Dog Stack with Ibex and Frog was created by a local artist of the Ozarks, John Tygart. Educated in the Fine Arts at Crowder College and Missouri State University, Tygart went on to work at the Springfield Art Museum, teaching ceramics to members of the Springfield community. In 1987, he and his wife Jacqueline opened a sculpture and pottery studio in … [Read more...] about Dog Stack with Ibex and Frog: Researched, Conserved, and Restored by Whitney Mosley
Rose O’Neill was a famous Illustrator, cartoonist, artist, writer, and suffragette who kept a home in Walnut Shade, Missouri, known as Bonniebrook. These objects were excavated from the Bonniebrook property after the house burned down in 1947 and were later donated to the Rose O’Neill Historical Society upon the establishment of the Bonniebrook Museum. They are all functional … [Read more...] about Metal Objects Excavated from the Rose O’Neill Homestead: Researched and Conserved by Hannah Overton
The Union Campground Cemetery, located in the woods of northern Greene County, Missouri, was in use from 1840 to 1920. The cemetery fell into disuse after 1920, but it was rediscovered in 1992 by descendants of the people buried there; it is now maintained by the Union Campground Cemetery Association, and the cemetery continues to be visited by the descendants as well as … [Read more...] about Graves and Gravestones in the Union Campground Cemetery: Researched and Conserved by Rebecca Prado, Ashley Pitt, and Katie Kimbrough
This hand-thrown lid for a stoneware crockery vessel was excavated from Bonniebrook, the estate of American illustrator, cartoonist, artist, writer, and suffragette Rose O’Neill, who is best-known for her invention of the Kewpie doll character. Several years after O’Neill’s death in 1944, her house at Bonniebrook burned to the ground, and curious local people … [Read more...] about Hand-Thrown Lid: Researched, Conserved, and Reconstructed by Sabrina Osment
Xylophones are instruments that originated in West Africa by the mid-14th century, and their use subsequently spread to the central and eastern regions of Africa. The kundung xylophone was introduced to the Berom people of Nigeria by the Bagirmi people of Chad in the 1930s. While many musical traditions vanished through British colonization and the … [Read more...] about African Kundung Xylophone: Researched, Conserved, and Repaired by Ashley McLaughlin