Where is your favorite piece of art in Columbia or who is your favorite COMO artist?
- "Where is your favorite piece of art in Columbia or who is your favorite COMO artist?" originally appeared in the April 2025 "Art & Culture" issue of COMO Magazine.
The Columbia Art League and the Museum of Art and Archaeology. Favorite artist is Kate Gray.
– Jerry Price
Any of Michael Wolf’s paintings at Logboat!
– Gary Michael Lee
Martin Pope.
– Diana Ratliff
The bronze “Jamboree” sculpture of animal instrumentalists on the Boone County Courthouse Square. My all-time fave!
– Liz Burks
Shannon Webster.
– Tiffany Sanford
I found Michael Steddum at Art in the Park last summer and fell in love with his artwork!
– Gabriella Jauch
I think my favorite art in COMO is the butterfly wings by Madeleine LeMieux! It’s such a cute little stop in the middle of downtown you wouldn’t expect!
– Ashley Lasiter
It’s simple but I love the butterfly mural on Alley A, just a fun photo op and adds some color and makes the alley more welcoming right from
the start.
– Sarah Jane Shorthose
I’m a fan of Art Chica Marcum. We have several of her items around the house.
– Kathryn Deters
I just love Adrienne Luther. While I am particularly biased, the work she did for our mural at Bertha’s Beans makes me smile!
– Jessica Jensen Schlosser
Anything Adrienne Luther!
– David Hall Kaycee
My favorite art is the scary bunny with yellow eyes on the left wall high above the ‘fridge at Sparky’s Homemade Ice Cream. The painting shows a scary white bunny standing next to a dude. Bunny is wearing a suit and a bolero.
– Casey Barwick
I guess I’ll have to chime in here since no one has yet suggested the one art installation that everyone still talks about more than twenty years after gracing Columbia’s landscape: Cypher. That’s the official name of the pair of steel structures that seemingly guard the entrances at Columbia Regional Library at the northwest corner of Garth and Broadway. They are the work of sculptor Albert Paley and were installed in 2002. Various publications have noted that the unmistakable steel structure has been interpreted as the pages of a book flipping open, something that fell from Skylab, or — and let’s say it together — flying french fries.
– Jodie Jackson Jr
David Spear is one of my favorite local artists!
– Robin Morrison
Check out The Montminy Gallery!! (At the Boone County History and Culture Center.)
– Angela Lechtenberg
Jenny McGee! She is such a steady force, promoting creativity and healing love.
– Toni Rahman
John Mueller Design + Art. Jon has designed the Mizzou Homecoming logo for the last several years. His watercolors and Mizzou pieces are absolutely gorgeous!
– Erika Pryor