An outstanding year!

Chandler Branch, Exe. Dir.What a year it has been for Art Saint Louis! We've had the privilege of sharing much of our region's newest and best visual art, over 500 artworks in total, with a large and diverse crowd of over 30,000 viewers. My thanks go out to the many artists whose imagination and craft have delighted, provoked and inspired thousands in our community.

Among recent highlights, our 33rd annual all-styles, all-themes exhibit, Art St. Louis XXXIII, The Exhibition, opened with another high-energy reception. As with previous iterations of this show, this was one of the most popular and competitive exhibitions we produced in our gallery this year. Over 430 artworks in all media were submitted by 108 St. Louis regional artists for consideration by Juror Daniel Anderson. From this group Mr. Anderson selected 54 artworks by 52 artists from Missouri and Illinois.

This year our mobile app for visual art, ArtLoupe, grew to over 5,000 registered users from across the US, and over 7,000 published artworks! It has been a long road with this project from conception to fruition--over four years--and we still have a ways to go before it begins to reach its full potential. Being a tech startup in its own right, ArtLoupe remains an unusual and ambitious undertaking for an organization like ours and we're excited to see where it goes.  Read more...