Coffee & Crit
Join us for a morning of caffeine and art conversations!
Bring a piece of painting, drawing, mixed media, or any 2D artwork and join us for a casual but informative critique. Thomas Curdt (@thomasisbrewing), a connoisseur and educator of coffee, will be presenting a sample of delicious coffee during the event. Come meet your fellow artsy humans! This event will be graciously hosted by the Munzer Brothers Art Foundation on 1912 Cherokee Street.
"Aesthetics: Five Salient Questions" Seminar by Mark Webber
"Aesthetics: Five Salient Questions" Seminar by Mark Webber
Location: Virtual, via Zoom (a link will be sent to the registration email)
A look at a few, select philosophical concepts spanning the Ancient to the Modern era. We will casually question some problematic bits by noted thinkers with support from artworks that each philosopher was exposed to, perhaps changing our understanding of thinkers like Plato, Thomas Aquinas and Kant.
This online conversation will last about 40 minutes with as much time as needed for follow up questions and discussion.
Mark Webber studied painting at the Swain School of Design, in Massachusetts, and the Parsons School of Design in New York City, where he continued to live for about a decade before moving to North Abington, PA, which he has called home for 35 years. He has taught art, aesthetics and art history at a variety of schools and recently retired from full time teaching. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in NYC, Paris, Florence and Atlanta and has been included in over a dozen juried shows in New York.
Early bird discount ($15) expires Sep 25.
Signal From the Infinite: Opening Reception
Join us for an opening reception of JPA’s founders exhibition “Signal From the Infinite: Works by Jacob Janes and Misato Pang,” featuring a range of small to large figurative paintings made in the past few years in St. Louis. Exhibition catalogue, JPA t-shirts, prints, and paintings will be available for sale.
Janes was born and raised in Hannibal, MO. He is a lifelong wrestler, returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and mediocre skateboarder. Prior to earning his MFA from Marywood University, he also studied fine art at Lindenwood University and Mount Gretna School of Art. His paintings are figurative poems; playful, simplistic abstractions of common subjects, born from a sense of necessity.
Pang was born and raised in Hong Kong, She moved to the United States when she was 17 years old. As a Japanese-Chinese-American, her work contains a mixture of cultural influences and visual pursuits that serve as springboard for self-discovery— both of pictorial language as well as her heritage. From collage, drawing, printmaking, to photography, she uses the mediums interchangeably to provoke curiosity and surprise in her own approach to painting.
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Visiting St. Louis Art Museum: Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800
We will be visiting the Art and Imagination in Spanish America, 1500–1800 exhibition at SLAM before it comes down. Let’s walk around together and discuss the artworks!
Coffee & Crit
Bring a piece of painting, drawing, mixed media, or any 2D artwork and join us for a casual but informative critique. Thomas Curdt (@thomasisbrewing), a connoisseur and educator of coffee, will be presenting a sample of delicious coffee during the event. Come meet your fellow artsy humans!