{"id":12020,"date":"2025-10-17T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=12020"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:12:24","slug":"mowest-to-feature-tonia-hughes-art-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/17\/mowest-to-feature-tonia-hughes-art-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"MoWest to feature Tonia Hughes art exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit-310x207.jpg\" alt=\"Drew Brown Art Gallery MoWest MWSU\" width=\"310\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit-310x207.jpg 310w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/09\/IMG_3253-Enhanced-NR-Edit.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/>Oct. 17, 2025&#8211;Missouri Western State University\u2019s School of Fine Arts will host \u201cDaily Commute,\u201d an exhibit of work from Tonia Hughes, Oct. 21 through Dec. 5. An opening reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24 in the Drew Brown Art Gallery in Potter Hall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hughes is a socio-politically driven artist who works in photography, mixed media, video and installation. Hughes is a fellow of the Kansas African Studies Center and a 2025 Fulbright Scholar. She received the Distinguished Service Award for 2025-26 and 2021-22 and the 2018 College Scholar award at Johnson County Community College, where she founded the filmmaking program and helped create their Associates of Fine Arts degree. Her Daily Commute collection challenges social constructs that restrict humanity from enjoying the moment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The exhibition is free and open to the public. The Drew Brown Art Gallery is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. MoWest is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 17, 2025&#8211;Missouri Western State University\u2019s School of Fine Arts will host \u201cDaily Commute,\u201d an exhibit of work from Tonia Hughes, Oct. 21 through Dec. 5. An opening reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 24 in the Drew Brown Art Gallery in Potter Hall. Hughes is a socio-politically driven artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":11957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12021,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12020\/revisions\/12021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}