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Opening Reception—Living with Art: Community Care
Celebrate the creativity of the families in this year’s Living with Art workshops. Inspired by Marquis Terrell, the community exhibition in the Museum’s Student Gallery highlights artworks that explore healing, connection, and care.
Join us for music, refreshments, art making, and a brief poetry performance from 2 to 4 pm.
Be Like Juju / Cranes in the Sky, 2025 by Marquis Terrell
About the Living with Art program
The Living with Art Family Workshop Series is designed to connect with families who are new to the Museum or who have not visited in more than a year, empowering them as art collectors, creators, and community ambassadors. For the 2025 program, Museum educators partnered with Community Health Worker Coalition; Mission: St. Louis; the Deaconess Foundation; and Ava + Mommy to support families impacted by the May 16 tornado. Impacted families were invited to participate in the program aimed at exploring art as a form of healing. Through the hybrid program, families took home an artwork by Marquis Terrell and a creative kit designed to spark reflection and togetherness in the home. Participants later reunited at the Museum to share their experiences and explore the Museum’s collection.
About Marquis Terrell
Marquis Terrell is a self-taught artist from St. Louis. He is skilled in graphite, colored pencils, pen, watercolor, spray paint, acrylic, and oil paint. He cofounded Battle of the Arts, which was a program designed to provide youth—particularly those who are underrepresented—with safe, fun, and free art programs. His passion for helping younger artists stems from his personal experiences of overcoming doubt when he was a young artist. He currently serves as the art curator for the Believe Project.
The Living with Art Family Workshop series is supported by The Dana Brown Endowed Fund for Education and Community Programs.
The Art on the Move program is supported by the Ronald M. and Monique M. Ollie Education Endowment Fund for Abstraction by Black Artists.