Heavily influenced by the American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Williams has made it his mission to create working machines that can make sound through lo- and hi-tech methods.

Emmett Merrill uses the lithographic process to create narrative prints which combine Americana imagery with myth. The prints deal with the emptiness of the American landscape, the derivation of ghost stories, Art History objects and highway rest stop culture.

McKenzie’s body of work has evolved into an investigation of urban backyard habitat and the vital function urban greenspaces and small backyards have in our lives and in the current climate crisis.

Slade believes that buildings and the spaces they occupy are vessels. They hold within them residue of the lives that have passed through them, while their outsides are reflections of their time and place.

Dissemination of information is of great interest to artist Tate Foley. He engages with far-reaching formats including newspapers, printed bills, religious tracts and other various printed ephemera as it explores real, tangible, ubiquitous contact rather than idiosyncratic experience.

The exhibit features works and presentations created through virtual teaching and demonstrations during the 2020-2021 school year by students at Grand Center Arts Academy, who worked hard to transition their in-person curriculum to a remote learning format during the pandemic.

The Friends of The Sheldon present My Bluegrass Heart with Béla Fleck, Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Bryan Sutton in a concert benefitting Sheldon Educational Programs, which, in the 2020-2021 season served over 70,000 St. Louis area students.