Underwritten by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, The Dark Room offers live music every day we are open! Continuing our mission of providing the infrastructure for the arts to thrive in St. Louis, we provide local jazz musicians the platform to bring their music to the masses! The weekly schedule is:

– Wednesdays – The Kasimu Taylor Trio (9-11pm), part of the Wednesday Night Jazz Crawl in Grand Center
– Thursdays – Ptah Williams Band (7:30-10pm)
– Fridays (happy hour) – Harvey Lockhart & The Collective (5-7pm)
– Fridays (late night) – Jesse Gannon’s Truth (10pm-1am)
– Saturdays – “Late Night Grooves” Mo Egeston + special guests (10pm-1am)
– Sundays (brunch) – The Dark Room Brunch Sessions (11am-1:30pm unless otherwise noted)
– 4/9: The St. Louis World’s Fair presents “Faith” part of the The Love, Unity, and Faith Gospel Brunch Series (music until 3pm)
– 4/16: Tommy Halloran Band
– 4/23: Montez Coleman Band

For more information, visit www.thedarkroomstl.com/live-music.

Kranzberg Arts Center
2017 Gallery Exhibitions

Bryce Robinson “Prime Beauty” – on display January 20 to February 25, 2017
UMSL Group Show “Taking It To The Streets” – on display April 7 to May 20, 2017
Artists First “Variation and Adaptations” – on display June 2 to July 29, 2017
Sarah Paulsen “WhiteGhosts” – on display September 1 to October 21, 2017
Kat Douglas & Sukanya Mani “Reflections” – on display November 3 to December 30, 2017

Opening receptions from 6-9pm on exhibit opening dates

Bryce Olen Robinson, Prime Beauty, on display 1/20/17 through 2/25/17, has a layered background of experiences and uses collisions of multiple forms of sculpture as his vehicle for expression and urges the audience to look with fresh eyes at the collision of multiple social events taking place around us.

Taking It To The Streets, on display 4/7/17 through 5/20/17, is a group exhibit organized through Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Individual artists, Basil Kincaid, through multi-media, Lois Ingrum, through photographs, Howard Berry through drawings, and De Andrea Nichols through performance will present their work together. The interaction of the work of these artists will create a unique and provocative gallery environment. These are the voices of young engaged artists who with their own questions, ask us how we will act to shape the future of our community.

Variation and Adaptations, on display 6/2/17 through 7/29/17, is an exhibit curated by Artists First, an organization that has long worked to promote the artwork of individuals challenged by physical or psychological obstacles. While typically judged by society as impaired, this organization advocates for these artists to be considered as equal, not other, within the visual art community by their unique perspectives and life experiences. Angela Gipson, Jeff Johnson, and Jimmy Holmes will each present a body of work specific to their use of media and focused examinations.

Sarah Paulsen, WhiteGhosts, on display 9/01/17 through 10/ 21/17, is the work of a Latina artist acknowledging the dominating hegemony of “white” culture in American society. Within the overwhelmingly “white” noise of media that can drown out all other voices, she brings to light, through her paintings of her cultural memories and influences, her personal awareness and individual self.

Reflections, on display 11/3/17 through 12/30/17, is a group show by Kat Douglas and Sukyana Mani, both of whom are intrigued by how we express ourselves leading ultimately to communicating with others. Visual art is a language, after all, and the beginning of written communication was in the form of pictographs and visual codes. Each of these artists explore this concept from opposite ends of human history. Kat Douglas examines communication in a contemporary context while Sukyana Mani starts at the beginning of human mark-making. Each end of the spectrum has within it the limitations and nuanced subtle intimacies of the human psyche.

On display at The Dark Room

  

In Duet

GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY
an exhibit curated by Amy Granat
with
Davey Hawkins
Jenica Heintzelman
& DIRT

On display
June 24 – July 18, 2017
Opening performance by DIRT Saturday, June 24 at 12pm

In the Duet gallery

Inspired by the 1943 Willard Maas film of the same name, GEOGRAPHY OF THE BODY begins as two artworks by friends: Davey Hawkins (based in St. Louis) and Jenica Heitzelman (based in New York).

In bringing these works together, I hope to present a moment that is not only about the body as a landscape (so sensual, simple, human) but also moves beyond that, into curiosities of physical and nonphysical forms (artwork into song) (presence into absence) and a non-binary sequencing of 2, 3, 2, 1.

Let me explain.

The show begins as 2 artworks by Jenica & Davey. Then turns to 3 with the inclusion of DIRT via the performance. Then goes back to 2 with the artwork of Jenica and Davey. Finally, from the closing of the exhibition July 18th – ongoing, the exhibition remains as 1 (a vinyl record, a duet performed by DIRT on June 24th , recorded live at the opening, and is the single document of the exhibition).

A very big thank you to Duet for inviting me to curate an exhibition at their space and allowing me the freedom to change their regular format. A very big thank you to Davey and Jenica for sharing their talents and their work, and letting me try to create a moment with it (a moment about humanness and beyond). And a big thank you to Willard Maas for being brilliant and years ahead of his time.

– Amy Granat, Saint Louis, May 2017

About the Artists
Jenica Heintzleman (b.1986, Florida) is a photographer that lives and works in New York. Working mainly within the subject of landscape, the artist spent many years living in Utah photographing the deserts and canyons using a wide range of materials and formats. The photograph in this exhibition was shot with a medium format camera and is part of a larger series about her time spent in Utah.

Davey Hawkins (b.1986, Arizona) is an artist that lives and works in Saint Louis, Missouri. After completing both the Columbia MFA and Whitney Independent Study Program in New York, the artist took a year hiatus from his studio to tour and write music with his band. After a year of traveling across the country, he settled in St. Louis drawn to its rivers and “lack of crowds” and started painting the human figure. This painting is the first of a new series, where he intends to make multiple paintings of the same subject, over the course many of years.

DIRT (b.2011, New York City) two friends met in New York and realized they were both raised alongside the Mississippi – and probably ate the same dirt when they were kids. Then they started a band.

About the Curator
Amy Granat was born in Saint Louis in 1976, left for New York in 1994, and moved back to St.Louis in 2014 to raise her son in her hometown. She began a gallery in 2015 called “Parapet Real Humans” that is on Sidney Street and brings in big artists to make small exhibitions in the city she loves. Parapet Real Humans is about slowing down the process of art consumption and creating a community in St.Louis that is focused on making space for conversations about the most relevant issues in contemporary art. Her own work was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial, and has been exhibited at The Palais de Tokyo (Paris), The Pompidou (Paris) The New Museum (New York) and Kunsthalle Zurich, among others museums and galleries. She taught in the MFA program at New York University and her artwork is in the permanent public collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Whitney Museum (New York), FNAC (France), and La Musee des Beaux-Arts La Chaux – de- Fonds (Switzerland).

About Duet
Duet is an exhibition series and curatorial endeavor devoted to meaningful pairings between an artist from St. Louis and a carefully chosen complimentary artist from another city, offering up both a comparison and contrast of the cultural landscape that influences each of the artist’s work. Located in Grand Center, the series will include artists working in a variety of media and exploring subjects unique to their geography. This curatorial project underwritten by Ken and Nancy Kranzberg; whose support of local artists has been a sustained commitment for over twenty-five years, allows artists valuable exposure to new audiences within and beyond the region.

Duet is located at 3526 Washington Avenue Suite 300, St Louis, MO 63103.

Winter Hours:
Thursday and Saturday, Noon – 5pm, or by appointment

Access:
The front door to Duet faces the parking lot that is between Magnolia Cafe and Jazz at The Bistro. The parking lot can be accessed from Washington Avenue.

www.duetstl.com

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At the Kranzberg Arts Center

JPEK CreativeWorks Theatre
presents
Topdog/Underdog

June 29 – 8pm
June 30 – 8pm
July 1 – 3pm & 8pm

$25 General Admission

Topdog/Underdog, by Suzan-Lori Parks, is a play about two African American brothers struggling to make ends meet. Abandoned by their parents when they were teenagers, Lincoln and Booth, now in their thirties, were forced to learn to survive relying only on themselves. Lincoln, nicknamed Link, supported himself for many years of his life by hustling people at three card monte. However, after one hustle turns sour and his partner is killed, Lincoln swears off hustling and vows to earn an honest living. His wife Cookie kicks him out of their home, and Lincoln moves in with his younger brother Booth in his small, barely furnished, single room apartment. Lincoln contributes to the rent by working as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator at a local arcade, where patrons pay to re-enact Lincoln’s assassination, shooting him in the back of the head with a cap gun.

FREE

In the .ZACK Theatre

St Lou Fringe
presents
Fat Dancer STL

part of
the Grand Center Theatre Crawl

7:30pm show
FREE

Inspired by the fat positive movement of Kelli Jean Drinkwater

Presented as a part of The Grand Center Theatre Crawl, join St Lou Fringe in a celebration of bodies in motion. People of all sizes share their stories of a life lived inside non-stereotypical “perfect” bodies. The realized performance piece is an exercise in fat activism and body positivity vibrantly brought to life by talented performers from many genres.

Part of the Fringe Monthly & Grand Center Theatre Crawl

https://www.stlouisfringe.com/