About a dozen men and women representing multiple generations gather in the museum’s lobby for Drawing from Observation, an activity led by Museum Educator José Garza. “We’re not teaching you to draw,” Garza explains, “We’re teaching you a technique.”
Before…
Fashionably dressed in white capris and an assortment of artistic printed shirts, a group of twenty adults mill around the café eating croissants and sipping coffee while eagerly anticipating a tour led by CAM’s Museum Educator, José Garza. The group is part of Oasis, an organization that seeks…
On a bright Thursday morning at CAM, twenty kids sit around tables drawing pictures and cutting out circles to make buttons. Dressed in matching bright blue shirts, they excitedly talk about the pictures they’re coloring. The children are spending the summer at Chesterfield Kindercare’s day camp, which includes…
Contemporary art, by its very nature, encourages unconventional materials. Past exhibitions at CAM have included race cars, money, thousands of tiny succulents, and suspended Tillandsia air plants. One of the Lawrence Abu Hamdan installations currently at the museum, Earwitness Inventory, includes a non-descript metal…
CAM collaborated with St. Francis Community Services summer camp to offer education and art activities to immigrant communities. Visual art served as a vehicle to discuss important topics such as cultural identity, empowerment, and advocacy.
Through hands-on art-making, the students learned the importance of their bicultural…
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis has partnered with Artsy on the occasion of our 15th anniversary to host a benefit auction featuring 20 emerging and renowned artists, including Katherine Bernhardt, Sanford Biggers, Claudia Comte, Pope.L, Pedro Reyes, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Stephanie…
A couple mornings after, Open Studios is remembered images and conversations.
Paintings that play phenomenological tricks: radiant yellows, blues that lighten and darken like an exploration of aquatic depths; these are like windows, like blinds over windows, and with a turn of the eye and mind…
Bobby Norfolk’s innate ability to read and connect with audiences of all ages makes him one of America’s premier storytellers. He is an internationally known “story performer” and no stranger to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, having performed here five times previous to his performance on Saturday…
“You know who I am,” she smiles. “I’m Amy Sherald.”
The students from CAM’s New Art in the Neighborhood program are shy and nervous at first, but warm to her in a very short while. She’s totally open, engaging, funny. She’s tall and stands…
When Claudia Comte discusses her early influences, she speaks of a her childhood home: Grancy, a small Swiss village in the countryside where her family lived in “a chalet in the woods…. I was very attracted by those woods.” She adds to her list animals, nature, and video…