The Arts Happen Here

Previous Exhibitions

Dawson Morgan’s 2-D photography work features figurative abstract, using ceramic form as the muse. This interesting concept uses light and shadow to explore the curves within her work.  Morgan’s photographic medium is an essential tool for supporting her submissions and marketing within the art world. In 2010 she submitted photographs to get her ceramic works into a show.  The gallery director requested that the submission photographs themselves be included on their own merit in Morgan’s show, resulting in a body of photographic work that she focuses, literally on ceramic form.   

“The passion in my work is evident through the technical care and artistic manipulation in developing sculptural clay form.  How a piece interacts with light and our environment is an important factor, becoming a strong feature much like color or size. I often incorporate shadow as an element in the piece and sculpt with open space on my work table to build the 

Bill Perry
Circus Flora Benefit Exhibition

A long-time Circus Flora fan, Bill Perry continues to be delighted by the seemingly effortless movement and grace demonstrated during each performance.  Perry is a prolific drawer, sketching every day, and regularly works in ceramics...until this project.  Beginning in January 2011, Perry set out on his mission to create 15 unique oil pastel pieces.  The idea was to capture the "flashes" of movement one sees during a live performance.  Videos from last season's performances provided the still shots from which Perry created a series of sketches.  The 15 pieces that were displayed was the result of nearly six months of hard work.

Indigo Dreams
Lessons in Textile Design and Creative Writing Embellishments

The Indigo Dreams Project goal is to teach students throughout St. Louis Metropolitan how to combine ancient and modern textile printmaking processes to create one-of-a-kind cloth art. The classes are designed to expand students’ ideas of the many ways people interconnect through visual art forms. The students were educated about the indigo plant and its cultural significance, status, and use as a dye in Asian and African cultures such as, Adire cloth in West Africa, and Shibori resist patterns in Asian cultures.