Our Current Exhibit

The annual Young Masters exhibit featuring the artwork of students in grades K – 12 is returning to the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center. This exhibition of artistic creations by Troy’s talented art students will be on display from February 20 to April 12, 2026.

Art teachers from schools throughout Troy select work completed by local art students for the exhibit. Students consider it an honor to have work chosen for this prestigious show.

Teachers use a variety of mediums in the classroom to teach art history, aesthetics, criticism, and skill. This display illustrates the students’ artistic responses to the instruction they receive in the classroom. Members of the community are encouraged to come and see the talent and skill of our local art students that will be displayed throughout the historic Hayner Mansion. 



The exhibit is free and open to the public during regular Hayner hours.

First Floor Case Exhibit

Stoneware Pottery

by

Pamela J. Ridenour

(1948 - 2024)

Our Next Exhibit

Color + Geometry = Magic: Contemporary Patchwork Quilts



Although patchwork quilts are conventionally thought of as craft rather than art, this collection of contemporary patchwork wall hangings by Kate Spencer (Lady Kate Quilting Designs, Cincinnati, Ohio) reveals how craft can rise to the level of art.

The patchwork quilter has two essential tools, color and geometry, to create her effects. Whether Kate is using a traditional quilt block like Log Cabin or Ohio Star, or a contemporary pattern, or creating her own design, each of her quilts is one-of-a-kind, and each shows off her expert eye for color and the precision

of her piecing. In contrast to most modern quilters, Kate quilts all her creations by hand rather than by machine, choosing quilting templates that will enhance the design of the piecing. Her meticulous

quilting stitches, done in contrasting thread, routinely draw the admiration of her viewers, especially fellow quilters.