Sumner High School Winter Showcase finale
In the spring of 2021, CAM joined a consortium of St. Louis arts organizations to develop and put into practice a multi-tiered art curriculum for Sumner High School. This effort came in response to the St. Louis Board of Education’s planned closing of Sumner,…
Poet, dancer, cultural anthropologist, visual artist, educator—Jason Vasser-Elong brings his unique core of experience and knowledge to his position as Museum Educator at CAM. His teaching resume includes Harris-Stowe University, Webster University, UM-St. Louis, and guest lecturing at Washington University in Saint Louis. His list of courses taught include, African…
Wednesday night, getting closer to the a.m., if you turn your radio to Beyon’ Cray on KDHX, you might not get to sleep but you might want to get up and dance. DJ Crim Dolla Cray is no cure for insomnia but is a direct connection to…
Bharat Ajari has the kind of experiences you like to find in an art instructor: varied and intriguing. He has a Doctor of Ministry and Master of Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary, a Master of Arts in Professional Counseling from Lindenwood University. He is a poet and teaches…
On Tuesday night, March 9, 2021, St. Louis’s Board of Education voted unanimously to keep one of the most historic and culturally relevant institutions in the region open, Sumner High School. Sumner, along with eleven other schools, was facing elimination due to an overall collapse in enrollment in…
CJ Mitchell introduces me to today’s virtual art class project, A Social Medium, based on the collage-work found in Kahlil Robert Irving’s exhibition At Dusk, which was part of the most recent Great Rivers Biennial. A Social Medium…
Sequoia Whitfield. Courtesy The National Gun Violence Memorial.
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is deeply saddened by the death of Sequoia Whitfield, who was killed in a shooting on August 12, 2020. Sequoia, 19, was a student at Vashon High School and participated in the school’s art…
“The whole thing got weird the weekend before spring break,” Tim Portlock begins. He’s on the phone in Philadelphia, where his wife lives and where they cohabit during the summer. Portlock is a 2020 Great Rivers Biennial (GRB) award winner and the head…
Amy Sherald is an American artist known for her photograph-based portraits. While she is perhaps most known for her painting of former first lady Michelle Obama, Sherald has been creating portraits of individuals from the African American community for decades. Sherald’s body of work is unique in that…
The following interview took place prior to the protests over the killing of George Floyd.
Rachel Youn was “in the final stretch” of preparation for their Great Rivers Biennial (GRB) exhibition, slated for May 8. “This was the first time I worked on a project…