Free Family Saturdays Craft Alliance welcomes all St. Louis area families for Free Family Studios, a free Saturday morning craft workshop for kids ages five and up with their parents and caregivers. Led by professional artists, families create together in the Craft Alliance studios to connect through craft, exploring clay, fiber, textiles, and more!
First Friday: Little Shop of Horrors To help explain the science behind science fiction and popular culture, the Science Center will celebrate the eclipse and agriculture plot themes within the musical and film “Little Shop of Horrors.” During the free event, guests can watch the classic film in the OMNIMAX® Theater, compete in trivia and games, shop local vendors, visit with STEM professionals, join a sing-along and more. Eclipse viewing glasses will be distributed to attendees this event, while supplies last.
Kahlil Robert Irving and Andrea Achi: Archaeology and Contemporary Art The artist Kahlil Robert Irving will be in conversation with Andrea Achi, Mary and Michael Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to discuss Irving’s exhibition that includes a range of ceramic sculptures inspired, in part, by the mosaic floors of Hellenistic Antioch. Topics will also include how contemporary artists engage the history and methodologies of archaeology, uncovering layer upon layer of evidence and artifacts that begin to tell a fragmented story.
Public opening of "Shimmering Silks: Traditional Japanese Textiles" "Shimmering Silks: Traditional Japanese Textiles" celebrates 18th- and 19th-century silk pieces from the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum, which has been collecting fine Japanese textiles for more than a century.
Q&A with Kahlil Robert Irving As part of the opening celebrations for "Kahlil Robert Irving: Archaeology of the Present," artist Kahlil Robert Irving will be in conversation with Hamza Walker, director of LAXART, an independent, nonprofit art space in Los Angeles. Irving and Walker will discuss topics ranging from Black life and collective memory to urban landscapes, as well as how the mining of contemporary artifacts begins to tell a fragmented story of American history.