Local artist Carrie Elliott’s new work, Animal Vision, lines Alley A with gigantic, illuminated re-creations of the eyes of cheetahs, llamas, geckos, and other animals, which almost feel like they're watching as you traverse one of the arteries of the Fest footprint.

Artist: Carrie Elliott | Location: Alley A

Everyone's favorite buffalo, Barb, returns for her ninth year, once again sporting thousands of keyboard keys.

Artist: T/F Art volunteers | Location: The Globe lobby

Artists: T/F art volunteers | Location: The Globe lobby

Everyone’s favorite inflatable-design collective, Pneuhaus, has gotten into the habit of making the trek from Rhode Island every March, and it's back in 2020 with The Compound Camera. This multifaceted, immersive environment explores the mechanisms of sight, comprising 109 pinhole cameras, each with a slightly different viewport from one another. From a single vantage point, viewers experience a mode of vision that can be compared to being inside an insect's eye.

Artist: Pneuhaus | Location: The Sculpture Yard

Night Visions is True/False's outdoor video art installation series, projected onto the north side of The Rise (located at the corner of Ninth and Locust) as well as the south side of Missouri United Methodist Church; featuring original work from 8pm to 11pm all four nights of the festival.

Artists Jordan Doig and Stephanie Gould present Cosmos, a video projection installation piece, composed of varying fields of color and organic forms, distorted and refracted through an arrangement of moving prisms. Each colored sphere exists as its own complete world, the collection of which creates a constellation of perpetually transforming spaces as every image grows and overlaps with the next. A singular vision, represented by a straight beam of light, is thrown into a multifaceted crystal, splintering the image out in infinite directions, a universe filled with possibilities.

Artists: Jordan Doig & Stephanie Gould | Location: Night Visions

Equally inspired by Zoltar and cephalonomancy, Divination Dispenser, created by Cassidy Shearrer, vends old-school fortunetellers to aid you in your quest for foresight. Be sure to bring spare change or your preferred coinage. The price of fortune will vary.

Artist: Cassidy Shearrer | Location: Gannett Hall

As you pass by The Globe Theater, take a gander at the late, great Willy Wilson's Dragon, drawing power from the mycelium of The Globe lawn.

Artist: Willy Wilson | Location: The Globe lawn

Tree by Tree, Michael Marcum continues his metal reforestation project—2020 boasts his 15th handcrafted metalwork tree.

Artist: Michael Marcum Location: Forrest Theater

Local artist Tavia Sanza's massive embroidery installation changes and grows with each location, the Jesse Rotunda being its newest home. Every time it finds a new residence, it is stitched back together, healing some areas of trauma while leaving others raw and exposed, losing materials in some locations and gaining material in others. In this way, the piece is constantly in flux and every version unique to its time and place.

Artist: Tavia Sanza | Location: Jesse Hall

Camellia Cosgray's lighted Map continues to beam inside the theater, while the south side of the room features stained-glass panels designed by a local gang of merrymakers; these glowing marvels are made entirely of tissue paper and glue.

Artists: Camellia Cosgray | Location: The Globe, inside the theater

In The Globe, you’ll want to play with the interactive Mapacus!, featuring various iterations of our globe.

Artists: Doug Sonnenberg, Tracy Greever-Rice, Ashley Nagel | Location: The Globe lobby

At @CTION, Digital Clairvoyance, by Chicago-based artist Madeline Carl, is a series of videos prompted by the use of visual data in making predictions, highlighting the graphics and predictive technologies of decades past. Alongside these digital manipulations, Milwaukee-based artist Kristina Rolander has created Neon Forest Remix II, a reimagining of her work from T/F 2019. This immersive visual experience of lush and vibrant junglescapes will practically come to life as you shake that money-maker. Elsewhere, those festgoers looking toward the future may stumble upon new or distorted visions of what’s next, created by the collective minds of NEON TREEHOUSE (local artists Brian Doss and Gabe Meyer).

Artists: Madeline Carl & Kristina Rolander; Brian Doss & Gabe Meyer | Location: The Atrium & elsewhere

In the age of selfies, social media, and general large-scale social networks, our culture has become increasingly obsessed with images of the self. Using a grid of independently controlled mirrored tiles, Chicago-based artists Steven Krejcik and Paul Kirby’s Periphery aims to explore the effects of removing the self from the mirror-viewing experience. Does the viewer become uncomfortable not seeing themselves in their surroundings?

Artists: Steven Krejcik & Paul Kirby | Location: The Picturehouse Lobby

This larger-than-life sociology project, featuring video portraits of our fellow mid-Missourians, pairs well with every busker and provides an almost meditative immersive experience as you sit back and wait for the next doc to begin.

Artists: Nathan Truesdell, Sam Spencer, Steve Rice, Rick Agran, Nick Michael, Chelsea Myers, Livvy Runyon, Haley Padilla, Katie Canepa, and the MU Micro-Doc class | Location: The Picturehouse, inside the theater

As you pick up your passes and tickets, you’ll be among the first to spend time with the visionary art of Tobi C, Saj Issa, Tod Seelie, and Pat Falco gracing the space in the Main Gallery at Sager Braudis Gallery, which is not only the central hub of the festival as our Box Office, but the heart of the North Village Arts District. On your way out, take some time with local artist Zoe Hawk’s Day Dreamers Tarot exhibit in the East Gallery; this work was commissioned by the Fest in order to create a full deck of tarot cards, in keeping with our 2020 theme and available for purchase via our Merch stores.

Artists: Tobi C, Saj Issa, Tod Seelie, Pat Falco, Zoe Hawk | Location: Sager Braudis

Glenn Rice, T/F’s sign czar, is truly an artist; his venue signs transcend the strictly informational. Check out the BOX OFFICE banners, the SHOWTIME signs at The Blue Note, the PICTUREHOUSE PORTAL, the FORREST THEATER sign, and the GLOBE sign.

Artist: Glenn Rice | Location: various

Although it seems passive, reading surveillance is an active process, one that interrogates truth in images that seem banal. Angela Catalano's A System Of Hiding Things asks participants to engage with the types of 3D surveillance images that permeate our news cycles, couched within the conveniences of our homes. This installation collapses generations of technology, complicating the intentional and unintentional assumptions applied to imagery.

Artist: Angela Catalano | Location: The Picturehouse Lobby

Kirsten Angerbauer's new work, the temple (a physical investigation of the fruitless pursuit of meaning), demonstrates how our idea of foresight can shift in an age of instantaneous information. The piece invites patrons to immerse themselves into one of three tetrahedral sculptures, absorb the work’s generative sonic landscape, and interrogate the pursuit of meaning in contemporary art and culture.

Artist: Kirsten Angerbauer | Location: The Sculpture Yard

Behold: The Trash Oracle, created by Chicago-based artists Kellie Wyatt, Skye Fort, and The American Landfill. Those wishing to glimpse the future of the human race are invited into The Oracle's great trash lair, where they will receive an extremely accurate prediction of the impending apocalypse.

Artists: Kellie Wyatt & Skye Fort | Location: The Sculpture Yard

In The Globe lobby, explore Unfound Tapestries, the detailed, fantastical maps by fiber artist Tracy Greever-Rice, woven by a team of Columbians out of unwanted clothing and fabric.

Artist: Tracy Greever-Rice | Location: The Globe lobby

Ragtag's small theater has been permanently transformed to honor Willy's legacy; a favorite quote was lovingly painted on the cinder-block walls by family friend and local artist Jessie Starbuck, while local artist Michael Marcum crafted an intricate maze of pipes and detritus from Willy's personal collection.

Artists: Jessie Starbuck, Michael Marcum | Location: The Willy Wilson Theater, Ragtag Cinema

The idea of the zoetrope preceded moving pictures; within The Zoetrope Tower, crafted by artists Mark Steck (Marseille, France) and Daniel Heggarty (CoMo), you’ll see images come alive through this technique that provided the foresight that led to film as we know it today.

Artists: Mark Steck & Daniel Heggarty | Location: Missouri Theatre