Recycled tire creatures!

Apropos the upcoming St. Louis Artists' Guild exhibit Collective Reasoning check out the InstaDaily blog post on art made from all kinds of trash and recycled materials. Particularly impressive is Korean sculptor Ji Yong Ho's menagerie constructed from used tires.

Collective Reasoning,
St. Louis Artists' Guild
Two Oak Knoll Park
Clayton, MO 63105

Opening: Friday, November 12, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Admission: Free and Open to the Public
Juror: John Watson

Photo: Sculpture by Ji Yong Ho, InstaDaily.com

Don Synder at Artisans' Section meeting, Thurs Oct. 14

Donald L. Snyder will be the featured presenter at the Oct. 14 Artisans’ Section meeting in the 2nd Floor Members Gallery, 7pm. Don is a Senior Professor of Washington University with interests in biomedical, electrical and optical engineering.

"I'm interested in sundials because of their mathematical relation to the position of the sun at any time. It's a thing of beauty to design an instrument on the basis of mathematics,the physics of solar and Earth motion and the effects of sunlight. Another reason I'm drawn to sundials is aesthetics. There are lots of artistic choices in designing and building one." -Don Synder, Washington University In St. Louis Newsroom

Photo: Angel Sundial at Saint Louis University Hospital, www.waymarking.com

Paint The Town Mural update

Mural progress(10/7).

Photo: Cindy Evans

Mural underway in Belleville

As part of next weeks "Paint The Town" community volunteer effort to repaint all the buildings in a 10 block area along West Main Street in Belleville, IL, a group of artists gathered on Wed(10/6) morning to help paint a new mural designed by Bill Evans, a member of Southwestern Illinois College art & design faculty. Once the scaffolding was up Bill began to color code his design for others to fill in with brushes and rollers. By midday about 30% of the design was covered. Mural wall is on North Illinois about two blocks from the square.

World Wide SketchCrawl Day #29, St. Louis Zoo

Sketchers in St. Louis are invited to participate in the global drawing marathon known as World Wide SketchCrawl #29 on Saturday, October 16. Artists are going to meetup for a day of sketching the flora and fauna at the famous Saint Louis Zoo in Forest Park. The starting point will be 10am at the entrance near the parking lot on the Hwy 40/64 side of the zoo. We will sketch until about 4pm so drop in at anytime during the day and stay as long as you like. There is no charge to enter the Zoo or be in the SketchCrawl but participants might want to bring some cash for food and frosty beverages. We will try to gather for a group photo and to compare sketches at some point later in the day but it is all intended to be casual and fun. We will also upload some of the sketches to the SketchCrawl Forum. Artists in over 70 cities throughout the world are taking part in this event; from Jakarta to Denver, from Paris to Detroit and here in St. Louis too. Over a dozen sketchers from the St. Louis Drawing and Painting Meetup have already RSVPed for the event. Everyone is welcome. Just show up with your sketchbook and get your draw on.