A Reason to Care About Pointfest: LucaBrasi
This weekend, Pointfest returns to that big amphitheatre out in the flats. Twenty-nine bands for the same amount of dollars. Often lost in the mix of that show is the fact that local groups do get some good slots at the showcase of hard-rock and Luca Brasi, a now-long-running amalgam of Saint Louis’ finest bands, [...]
Dana Smith Interviews Coby Ellison (“Six” show, Mad Art Gallery, 8/6)
By Dana Smith Mad Art Gallery has an interesting art opening on Friday Aug 6 called “Six – work by Amy Bautz, Deb Douglas, Coby Ellison, Maria Marshall, Carolyn Palmer and Gary Passanise.” My attention was grabbed by this show because of the artists involved. These artists create great and intriguing work but rarely show in [...]
Creative Conversations: Jon Scorfina, “The Last Collector Standing”
The late, lamented “Spy Magazine” used to run a mini-feature called “Logrolling in our Time,” dedicating the little list to major authors who would write glowing reviews of books… written by one another. So: Author X loved Author Y, who, curiously enough, was also a supporter of Author Y. Live in a town like Saint [...]
Keaggy On Kimmel
As part of our continuing coverage this week of our favorite St. Louis creatives appearing on national TV we bring you the actual video of Bill Keaggy on Jimmy Kimmel … well part of it anyway. The Kimmel folks … er … ABC put it on Youtube themselves but didn’t see fit to post the [...]
Keaggy Q/A on Kimmel, KoRn
Backgrounder needed? Refer here. Obvious one first: how did this all come about? They asked! I said yes. Actually, someone there saw Coudal Partners’ teasers for “The Curators,” their documentary project on collectors. It’s an outgrowth of their long-standing Museum of Online Museums. My grocery list collection is in the permanent collection there and I’m [...]
Sampling Art Chantry from Facebook
Art Chantry lived in St. Louis for about five or six years in the early ‘naughts’ but never really felt at home here. He’s pacific northwest though and through. He had several exhibits of his work at both City Museum and the Philip Slein Gallery when he was here. But St. Louis wasn’t ready for [...]
Q/A with Brian Krumm of The Great Crusades
Ordinarily, we have a “no diaspora” policy here at CreativeSaintLouis, for those of you keeping score. After all, we’re all about celebrating those who are still kicking around the 314, the 618 and the 636, as opposed to those off doing great things with STL in the rear view. But we’ll make an exception today [...]
Cinco De Mayo On Cherokee: Amy VanDonsel’s After Party (Photos)
After the street festivities the ever hospitable Amy VanDonsel opened up her studio space for a less formal (and more private) party. Here is photographic evidence. Photos by Bill Streeter.
An Audio Interview with Van McElwee
By Drew Canning Webster University professor and video artist Van McElwee has been named a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow. Drew Canning discusses this with him in our first audio feature (with a pinch of video, to boot). Project V from Drew Canning on Vimeo.
Chautaqua Art Lab: Announcement, Events, Lineup
The following is the press release for the multi-venue Chautaqua Art Lab, taking place over the coming couple of weeks. The notes below are penned by Emily Hemeyer. You can find these details and more here. Since no small amount of creative Saint Louisans are taking part, let’s highlight the affair(s): ===== CHAUTAUQUA ART LAB [...]
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