Yellow Peril Hot Rock, 2025

Orange Crush Hot Rock, 2025

Pucker I, 2022

Ruddy Udder Dance III, 2025

Grid Hot Rock, 2025

Spray paint, household enamel, ripstop nylon, fan

Scottish born, Chicago-based artist Claire Ashley mines the language of painterly abstraction, monumental sculpture, and slapstick humor to investigate inflatables as painting, sculpture, installation and performance costume. These works have been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, site-specific installations, and performances events. Ashley teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in the cornfields of Illinois with her old husband, and a menagerie of pets. Her three offspring have flown the coop. 

Constellations, 2025

Sound and sight artists 18aC and Superman Damn Fool present an improvised soundscape + beats performance within Beverly Pepper’s Cromlech Glen. The space will be illuminated with hyper-color video and animated poetry. The duo will be joined intermittently by guest musician Whitworth.

Stan Chisholm works under the alias 18andCounting and has built himself as a staple in his city’s creative community for two decades. As an experimental musician, vinyl DJ, visual artist and educator he commonly works in collaborative, communal and improvised settings. Visually, Chisholm’s works are socio-reflective pop art pieces that use an ever-evolving lexicon of characters, graphic abstractions, and text. Sonically, he brings modular hardware into immersive live experiences, mutating ideas of hip-hop and electronic music into visions both grim and wholly life-affirming. 

 In 2009, he earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2012, he co-founded Blank Space, a creative hub and community space on Cherokee St. In 2013, he became the Regional Arts Commission’s first “Artists Count” Fellow. In 2018, he served as the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’ first ever DJ-in-residence. From 2019-2023, he developed and full-time taught Kairos Academies Middle School’s Visual Arts program. In 2021, he became the first awardee of an STL Art Place Initiative home. In 2024 he began the Artist in Residence program at the ERDCC via St. Louis University's Prison Education Program. 

Chisholm has exhibited at Laumeier Sculpture Park, City Museum, The Hyde Park Art Center, Paint Louis, Hoffman-LaChance Contemporary, and numerous other venues and festivals.

Rob Engelhardt, aka Superman Damn Fool creates mixed-media works that fuse sound and image into otherworldly, dark-yet-hopeful experiences. Through modular synths, video synthesis, and experimental techniques, he embraces chance and transformation, drawing audiences into evolving visual and auditory patterns. 

The point at which something begins., 2025 

Projection, Wood, Paint, Fabric

Working as an artistic duo since 2017, Evan and Stacey combine their different backgrounds of art and science to create artwork that distills complex personal themes into quiet visuals. In their newest work, they draw from personal experience and investigate the spaces where memory, infrastructure, and landscape intersect, considering the tension between human-engineered systems and the open beauty of the landscapes around them. Their work does not prescribe meaning but allows space for reflection. Evan earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Webster University and his Master of Fine Arts from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Stacey earned her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri. In their collaboration, Stacey’s experience as an engineer brought new expertise to enhance the sculptural works and installations Evan was creating. This partnership has shown them the power of a collaborative process and has led to several exhibitions with such institutions as the International Sculpture Center, Museum of Art – DeLand, VAR Gallery in Milwaukee, and the Kranzberg Arts Foundation in St. Louis. They live and work in St. Louis, Missouri. 

TROVAforestation by Night, 2025

Neon glass, electronics, nature

David Hutson is a lighting and neon artist. He has created installations from New York to Las Vegas, exhibited his artwork nationally, and occasionally lectures about his collection of vintage neon signs. He serves on a few historic preservation commissions and is a key member of the Neon Heritage Preservation Committee of the Route 66 Association of Missouri. Hutson lives in St. Louis, Missouri and owns Neon Time in St. Charles, Missouri where he engages in all things neon. 

Deconstruction #1, 2025

Homage Cubed, 2024,

Deconstruction #2, 2025

Board, canvas, acrylic, plastic, aluminum, motion control system

Joe Pentland is a kinetic artist working at the intersection of sculpture, engineering, and movement. His practice centers on motion controlled kinetic sculpture, where movement itself becomes a part of the medium. By designing intricate systems that generate evolving patterns, he explores the transformation of form through time, creating compositions that morph seamlessly from one state into another. 

Through algorithmically driven spatial composition, both static and dynamic, Joe Pentland constructs systems that unfold in real time—at once object and performance. Each piece functions as a temporal landscape, where the material presence of form is continually redefined by the act of movement. 

Whitworth Tour bus and Grace, 2025

The Whitworth tour bus will serve as an alternate location and audience interactive site for sound effected piano performances. Titled, "Grace" and painted by 18aC in 2025, the converted school bus serves as a mobile mural, stage and sound studio. Outfitted with an analog piano and custom audio effects, it will host Whitworth’s scheduled solo sets while inviting guests to experiment with the instrument between performances.

Singer/songwriter Owen Whitworth Ragland travels the country in his unique schoolie/stage playing music and writing songs. A child prodigy, Owen began writing at the piano at age 4 and began recording and producing music at age 12. While producing for other artists most notably Jordan Ward, Owen began releasing his own songs under the name Whitworth in 2022 with the philosophy of blending musicality and digestible earworm melodies with pop production esthetics. After signing with Paris based distributor Groover Obsessions, Whitworth released his first full length project Earth to Dreamer in May 2024. Most recently Whitworth has toured with Paris based indie pop band Mandelbro on their U.S debut in August 2025 releasing a joint song “The Optimist Playbook” along with viral YouTube video describing the artistic process. The song and video were created right here in Saint Louis. 

Midnight Hive, 2025 

Steel, glass, power and light  

Bryce Olen Robinson is a multimedia artist from Ferguson, Missouri. His sculptures and installations employ scale and space to investigate the nature of environmental, political, and societal threats. Robinson’s work resides in several public and private collections including; the collection of Maxine Clark, St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley and the Missouri History Museum. Robinson has been the curator of Jeske Sculpture Park in Ferguson for over a decade and in 2023 he co-curated Painting for Peace at the Delmar DivINe with Carol Swartout Klein. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Hyphnadiqa, 2024

Chris Sagovac is an American independent filmmaker working in animation, comics and game art. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Media Communications from Webster University in 1997 and his Master of Arts in Studio Arts with emphasis in Alternative Media from Webster University in 2005. In addition to character animation, his filmmaking focuses on experimentation with montage and process. He is also a professor of animation and chair in the School of Communications at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.  

Untitled, (lighting element) 

Illumination element fabricated using off-the-shelf component systems, 3D printed connections, LED lighting, and industrial shelving nets.

Hans Tursack is a designer from Philadelphia. He earned a BFA in studio art from the Cooper Union School of Art, and a M. Arch. from the Princeton University School of Architecture, where he was the recipient of the Underwood Thesis Prize. He has worked in the offices of LEVENBETTS Architects, SAA/Stan Allen Architecture, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. His writing and scholarly work have appeared in Perspecta Journal, Pidgin Magazine, Thresholds Journal, Log Journal, Dimensions Journal, Archinect, See/Saw, Acadia, and The Architects Newspaper.

He recently received the Willard A. Oberdick teaching/design fellowship from the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture, a MacDowell Research Fellowship, an Art OMI: Architecture residency, a Mass MOCA artist residency, and with Viola Ago, a University Design Research Fellowship from Exhibit Columbus. He was the 2018-2021 Pietro Bellushi Fellow at the MIT School of Architecture + Planning. He is currently an architect-in-residence at the Gapado Artist Residency in South Korea. 

Our Known Unknowns, 2025 

PVC, wood, metal, paint, mirrored gold vinyl

Born in Houston and based in Dallas, Texas, Brian Zimmerman is an artist and professor. He holds a BFA in Painting and Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from the University of California San Diego focused in sculpture. His work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and through public art commissions nationally and internationally. 

Having worked as a full-time fabricator in tandem with his studio practice, his methods oscillate between drawing, painting, wood, metal, plastic, neon light, bronze casting, laser cutting, CNC milling, and digital fabrication. Studio materials have ranged from traditional media to old boats, baking flour, electronics, motor oil and items found in thrift stores to custom manufactured components. His work explores compliments and contradictions, weaving and unraveling layers of meaning, and nurturing the joy of collaborating with materials and ideas through the act of making.