Off the Block is a captivating, small group exhibition which explores the art of printmaking. This exhibition showcases a range of techniques, from traditional etching and silkscreen to innovative digital processes. Themes range from love, loss, mental health, human fallibility, humor, the mundane, and political discourse.Off the Block kicks off the Foundry’s month-long celebration of Printmaking, culminating in the Block Party steamroller printing event on June 15th.

Impressions Unbound aims to highlight current trends in contemporary American printmaking and shine a spotlight on a cross-section of artists working in a variety of traditional, alternative, and experimental print processes. This exhibit’s is Karen J Revis, an artist based in New York City.

Referencing her own experiences traveling through altitudinal zones to alpine areas, and across latitudinal lines, Elizabeth Claire Rose creates work which connects geographically disconnected landscapes focusing on their shared ecologies: how each site is connected through climatic shifts, soil qualities, and habitat range.

Den Smith finds inspiration in nature and wonder and sees a cyclical relationship between inspiration and creation. In late 2022, he turned to mono printing to rejuvenate his creative process and eventually he integrated the techniques and aesthetics he had learned from mono printing into his paintings. He later revisited his earlier mono prints and found new inspiration.

Romare Bearden: Resonances will highlight modernist artist Romare Bearden and his relationships with other artists in the Museum’s collection. The exhibition will explore the varied ways Bearden served as a friend and mentor to his contemporaries. This exhibition will spotlight Summertime, an important work by Bearden in the Museum’s collection.

Curator’s Choice is the theme of this year’s Selections from the Permanent Collections Exhibit. This summer we will bring out our Navajo rugs, Maria Martinez blackware pottery, and an assortment of paintings and drawings. See these beautiful items before they go back into the vault.

Quilts, knotted vessels, paintings, and mixed media artworks are featured in Wonder and Praise: Sun Smith. These artworks are accompanied by her Riverwork Project that she created and manages which is comprised of quilted panels composed of over 70 individual contributions expressing their personal and community connection to rivers.

Shimmering Silks: Traditional Japanese Textiles, 18th-19th Centuries celebrates silk pieces from the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum, which has been collecting fine Japanese textiles for more than a century. Some were purchased by the Museum while others were generously given by patrons and donors over decades.

Dallas-based artist Tamara Johnson is known for her witty, hypernaturalistic sculptures depicting ubiquitous household objects, from colanders, hair clips, and garden hoses to an array of buffet treats, brought together in improbable, incisive assemblages. The installations of Johnson’s sculpted items are weighted with a surreal, disquieting intimacy.

A painting’s surface hides a wealth of information that can only be found using advanced methods of conservation science. This exibit presents new discoveries made during an ambitious three-year study of the Museum’s world-class collection of German Expressionist paintings. Complete underpaintings, a lost title, and studio graffiti are just some of the exciting findings in this public debut.

The St. Louis Artists’ Guild is proud to present, A Change of Scenery, a juried exhibit that showcases artists working in various mediums whose work engages with landscape, exploring how the natural environment around us influences their representations of ourselves and communities.

Lofgren often says she is from the foothills of Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains. The repetition of saying this phrase has her questioning the importance of the foothills beyond being the grasslands blanketing the rocky uplift. If mountains are the precipice of achievement the foothills become the starting point of an ascension. The action of the climbing is her focus–climbing towards all-knowing.

There is power to be found in moments of quiet, and stillness. “Source” showcases times that have held the attention of Maddie Aunger. Each piece begins with an excitement about a specific formal quality, a shape of light, a hint of color, repetition of form, or a composition of layered spaces and the exhibit encourages the viewer to slow down and recognize that the moments can be found within.

Aso Oke: Prestige Cloth from Nigeria explores textiles created by Yoruba weavers in southwestern Nigeria that were fashioned into clothing for celebratory and ceremonial occasions from the early 19th to late 20th century. Selections from the Museum’s permanent collection join recent acquisitions of agbada men’s robes, representing the etu, sanyan, and alaari forms of aso oke.

Donna Dodson: Match of the Matriarchs and other centers on women’s stories, women’s lives, and their place in the history of chess, includes Dodson’s monumental, life-sized chess set Match of the Matriarchs, which contains 32-large scale wooden sculptures representing all-female representations of cephalopods battling cetaceans.

"Sportball" is a collection of sculptures and performance videos by artist Jessica Lambert, the current Instructor of Art - Sculpture at Arkansas State University. These works navigate the relationship of sports and athletic bodies.

"Sugar & Venom" is an imaginative realm by Kristen Franyutti, assistant professor of studio art at A-State that explores the concept of biological systems gone awry. This world is set in the future and features a unique matriarchal ecosystem inhabited by otherworldly creature inspired by travels to Doha, Qatar.