Artwork Show at OzSBI That includes the Pictures of Marc Brannan Through March 2026

Local artist Marc Brannan’s art work will likely be featured on OzSBI’s first ground from early January by means of the top of March 2026. The West Plains Council on the Arts (WPCA) and the Ozarks Small Business Incubator (OzSBI) have partnered to carry quarterly artwork shows to the incubator. Visitors might view the show throughout OzSBI’s enterprise hours, Monday-Thursday 8-5, and Friday 8-4.

 

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Artist assertion:

Marc Brannan grew up on the household farm close to Willow Springs, MO., and presently lives and works in West Plains, MO. He began taking part in with cameras and taking photos at a really younger age. He cherished taking part in on the farm, together with the previous barn, and loved being open air as a lot as potential surrounded by nature. His dad and mom nurtured his need to journey and see new locations. His dad inspired him to be taught and revel in historical past, particularly the historical past of his household and the place they got here from. 

 

“I’ve all the time loved the tales of my mother attending one-room colleges when she was a child, and I believe that may be a large motive I search them out to {photograph} at present. There are much less of them round yearly, as quite a lot of them slowly fall into disrepair and collapse except they’ve been cared for or restored through the years. I like incorporating them into my panorama pictures as a lot as I can, particularly as a approach of preserving their historical past. I additionally get pleasure from nature pictures and have began attempting to seize extra photographs of wildlife, each out and in of our space. I began taking quite a lot of photos by the point I used to be in center college, primarily with level and shoot 110 cameras. It was enjoyable to drop off the movie for improvement, after which look ahead to seeing what I had captured. I began to get extra critical about taking photos of previous or historic buildings in our space slightly over a decade in the past. I might go for a drive out within the nation and spot the previous townships alongside the way in which which might be slowly disappearing. I might attempt to discover an previous retailer, or church, and if I used to be fortunate, the previous schoolhouse. Something historic that would share slightly little bit of that city’s historical past. I additionally attempt to fulfill with the house owners of these buildings or native residents, to assist present private accounts of their historical past. Quite a lot of the time, they’re tales that received’t be documented in any historical past books.  Most lately, astral pictures has made its approach into my talent set.

I purchased my first digital digital camera within the early 2000’s, and it allowed me to slowly be taught the craft of digital pictures. In the final two years, I’ve actually gotten extra in depth, utilizing a more moderen digital digital camera, and dealing arduous to be taught extra digital camera methods. I’ve targeted extra on bringing the artwork out in my photos, taking a easy pic, and displaying the viewer that there’s a lot extra round us then we usually take time to see. I’ve discovered the very best trainer is simply going out and doing it – attempting totally different photographs, compositions, angles, lighting, and simply seeing first- hand what works. At some level, I wish to put collectively a ebook of photographs, presumably a historical past of schoolhouses and townships that I’ve searched out in my efforts.

 

The photos that I’ve chosen for this exhibition present a spread of my photographs that depict the historical past and outside settings that reside in our space, in addition to different areas, are recognized for. It’s only a glimpse of what we are able to see within the Ozarks, or exterior of them .”

 

A Meet-the-Artist reception will likely be held on March 11 from 3-5 in OzSBI’s foyer at 408 Washington Ave in West Plains. The public is invited to attend to fulfill Brannan and focus on the items on show.

 

For extra details about the exhibit, contact Madison madisonsutterfield@ozsbi.com at OzSBI or Kathleen Morrissey with the WPCA at kmorrissey@outlook.com.