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The current gig market and arts education aren’t rendering very pretty pictures, but St. Louis ArtWorks is helping to paint promising futures for area teens interested in making careers in the arts...
Tashe Stefacek might go into science. Alejandro Lopez might become a physical therapist. Right now, both of them are concentrating on art...
Earlier this Spring, the St. Louis region was honored with a 2008 All-American City award by the National Civic League. Included in the region’s winning nomination was Boomerang Press, an innovative, youth-oriented entrepreneurial program started in 2005 by St. Louis ArtWorks. Insights recently caught up with a Priscilla Block, executive director of St. Louis ArtWorks, to learn more...
It's called the Oscar of civic progress, and St. Louis has won it for the first time since the 1960's. But what convinced the judges we deserved the All America City award? It was an innovative program credited as the art of the deal. The idea is simple: hire disadvantaged kids who need a job and teach them the skills they'll need to get a better one, using art to make it fun. And use real artists to help the kids create something to sell...
Imagine a bunch of curious Japanese tourists stepping gingerly through the ruins of a once-grand avenue of urban America, gawking at deserted and burned-out hulks of historic buildings, wondering how a great city could have sunk so low.