Missouri Towns

50 Miles of Art

Posted at April 02, 2008 09:40

By Lauren Foreman

 

Missouri’s 50 Miles of Art festival and semi-annual Studio and Gallery Tour decorate the cities of Hannibal, Louisiana, and Clarksville the weekend of April 27. For the last six years, this celebration has grown to include fifty-three artists and artisans and more than forty studios and galleries. Art aficionados can watch skilled local artists create a work of art and can later purchase those very pieces.

Clarksville artist Robert Rothland’s designs, which will be available at the festival, include winding hand-blown glass works that attach to the walls, artistically lit with backlighting to cast shadows for a unique flare. One of his pieces involves a pool table made completely of wire.

Hannibal artist Marshall Tripp of the Hannibal Alliance Art Gallery describes his cast bronze sculptures and paintings of Midwestern scenes as colorful, traditionally realistic pieces and modern forms of art. 

Hannibal also features 350 acres of land with large-scale outdoor sculptures from all over the world that visitors can view along a two-mile walking trail.

Jewelers, furniture makers, painters, and photographers alike use the sparkle of the Mississippi River and the richness of the historic cities as backdrops for their works, while clay, glass, handmade drums, handmade pewter, and more provide variety and uniqueness on the fifty-mile stretch between Hannibal and Clarksville.

 

April 2008 MissouriLifeLines

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