Sometimes folks overlook the second floor of the Fine Arts Building when browsing during the Missouri State Fair, but that wasn’t an issue on Wednesday night as a packed house was on hand for the “MO 50” reception.
For more than two decades, the Missouri Arts Council has presented the 50 best pieces of the year by Missouri artists, as selected by a juror. Over the 11 days of this year’s fair, Houstonia artist Linda Hoover will paint a giant mural on the side of the building to direct folks upstairs (read more about that in the Weekend Edition), but one could argue that the 50 pieces of work should be enough of a draw by themselves.
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