The Pub hosting art exhibit throughout week

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Northwest Missouri State University student Chance Allen is among seven artists showcased in “Works on Paper,” an exhibit on display this week at The Pub, a Main Street bar located just north of the Maryville square.

Sometimes, no matter how much Chance Allen reminds friends and family about upcoming art shows, not many show up.

This week, however, Allen is hoping a new venue will bring in more people to see works by seven artists, including himself. The pieces are being showcased through Saturday at The Pub, a downtown Maryville bar located at 414 N. Main St.

Allen, a Maryville native and senior art major at Northwest Missouri State University, has a handful of pieces on display in the “Works on Paper” exhibit, which features both paintings and drawings.

The show also showcases artwork by Brant Weiland, Dylan Mize, Emily Stark, Alexis Banegas, Mason Goff, and Tia Calkins.

Allen, Stark, and Banegas are current Northwest students, while Calkins and Weiland are recent graduates.

“For whatever reason, people seem scared to come to the art building (on the Northwest campus),” Allen said during a Monday reception hosted by the tavern.

“I think it is nice to have it at The Pub. People are less scared here than at the art building, or they are more inclined to come here. There is a lot happening in the art building and in the basement of the art building. We are in a little cubicle, and the only people that see it are in the department. It is nice to have others see it and see how they react.”

Allen recently curated “Combined Visions: The Paintings of George Rose and Rose Ventling Rose,” an exhibit held last month at Northwest’s Olive DeLuce Fine Arts Building.

The artist, who is still weighing options for graduate school, noted that the typical “art crowd” attended the Rose show, whereas the exhibit at The Pub will likely attract new sets of eyes.

The Pub show is the brainchild of Calkins, who held her senior show at the bar in December. The exhibit was such a hit that Allen plans to do his senior show there as well.

Calkins said her show got more foot traffic in the bar than it would have in a hallway in the DeLuce building.

Her success led her to think things might go even smoother a second time around. So she and her fellow artists spent eight hours at The Pub on Sunday hanging more than 40 separate works.

The only stipulation for “Works on Paper” was that the art had to consist of images rendered on paper.

Calkins displayed some watercolors. Other participating artists submitted projects completed in graphite, charcoal, and oil paint.

“I think it is nice to have a variety of people and at the same time,” Calkins said. “We show well together.”

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Navin Paul, Maryville, looks at different pieces of art on display during a reception Monday at The Pub that kicked off the “Works on Paper” exhibit being hosted by the downtown tavern through the rest of this week.