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Spiva Featured on KGCS-TV Newsmakers

BY Spiva Center for the Arts |
November 18, 2025

Spiva Center for the Arts Executive Director, Heather Lesmeister, and Marketing Director, Paige Mock, give details of the 78th annual Joy Spiva Cragin Membership show featuring the works of more than 100 area artists and discuss winners of the show competition. They offer insights into The Hand Magazine exhibit, as well as another called “What Lies Beneath,” featuring works by the Joplin Regional Arts Coalition. A project called “Create2Educate: Prone To Wonder” which has works by students in the United States and others in Africa, is also highlighted.

Artist John Mills joins the discussion to talk about the Larry Clingman retrospective exhibit which features a large number of oil paintings. 

Newsmakers is airing nightly at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. on KGCS-TV and will air at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, November 22 on KOAM-TV. It is also posted on the station’s YouTube channel: KGCS – Missouri Southern State University.

KGCS-TV programming can be seen on channel 21 and is also available on regional cable television systems such as Sparklight, Mediacom and Optimum Internet. The station operates as a service of the Department of Communication at Missouri Southern State University.

Watch the episode below or directly on KGCS’s Youtube channel.

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