The Sheldon > Current Exhibits

The Sheldon Art Galleries, located in the Emerson Galleries building, features rotating exhibits in six galleries, including photography, architecture, St. Louis artists and collections, jazz history and children's art. Artwork is also featured in The Sheldon's sculpture garden, visible from both the atrium lobby and the connecting glass bridge.

Gallery hours:
Tuesdays, noon – 8 p.m.
Wednesdays - Fridays, noon – 5 p.m.
Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Also open one hour prior to Sheldon performances and during intermission.

Closed July 4th, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

The Sheldon Art Galleries will be closed for installation through September 3.

Join us this fall for the opening of six new exhibits, celebrating The Sheldon’s 20th Anniversary season!

The Sheldon Art Galleries-Connecting our Community to the World for 20 Years!

Through September 4, Libby Reuter and Josh Rowan's Watershed Cairns installation in the Lucy and Stanley Lopata Sculpture Garden can be viewed by appointment Tuesday – Friday between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. by calling Rebecca Gunter at 314-533-99900 x18.

Winged Victory Ongoing Exhibit The sculpture garden is located between the Sheldon Concert Hall and the adjoining Emerson Galleries building, and features an Italian marble fountain from the 1904 World’s Fair and a terra cotta lion’s head, created by the Winkle Terra Cotta Company for the former Buder Building, built in 1903. In addition, Winged Victory, a six-foot terra cotta Roman Victory Figure, also from the Winkle Terra Cotta Company saved from the 1898 Title Guaranty building in St. Louis, greets visitors as they enter the street level entrance.

Pointer from Watershed Cairns by Libby Reuter and Joshua Rowan

Watershed Cairns: Libby Reuter and Joshua Rowan June 1, 2018 - September 29, 2018 Sculptor Libby Reuter and collaborator, photographer Joshua Rowan, temporarily place site-specific cairns in the landscape to mark watersheds around the area. The exhibition features seven cairns in the sculpture garden and photographs by Rowan on a video monitor alongside the installation.

Golf the Galleries - Artist-Designed Mini Golf June 1, 2018 - August 12, 2018 All Five 2nd Floor Galleries Tee off at the Sheldon Art Galleries this summer at “Golf the Galleries,” a playable, artist-designed, nine-hole mini golf installation! The family-friendly, accessible course will combine visual arts with the fun of mini golf to create a truly unique experience. Sponsored by U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management and U.S. Bank FlexPerk Rewards Hole 1: "Warped Tour” By Andy VanMater, Cannon Design This design requires just the right angle to get onto a complex, warped surface and over the hump on the right side. Succeed and chances are good for a hole in one, but if the ball goes down the wrong side, players have a long way to go! Maker/Sponsor: Cannon Design Hole 2: “Distortion” By Arcturis Angles, materiality, lighting and mirrors create optic distortions in this unique architectural hole. Stray one way and players must cross a “carpet rough,” stray the other way and navigate tricky slopes. Maker/Sponsor: Arcturis Hole 3: “Mate in Four” By the World Chess Hall of Fame This challenge is presented by the chess pieces that make up the “Mate in Four” problem. Players tee off on one side of the board and maneuver the ball around the pieces to get to the hole on the opposite side. Maker/Sponsor: The World Chess Hall of Fame Hole 4: “Alice” By Natalie Pinson Players will find themselves in the magical world of Alice’s Wonderland as they encounter a fabric-covered tree, a mushroom lair, the disappearing Cheshire Cat and a table set for a crazy tea party celebrating the Sheldon Art Galleries’ 20th “Un”anniversary. Sponsored by Mary Ann and Richard Shaw Hole 5: “Over the Moonbow” By Gray for Scale (Ashley Kaempf and Chris Goodin) This rainbow-shaped hole is lit with blacklight and surrounded by colorful day-glo wall art set under a starry night sky. The color channel in which the ball lands will determine where on the green and how close to the hole it ends up. Sponsored by Mary Ann and Andrew Srenco Hole 6: “Serengeti Park” By Justin King Players enter the immersive environment of a city park inhabited by animals behaving like humans, all made from cardboard, including an elephant reading a book and a fox feeding pigeons, both of which serve as obstacles. The gallery’s center pillar becomes a tree where players can take a selfie with a chimpanzee sipping a soda on a park bench. Sponsored by Kennelwood Pet Resorts Hole 7: “The Gateway Green – A Hole-in-One for STL” By Switch Golfers will tower over downtown St. Louis, beginning at Kiener Plaza, on this hole featuring the Old Courthouse and the newly reopened Gateway Arch grounds and Museum. With success, players’ balls end up in the Mississippi River. Maker/Sponsor: Switch Hole 8: “Anthropocentric Landscape” By B.J. Vogt This volcano-themed hole is a metaphor for how humans affect their atmosphere and environment through their actions. Players able to navigate their ball into the hole will be rewarded with an eruption of packing peanuts! Sponsored by Dynamic Arts, LLC Hole 9: “Swimming with the Houska Fishes” By Charles Houska Players must manueuver through a series of whimsical Houska-signature obstacles, in the form of fish and flowers, to feed their ball to the colorful puppy waiting hungrily at the end. Sponsored by Ted Wight "Golf the Galleries" will be closed on the following dates for private events: Wednesday, July 25 starting at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 1 starting at 5 p.m. "Golf the Galleries" Theme Nights Join us for these special nights from 5-8 p.m. featuring music, snacks, themed-drink specials and more! Come in costume on costume theme nights and receive the member discount on your regularly priced ticket! Thursday, June 14 - Super Heroes* Thursday, June 28 - Pride Night Thursday, July 5 - America’s Birthday Party Thursday, July 26 - ‘80s Night* Thursday, August 9 - Harry Potter* *costume night Extended Golf the Galleries Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 12 to 8 p.m. (last tee time: 7 p.m.) Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (last tee time: 2 p.m.) Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (last tee time: 3 p.m.) Fees to play the course are: $10 adults / $6 children 12 and under Sheldon Members, and U.S. Bank cardmembers paying with their credit card: $8 adult / $4 child. Viewing the exhibit is free. Discounts for groups of 20 or more! Call Paula at 314-533-9900 ext. 37 or email plincoln@thesheldon.org. (U.S. Bank cardmembers are limited to four discounted tickets per card). Tickets are available in person at The Sheldon Gift Shop during Golf the Galleries hours. Also on View: Mini Golf: Photographs by Simon Martin A photographic document of miniature and adventure golf sites that are played competitively in the United Kingdom.

Simon Martin, inkjet print, courtesy and © the artist.

Mini Golf: Photographs by Simon Martin June 1, 2018 - August 12, 2018 A selection of photographs of miniature and adventure golf sites in the U.K. by British photographer Simon Martin.

Mini-Mini Golf Holes by Students of The Wilson School in Clayton June 1, 2018 - August 12, 2018 Featured are a selection of shoe box-sized mini golf holes by 5th grade math students from The Wilson School.

Kahlil Robert Irving, 2018, Cortège (Malcolm, Martin), dimensions variable, photocopy. Courtesy of the artist and Callicoon Fine Arts (New York)

Critical Mass: Creative Stimulus Award 2018 June 1, 2018 - August 12, 2018 Work by the 2018 winners of the Critical Mass Creative Stimulus Award, including Kahlil Robert Irving, Adrienne Outlaw and Sage Dawson, is featured in this exhibit curated by past Creative Stimulus Award-winner Mel Watkin. Creative Stimulus awards unrestricted funding to support artists to pursue special projects, experiment with new techniques and deepen their understanding of their working processes. Gallery Talk: Tuesday, June 26 at 6 p.m. Join curator Mel Watkin and artists Sage Dawson and Adrienne Outlaw for an informal talk about their work. Admission free.

Jim Dine Sculpture dedicated to the memory of Dr. Leigh Gerdine Ongoing Exhibit The Ann Lee and Wilfred Konneker Gallery at the Sheldon Art Galleries is the site for the Jim Dine sculpture, The Heart Called Orchid, 2003. The sculpture is dedicated to the life and accomplishments of Dr. Leigh Gerdine, a founding trustee of the Sheldon Arts Foundation who devoted himself to the saving and renovation of the historic Sheldon Concert Hall and the creation of the Sheldon Art Galleries. A beautiful bronze work on long-term loan from the Gateway Foundation St. Louis, the sculpture is a glowing golden heart that balances on its point on a trompe d'oeil "wooden" pallet, which on further examination is seen also to be made of bronze. A recurring theme in Dine's work since 1966, the heart emerges in prints, drawings, paintings and sculptures. Jim Dine was born in 1935 in Cincinnati, Ohio and rose to prominence in the 1960s with his performance and assemblage works. From the 1960s, Dine also began to incorporate representations of simple everyday objects into his works. His object-based imagery seen in paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures include tools, men's suits, bathrobes, hearts, and household objects among others and are metaphors for childhood memories, personal psychological states and self-portraits. Like Dine's suit and bathrobe images make reference to the artist's body and persona, his hearts contain layered metaphors about the body, sensuality, love, and as the artist describes them, he sees the heart as "the agent and the organ of my emotions."