The pomp and circumstance of a traditional graduation with the appeal of a tailgate party Author: Alex Fees (KSDK) Updated: 10:16 PM CDT May 15, 2021
FERGUSON, Mo. A confetti-covered parking lot is the first clue that the graduation ceremony at St. Louis Community College s Florissant Valley campus might be an alternative version caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Graduates arrived by car and then got out to walk across a makeshift stage. It had all the pomp and circumstance of a traditional graduation, plus the appeal of a tailgate party.
Graduate Evita Brodtrick and her family were there to celebrate her nursing degree.
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St. Louis County workers got their shots at the mass vaccination event in February on the campus of St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley. State officials have announced more mass vaccinations are coming to St. Louis and other urban areas later this month.
Updated at 6:38 p.m. with comments from state Rep. Sarah Unsicker
Missouri officials plan to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to more than 14,000 people in the St. Louis region at several events next week.
The Missouri National Guard, local health workers and state emergency management personnel will staff sites in St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County.
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Aaron Fowler s new exhibition is his largest production to date.
Aaron Fowler’s larger-than-life assemblages have been displayed at the Saatchi Gallery, the Hammer Museum and the New Museum. He’s had solo shows at the Columbus College of Art and Design and the Seattle Art Museum.
This week, he finally debuts his first solo exhibition in his hometown. N2EXISTENCE: GENESIS opens March 6. Fowler’s largest production to date, it follows a yearlong residence at the Luminary.
On Monday’s
St. Louis on the Air, Fowler explained that the show builds off a storefront on Cherokee Street, where he helped his friends share “their wildest visions.” Longtime friend Traci Petty launched a lingerie line and also worked to clothe the needy in tribute to her late mother. Fowler’s cousin Errol Isom created a “trap church” to honor the artist Gucci Mane. Now those visions, and others, form the underpinning of the work Fowler will exhibit at the Lumina