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New Exhibit Honors Young Artists

The St. Louis Artists' Guild in Clayton has premiered the annual Young Artists' Showcase.

 The St. Louis Artists' Guild is celebrating its 35th year with a tradition that gives area students the spotlight in the historic building's galleries.  The Young Artists' Showcase kicked off at 6 p.m. Friday and used both floors of the venue at 2 Oak Knoll Park in Clayton for the two-hour opening. High school artists and their parents, along with friends and community members, packed into the galleries to view 160 paintings, prints, photos and sculptures selected from a field of 333. "I love it," gallery director Gina Alvarez said. "They're amazing. They're interesting. They can do a lot of things professional artists have forgotten about because they don't know any better ... . A lot of the credit should go to the teachers." The opening…

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An Artistic Refuge

Cleanse your mental palate with a trip to the St. Louis Artists' Guild in Clayton.

Your teens are holding a car wash at the high school Saturday. The grandparents volunteered to take the younger children to a movie Sunday afternoon. Your tweens take tap on Wednesday evening.  It’s your time. Take it. Each week, we’ll tell you about one great idea to give you a much deserved break, and make your life a little easier, maybe a whole lot easier. This time, we'd like to introduce stressed-out moms to the St. Louis Artists' Guild in Clayton, a great place to go—with or without a date—to take in great, contemporary works of art. With pieces from local artists as well as brilliant minds from across the nation and world, the Under Pressure exhibit series presents a wide variety of printmaking techniques for your viewing pleasure…

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Artists' Guild Presents Printmaking Exhibit Series

Five exhibits make up the new series on printmaking in the Clayton-based group's galleries.

The St. Louis Artists' Guild is filled wall-to-wall on both floors with prints of different makes for the Under Pressure exhibit series. The series, which opened Jan. 23 and runs until March 25, explores the different methods of printmaking in fine art including etching, linoleum cut, solarplate and hybrid works. A second opening on March 17 has been scheduled to fall during the annual Southern Graphics Conference, a printmakers' convention held this year in St. Louis. The five new exhibits include: Gallery director Gina Alvarez thought Past Present's concept fit with the exhibiting space. "Knowing the history the Guild has, they thought it made sense to marry the history of printmaking with the contemporary," Alvarez said. The Artists' …

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