Art & Design Gallery Spaces and Exhibits

ARX Gallery

340 Fredrick Street, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Hours: Monday - Friday 1 - 5 p.m.
First Fridays 1 - 7 p.m. 

Charl Kroeger

Lines. Light. Reflection

March 27 - May 8, 2026
Reception: May 8, 5-7 p.m.
Artist's Talk: May 8, 4:30 p.m.  

Charl Kroeger is an inventive, multi-disciplined artist who expresses himself through photography and graphic design. He’s inspired by a deep love for music and the people who make it, and is influenced by architecture and travel+ creating a holistic and expansive bird’s eye view. Born in South Africa, it was there that he combined his two loves: graphic design and music; becoming a leading designer in South Africa’s music industry. His wanderlust and artistic hunger brought him to NYC where he mastered the harmonies of photography and design working with many companies, nonprofits and musicians. Drawn to the universal vibe of California dreaming, Charl and his husband, Paul, now make their home in Long Beach, California with their two cats.

In his exhibition, Lines. Light. Reflection, Kroeger uses photography as a means to ‘paint’ with a camera, offering a unique way of blending reality with imagination and creativity. It is his hope that viewers, “get an insight into what I originally saw which prompted me to take the picture, and that it inspires them to view everyday things through a new and refreshing lens.”

 Wolz Ruzicka Hallway Gallery, ARX Building

340 Fredrick Street, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Hours: Monday - Friday 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. 

Forrest Wallace

the Transgender Agenda
May 8 - June 5, 2026
Opening reception: May 8, 5 - 7 p.m.

Forrest Wallace is a Missouri-born, Maryland-bound artist. Raised in St. Louis,

Wallace grew up appreciating art by making frequent visits to the St. Louis Art Museum and taking summer art classes at Laumeier Sculpture Park. Upon moving to Cape Girardeau for his college education, they felt called to the arts and found a quick home in the Department of Art and Design where he plunged headfirst into artistic pursuit. Most recently, Wallace exhibited work in three solo shows, four group shows, and one juried exhibition. He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in December 2024, and will be attending the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Rinehart School of Sculpture for a Master of Fine Arts degree in August 2026 to prepare for a career as a public artist and educator.

According to Wallace, “This show is a collection of works of a trans artist, by a trans artist, for all people. An amalgamation designed to, above all else, bring about understanding and reflection. These pieces are an abridged version of the artist’s empirical-satirical approach to living in the face of prejudice-turned-persecution. Balancing extremely personal artefacts with punchy political excursions teetering on indecency, the artist invites you to embrace a version of the trans experience and take on a communal responsibility to show up for queer and trans people.”

Nest Gallery, Seminary Building, River Campus

410 S Fountain St, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Hours: Monday - Friday 7 a.m. - 10 p.m. 

Brynnleigh Jones

Expressing Oneself
May 1 - 29, 2026
Opening reception: May 8, 5 - 7 p.m.

Brynnleigh Jones was raised in Jackson, Missouri. She is currently pursuing a BFA in Graphic Design and a minor in business. She started drawing at an early age, making countless drawings which were scattered across her bedroom floor. She continued making art to express herself using a visual rather than written medium so she did not have to overthink her words.

According to Jones, “I have been involved with martial arts for most of my life and one thing I noticed was how students were able to be themselves during class, blossoming and gaining confidence. The camaraderie fostered in sports can also extend to family and friends. When people are tied together through these types of connections, they are able to grow and be better prepared for the future. The works in this show highlight the connectivity of groups and gives the viewer an intimate look into them.”

Slingshot Gallery, Catapult Creative House

612 Broadway St, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Hours: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Elizabeth Myers

Eternal Garden
April 3 - May 29
Opening reception: April 10, 5-7 p.m.

Elizabeth Myers was born in Sikeston, Missouri. She is currently a student at Southeast Missouri State University, pursuing a BFA in Art with an emphasis in Sculpture. She plans on applying to MFA programs after graduation. She has been interested in art since she was a child. She hopes to share her knowledge and skills in the future by becoming a college professor.

Eternal Garden presents a captivating dialogue between the industrial and the organic, the rigid and the delicate. In this imagined landscape, twisted steel sculptures of animals inhabit a surreal, permanent state. These animals are set against steel flowers, which stand in metallic contrast to the hyper-realistic paintings of their living counterparts. The exhibition explores themes of permanence versus impermanence, celebrating the enduring spirit of nature and the timeless quality of art. 

Main Gallery, Catapult Creative House

612 Broadway St, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Hours: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. 

Catapult Gallery Manager Exhibition: Jacey Harris

Above the Surface, There Is Light
May 1 - 29, 2026
Opening reception: May 8, 5 - 7 p.m.

Jacey Harris is from Jackson Missouri, and is pursuing a BFA in Art with a concentration in sculpture. She works with materials such as wood and fibers, using yarn in nearly all of her three-dimensional work. Much of her art is inspired by drastic life events that often involve loss and grief. She incorporates themes from classic literature into her pieces, such as beauty, youth, insanity, and death. These topics are combined with personal experiences to create art that is not only pleasing to the eye but also contains a darker, more poetic meaning beneath its surface.

As a writer and a poet, Jacey chooses to subtly weave written creations into her visual art. She experiments with fragility and femininity, utilizing the self-portrait to showcase personally felt emotions. For a more naturalistic approach, she relies on film and alternative photography processes such as cyanotypes, allowing her love for both the camera and the color blue to tell her story.

Above the Surface, There Is Light dives headfirst into the feeling of drowning in the deepest blues and allowing the self to sink lower and lower as a form of escapism. Other forms of escapism can be found inside the literature that is read to be transported to new worlds to forget about reality and in physical travels abroad, which can be seen intertwined with deep, personal thoughts and poetry written while battling these unstable blues. These periods of grief are met with the inevitable ticking of time and the horrors of self-criticism, swirling with the unbearable pressures of feeling inadequate while overthinking the time that has been lost and wasted along with what little time may be left. These feelings place immense pressure on the self, leading to eventual suffocation and the death of what was once cherished.

Death plays a crucial role in this exhibition, allowing the dark period to come to an end and bringing forth the start of new life after realizing it is safe to emerge from the depths of the water that caused the drowning. This new life “above the surface” is seen as a resurrection in hues of vibrant greens, replacing the deep blue sorrows that once flooded all memories of the past. It is at this stage that acceptance is reached and healing can begin, leading to the growth of something stronger than before with the new light that will lead the way to contentment.

Dobbins Center Gallery

 No exhibitions at this time.