Welcome to PopUpSTL.com, home of downtown St. Louis' pop-up art program! Art Saint Louis is pleased to produce this program with the help of our partners at U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation and the Downtown Community Improvement District. We hope you enjoy some unexpected introductions to the art and artists of our region!
Pop-Up STL is our art-inspired way of making St. Louis an even cooler place to be. We create arrangements between artists and property owners to give artists valuable exposure to downtown audiences and build attraction to and foot traffic around commercially available properties. It's a cultural, social and economic boost for a city already on the move.
The first few galleries have popped up on Washington Avenue at:
• 1204 Washington Ave. │ Painting by Mark Horton
• 1208 Washington Ave. │ Painting by David Dolak
• 1224 Washington Ave. │ Painting by Brian D. Smith
• 1424 Washington Ave. │ Photography by Greg Barth
• 1533 Washington Ave. │ Pop-Up Collective
...and more are on the way! Catch the latest buzz on Twitter and Facebook.
You can help your favorite Pop-Up STL artist win a $250 Audience Choice Award by tweeting your vote to @ArtStLouis and hashtagging your favorite artworks. Hashtag details are included on showtags in each gallery.
Special thanks to U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation for program sponsorship, and to the
Downtown Community Improvement District and the Chicago Loop Alliance for their help with program development.
We value and pursue excellence in all our programs and exhibitions, from our selection of program partners, jurors and curators, to our communications and relationships with civic leaders, private donors, grant makers and corporate sponsors.
Driven by a conviction that the relevance and impact of art goes far beyond the circle of those who create it, we are passionately committed to an ongoing, art-inspired dialogue with our community, developing and engaging new audiences and fostering connections between and among artists and audiences for their mutual benefit.
Through dynamic exhibitions, outreach programs and applications delivering the art of our region to an ever-widening audience, our modus operandi is inspired by the ever-evolving work of our artists that consistently refines and defies expectations.
In the panoply of arts organizations at work in the St. Louis area, including (especially) institutions with resonant interests in visual art, we recognize and enthusiastically pursue opportunities for synergistic collaboration to cross-fertilize and multiply the intellectual and cultural capital of our region.