Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi creates large-scale, figurative, and often text-based paintings, drawing from the tropes of history painting and cinema to probe systems of knowledge production, the politics of representation, and the histories of democracy in conjunction with African liberation movements.

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. The Animalia Art Show is an exhibit of artwork that depicts artwork focusing on the animal kingdom.

Passing Clouds is an electronic musical collaboration between visual artists Jim Daniels and Daniel Stumeier. The project began during the pandemic and developed through Zoom conversations and the exchange of tracks to edit and build upon. Inspired by this element of the enterprise, they later decided to push the collaborative aspect further by reaching out to visual artists.

Does a parasite know that it’s a parasite? by Jason Gray is a body of work focusing on the concept of naturedness (good- vs. bad-, nature vs. anti-nature, authentic vs. inauthentic) with no geographic assignment. The photographs are a non-linear meditation on the impact of people on the environment and upon society’s legacy of built structures.

Charles Houska is inspired by simple themes of daily life. This body of work, People, Places, and Fishbowls, represents characters from Charles’ imagination, things that bring him joy, and, of course, his iconic fishbowl. Using acrylic paint, wood, and canvas with layers of vibrant color and bold outlines, he communicates his passion for sharing a whimsical view of the world.

Please join Art Saint Louis for Personal History, their first in-Gallery exhibit of 2023 featuring original artworks by Saint Louis area regional artists from Missouri and Illinois. Personal History is a multi-media juried exhibit with original artworks that focus on one's version and sense of self, including self-portraits and other personal history imagery.

Duane Reed Gallery invites you to Content / Craftsmanship: an exhibition showcasing new and classic works from 20 artists working at the intersection of conceptual inspiration and technical excellence. Owner Duane Reed has personally curated this body of artwork.

Crafting the Garden focuses on plants and other natural materials used for making and dyeing textiles and paper. Several of these have been replaced by synthetics in large-scale production today. Still, many people prefer natural materials for their reduced environmental impact, as well as the colors and textures they produce.

Verity is a collection of mixed media paintings exploring the truths of significant periods, places and memories in my life. They represent personal truths shaped by time, distance and reflection (and therapy). Subverting thoughts that weighed heavily, Miller composes each work from a perspective of positivity.

The exhibition includes works of various styles and mediums that lead the viewer toward or through a narrative. Creative writers will be invited into the gallery and asked to connect with a piece of art and interpret and continue the stories that the artists portray in their work. Responses will be published in the gallery and on the St. Louis Artists’ Guild website.

This series, Mirror: M/error, which began in 2016, expresses Yingxue Zuo’s concerns over the past half-century of American politics. In particular, these works bear witness to ongoing political, cultural, and racial conflicts, gun violence, and how politicians have become agents of special interest groups, political scandal, and corruption.

Kensuke Yamada: “With clay I look for sculptural conversations that evoke the beauty, the subtleties, the sadness and the humor of our everyday life. In viewing my sculpture, I hope for people to enjoy the moment, rather than the movement of time. I hope for my work to fill the space between two seemingly distant things, to provide a connection and thus create the story of you and me.”

Beverly Mayeri is a studio artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned her BA from University of California, Berkeley, and her MA in sculpture at San Francisco State University. Most of Beverly Mayeri’s work involves clay or watercolor and explores the personal life, our yearnings, strengths and fears, our connections to each other and to the environment.

Short story fiction has played a large role in Rachel Lebo’s work since reading A.M. Homes’ Chunky in Heat and meeting a character called Cheryl for the first time. Her paintings reflect a multi-faceted collaboration between Rachel, the subjects of the works, characters from short story fiction, and their authors. In this work Rachel thinks about the potential energy of teenage years.

This exhibit features approximately 55 Artworks by 21 artists in a range of media to draw attention to the to a variety of environmental issues that are altering public awareness of growing ecological problems around the world.

Each time Barbara Marshall photographs an image she sees on a street, sidewalk, or parking lot, it is because she sees what looks to her like a dog, a bird, a person, trees, an interesting scene or abstract. She adds a little color by inking the photos to accent and identify the image. There is so much out there on the streets of Saint Louis, waiting to be seen by those who look down.

Faces of Southern Africa an exhibition of photos By Robert Bolla showing images of peoples of southern Africa including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, and Namibia. Bolla wants this exhibition to help viewers understand that while there are differences in cultures, we are all the same people wanting to live a safe and productive part of our culture and the world.

In the dramatic years between the two world wars, German art ranged from an activist realism to a utopian idealism. This exhibition presents a selection of work that questions the relationship among art, the visible world, and contemporary society.

Declaration is a visual art exhibition featuring 61 original works that explore freedom of expression. Artworks in this new exhibit clearly proclaim personal statements such as declarations of celebration, expressions of protest, political viewpoints, social activism, anymore. Featured are works created in many forms of media by 49 St. Louis regional artists from Missouri and Illinois.

Frankie Toan: Strange Familiars presents the last six years of work by Denver-based artist Frankie Toan (they/them/theirs). In their large-scale soft sculptures, Toan stitches together investigations of plants, bodies, queerness, ecosystems, and the interconnectedness of all things.