MSSU art professor's work to be exhibited in Nevada

Works of art by Josie Mai, assistant professor of Art at Missouri Southern State University, will be displayed at art galleries in Kansas City, Mo., and Nevada, Mo., this fall and winter.

The display titled "A Sense of Order" will be featured at the Leedy Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City, Mo. from Sept. 3-Oct. 30.

Following that showing, the exhibit will be featured from Nov. 17 - Dec. 16 at the PEO Foundation Gallery. inside the Haidee and Allen Wild Center for the Arts at Cottey College in Nevada.

"I make art because it is a tangible, immediate way to process my life and what interests me visually and intuitively," Mai said. "Author Joanne Harris in the book 'Chocolat' describes 'a way of mapping out the random patterns of our trajectory.' This is what my art does for me, it creates a sense of order to a nonsensical existence. The new work is a mixed media installation filled with color, pattern, and figures navigating the space created for them."

More information on Mai's work may be found at www.josiemai.com and http://www.soulfarikenya.com/.