• BRKLYN / @brklynstl
• Art Culture King / @artcultureking (Painted Black STL)
• Screwed Arts Collective: Killer Napkins / @killernapkins and Bryan Walsh @bryanwalshart @screwedarts
• Screwed Arts Collective: 18andCounting / @18andcounting, Kris Mosby / @mos_krisby, Kiki Salem / @low_key_ki
• Jessie Donovan / @jessie.dnvn (Painted Black STL)
• Cbabi Bayoc / @cbabi
• Damon Davis / @damondavis
• William Burton Jr. / @williamburtonjrofficial (Paint Louis)
• Dormir Da Sleepin Giant / @rimroddy30 (Paint Louis)
• Katherine Bernhardt / @kbbernhardt2014
• Deshion McKinley / @wtfiswrongwithdaworld
• Vaughn Davis / @vaughndavis__

We are thrilled to announce the inaugural exhibit at Sophie’s Gallery, amplifying regional STL artists who continue to lift and redefine visual art in expensive ways. On the contrary, FLY O’ER is a group exhibition of individuals and collectives ultimately shifting and challenging the thought that STL is just another “fly over ” city. This place is home to some of the most pivotal contemporary artists in the world and the Kranzberg Arts Foundation will continue to  provide essential infrastructure for the arts to thrive in the region.

Grow is a journey through years of varying mediums with a common thread; Water is Life. Virginia Harold uses photography, chemigrams, painting and collage to explore the Earth/Human connection, the fluid dynamics of oil and water, and the inimitable and ethereal essence of the Blue Planet’s magic. Virginia spent her formative years on The Big Island of Hawai’i surrounded by towering fruit trees and luscious greens, plentiful rain and shine, and face-to-face encounters with sea life. Virginia hopes for a future where the world and it’s creatures can grow into a symbiotic, healthy and sustainable partnership.

Gallery visits can be made by appointment with COVID-19 mitigation policies in place. To make an appointment, and for questions or concerns, please contact   [email protected] or (314) 533-0367 ext. 118

VRIJEME JE BILO LIJEPO 
AIDA HASANOVIĆ
The Kranzberg 
November 27 – January 29, 2022

First Friday Opening Reception
December 3, 5-8pm

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Vrijeme Je Bilo Lijepo is an exhibition that invites the St. Louis community, home to 70,000 Bosnians, to reflect on the legacy of the Bosnian Genocide, as well as larger connections to stories of migration and refuge within the U.S. Titled in reference to conversations among Muslim refugees across the Balkan Diaspora, the exhibition considers Hasanović’s personal experience of larger oppressive structures. Through new video and photography works, the exhibition questions how to represent a personal and collective history that spans generations.

Aida Hasanović is a Bosnian-American artist and writer currently based in St. Louis, MO. Her work explores how different issues of memory and migration interact in the re-construction of a synthesized cultural identity. Her practice weaves from working in photography, bookmaking and video. Aida’s recent work and research investigates how sociopolitical trauma and historical circumstances affect our notions of belonging. Hasanović’s work has been exhibited locally and nationally including the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis, SRLBX in Columbia and Cherry Gallery in Richmond, VA.

CORPOREAL MICROCOSMS

BY JULIA CURRAN

January 7 — March 12, 2022
High Low

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As neuroscientist Bessel A. van der Kolk states, “the only way we can change how we feel is by learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves.” Befriending what goes on inside ourselves is how we connect with each other and the larger natural world, but in the Western capitalist system, we separate the brain from the body, tie shame to our most basic physical functions, and see ourselves as machines of production.

Upstream Theater presents the regional premiere of IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT by Welsh playwright Gary Owen.

Blisteringly poetic: Inspired by the Greek myth about a young woman offered as a human sacrifice, Gary Owen’s IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT is a fireball of a monologue with lines that can be wickedly funny even as they drive home the high price people pay for society’s shortcomings.

Sweetie & The Toothaches at The Dark Room

The Dark Room at The Grandel
3610 Grandel Square
St. Louis, MO 63103

Tickets available at www.metrotix.com. 

Food and drink purchases can be made on-site through a contactless online platform.

If you have any additional questions, please email [email protected] or call (314) 710-5643.

In the Kranzberg Black Box 

As Martin Gottfried comments, “It is a simple one. A mystery, really. A man has been murdered. The mystery is, who he is, who murdered him and what were the circumstances? And to solve it, Wilson looks at the outsides and insides of his tiny, Middle Western town. He looks at a middleman woman who falls in love with the young man who comes to work in her cafe. He looks at a coarse, nasty woman mistreating her senile mother, who is obsessed with visions of Eldritch being evil and headed for blood-spilling. He looks at a tender relationship between a young man and a dreamy, crippled girl. But Wilson sees far more than this. He is grasping the very fabric of Bible Belt America, with its catchword morality (‘virgin,’ ‘God-fearing’) and its capability for the vicious. He senses the rhythm of its life and the cruelty it can impose. He understands the speech patterns of its loveless gossips, its sex-hungry boys, its compassionless preachers, its car-conscious blondes.” In the end Wilson’s portrait of Eldritch is full length, and the truth of its revelations will be pondered long after the stage lights have dimmed, and the play has ended.

A celebration of jazz music heritage through movement and stories.

Presenting work by five local artists:
Ashley Tate, Heather Beal, Kirven Douthit-Boyd, Marcus Johnson, and Cecil Slaughter.

Featuring a special multi-organization collaboration:
Jazz St. Louis, performing live music to the titled score by legendary Duke Ellington, inspired by the African-American experience.

The Black Rep, featuring three fellow actors in spoken word and performing choreography with The Big Muddy dancers.

This production will feature each of three sections of the jazz suite “Black, Brown, and Beige” to be interspersed by live monologues.  These spoken word moments are based on interviews with renowned lifetime artists from the African-American community.  Both the live jazz music sections and the spoken word will be paired with original choreography, performed by The Big Muddy dancers, as a visual representation of both celebration and struggle.

Eric Slaughter Group at The Dark Room

The Dark Room at The Grandel
3610 Grandel Square
St. Louis, MO 63103

Tickets available at www.metrotix.com. 

Food and drink purchases can be made on-site through a contactless online platform.

If you have any additional questions, please email [email protected] or call (314) 710-5643.

Justin Hoskin at The Dark Room

The Dark Room at The Grandel
3610 Grandel Square
St. Louis, MO 63103

Tickets available at www.metrotix.com. 

Justin Hoskin, a native of Collinsville, IL, is now an respected and powerful vocal force on the St. Louis music scene. Justin planted himself professionally in the local music scene nearly 10 years ago joining forces with his band, “The Movie”, creating highly popular experience style “tribute” performances of some of the biggest names in Rhythm and Soul such as Prince, Marvin Gaye, and Stevie Wonder just to name a few.

In addition, Justin has been fortunate to share his powerful gift and shared the same stages with mainstay performers such as Rahsaan Patterson, Tweet, Musiq Soulchild and Jill Scott.

Justin’s newest single “Invisible” is on all major streaming platforms and his debut EP is scheduled to be released in early 2022. 

Food and drink purchases can be made on-site through a contactless online platform.

If you have any additional questions, please email [email protected] or call (314) 710-5643.