The Luminary and The Partnership for Downtown are pleased to present the 3rd annual Post Performance Series, a series of free art installations and performances at the Old Post Office Plaza in Downtown St. Louis. The Post Performances will pair innovative visual artists and musicians to create site-specific, one-time performances that are free and open [...]
Whole City: St. Louis organized by Works Progress The Luminary Center for the Arts Temporary Gallery at 2644 Cherokee Street, St. Louis 63118 May 4 – May 25, 2013 Opening Reception on May 4th from 7-9pm Part of the How to Build a World That Won’t Fall Apart Exhibition Series Whole City is a month-long project by [...]
A modest occupation curated by Abigail Satinsky/threewalls The Luminary Center for the Arts Temporary Gallery at 2644 Cherokee Street, St. Louis 63118 March 15 – April 12, 2013 Opening Reception on March 15th from 7-10pm Part of the How to Build a World That Won’t Fall Apart Exhibition Series Economics, which Lord Keynes had hoped [...]
Social Security, a group exhibition in collaboration with Cosign Projects, Los Caminos, Pig Slop, Proper Gallery and PSTL Gallery November 30th, 2012 – February 1st, 2013 Opening Reception on November 30th from 7-10pm at a temporary exhibition space at 2644 Cherokee Street Social Security is a constellation of 5 ‘gallery kits’ individually curated by area alternative [...]
How to Build a World That Won’t Fall Apart, part 1 October 19th, 2012 – November 10th, 2012 Opening Reception on October 19th from 7-10pm at a temporary exhibition space at 2644 Cherokee Street “For me, the fundamental question is to explore the possibility of maintaining spaces of play. To discover how to produce forms [...]
We have spent the last 9 months hosting trivia nights and cocktail parties, partnering with local businesses, writing grants and running a Kickstarter campaign and now it is time to make the next step: WE ARE MOVING TO CHEROKEE STREET! The Luminary is moving forward with plans for a new location at 2701-7 Cherokee Street. [...]
On October 12th from 9am-6pm, The Luminary will host a special satellite location for the Creative Time Summit. We will be livestreaming the event with supplementary discussions and presentations from 12-1:30pm by area artists and cultural producers whose work intersects with the vision of the summit. Several of the presenters include artist and Chautauqua Art [...]
On September 17th, The Luminary presents acclaimed producer and songwriter Washed Out for a special off-site show at Plush. Long adored and critically lauded in the blog world, Ernest Greene (aka Washed Out) first came to prominence in the summer of 2009 after unassumingly posting a handful of bedroom-recorded tracks to his Myspace page from [...]
FORM 2012 We are proud to announce the third annual FORM Contemporary Design Show on September 28th and 29th. The annual furniture, functional object and architecture show has quickly developed into one of the central independent design events in the nation, promoting contemporary design in an exciting, accessible format. FORM 2012 will expand [...]
On 11/5, The Luminary welcomes WHY? to the Elevator Music Series. Originally the moniker of Yoni Wolf, WHY? started as his own artist persona and eventually grew to include additional members with the 2005 release of Elephant Eyelash. Now with three LPs as a band, WHY? is still founded on Yoni Wolf’s witty, culturally aware [...]
The Sea and Cake is a product of the fertile and active Chicago, IL music scene. The four members are all veteran musicians who share a common punk and rock background and numerous affiliations with incomparable bands like Tortoise, but have come together in this entity to uniquely blend Brazilian music of the late 1960′s, [...]
On Saturday, November 3rd, the New Music Circle presents the Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet at The Luminary. Intermission musical selections and ambience provided by Guest DJ, Josh Weinstein (KDHX All Soul No Borders). Tickets are $10 for students and $20 for the general public and are available here.
How to Build a World That Won’t Fall Apart Exhibition Series October 2012 – June 2013 The idea of emancipation implies…that there are always several spaces in a space, several ways of occupying it, and each time the trick is knowing what sort of capacities one is setting in motion, what sort of world [...]
On August 28th, The Luminary welcomes School of Seven Bells to the Elevator Music Series. School of Seven Bells formed nearly six years ago, and at the time as a trio: vocalist Alejandra Deheza, guitarist/producer Benjamin Curtis, and ex-vocalist/synth player Claudia Deheza. Their debut album, Alpinisms, hit streets via Ghostly International in 2008 and garnered [...]
Time Capsule Workshop Location: The Luminary Center for the Arts, 4900 Reber Place, 63139 Dates: Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 2:00 pm Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 2:00 pm Free and open to the public. Space is limited to 20 people. Registration required: Register by emailing info@theluminaryarts.com Join former Luminary Resident Artist Alex Elmestad and Managing Director [...]
