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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">City's Bicentennial Commemorative Poster unveiled</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - Each year since 1992, the City of Columbia has produced an annual Commemorative Poster that celebrates the vitality and beauty of Columbia. In 2021, we celebrate Columbia’s bicentennial. Local artists were asked to submit artwork images that captured the spirit of Columbia now or in the past 200 years.<br /><br />Ken Nichols’ oil painting titled "Sometimes It’s a Door" has been unveiled as the Bicentennial Commemorative Poster for the City of Columbia. Unveiled on Thursday by Mayor Brian Treece at the Daniel Boone Building, the artwork was selected through a jury process from submissions by 13 artists.<br /><br />The artist is a graduate from the University of Missouri. Nichols resided on the east and west coasts before returning to Columbia in 2005. He has exhibited with Sager-Braudis Gallery, provided the art for Sycamore, Barred Owl, Sake Bistro, and currently fulfill
s commissions. Nichols states that he counts himself lucky to have found a home town and to be doing what he loves.<br /><br />This year’s poster image represents a metaphorical crossroads of our City as we reflect back on the last 200 years and look forward to the future, but also an actual crossroads at an intersection on the south end of Columbia. Nichols states that this place has always felt significant to him - where everything goes a darker green and the road lines disappear into the map. It’s one of the last high points on the plateau before the crags and caves of the woodland begin their slow descent toward the Missouri River. The artist hopes to celebrate the edge of civilization in this work.<br /><br />The Bicentennial Commemorative Poster, "Sometimes It’s a Door," can be purchased for $20 at the Convention and Visitors Bureau, 300 S. Providence Road. Funds raised by poster sales go toward the Columbia Arts Fund, an endowment that provi
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Commemorative Poster is a program of the City of Columbia Office of Cultural Affairs and sponsored by Commerce Bank and Miller’s Professional Imaging/MPIX.</div>
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