Meet up, make out, break up and make up at  ART of the HEART.

This one day only event at Rung on Manchester Road features fine art, photography, printmaking, jewelry, textiles, and more.  Stop by from 2 to 9pm

More info right here:  http://www.freewebs.com/janelinders

Tomorrow, January 18th, 2012, will be the largest internet protest in history. Thousands of sites across the internet, including some of the biggest in the world, will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA and PIPA. We want to get you involved.

Join us on the historic day by blacking out your site. Copy the code below and paste it into the header of your theme (Wordpress users: use the …

Artist Reception at Lost Arts for narcise

Saturday the 14th from 3 to 6 pm

Refreshments, demonstrations& the chance to win free narcise jewelry!

We live in a world full of nuance color, blurred lines once distinct, and new definitions of inspirations. We spend our whole life trying to explain who we are through our art when art is sufficient in itself to explain us. I am who my art says I am, that is inspiration.

Hi all Slarters!-----Having an opening at Northwest Coffee, 8401 Maryland tonite and will have pieces in the show available for your winning in the door prizes!!.......plus, chocolate covered raspberries and other good food and wine......!  so show up and win-----you don't have to be present to win, just sign in........Mike Rudolf

As an artist, Collinsville resident Armando Heredia can go to some dark places. His art often shows depictions of despair on media that can be bullet-riddled or full of shattered glass. And a recent performance-art piece addressed imprisonment and oppression.

But Heredia said he uses that darkness to find hope.

"I shine a light into a dark world and let people at least see the shadows — even if they don't see the light," Heredia said from his home-based studio last week. "And…

Currently (until Dec 30, 2011) I have a print from my Ghosts of the Prairie series on display at the juried Art St. Louis show, Exhibition XXVII.

I was raised in the woods. I grew up out-of-doors, as the daughter of a national park ranger. My father began taking me to Conservationist meetings when I was three. From my earliest scribblings, my artwork was recreation of that environment. I am now working on the purposeful creation of environments that invite people to come in and interact rather than merely observe. This may take the form of a temporary installation in a park that requires a team to create or involve living things which…

I participated in a simulated abduction to raise awareness for human trafficking. Here's my response from the event:

It wasn't the six hours, it was the last thirty minutes.

Maybe I could point to the strong chemical odor in the particular area of the basement I was in. It did give me a headache, but it wouldn't be completely true. It was the mental picture I had when I lay down on the cot I borrowed for the event.

In my mind this wasn't a pass/fail…