The St. Peters Cultural Arts Centre provides a home base for several local arts organizations, gallery space for area artists. Stop by the Cultural Arts Centre to view the galleries filled with the original artwork. Artwork in this show depicts non-objective and use of forms, colors, textures, and gesture marks to achieve its effect.

In/Of/About Nature features recent artworks by 69 STL regional artists from Missouri and Illinois and has been juried by artists Carol Carter and Sukanya Mani. The works in this exhibit address themes of nature, the natural world, the environment, as well as humanity's impact on nature.

Jake Wells: Watercolors and Sketches Exhibition includes sixty artworks of mills and landscapes that were created between the 70s and the early 90s. Also included are several pieces recently donated to the museum. Wells was not only a painter but also a muralist.

CAM’s partnership with Creative Reaction Lab (CRXLAB) is celebrated in the Education Galleries this season with two presentations. In late May, the gallery will celebrate work developed by members of the Collective Impact 2022–23 cohort, a group of stakeholders and residents from the neighborhoods in and around CRXLAB and CAM.

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.

Focusing primarily on the Kemper Art Museum’s 20th-century collection, this installation addresses three themes: meditation, movement, and reinterpretation. These categories respectively engage the role of meditation in the historical practice of Zen through seventeenth-century ink scrolls and the mutability of the role of Zen in American and Japanese avant-garde artistic movements.

the air that inhabits features thesis projects by the MFA in Visual Art candidates in the 2023 graduating class of the Sam Fox School’s Graduate School of Art. MFA candidates explore a range of artistic practices and mediums, including painting, sculpture, sound, installation, video, and performance.

Photo Possibilities from Cyanotype to Solar Plate is an exhibition of photo-based work utilizing different photo processes often in combination with printmaking techniques. While cyanotype dating from the 1840s has endured many other photographic and printmaking processes or materials have disappeared or been replaced.

The St. Louis Artists' Guild presents Tales by Light, a national juried photography exhibit featuring photographers using various photographic techniques to showcase how light can impact your work. The exhibition’s juror is Shreepad Joglekar, an Associate Professor of Photography at Kansas State University.

Light and windows are deeply intertwined in the work of this ceramicist and photographer. Hand built porcelain sculptures blend an organic and contemporary style that create asymmetrical shapes. The work is only half done after finishing a sculpture, then the other half begins discovering the soul of that piece through light and moment and the use of photography.

The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century presents a sweeping art history of hip hop culture and its myriad expressions across the globe. This multidisciplinary and multimedia exhibition examines the resounding impact of hip hop on contemporary art and culture, including its unique contributions to innovations in music, visual and performing arts, fashion, and technology.

The Foundry Art Centre is partnering with Two Plumbers Brewery + Arcade to transform the galleries into an arcade, showcasing the history and artistry of arcades and home gaming systems. Special highlights include weekly featured game competitions for fun prizes and a special, custom-built pinball painter for visitors to create one-of-a-kind artworks WITH a pinball machine!

Craft Alliance proudly presents the 2022-2023 Whitaker Artist-in-Residence cohort: Marina Peng and Mee Jey. For over 15 years, the Craft Alliance Artist-in-Residence program has given early-career artists engaging with craft the space and professional support to build their practice through teaching opportunities, studio access, and funding for materials and professional development.

With extraordinarily rich histories in common, it is no wonder that there are innumerable points of intersection between the respective stories of chess and music. From master chess players to world-renowned musicians, the art of music and the sport of chess have enjoyed a partnership over the centuries.

T. S. Eliot: A Game of Chess explores Eliot’s famous poem, The Waste Land, through the theme of chess. After World War I, the Spanish Flu, and his father’s death, Eliot wrote The Waste Land, a poem expressing grief and feelings of alienation in a rapidly modernizing society.

The St. Peters Cultural Arts Centre provides a home base for several local arts organizations, gallery space for area artists. Stop by the Cultural Arts Centre to view the galleries filled with the original artwork. As spring approaches and the snow melts, this art show will capture the feeling of Wonder.

Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s–1970s, is the first exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum to focus on modern Native American art. Expanding the narrative of midcentury abstraction, the exhibition highlights groundbreaking paintings, sculptures, textiles, and works on paper that challenged stereotypical expectations of Native American art during the postwar era.

Hoisington dubbed this body of work B(e)-Sides because the images are reminiscent of a collection of B-Sides from a scrapped concept album about the juxtaposition of being completely lost and completely free while confined in a small town. Hoisington I created B(e)-Sides when he was beside myself with uncertainty after a period of intense, personal upheaval.

It Was All Very Queer II , a national juried exhibition examining contemporary queer artists residing within the United States. The exhibition will examine work that investigates identity, social norms, inclusivity, and the celebration of being queer.

"A Frayed Knot” is a collection of fiber sculpture constructed through hours of painstakingly contoured yarn built up into second skins over furniture, hunting decoys, lumber, and mixed media. Inspired by drag, theater, and the club scene, the work evokes camp and camouflage to interrogate the difference between presentation and identity.