Visual Thoughts Portfolio Gallery 3514 Delmar Blvd Grand Center, Arts, Entertainment & Education District St. Louis, Missouri 63103 Through October 31st Monday through Friday 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM & by appointment 314-533-3323 Portfoliogallery@att.net Robert Powell, Executive Director of Portfolio Gallery & Educational Center, alerted me today to a current group exhibit at the gallery…
The phrase, “When words are too deep, try art therapy,” captures the spirit, work and person of Edna J. Patterson-Petty. A fiber artist, art therapist, and teacher, Patterson-Petty’s work truly heals, providing the comfort and warmth expected of the quilts she creates. Her graduate degrees in Studio Art and Art Therapy and the inspiration derived…
Today and tomorrow on Riehlife, I’m honored to feature one of the fine artists (very fine) I’ve encountered here in St. Louis. Edna J. Patterson-Petty has a show opening this week, so we’ll start there. Tomorrow you’ll get a closer and broader look at a warm woman just filled with wisdom for the village of…
Last night I went to my first St. Louis party. It’s the first party I’ve attended since the going away party I threw for myself in Lake County in Northern California at the end of June. This felt like a welcome home party. This party felt like a welcome to the village. Freida L. Wheaton…
As part of my welcome move-in packet for West End Terrace, I recieved a 20 per cent off coupon for a haircut and styling at Lemon, a salon just a few blocks from me up on Euclid. Even with the discount, the price is 1/3 more than I’m used to paying in Lake County in…
My niece took a break from her work with the National Consumer Law Center and brought her two daughters over to view the bridal dress exhibit at the Missouri History Museum (click here for beautiful pictures from the exhibit) (Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park). Amazingly, it’s free! The brochure describes this exhibition thusly: Beyond…
Country Mouse….then city mouse. As city mouse I’m experiencing wonders such as the Butterfly House, Japanese films and gallery talks on Romare Beardon’s “Show Time” at the St. Louis Art Museum, a Black Artists Exhibition at the Urban League Convention held at the America Center…all in St. Louis, of course. Cousin Cynthia and I compared…
For the past 3 weeks I’ve been sleeping in a closet. That’s right, a sleeping closet. It’s all part of camping-in (as opposed to camping-out) as I get settled in my new place. When I first arrived, I grabbed a few things from my father’s house, along the camping-in model (something to sleep on, something…
The top frustration for my move to St. Louis was getting my phone and internet service up and running. For the first two weeks I was here, I was steady-dating a steady stream of technicans from Charter that kept me in a steady state of on-the-verge-ness. If it wasn’t my phone, it was the internet…
It was a long Harry Potter Weekend, even out here in the Midwest. On Friday I read about the pirating of “Deathly Halllows” and Scholastic’s countermeasures in the Wall Street Journal as I sat down for a “Fish in a Boat” lunch at a bohemian cafe near the City Museum where I’d gone to watch…