Summer 2009 was a success!  Click on the link below to check out some apprentices having fun at the end of the program.  See below for group pictures and descriptions of each discipline. 

The Official STL JerkWorks Video

Fire Paintings; Raku Ceramic Murals

The Ceramic Mural Mosaic Project is a collaborative project with apprentices and professional artists to design and create a large multi-panel indoor artwork. The final installation will be six feet in height and will explore the mission of the Missouri Foundation for Health through relationships of dimension and surface through form and glaze effects. Individual tiles and framed drawings will be available for sale.

            Commissioning Client: Missouri Foundation for Health

            Teaching Organization: St. Louis Community College at Meramec

            Teaching Artists: Tom Waggle, Ruth Reese with coordinator Jim Ibur

ArtWorks in Focus: A Documentary and Photography Program. 

Apprentices will learn to shoot and edit video for TV, the web and social media as well as how to write for blogs and marketing. A documentary and series of PSA’s about ArtWorks will be produced by the apprentices along with a portfolio of black and white photography documenting the public art in St. Louis that has been produced by ArtWorks along with photographs of the summer program. Individual Photographs will be framed and available for sale.

            Commissioning Client: St. Louis ArtWorks

            Teaching Organization: KDHX

            Teaching Artists: Mary Pat Gallagher, Aaron Holdemeyer

Sculptural Escape

The Sculptural Escape team will design and construct bicycle racks for Monsanto and the William Kerr Foundation in St. Louis, Missouri.  Apprentices will gain an understanding of design principles and professional engagement with clients through the process and completion of commissioned sculptural bike racks as well as individual sculptures, drawings and prints. Individual work will be available for sale.

            Commissioning Clients: William Kerr Foundation and Monsanto

            Teaching Organization: Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

            Teaching Artists: Deborah Alma Wheeler, Virginia Jenkins

Intersection: Personally Mapping the Central West End

Apprentices will study architectural drawing and urban design as they learn how the history of a community is manifested through its architecture. After exploring the Central West End community they will learn printmaking and painting and create a series of images that will be celebrated on a set of 12 art-cards. Individual prints, paintings and drawings will be available for sale.

            Commissioning Client: Boomerang Press

            Teaching Organization: The Luminary Center for the Arts

            Teaching Artists: Christine D’Epiro, Anne Lindberg

Books in Motion: Dance

ArtWorks’ Dance Apprentices bring to life images from the literary masterpiece The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Caldecott winning author Brian Selznick.  Inspired by Selznick’s original drawings, graphic novel and films from the 1930’s the ArtWorks apprentices will create an original production combining dance and music. 

            Commissioning Client: Performances at University City Library and Old Post office Plaza with support from Downtown Partnership

            Teaching Organization: Modern American Dance Company (MADCO)

            Teaching Artists: Lindsay Hawkins, Keli Hermes and Sandy Busken