-Keeton Cemetery”
by Madison Baker & Emery Wilcoxon

“Conservation and Restoration of Hide-Covered Pull-Along Horse Toys”
by Emery Wilcoxon

“Conservation and Restoration of a Haudenosaunee Beaded ‘Whimsy” Wall Pocket”
by Cassidy Hale

“Conservation and Archival Display of Clay and Glass Marbles”
by Zane Wigton

“Conservation and Restoration of Wooden Figures from Putumayo, Colombia”
by Abby Wade

 

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    Portuguese artist, Angela Saldanha, exhibits her works nationally and internationally, where she usually works as an activist of nature, community involvement, and critical reflections on society.

  • Willard High School

    Curated by Willard High School art teachers Teressa Duncan and Carly Hoerr.

  • Ozark Elementary: A Celebration of the Arts

    This exhibition was curated by Cyndi Shepard, who is a veteran elementary art teacher in the Ozark School System.

  • Students of Students

    Students of Students Exhibition featuring Amber White, Hannah Willadsen, and Arianna Ponder.

  • Art Education Faculty Exhibit: Spirituality & Coexistence

    Iconographic paintings by Dr. Fatih Benzer