“Henk Pander: Steel and Bone”

The art and design department will host the opening of the exhibit “Henk Pander: Steel and Bone” from 5-10 p.m. at the Art and Design Gallery, 333. E. Walnut St. Dutch-born painter Henk Pander has played a major role in Portland, Oregon’s artistic community for more than 40 years.

Trained in the rigorous Dutch Academy and informed by a childhood shadowed by Nazi occupation as well as an impoverished life in Holland as a result of World War II, Pander’s sometimes larger-than-life paintings meld traditional realism, still-life and painterly virtuosity with contemporary drama, turbulence and danger.

This is a First Friday Art Walk event. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Roberta Lowe, gallery director, at (417) 829-5093 or rlowe@missouristate.edu.