College Features Clara Straight Tribute Exhibition

The North Central Missouri College Dorris Rider Art Gallery is hosting the paintings of Missouri artist Clara Straight. These works are on loan from the Sue Ross Arts Center in Kirksville, where Clara was an active art contributor. The exhibition will be featured through Dec. 18. A reception celebrating the exhibit will take place at the gallery at 6 p.m. Dec. 2. Both the exhibition and reception are open to the public. Straight was raised in Yarrow. After an active life of teaching and traveling, she returned home and painted local rural scenes until she was 106 years old. “Clara never painted inside, and painted scenes from every season of the year across her 300-acre farm. Clara painted thousands of canvases. Her work has been exhibited in New York, and scenes from Missouri are now in homes and galleries across the country,” reads a college release about the exhibition. The Dorris Rider Art Gallery is located in the Frey Administrative Center on the NCMC Campus, 1213 Mable St.

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