“Panoply: 26 Painted Lives" brings together two bodies of work from portrait artist Ray Allen Parker. The LIT series forms a sort of visual biography of the artist. These portraits of literary figures trace Parker's journey through the novels and poetry that shaped his thoughts and feelings about major themes explored in literature.

Environmental Impact II is a national traveling museum exhibition, curated by David Wagner. This exhibit aims to heighten public awareness and concern about the intentional or unintentional consequences of human action or inaction, through the power of this art.

Transform Your Hood is a multifaceted, nonpartisan campaign that aims to activate how we creatively express our values through civic engagement. Residents of the St. Louis region are invited to take time and space to consider what matters most, and how to use their voice and action to shape these issues.

What makes a problem a societal issue? Why do these problems persist? What roles can visual art play in addressing these issues? ArtReach: The Art of Caring is the product of a semester-long focus on questions of social justice and healing with visual art students at Sumner and Vashon High Schools.

New York-based artist, writer, and publisher Paul Chan came to prominence in the early 2000s with vibrant moving image works that touched upon aspects of war, religion, pleasure, and politics. Around 2009 Chan embarked on a self-imposed break. Taking the notion of a “breather” as its organizing principle, this exhibition surveys Chan’s activities since his break from that point to the present.

On Earth features five artists who use moving images to explore the complex relationships between humans and the natural environment. The film and video works in this exhibition present land as a central figure, introducing themes of temporality, ritual, memory, territory, loss, and birth.

Colombian artist Delcy Morelos creates art that calls attention to connections between people and the environment. Using natural materials like textile, fibers, clay, and soil, her work asks us to consider earth as a living entity rather than a territory to be owned. The exhibition features paintings, sculptures, and installations made throughout Morelos’s career.

By the early 20th century, Europe and the United States had experienced rapid modernization and industrialization. Artwork from this time reflect the sensorial overload of urban life, the sweep of high-speed travel, the repetitive motions of factory machinery, and the dismemberment caused by mechanized warfare. Artwork in this exhibition comes primarily from the Kemper's permanent collection.

Madrid-based artist Santiago Sierra is known for his provocative performance and installation art that deals with the topic of social inequities and has created works visualizing of the toxicity of contemporary urban life. Sierra created the 52 compositions by placing adhesive-lacquered canvases on the floor in a building in Mexico City with the windows open, allowing the air to settle on them.

The St. Louis–based artist Kahlil Robert Irving creates assemblages made of layered images and sculptures composed of replicas of everyday objects. Mainly working in ceramics, Irving critically engages with the history of the medium and challenges constructs around identity and culture in the Western world.

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Quincy Art Center’s High School Student Art Competition, the Quincy Art Center had invited previous participants of the exhibit to display artwork that has previously been accepted to the High School Student Competition in the last 49 years.

Matisse and the Sea is the first exhibition to examine the significance of the sea across Modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career, which included artwork in coastal locations on the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Pacific. Marine imagery was an important catalyst for Matisse’s artistic experimentation - most notably in the Saint Louis Art Museum’s own iconic painting Bathers with a Turtle.

Yuji Hiratsuka expresses human conditions such as mood, feeling, and thought through ambiguous and whimsical figures. His multi-color intaglio and chine collé prints present human bodies that are simplified, exaggerated, or distorted along with elements such as fruit, vegetables, plants, and furniture. The figures combine his native Japanese culture with his current life in America.

Rosati-Kain High School is an all-girls Catholic high school in St. Louis. Rosati-Kain has a long history of excellence in fine arts. Hetherington teaches visual arts offerings including courses ranging from freshman art to portfolio preparation ranging from advanced drawing, painting, and ceramics. This exhibition presents a collection of the works of these high school students.

The Foundry is going to the dogs! Wag is an interactive art exhibition curated and designed specifically for our furry best friends. Featured artists include Greta Coalier, Justin King, Steve Jones, and Laura Lloyd and features include artwork by area artists with dog-friendly colors, canine portraiture of pups at the St. Charles Animal Shelter, and Art activities for dogs and their companions.

Bob Willoughby was the first outsider photographer invited into movie studios. His work took off in 1954 when asked to work with Judy Garland and his photographs became instantly recognizable featuring naturalistic images of actors in times of vulnerability.

Pairing the artworks by Michelle Oosterbaan and Brigham Dimick provokes insights about deeper affinities between artists' working practices, even when there are clear stylistic differences. An essential common thread, for example, is the accumulation of small and precise information that accrues organically over time.