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Vibrant: Impressionism Now - A Virtual Exhibition

March 3 - March 31, 2025

Deadline to Enter: February 22, 2025 at midnight

The St. Louis Artists' Guild is seeking two-dimensional work for Vibrant: Impressions Now which aims to celebrate the way light, color, and form are adapted for the modern era in impressionistic art.

Juror: Elzara Yusufova
Born in 1997 in Crimea, Ukraine, Elzara Yusufova is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in impressionistic and contemporary painting. Her work draws inspiration from nature, architecture, and cultural heritage, exploring themes of history, displacement, and resilience. With bold colors and textured brushstrokes, her expressive oil paintings capture the complexity of human experiences.

Elzara addresses the challenges faced by communities through her art, balancing themes of renewal and strength. Her depictions of abandoned houses and blooming trees in old streets symbolize the transformations brought about by forced relocation, highlighting the enduring resilience of nature and life despite external pressures.

She holds a Bachelor of Architecture (BArch) from the University of Architecture and Arts, graduating in 2019. Additionally, she studied plein air painting under renowned Ukrainian and Russian artists, honing her skills in capturing the interaction between landscapes and human life.

Entry Fee: $10 for 3 pieces

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Between the Lines

April 18 - May 24, 2025

Deadline to apply: March 22, 2025 at midnight

Between the Lines, an exhibition exploring the transformative power of text in visual art. This juried show seeks artworks that incorporate written language as an integral element of the composition, offering layered interpretations, stories, and meanings.
Text has long been a bridge between image and narrative, a medium for both clarity and ambiguity. Between the Lines, we invite artists to explore how words interact with materials, how language evokes emotion, and how the interplay of text and image shapes the viewer's experience.

Whether through typography, handwritten elements, fragments of poetry, or bold statements, this exhibition celebrates the fusion of text and visual form. Submissions may include, but are not limited to, painting, sculpture, mixed media, drawing, fiber art, ceramic, printmaking and photography.

Juror: John Early

John Early is a visual artist working across the fields of socially engaged art, installation, and drawing. His recent work focuses on spatial equity in St. Louis’ public parks and how issues of race, class, and gender shape the recreational landscape of the city. Since 2021, he has collaborated with sports studies scholar Noah Cohan on the interdisciplinary activist project “Whereas Hoops,” which examines the longstanding absence of basketball courts in St. Louis’ Forest Park. In part because of their work, basketball courts opened for the first time in Forest Park’s history in July 2024. An artists’ book accompanying the project was acquired by several collections including the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library & Research Center at the Missouri Historical Society. The Regional Arts Commission awarded Early a grant to continue the work of Whereas Hoops, the next phase of which is aimed at restoring and beautifying public outdoor basketball courts in St. Louis City and ensuring their long-term maintenance for the communities they serve. In 2022, Early contributed an essay to the edited volume, “The Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson,” and was interviewed for a chapter in the newly published book, “Athletic Activism: Global Perspectives on Social Transformation.” Early is a senior lecturer in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and a faculty affiliate at WashU’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2). He is also the undergraduate academic advising coordinator for the Sam Fox School and serves as the faculty director for the college of art’s summer pre-college program.