Upcoming Events

The interdisciplinary exhibition Monument / Anti-Monument invites us to ask who is remembered and who is forgotten in our collective memory and in its manifestations within public space. This is achieved through the work of the internationally celebrated artist Monika Weiss and her paradigm-shifting monument/anti-monument project Nirbhaya.

Monika Weiss’ work is predicated on the act of unforgetting past traumas. It has particular resonance at a time when we rethink our histories and our ways of remembering. A forthcoming permanent outdoor monument by Monika Weiss is slated to be built in both Europe and the US. In this video/sound sculpture, the artist transforms the traditional vertical form of the triumphal arch into a horizontal sarcophagus filled with water and projected video. The exhibition includes drawings, photographs, films, musical compositions, a new performance piece, and renderings of the monument itself.

Exploring the intersection of the arts and humanities with civic concerns, the exhibition is accompanied by panel discussions that engage the public in exploring shared memory; our collective memory. The panels bring together the artist with local and National scholars to debate the role of monuments and commemorative architecture in shaping cultural identity in the public sphere. They will also address new approaches to create a more inclusive commemorative landscape.

Open Air: Drangus

Friday, April 16, 2021, at 6 PM & 8 PM

Celebrate live arts and culture safely at Open Air, a concert series presented by Kranzberg Arts Foundation featuring St. Louis’ finest musicians. Hundreds have enjoyed the comforts of our safe live music experience since August — physically-distanced, of course. Indulge and imbibe from our rotating menu of seasonal food and drinks while the musicians light up the stage under the heated and well-ventilated tent outside The Grandel. Our lineup features sounds of jazz, blues, rock, and soul on Friday and Saturday evenings, as well as Sundays for brunch.

Tickets are $10-$25 and are available on MetroTix. In addition to each ticket, Sunday brunch requires a $15 food/beverage minimum for every guest in advance of the show. All food must be ordered in advance. After purchasing your ticket, you’ll be sent an online order form where you will be able to pre-order your food and drinks. Additional beverages will be available for purchase day of the event. 

To ensure guest and staff safety, reservations are required for limited seating. To maintain appropriate physical distance, parties are limited to 6 guests per table. All guests are required to follow Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s COVID-19 mitigation policies including wearing face masks at all times, even while seated at their reserved tables unless eating or drinking. See full mitigation policies by clicking here. 

If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

Open Air is presented in partnership with Jazz St. Louis, WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound, The Dark Room

In the Open Air Tent at The Grandel

The All-Star Jazz Fundraiser Festival is a festival led and organized by Kendrick Smith with the support of the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, Jazz St.Louis, and WSIE 88.7 The Sound. The Festival will feature five groups consisting of 25 top-notch musicians in St Louis. The money raised will go towards helping Thurman’s in Shaw, The Cigar Inn, WSIE, and some musicians heavily affected by the pandemic.

• 12:00pm-1:00pm: Demarius Hicks, Kasimu Taylor, Janet Buchanan, Bernard Terry, Will Buchanan
• 1:30pm-2:30pm: Anita Jackson, Jahmal Nichols, Jason Swagler, Mark Harris II, Dhrouba Hill
• 3:00pm-4:00pm: Adam Maness, Brady Lewis, Joseph Hibbs, Ben Wheeler, Carlos Brown Jr.
• 4:30pm-5:30pm: Darrell Mixon, Dawn Weber, Josiah Joyce, Ryan Marquez, Gary Sykes
• 6:00pm-7:00pm: Ptah Williams, Bob Deboo, Micah Walker, Joe Mancuso, Kendrick Smith

Open Air: Solid Ghost

Sunday, April 18, 2021, at 11 AM & 1 PM

Celebrate live arts and culture safely at Open Air, a concert series presented by Kranzberg Arts Foundation featuring St. Louis’ finest musicians. Hundreds have enjoyed the comforts of our safe live music experience since August — physically distanced, of course. Indulge and imbibe from our rotating menu of seasonal food and drinks while the musicians light up the stage under the heated and well-ventilated tent outside The Grandel. Our lineup features sounds of jazz, blues, rock, and soul on Friday and Saturday evenings, as well as Sundays for brunch.

Tickets are $10-$25 and are available on MetroTix. In addition to each ticket, Sunday brunch requires a $15 food/beverage minimum for every guest in advance of the show. All food must be ordered in advance. After purchasing your ticket, you’ll be sent an online order form where you will be able to pre-order your food and drinks. Additional beverages will be available for purchase day of the event. 

To ensure guest and staff safety, reservations are required for limited seating. To maintain appropriate physical distance, parties are limited to 6 guests per table. All guests are required to follow Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s COVID-19 mitigation policies including wearing face masks at all times, even while seated at their reserved tables unless eating or drinking. See full mitigation policies by clicking here. 

If you have any questions, please email [email protected].

Open Air is presented in partnership with Jazz St. Louis, WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound, The Dark Room

12 pm – 1:30 pm CST via Zoom

The fourth virtual panel discussion in a series of six, this event is held in conjunction with Monika Weiss: Monument | Anti-Monument, an interdisciplinary exhibition hosted by Creative Exchange Lab in St. Louis, which explores the internationally acclaimed artist’s paradigm-shifting monument project Nirbhaya.

You will receive a Zoom link to join the webinar once you complete registration on Eventbrite for the selected panel discussion.

The exhibition Monika Weiss: Monument | Anti-Monument will be on display from March 31 – April 22, 2021, at the Gallery at The Kranzberg at 501 N. Grand Blvd.

Upcoming Panel Discussions:

Friday, May 7 Monuments & Memory

Friday, May 21 Collective Memory and Its Futures

Celebrate live arts and culture safely at Open Air, a concert series presented by Kranzberg Arts Foundation featuring St. Louis’ finest musicians. Hundreds have enjoyed the comforts of our safe live music experience since August — physically-distanced, of course. Indulge and imbibe from our rotating menu of seasonal food and drinks while the musicians light up the stage under the heated and well-ventilated tent outside The Grandel. Our lineup features sounds of jazz, blues, rock, and soul on Friday and Saturday evenings, as well as Sundays for brunch.

Tickets start at $10 and are available on MetroTix. In addition to the ticket, a food/beverage minimum purchase of $30 is required. All food must be ordered in advance. After purchasing your ticket, you’ll be sent an online order form where you will be able to pre-order your food and drinks. Additional beverages will be available for purchase day of the event. 

To ensure guest and staff safety, reservations are required for limited seating. To maintain appropriate physical distance, parties are limited to 6 guests per table. All guests are required to follow Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s COVID-19 mitigation policies including wearing face masks at all times, even while seated at their reserved tables unless eating or drinking. See full mitigation policies here: https://www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org/covid-19/open-air-mitigation-policies/

If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or call (314) 776-9550.

Open Air is presented in partnership with Jazz St. Louis, WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound, The Dark Room

Saturday, April 24
Doors 6 pm • Show 7 pm
All ages

Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band takes the safety of their fans very seriously. Their commitment to your safety requires masks to be worn for entry, maintaining social distances, podded seating where necessary and reduced capacities. Thank you for your cooperation and we look forward to seeing you soon!

This is a socially-distanced event with a limited number of tickets available. See below for The Big Top’s safety policies.

Floor rows 1-2: $40
Floor rows 3-4: $35
Floor rows 5-8: $30
Mezzanine 1, 2: $35
Mezzanine 3, 4, 5, 6: $32.50
Mezzanine 7, 8: $30

Two-time BMA nominee’s The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band are the greatest front-porch blues band in the world. They are led by Reverend Peyton, who most consider to be the premier finger picker playing today. He has earned a reputation as both a singularly compelling performer and a persuasive evangelist for the rootsy, country blues styles that captured his imagination early in life and inspired him and his band to make pilgrimages to Clarksdale, Mississippi to study under such blues masters as T-Model Ford, Robert Belfour and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. Now The Big Damn Band is back with an explosive new record Dance Songs For Hard Times that was produced by Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton). The record is critically acclaimed by Rolling Stone, Relix, Popmatters, Guitar World, American Songwriter, No Depression, Glide, Wide Open Country, Paste, American Blues Scene and many more!

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Celebrate live arts & culture safely at The Big Top! Operated by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, The Big Top will employ rigorous COVID-19 mitigation policies for the benefit of all guests, staff, and artists.

• Social distancing is enforced through reduced capacity and physically distanced seating assignments.
• Protective face coverings are required to enter and must be worn at all times, except when eating or drinking.
• The Big Top will offer the opportunity for a contact-less patron experience. Food & beverage ordering and payment can be conducted via online/mobile platform, and all tickets are encouraged to be purchased in advance.
• Event will have dedicated, on-site staff to regularly clean high-touch surfaces with EPA-certified cleaning supplies.
• See full mitigation policies here: https://www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org/covid-19/open-air-mitigation-policies/

Due to social distancing protocols, seat selection is not a guarantee of seat assignment. All best efforts will be made to honor seat selection, and any altered assignment will be in the same price tier. If any changes are required post-purchase, ticket buyers will be notified by email.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected]rg.

Celebrate live arts and culture safely at Open Air, a concert series presented by Kranzberg Arts Foundation featuring St. Louis’ finest musicians. Hundreds have enjoyed the comforts of our safe live music experience since August — physically-distanced, of course. Indulge and imbibe from our rotating menu of seasonal food and drinks while the musicians light up the stage under the heated and well-ventilated tent outside The Grandel. Our lineup features sounds of jazz, blues, rock, and soul on Friday and Saturday evenings, as well as Sundays for brunch.

Tickets start at $10 and are available on MetroTix. In addition to the ticket, a food/beverage minimum purchase of $30 is required. All food must be ordered in advance. After purchasing your ticket, you’ll be sent an online order form where you will be able to pre-order your food and drinks. Additional beverages will be available for purchase day of the event. 

To ensure guest and staff safety, reservations are required for limited seating. To maintain appropriate physical distance, parties are limited to 6 guests per table. All guests are required to follow Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s COVID-19 mitigation policies including wearing face masks at all times, even while seated at their reserved tables unless eating or drinking. See full mitigation policies here: https://www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org/covid-19/open-air-mitigation-policies/

If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or call (314) 776-9550.

Open Air is presented in partnership with Jazz St. Louis, WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound, The Dark Room

Celebrate live arts and culture safely at Open Air, a concert series presented by Kranzberg Arts Foundation featuring St. Louis’ finest musicians. Hundreds have enjoyed the comforts of our safe live music experience since August — physically-distanced, of course. Indulge and imbibe from our rotating menu of seasonal food and drinks while the musicians light up the stage under the heated and well-ventilated tent outside The Grandel. Our lineup features sounds of jazz, blues, rock, and soul on Friday and Saturday evenings, as well as Sundays for brunch.

Tickets start at $10 and are available on MetroTix. In addition to the ticket, a food/beverage minimum purchase of $30 is required. All food must be ordered in advance. After purchasing your ticket, you’ll be sent an online order form where you will be able to pre-order your food and drinks. Additional beverages will be available for purchase day of the event. 

To ensure guest and staff safety, reservations are required for limited seating. To maintain appropriate physical distance, parties are limited to 6 guests per table. All guests are required to follow Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s COVID-19 mitigation policies including wearing face masks at all times, even while seated at their reserved tables unless eating or drinking. See full mitigation policies here: https://www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org/covid-19/open-air-mitigation-policies/

If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or call (314) 776-9550.

Open Air is presented in partnership with Jazz St. Louis, WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound, The Dark Room

Monday, April 26 at 6:30 PM

Do you have pressing questions about copyright? Here’s your chance to learn the fundamentals. Our speaker is Attorney Laila Wolfgram, Posinelli. This webinar celebrates World IP Week.

Click here to register for the webinar.

Celebrate live arts and culture safely at Open Air, a concert series presented by Kranzberg Arts Foundation featuring St. Louis’ finest musicians. Hundreds have enjoyed the comforts of our safe live music experience since August — physically-distanced, of course. Indulge and imbibe from our rotating menu of seasonal food and drinks while the musicians light up the stage under the heated and well-ventilated tent outside The Grandel. Our lineup features sounds of jazz, blues, rock, and soul on Friday and Saturday evenings, as well as Sundays for brunch.

Tickets start at $10 and are available on MetroTix. In addition to the ticket, a food/beverage minimum purchase of $30 is required. All food must be ordered in advance. After purchasing your ticket, you’ll be sent an online order form where you will be able to pre-order your food and drinks. Additional beverages will be available for purchase day of the event. 

To ensure guest and staff safety, reservations are required for limited seating. To maintain appropriate physical distance, parties are limited to 6 guests per table. All guests are required to follow Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s COVID-19 mitigation policies including wearing face masks at all times, even while seated at their reserved tables unless eating or drinking. See full mitigation policies here: https://www.kranzbergartsfoundation.org/covid-19/open-air-mitigation-policies/

If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or call (314) 776-9550.

Open Air is presented in partnership with Jazz St. Louis, WSIE 88.7 FM The Sound, The Dark Room