Ann Metzger National Biennial Memorial Exhibition

November 14 - December 20, 2025

Deadline to Enter: October 17, 2025 at midnight

Juried Gallery

The St. Louis Artists’ Guild is proud to present the Ann Metzger National Biennial Memorial Exhibit an open medium, concept exhibition featuring artists across the nation.

Juror: Clare Kobasa - Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the St. Louis Art Museum

Clare Kobasa is the associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Saint Louis Art Museum, where she has worked since 2020. Curatorial projects include “The Work of Art: The Federal Art Project, 1935-1943” and “Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection.” She received her doctorate in Art History from Columbia University. Her work has most recently been supported by the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome and the Getty Foundation Paper Project.

Grey Matter by Tamara Eberle

November 14 - December 20, 2025

Ramp Gallery

Words are important; the words we tell ourselves and the words we express to others. This series highlights the complexities of words in the context of mental health and relationships. These pieces examine the different layers between spoken words, internal dialogue, things we see in writing, and statements made in obligatory settings. Leaning on her experience as a therapist, Tamara Eberle seeks to deconstruct the nuances behind words; exposing a much fuller explanation of emotions felt, but less likely disclosed. In our digital world, communication is inauthentic, meaningful conversation is lost, and acronyms or key phrases become the empty facade of socialization. Here she explores the intricacies of mental health and communication that go far deeper than the black and white context in which they are most often presented. 

The Border is the Entrance by Jason Ackman

November 14 - December 20, 2025

Curated Gallery

The works in this exhibit are a continuation of a theme Ackman has been quietly walking, and at times, wrestling with over the past five years. The concept of the traveler or stranger, one who moves beyond the walls or land they currently find themselves in, to drift in and out of the margins. Individuals found in this “in-between” are looking, searching beyond the periphery, longing for the ever-elusive place to call home. These sojourners view a border or barrier differently than most. For many, a border, whether it be a psychological construct or a man-made barrier, is interpreted as a sign to stop or withdraw. It prevents one from journeying further. Yet these stopping points are interpreted differently for those searching. For those individuals, the border can be a passageway, an entry point to unknown lands. Instead of turning back, travelers see this as a sign, not to stop, but instead a warning to proceed with caution as they are traveling through. Those individuals who are traveling the borderlands are attempting to satisfy a longing for somewhere else, somewhere that feels more like home to them. And that space they find themselves in, between where they are and where they long to be, is the perilous territory of not-belonging, the territory of outliers. It is unsettling for the traveler to find themselves there. And yet, here we are. Here I am.