In Memoriam: Marv Nodiff (1945-2025)

Posted Apr 27, 2025 | News & Events,

By Sue Greenberg, executive director We are saddened by the recent passing of Founding Board Member Marvin J. Nodiff. Marv was the leading man in our origin story. The first chapter began in 1981 with Zia Gipson, who worked for the City’s Arts & Humanities Commission (which later became...

Meet Quinton Ward

Posted Apr 04, 2025 | News & Events,

We are pleased to announce that Quinton Ward is our new part-time Community Engagement Manager. He succeeds Shayba Diaz Muhammad, who is leaving the St. Louis area. Quinton will build awareness of our programs and services on social media and by making in-person connections with underserved artists and creative...

Grants to Support Arts Engagement and Learning

Posted Jan 27, 2025 | News & Events,

The East St. Louis Regional Arts Partners (RAP) grant program, previously known as the Community Arts Access program, awards grants to local cultural organizations and nonprofits offering arts programming. Schools and individual artists are also eligible for funding. The RAP program is made possible by funding from the Illinois...

Meet Brianna McIntrye

Posted May 16, 2024 | News & Events,

We are pleased to announce that Brianna McIntyre is our new part-time associate director. Her primary responsibilities are managing our referral service and college outreach program. McIntyre is a St. Louis-born artist whose practice investigates social and political identities through her critical spatial practice and research. A graduate of...

VLAA Seeks Associate Director

Posted Mar 29, 2024 | News & Events,

Update: We have conducted interviews and are no longer accepting applications. We are seeking a part-time Associate Director whose primary responsibilities are managing our referral service and college outreach program. The Associate Director reports to the Executive Director. Our three-person staff also includes a part-time Community Engagement Manager. Compensation...

AI Shakespeare

Posted Mar 22, 2024 | News & Events,

To prepare for the artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright program, which we co-presented at the High Low on March 21, we asked free ChatGPT to generate Shakespeare sonnets about artists in St. Louis who are worried about AI co-opting their work. We selected this one from among 18 choices...

Sister Mary Reflections

Posted Dec 04, 2023 | News & Events,

by Sue Greenberg, executive director A vile diatribe against all things Catholic? Not this time. Stray Dog Theatre’s production of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You is up and running without any public outrage. That was not the case when Theatre Project Company (TPC) produced Christopher Durang’s...

Celebrating the Freedom to Read

Posted Sep 19, 2023 | News & Events,

LIBRARIANS RESPOND Thursday, October 5 at NoonHigh Low Listening Room, 3301 Washington in Grand Center It’s Banned Books Week. Join Rachelle Brandel (Missouri Library Association), Kathleen Gallagher (Richmond Heights Public Library), and Joe Monahan (St. Louis Public Library) with moderator St. Louis Public Library Board President Vincent Volpe, and...

When Public Art & Historic Preservation Collide

Posted May 04, 2023 | News & Events,

by Sue Greenberg, executive director Among the thousands of stressful details involved in mounting the 6-mile Counterpublic art exhibition was a St. Louis City Preservation Board meeting that was held just a few weeks before the show’s April 14 grand opening. Simiya Sudduth’s mural was on the agenda. The hearing...

Trademarks, the First Amendment & The Slants

Posted Feb 15, 2023 | News & Events,

WHAT DO ROCK ‘N ROLL, OPERA AND THE SUPREME COURT HAVE IN COMMON? Monday, March 6 at 4:00 p.m. Saint Louis University School of Law, 100 N. Tucker, Room 1130 Co-sponsored by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Saint Louis University School of Law and St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and...

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