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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
