Original artwork centerpiece of Rose Theatre's new look

In the early 1980s, Dr. Kenn Stilson was a theater student at Southeast Missouri State University, and Craig Thomas was an art major minoring in technical theater. They worked on a number of productions together, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream."

Thomas, one of Cape Girardeau's few full-time artists if not the only one, is known particularly for his murals and street painting. When the Department of Theatre and Dance decided to commission a large work of art to hang in the lobby of the Rose Theatre, he was the natural choice to paint it.

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