https://www.thebendstl.org/articles daily 0.75 2026-05-27 https://www.thebendstl.org/articles/blog-post-title-one-f6wym monthly 0.5 2026-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/1779845649469-CBZQGYMHLAA7AWMOIOHR/IMG_2159.jpg ARTICLES - Thoughtful Perspectives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thebendstl.org/articles/blog-post-title-two-exw3h monthly 0.5 2026-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/45a33a1a-4606-43ff-a9f7-c4a39bc17da5/IMG_9894.jpeg ARTICLES - Community Hot Takes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.thebendstl.org/onview daily 0.75 2026-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/621a6e30-4dd7-447e-9d73-b1964d1113f6/Copy+of+_MRC2122_1782753421.JPG.webp ON VIEW - Lines by Mario Clarke July 7 - August 28, 2026 Third Degree Glass Factory Drawing from principles of line, balance, and composition, Mario creates works that exist between functional objects and sculpture. The flowing lines within his vessels twist, intersect, and diverge, reflecting the paths, relationships, and unexpected connections that shape our lives. Through intricate craftsmanship and layered patterns, he seeks to create work that rewards close observation and sparks a sense of joy, curiosity, and reflection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/f4fbc70f-a213-4131-823b-2cd826ee66c9/Reverie%2Bin%2BTonalism%2B2026%2BLogo_1200px.jpg ON VIEW - Reverie in Tonalism - Tracey Mara and Harry Starr July 8 - October 3, 2026 Heartland Art Club Harry Starr and Tracey Maras embrace the aesthetics of Tonalism in their work. Starr creates a sense of metamorphosis in each of his photographs. Whether landscape or still life, his pieces evoke mystery, enchantment, and elegance. Maras conveys an atmosphere of serenity and peaceful tranquility in her pastel paintings. Regardless of subject matter, there is a connectedness to nature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/0c3315eb-c12d-4fb4-8548-23013e488ae5/Mubbling+no+2+2026.JPG ON VIEW - MindApps - Insights Within - Clayvon Wesley July 31 - August 29, 2026 St. Louis Artists’ Guild MindApps - Insights Within is a series that codifies the visual language of an interior monologue on reflection, integration, and aging. Where the cracked panes symbolize life’s hurts and traumas, healed and unhealed, and blank spaces, things willingly or unwillingly forgotten. Then, among those micro spaces are what Leonardo da Vinci calls “miracles of error,” the mental mistakes that lead to discovery and creation. While seen as atypical of his previous work, the series is heavily influenced by travels to Senegal, Egypt, and South Africa, where Wesley studied the Ndebele artwork of Dr. Esther Mahlangu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/a4e22676-93d3-4ad5-bbfa-7cccd8c6bd5b/Song_Leslie_Image+5.jpg ON VIEW - Negentropic Landscape - Leslie Song July 31 - August 29, 2026 St. Louis Artists’ Guild Negentropic Landscape is a series of mixed media works that is inspired by concepts found in entropy and negentropy, using them as guides to explore movement, balance, and order. Leslie Song oscillates between meticulous planning and intuitive placement in each piece which allows for unpredictability in the final form, echoing the natural tendency of entropy to bring a measure of disorder in the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/819c59f1-911e-497b-8a75-11b53608a1c2/order%26chaosbanner.jpg.webp ON VIEW - Order & Chaos Juried by Ethan Meyer July 31 - August 29, 2026 St. Louis Artists’ Guild Order and Chaos explores the tension between structure and spontaneity within abstract art. In abstraction, order may appear as symmetry, logic, or restraint, while chaos erupts as intuition, fragmentation, and unpredictability. Yet neither state exists alone. This exhibition invites viewers to consider how balance is negotiated and how beauty can arise from instability. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/a823eaa6-203e-478f-b9df-4f00d282a799/Screenshot+2026-08-14+at+10.18.02%E2%80%AFAM.png ON VIEW - Wild Places - Noppadol Paothong August 1 - September 23, 2026 Webster University’s Kooyumjian Gallery Missouri-based photography icon, Noppadol Paothong is a conservation photographer and associate fellow with the International League of Conservation Photographers. A staff wildlife photographer for the Missouri Department of Conservation, his work regularly appears in national publications including Audubon, Nature Conservancy and National Wildlife. For more than 20 years, Paothong has documented rare and endangered species. In this new exhibition, Wild Places, Paothong contrasts spectacular intimate details with dynamic moments of our natural world made possible through his stunning, vibrant photography. Macrophotography of butterfly wings are exhibited alongside the expertly captured moments of dynamic and rarely seen animal behavior. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/f01e55b0-7202-47e7-8a5f-5434ca8879ee/Screenshot+2026-07-28+at+6.59.55%E2%80%AFPM.png ON VIEW - Low Vis - Evan and Stacey Studio August 7 - September 13, 2026 Public Defender Low Vis explores how the infrastructural systems that surround us usually go unnoticed even though they obscure the natural landscape. By isolating infrastructure from its usual context, these paintings invite closer attention to the systems that shape how we move, see, and inhabit the world. This work began as an investigation into how infrastructure’s footprint provides basic human needs while at the same time obscuring the landscape. Low Vis evolved into a recognition of the role such systems play in our experience, safety, and quality of life. As Dr. Chachra writes, “Infrastructure is the physical manifestation of our social contract—of our ability to work collectively for the public good.” When carefully designed and accessible, it serves everyone. When poorly designed, neglected, or inaccessible, the negative impacts are widely felt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/2393704e-91be-496a-b03c-0e65df240556/Screenshot+2026-07-28+at+7.00.01%E2%80%AFPM.png ON VIEW - Plane Sight - Group Exhibit Juror Amir Toosi August 7 - September 13, 2026 Public Defender https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/ac42554e-75ae-49d2-a186-c40ca46968e2/Still%2BMaddie%2BAunger.png ON VIEW - Still - Maddie Aunger August 23 - October 17, 2026 Ethical Society of St. Louis Maddie Aunger’s intimate acrylic paintings revolve around the domestic spaces she interacts with. Spurred by the sudden shift from working in her campus studio during graduate school, to painting at the dining room table during the beginning of the pandemic, Maddie found herself drawn to the windows in the living room. Quiet moments of solitude became essential to her practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/ca38952d-c801-4765-9e75-460b70f17632/Screenshot+2026-08-19+at+3.59.24%E2%80%AFPM.png ON VIEW - Borrowed Time: Photographs by David R. Hanlon, 1990-2026 August 27 - September 22, 2026 St. Louis Community College - Meramec Through examples selected from four portfolios by David Hanlon over 36 years of teaching photography at STLCC, this exhibition considers the nuanced character of environments that reflect our lives and memories, as well as the historical remnants that mark our time on this planet. Often using extended exposures, these photographs seek to explore the representation of time as it passes across multiple generations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/3cce9880-cbb9-4cd8-9921-9cacf17f28e6/Screenshot+2026-08-19+at+4.18.02%E2%80%AFPM.png ON VIEW - New Familiar Water - Tom Reed August 28 - September 28, 2026 Bonsack Gallery at John Burroughs School Tom Reed received his MFA in printmaking from the University of Iowa in 1998, studying under Keith Achepohl and Virginia Myers. After graduation, he moved to Chicago to work as a printer for Tony Fitzpatrick’s Big Cat Press. Through collaborations with Steve Campbell, he was invited to join Jack Lemon’s renowned Landfall Press, where he spent several years as lead intaglio printer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/5269f837-05bf-423f-88f2-f55031f2128b/2026-07-09_15-22-42_1783628575.webp ON VIEW - The Wearer Worn - NC Qin September 1 - October 31, 2026 Third Degree Glass Factory NC Qin, based in Sydney, Australia, explores the histories of ancient battle artifacts with her primary medium of glass to prompt conversations on heritage and values. Appropriating the symbolism of glass and its associated fragility, risk and preciousness, she uses this medium as a lens to delve into psychological spaces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/786ed2b9-9888-4433-98f9-65bc81554aa0/IMG_0098.jpeg ON VIEW - What Do You Bring to the Table - Brenda Gilliam September 11 - October 19, 2026 St. Peter’s Gallery This body of work explores our relationship with others-what we bring to the table, built around food and the memories it stirs up. Food brings comfort, health, subsistence, abundance, communion, calm and so much more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a11f11e3df84404cca33294/4b1644eb-7277-402f-a7fe-b540338029bd/Screenshot+2026-08-20+at+10.36.03%E2%80%AFAM.png ON VIEW - Soliloquy - Suzy Farren September 13 - November 1, 2026 Kingsbury Gallery at Grace & Peace Fellowship In a soliloquy, a character expresses inner thoughts out loud on stage. 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