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The Biennial: The UM-St. Louis Fine Art Faculty
ST. LOUIS, MO (SLFP.com) - Gallery 210 opens its fall exhibition season, September 9, with The Biennial: The UM-St. Louis Fine Art Faculty,

This exhibition presents new work by tenured and adjunct studio faculty in the Art and Art History Department at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The participating artist include Marian Amies, Ken Anderson, Linda Bangert, Sharon Callner, Stephen Da Lay, Jennifer McKnight, Lucí McMichael , Phillip Robinson, Jeffrey Sipple and, Dan Younger. The exhibition features a wide variety of media including sculpture, graphic design, drawing, painting, photography, and mixed media.

The studio art faculty at UM-St. Louis exhibit regularly in regionally nationally and internationally. Faculty have received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ford Foundation and been honored by a variety of national and international arts organizations. Their work is included in important public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Library of Congress, Museum of Contemporary Photography, McDonnell Douglas Corporation and Emerson Electric.

The studio arts area at UMSL offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in one of six concentrations: Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Graphic Design and General Fine Arts. The department also offers a Minor in Studio Art and a Certificate in Photographic Studies. Classes are taught in the newly renovated Fine Arts Building. UM-St. Louis has a transfer agreement with the St. Louis Community College District, which offers a direct transfer to upper division BFA courses to students who graduate with an AFA degree from one of the three SLCC schools.

There is a public reception for the artist at Gallery 210 on September 9, starting at 5:30 PM.

All Gallery 210 events are free and open to the public. Public parking for Gallery 210 is available at the South Millennium Parking Garage on the east side of East Drive on the UM-St. Louis Campus. Handicapped parking is available behind Gallery 210. For more information, call 314-516-5967.

Saint Charles Riverfront Arts (SCRA) to host 3rd Annual Saint Charles Plein Air Competition
ST. CHARLES, MO (SLFP.com) - Saint Charles Riverfront Arts (SCRA) will be hosting their 3rd annual Saint Charles Plein Air Competition between September 12 and October 1, 2010 in the Main Street and Frenchtown Historic Districts in St. Charles.

SCRA's Plein Air Competition encourages area artists to paint "plein air", which is French for "in the open air". This event is family-friendly, and the SCRA encourages the public to stop by and visit with artists as they paint in the downtown St. Charles community.

An Artists Reception, Show and Sale of works created furing the Plein Art Competition will take place on Friday evening, October 1, 2010 from 5:00 until 9:00 pm at the Foundry Art Centre. At least $2,500 in cash prizes and merchandise will be awarded to participating artists, along with honors for the "Best of Show" and "Artists' Choice" recognition. There will also beseveral Quick Paint Competitions held during the event's schedule, with locations and times to be announced in the near future.

Artists 18 or older may register now until September 1, 2010 for earlybird status and a reduced entry fee of $25. After September 1, 2010, the entry fee is $30 per artist, which can be paid in advance or at any time during the event (please see the attached news release, entry form and 2009 event photos for additional details.)

For more details, please contact Sarah Merideth at Framations Custom Framing and Art Gallery at (636) 724-8313. Additional information is also available at the Saint Charles Riverfront Arts web site at www.saintcharlesriverfrontarts.com.

The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy at the Saint Louis Art Museum
ST. LOUIS, MO (SLFP.com) - The Saint Louis Art Museum has opened two new exhibitions. The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy and Bill Viola: Visitation, two exhibitions presented in tandem this summer reveal how different artists working more than 500 years apart have chosen to express the most fundamental human emotions.

The Mourners, 40 extraordinary alabaster sculptures forming a funeral procession that adorned the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, depict personal responses to the Duke's death. The exhibition brings Museum visitors a rare opportunity to see some of the most extraordinary and important French sculptures from the later Middle Ages. The Museum is pleased to be the second stop on the exhibition's US tour, organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon, under the auspices of FRAME (French Regional and American Museum Exchange) and which opened in March at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Inspired by similar examples of devotional art from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, celebrated video artist Bill Viola modernizes timeless themes of faith and sorrow, heaven and earth to stunning effect in Visitation, a 2008 video installation. The pairing of these two unique exhibitions will allow visitors to collapse time and connect 15th-century mourning practices to 21st-century attitudes toward life and death.

The exhibitions are open Tuesday through Sunday at 10 a.m. To allow sufficient time for visitors to enjoy The Mourners and Bill Viola: Visitation, the last ticket entry will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. On Friday, the last entry will be at 8 p.m. The Museum is closed on Monday with the exception of Memorial Day and Labor Day.

The Mourners and Bill Viola: Visitation will be on view in the Museum's Main Exhibition Galleries through Labor Day, September 6. The Museum will be open on Labor Day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission to both exhibitions is $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors, $4 for children 6 to 12, free for children younger than 6, free to Members every day and free to all on Fridays. For more information, call 314-721-0072.

Archived St. Louis Art Gallery News:

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Kemp Auto Museum Hosts the Reid Vann Rare 356 Series Porsche Exhibition

Marbles Gallery Exhibits OBAMA ROYALE Op Art Paintings

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