Mar 28 Thursday
Premiering off-Broadway in 1997, this one-person dramatic comedy received three AUDELCO awards for excellence in Black theatre and has had a limited tour in the years since. The story centers around an African American man who believes he will receive the power to fly on the night of a special celestial event. As he prepares for the event on a Brooklyn rooftop, he shares the comic, dramatic and tragic experiences that have pushed him to the edge of reality.
Intergenerational Matinee Date Wednesday 02/21/2024 @10
Alice Childress’ unforgettable drama about the romance between Julia, a Black seamstress, and Herman, her white lover, searingly addresses prejudice and ignorance in early 20th-century America. Set in the Deep South at the end of World War I during the flu epidemic, it is one of American drama’s most mercilessly revealing tales of interracial love. The play traces a devoted couple’s caustic confrontations with anti-miscegenation laws, family racism, community disapproval, and their own long-buried feelings.
Intergenerational Matinee Date March 20th, 2024 @10 AM
Mar 29 Friday
Green Door Art Gallery is pleased to partner with Bobby Lessentine, Financial Advisor, Edward Jones, in presenting Upon Further Reflection, a collection of oil and cold wax paintings by Mark Witzling.
Join us for the opening reception on Thursday January 11, 2024, 5:00 – 7:00 pm. Meet the artist and enjoy refreshments while you view the exhibit.
Location: Edward Jones Office of Bobby Lessentine, CFP 3141 South Grand, St. LouisExhibit Hours: Monday-Friday 8:30 am – 5:00 pmPlease call before visiting: 314-772-5304
Emilee Chapman (Stanford University), author of Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2022), will present a talk entitled "What are Elections for and How Can we Make them Better?" at 10am, with brunch served from 9:30am. All are welcome!
Abstract: This talk invites us to think broadly about how elections contribute to the realization of democratic values. Much debate over election reform centers on questions about how we can gather the most accurate and equally representative information about citizens' preferences and how we can ensure that this information determines who gets to govern. But elections are not merely information-gathering exercises. We would have good reasons to continue our practice of voting even if we had better ways of ensuring that government reflects what the people want. This is because elections - and other occasions for popular voting - profoundly influence how citizens experience and relate to the otherwise very abstract notion of democracy. When elections are characterized by inclusiveness, equality, and a certain momentousness, they dramatize the nature of democracy as something that simultaneously depends on all of us and each of us. They also provide regular opportunities for citizens to perform their equal political agency. Understanding how these experiences and the political culture built around them contribute to a functional democratic system sheds new light on contemporary debates over electoral reform.
Green Door Art Gallery presents our newest art exhibit, Food For Thought, a celebration of the beauty and complexity of food, and the places and ways we interact with it. The exhibit features oil paintings by Cynthia Hamilton, Chloe Seyer, Michelle Streiff, and Da-vid Yates, and laser cut bamboo and batik fabric jewelry by Elsa Taricone. The artwork will be on display and available for sale March 6 – April 27, 2024
Join us for the opening reception on Friday March 15, 2024 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Green Door Art Gallery’s 36 resident artists will also be exhibiting and selling artwork in-cluding fused glass, mosaics, watercolor, oil and acrylic paintings, collage, mixed media, wood, pottery, textile art, jewelry and more. Green Door Art Gallery is located at 21 N. Gore in Old Webster Groves. Hours: Wednesday thru Sunday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. www.greendoorartgallery.com (314) 202-4071
View outstanding mixed media collaborations between area St. Louis artists and Third Degree glass artists. The exhibition focuses on the refractions, reflections and overall beauty that glass can bring to any medium including textiles, wood, metal, paper, ceramics, and more.
Stop into Steve's to try special infused menu items on the 3rd Saturday of every month WHILE SUPPLIES LAST! Available for guests 21 and up only!
The Madrid-based artist Santiago Sierra presents "52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air" (2019) in the Saligman Family Atrium. Known for his provocative performance and installation art that deals with the topic of social inequities, the artist has created with this work a visualization of the toxicity of contemporary urban life.
Sierra created the 52 compositions—one for each week in a year—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. Each week he removed one canvas and had a conservator permanently fix the sediment that had gathered on its surface. The result is a disturbing time-lapse of noxious accumulation. "52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air" refers not only to pollution in Mexico City but also to the increase of airborne contaminants in congested areas around the world.
Over the past three decades Sierra’s work has also focused on capitalist labor relations in art-world contexts to underscore their dehumanizing effects. In this work he does not replicate the human-on-human cruelty explored in his earlier works, but rather employs art as direct evidence of environmental degradation. Sierra’s canvases also turn our attention toward the systems of power responsible for these current conditions, making us see anew not just the air but also the policies that contaminate our bodies.
The exhibition is organized by Meredith Malone, curator.
In coordination with the exhibition "Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present," the artist Kahlil Robert Irving selected a series of contemporary video works to screen concurrently in the Kemper Art Museum’s Video Gallery. This is the second time the artist has curated a video series alongside a presentation of his own artworks. The seven videos he selected highlight intimate moments in time and space when Black people are present, emphasizing the fact that no matter the setting, “We are still here.” Locations range from a person's home, to family gatherings, to horseback riding in Oakland, California. These works are meant to remind some people that it is okay to be ourselves and to let others know that it is normal to see Black people participating in different acts or as a part of different metaphors. In today’s world, living is defined by adversity, resistance, and survival, all of which are inextricably linked to digital media. Digital media is variously used as a tool for protest, remembering passing moments , entertainment, and deception. The selected videos celebrate and acknowledge artistic practices that deploy a myriad of tools, technologies, and metaphors.
The participating artists are Lyndon Barrois Jr., Tony Cokes, Cameron Downey, Addoley Dzegede, Charles H. Lee, William M. Morris, Jefferson Pinder, and Tiffany J. Sutton.
"Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present" features the artwork of St. Louis–based artist Kahlil Robert Irving. Clay-based works are at the center of Irving’s multidisciplinary practice, which examines digital media, memory, race, and Black life as subjects embedded in his ceramic sculptures. This exhibition features Irving’s new sculptures, videos, and paintings that together consider our relationship to the city street as a place and a concept, while also challenging constructions of identity and culture in the Western world.