For the second year in a row, The Luminary has been awarded St. Louis Magazine’s A-List. This year, we won for Best Music Series for the Elevator Music Series. Pick up a copy of the magazine throughout July to read about the award and to check out all of the other incredible award winners.
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Music + Film: Califone at The Luminary
The Luminary Center for the Arts
The chapel is now an installation space. The basement hosts art shows and indie rock concerts. And the bedrooms where young novices prayed store canvases and cameras.
“Can you imagine? Everything they owned was in this one room,” said Luminary Arts founder Brea McAnally, peaking into a printmaker’s workspace. “Each of [...]
Journey Through Time
By Paul Friswold
Paintings and sculptures appear to be static objects, but time is most assuredly having its way with the artwork. Pigments fade, canvas dries and cracks, even stone erodes and crumbles given enough time. The five artists participating in Cause + Time, the new exhibition at the Luminary Center for the Arts [...]
RFT Featured Review: Old Media/Old News
Yesterday’s headlines are re-presented in traditional (old) media by a group of local and international artists in this inventive elegy to the death of print journalism. Idiosyncratic, methodical processes seek to replace or reclaim the generative grind of tangible print: Martin Brief fills in all the O’s that appear on [...]
The Luminary Center for the Arts Presents the Elevator Music Series
By Annie Zaleski in News
Thursday, Jan. 22 2009 @ 3:08PM
The Luminary Center for the Arts (4900 Reber Place) is presenting a new monthly event called the Elevator Music Series. The first show will take place on March 26, with local act the Pragmatic and [...]
Multipurpose Venue
Luminary Center for the Arts
Formerly a convent, the nuns’ quarters—tiny, well-lit, equipped with sinks—make perfect artists’ studios. The Luminary also curates art shows that generously invite audiences to participate; its monthly Elevator Music Series is marvelous. But its conscious merger of art and service sets it apart, with its “Blank Canvas” art classes for [...]
Best New Multimedia Gallery
The Luminary Center for the Arts
In a former convent on Kingshighway just west of Tower Grove Park, the husband-and-wife team of James and Brea McAnally have created an unusual new arts venue they call an “artist-run resource center.” The Washington University grads (Brea’s a photographer, James a musician) offer support for post-BFA/MFA [...]
Watch a New Live Song from The Books
A few weeks back, the low-tech sound-collage duo the Books played to a tittering crowd at St. Louis’ Luminary Center for the Arts. At that show, the band played a spacey, mellow new track called “Group Autogenics”, and the rear projections that accompanied them made visual jokes out [...]
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever
Home, or a sense of place, seems to be an ever-elusive but primary concern for the creative set, as this group show by local artists confirms. BJ Vogt piles strata of Styrofoam and tufts of green twist ties to create a mountainous, occasionally green-sprouting form based [...]
