What is Art On The Move?
Art on the Move (AOM) is Mizzou's School of Visual Studies (SVS) community outreach program. AOM gives real-life experiences to SVS students and alumni, providing hands-on professional career-building opportunities by returning them to their Missouri hometowns or home regions to share their art with others. MU's School of Visual Studies' students, alumni, and faculty are some of the best and brightest rising stars in the visual arts field and play an instrumental part in recruiting the next generation of SVS students.
Initiatives
smART Moves! Summer Camp
smART Moves! is an arts intensive summer camp for teens presented by the University of Missour’s School of Visual Studies and its community outreach program, Art on the Move, which will run June 10 - 14, 2024 from 8:45 a.m.–4 p.m. The program is designed to give teens a real-life college experience through a fun and safe summer camp on Mizzou’s beautiful Columbia, MO campus. Students will learn college level skills over a week-long intensive which can be taken as a day camp or overnight camp experience. Meal plans are available for day campers. Dorm stay and meal plans included for overnight campers. All campers are invited to attend a welcome event on and a closing reception with friends and family.
Art in High Schools
Art in High Schools will bring current students and alumni back to their hometown high school art classrooms to give artist talks and docent exhibitions held on site or in nearby Art in Storefronts exhibits. This program helps current students and recent alumni connect with future SVS students. AOM offers short in-class or virtual presentations available for high school arts classrooms to share the school's offerings with students.
Interested in hosting Art on the Move at your High School? Email artonthemove@missouri.edu
Art in Storefronts - in partnership with MU Extension
Art in Storefronts creates walk up exhibitions of visual artworks and installations created by students or alumni of the School of Visual Studies in storefronts across Missouri. This partnership allows students and alumni to exhibit their work, connect to their communities, and help revitalize storefronts in their hometowns.
Formerly Art in Empty Storefronts, this program was designed to reinvigorate commercial corridors that had been hard hit by the economic downturn, research shows placing art in empty storefronts has worked well as a community and economic driver for many places around the country. Similar programs have been successful through Springboard for the Arts and the NEA.
The program launched in October, 2020 in Lee's Summit, MO.
