The Harlin Museum would like to announce the winners of their Annual High School Art Show, which will be on display in the museum’s Hathcock Gallery through Sunday, March 20th.

The winner of Best of Show, receiving a $100 award generously donated by our show sponsor and West Plains local business, EMoviePoster.com, is the graphite drawing entry titled Just A Boy, a high-contrast realism-style portrait of a young boy with lines of light and shadow falling across his face. The artist taking this top prize is Lyla Cornman, a 12^th-grader at Mtn. View/Liberty High School.

This show included competition entries in from West Plains High School, Thayer High School, Mountain View/ Liberty High School, and Mountain Grove High School which were divided into five categories: 2D Drawings, 2D Paintings, 2D Mixed Media, 3D Mixed Media, and 3D Fiber Art. In total, the competition received 57 entries.

In the 2D Paintings Category, the winner of 1st place is the entry, Coffee Shop a colorful watercolor painting of a couple casually sitting at a café table, painted by Megan Broos of Mtn. Grove High School.  The 2nd place winner, Evening Shadows, depicts another couple sitting together on a green couch in this stylized acrylic painting, also by Megan Broos of Mtn. Grove High School.  3rd place is awarded to Intentional, a multicolored double-canvas acrylic poured painting by Natalie Wiehe of West Plains High School, and Honorable Mentions for the Painting Category go to Izabella Daniels of Mtn. View/Liberty High School for Up, Up & Away, an acrylic painting of a hot-air balloon floating over desert mesas & Sunset Truck, a watercolor painting of a red semi-truck painted by Macey Penner of Mtn. Grove High School.

In the 2D Drawings Category, the 1st place winner is River Monster, a graphite drawing of a crocodile with its mouth of teeth pictured both above and below the water drawn by Riley Taber of Mtn. View/Liberty High School.  The 2nd place award goes to entry Psalm 57:3, an artist rendering in charcoal of a hand reaching down toward a falling person drawn by Piper Stump of West Plains High School. And 3rd place is awarded to the entry named Static Fixation, a drawing of multiple hands that creates the shape of a ghostly face drawn by Conner Quimby of West Plains High School. The Honorable Mentions of this category are Courage, Dear Heart the incredible charcoal of a lion with a full mane by Natalie Wiehe of West Plains High School, along with Courtois Cottage, a pen & ink drawing of a charming ramshackle building by Owen Roberts of Mtn. View/ Liberty High School.

In the 2D Mixed Media Category, 1st place is awarded to Jail Break, a brightly colored rendition of a green snake breaking through a red brick wall by Courtney Crivello of Thayer High School. 2nd place has been awarded to Addison Hunter of West Plains High School for her Polaroid-like images of travel destinations pinned to framed lines of twine titled Picture Perfect Places. The 3rd place award goes to entry Greek Myth, another mixed media entry (with printed Greek soldiers) by Courtney Crivello of Thayer High School, and Honorable Mention for this category has been awarded to Luminescence, a space-themed acrylic & fiber art entry by Hailey Burke of West Plains High School.

In the 3D Fiber Arts Category, the 1st place winner is the wool felting entry of a small teddy bear named Todd by Tymber Holman of Thayer High School. The 2nd place winner, Spring Flowers, is a navy fabric embroidered with white flowers by Selena Holis of Thayer High School and 3rd Place goes to entry You Are My Sunshine by Chastity Wodinowich of Thayer High School for her embroidered entry of the same phrase.

And, in the 3D Mixed Media Category, the winner of 1st place is the complete miniature of a neighborhood pharmacy building complete with all interior and exterior details, aptly titled Browsly Pharmacy by Raymond Short of Mtn. Grove High School.  2nd place goes to the mixed media sculpture representation, Mother Nature’s Reflection, by Natalie Thompson of West Plains High School, and 3rd place is awarded to It’s In My Genes, a painted denim piece by Natalie Wiehe of West Plains High School. The Honorable Mentions in this category are awarded to a collage of vinyl records titled I’ll Be Seeing You, also by Natalie Wiehe of West Plains High School, and The Jester, a sculptured representation of a clown by Izzy Matejek of West Plains High School.

The winners of the final award of the show, the People’s Choice Award, will be decided by the public through voting at the museum gallery and through online voting on Facebook, which begins on Friday, March 11^th on the Harlin Museum’s FB page (@HarlinMuseumWP).  Voting ends at 2 pm on Sunday, March 20^th.

The Harlin Museum will open for its 2022 season of events by accepting entries on Friday, January 14th and Saturday, January 15th (12pm-4pm each day) for their annual Fiber & Textile Arts Competition Show, which will be on display to the public in the museum’s Hathcock Gallery from January 21st through February 13th, 2022..

The museum is putting out a call for submissions to all regional fiber arts and textile arts artists. Entry fees for competition will be: 1 entry – $15.00; 2 entries – $20.00, 3 entries -$25.00, 4 entries – $30. Enter 4 pieces; get the 5th entry FREE!  Limit 5 entries per artist. Entry fees may be paid using cash, check, or card. Entries and entry fees are to be brought to the main gallery of the museum between 12 pm-4 pm on the appointed days for drop-off and each entry must meet the given guidelines for acceptance into the competition portion of the show.

Submissions may include any item that was created using fibers or textiles, including examples of: quilts/quilt art, afghans, crocheted & knitted articles, embroidery, hand-woven or machine-woven articles, felted wool projects, lacework, tatting, applique, handmade apparel from pattern or personal design, beaded items, woven rope, canvas work (needlepoint, petit pointe, etc.), macramé, rugs, etc.

The guidelines for the competition are that any type of art or craft item that utilizes fiber or textile components as part of the piece is eligible to enter, all pieces must be the work of the artist entering the competition,  and entries must not have been previously entered in a Harlin Museum Competition Show. All competition entries will be evaluated 25% for general appearance, 50% for construction, and 25% for artistic design. A complete list of all submission guidelines can be found HERE.

Any questions regarding eligibility or other inquiries can be emailed to the museum at or you may contact the museum directly at (417) 256-7801. We look forward to another exciting year of art and regional history at The Harlin!

See you at the museum!

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The Harlin Museum of West Plains, MO is proud to announce the winners of their 2021 Welcome To The Wilderness: Discovering The Great Outdoors Of The Ozarks Multimedia Competition Show, which is on display in the museum’s Hathcock Gallery until Sunday, November 28, 2021. The museum is open to the public on Friday, Saturday, & Sunday afternoons from 12 pm to 4 pm, and will be open during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Multimedia shows include both fine art categories and photography categories, making it one of the most diverse competition shows held at the museum. The theme of the show is the Ozarks Wilderness, and all entries are to interpret the show’s theme. Along with the art competition, the exhibit also features a display of Metal Canoe Art by Bob Parker of Raymondville, MO. the WPHS Trap Shooting team history, firearms on loan by the Anthony Eldringhoff family, and items about the Ozarks’ history of hunting dogs, on loan from West Plains resident, Billy Sexton.

The winner of the Best Of Show award is a Fine Art entry titled “Gold”, a colored pencil drawing by artist Nanci Harlin of West Plains, MO..

Gold, by Nanci Harlin of West Plains, MO.

In the Fine Arts Category, the winners are:

1st Place: #001-Lobo by Nanci Harlin of West Plains, MO

2nd Place: #004-Winter White Tails by Nanci Harlin of West Plains, MO

3rd Place: #008-Carl’s River by Katy Irvin of West Plains, MO

Honorable Mention:

#038-Quiet Moments, by Barak Pinnon of Caulfield, MO

In the Photography Category,, the winners are:

1st Place: #011-Daybreak by Hallie Horne of West Plains, MO

2nd Place: #015-Fungus Among The Fungus by Allen Hampton of West Plains, MO

3rd Place: #030-Roadblock Alert by Linda Kirk of Cabool, MO

Honorable Mention:

#044-Black Powder Smoke In My Eyes by Vicki Warren-Martin of West Plains, MO

And, in the Mixed Media Category, the winner is:

1st Place: #016-eternals by Terry Hampton of West Plains, MO

Congratulations to all of the winners!

Come visit the exhibit before it closes on Sunday, November 28th….the gallery is located at 405 Worcester, West Plains, MO.

Private tours are available at request.

#2021 #OzarksWildernessExhibit #HarlinMuseum #DiscoverYourOzarks #CaulfieldMO #CaboolMO #WestPlainsMO

(Pictured from left to right: Temi Lasater, Harlin Museum Board Treasurer; Pam Woodward, West Plains Savings & Loan Manager; Cleo Cockrum, Harlin Museum Board Vice President) 

The Harlin Museum is pleased to announce the contribution of $500 from West Plains Savings & Loan (located at 417 Broadway, West Plains, MO) for the winner of the Best Of Show award at the museum’s upcoming 46th Annual Fall Art Show Competition. 

West Plains Savings & Loan has been a devoted local patron of the arts for years, most notably honored for their consistent donation of funds to the Harlin in an effort to help support the museum’s combined missions of preserving regional history and offering access to the cultural contribution of and education in the creation of art—a mission that includes offering opportunities for local artists to share their artwork with the public through art competitions and gallery shows.

THANK YOU to West Plains Savings & Loan for being such a valued and generous member of our #Ozarks community!

#westplainsmo #harlinmuseum #sponsorships #charitabledonation #WestPlainslocal #DiscoverYourOzarks

This history-based exhibit will focus on the 30-volume magazine publication (in print 1978-1987) that focused on our regional area of the Ozarks—sharing the beginnings of our communities, spotlighting important residents and local heroes, and telling the stories of significant families who have been a part of our history—with some of the best historic Ozarks photography collections ever on display. This will be exhibit one of two based on the publication published by one of West Plains’ native sons, Russ Cochran, with the first focusing on the earlier volumes of the magazine, while part two, scheduled for exhibit in July 2022, will focus on the later years of the publication.

Featured articles of Part One of the exhibit include:

Howell County History (1839 – 1866) by Dorthea Reavis

Howell County History (1865 – 1899) by Dorthea Reavis

Howell County History (1900 – 1908) by Dorthea Reavis

Howell County History (1911) by Dorthea Reavis

The History of West Plains

……and much more!

The public’s opportunity to view the treasured Pioneers of the Ozarks collection of portraits and Ozarks’ landscapes created by historic Shannon County artist, L.L. Broadfoot, is happening now during the Ozark Heritage exhibit at the Harlin Museum. The annual exhibit opened earlier in the month in conjunction with the Old-Time Music & Ozark Heritage Festival and will be on display in the museum’s main gallery until June 27th.

The exhibit features the entire collection of cultural depictions of a by-gone Ozarks era and the individual portraits and complete character studies drawn or painted by Broadfoot and included in his book, Pioneers of the Ozarks, which was first published in 1944. Today, the book is in its’ fifth edition copy, having sold hundreds of copies around the world, and is still available for purchase through the Harlin Museum’s gift shop and website.

Due to the size of the original collection being so large (there are over 80 pieces to the Pioneers of the Ozarks part of the collection and over 200 pieces to the Broadfoot collection total), the gallery is only able to showcase the entire Pioneers-portion during this annual exhibit. As, over the years, the museum has been contacted by many individuals who claim to be either a descendant of the artist or a descendant of someone who sat for one of Broadfoot’s portraits and would like the chance to see the work in person, the Harlin encourages all those who wish to view the art to come stop in at the museum and take it in—in all its’ splendor of a time and a place almost forgotten to the ages.

Those who are interested in scheduling an individual or group tour can contact the museum at or phone the museum directly at (417) 256-7801. The museum is currently open Friday, Saturday, & Sunday (12 pm – 4 pm).

We are pleased to announce the entry dates for our 2021 Spring Art Show, Friday, April 2, and Saturday, April 3. This is an open call for artists to submit their pieces for the competition show. Please see guidelines in attached photo.