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Bonnye Brown’s Padded Paintings at Porfolio Gallery
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | July 24th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Bonnye Brown has developed an innovative use of padding in her paintings that fascinated me and gives them dimension. She has an affinity for the world of women as a subject for her art. Riehlife: Bonnye, tell us about your show at Portfolio Gallery read more
Portfolio Gallery’s “4 of a Kind” show
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | July 23rd 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Click here to read Riehlife profile on Keith Shepherd. (All photos courtesy of Bonnye Brown) Bonnye Brown and Robert Powell in front of Bonnye’s painting “Color Folks.” Keith Shepard in front of his painting “Jelly’s read more
The Big Write…for KIDS!…Enter now.
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | July 22nd 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Students! Want to enter the annual writing contest, The Big Write? Get started now. Submission deadline is Sept. 12. The three top winners in each of two grade level categories: (1) 4th and 5th graders, and (2) 6th through 8th graders, will win $100 read more
River Styx is poetry central in St. Louis
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | June 27th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Poet Michael Castro is the founding editor and spiritual father of River Styx. Since 1974 Karen Duffy has hosted literary readings at her Central West End restaurant, Duff’s. Says Newman: “Our literary agenda is to promote accessible poet read more
Keith Shepherd at Portfolio Gallery & Education Center
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | June 25th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
The connection wasn’t merely kinship but of generations of shared experiences.–Keith Shepherd Portfolio Gallery and Education Center’s current show is 4 OF A KIND featuring the work of Anthony High, Keith Shepherd, Bonnye Brown and read more
JUNETEENTH: Dick Gregory speaks on “The Game” at the Starligh…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | June 20th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Juneteenth is “the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States”. I celebrated my first Juneteenth in the early 1990s as a member of Luisah Teish’s “Full Accord Ensemble: Arts at the read more
St. Louis Social Life: 5 things I’ve learned about our city’s…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | June 20th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
1) In the year I’ve been here I’ve learned that St. Louis is such a Big Small Town. I love going to functions and watching everyone greeting one another with such warmth—folks they’ve often known all through school, grown up i read more
Walter Bargen, Missouri’s First Poet Laureate, guests for St. L…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | June 19th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
I was eager to hear Walter Bargen, Missouri’s First Poet Laureate, read his poetry and give good advice on writing a first line that arrests the attention and makes the reader want to keep going. He did not disappoint. With charming diffidence read more
David Sedaris in St. Louis at Left Bank: Like a Rock Concert
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | June 19th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
It was like a rock concert this week when David Sedaris (pronounced as in “dare”) came to town to speak at Left Bank Books. Folk who couldn’t find seats stood up inside. Folks who couldn’t get in the room stood up outside or l read more
Dick Gregory, Live, In Living Color! In St. Louis!
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | June 11th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Hey! Dick Gregory, internationally known comic and social activist, is coming home to St. Louis. How cool is that? The New Millennium Group invites you to welcome Gregory on July 19, 2008. Doors open at 5 p.m. at the Starlight Room on 8350 N. Broadwa read more
Forest Park Forever’s Hiram Leffingwell Awards Luncheon
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | June 5th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
I became a lady who lunches today as the Women’s Committee of Forest Park Forever celebrated their annual “hat luncheon,” to raise money for park maintenance and education programs….held at the World’s Fair Pavilion in S read more
“Bonneville”—Great American roadtrip film for gals of a cer…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | June 4th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
On a girls night out Rebecca and I wound our way through St. Louis’ Central West End…now sampling gelato at the new store where last year Ben and Jerry’s stood; now eating Vietnamese crepes at my favorite snack shop; and now…c read more
St. Louis Poet Karen Smead Mondale: “He would tell you he never…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | May 23rd 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
The Preacher, sculpture by Lester Mondale. Photo courtesy Karen Mondale I first met KAREN SMEAD MONDALE, long-time community activist and retired educator, last fall at a Duff’s River Styx poetry reading. She read at Duff’s this week as read more
“Harlem Duet” sings: St. Louis Black Rep Company stages Djane…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | May 14th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Ruth-Miriam Garnett and I have great “bumping into each other” luck. I first met Ruth at the St. Louis Poetry Center gala last fall. Subsequently, we’ve magically bumped into each other 1) on the metro platform at the Central West E read more
Salon 53 bronze sponsor for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, D…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | April 26th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Freida Wheaton gets around. She’s a board member of Dance St. Louis and a member of the Ballet Ball Committee. Freida’s fun and saavy. She assembled a group of friends and supporters to join her at table #33. Freida, Salon 53 and friends read more
“Deeper Shade of Blues” performed by Joel P. E. King at The S…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | April 26th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
“Deeper Shade of Blues,” a two-act one-man show written and performed by Joel P. E. King premiers at The Space. And, there’s still time to see it! Tonight is Saturday at 8 p.m. and tomorrow is Sunday at 6 p.m. for only a $10 admissi read more
Soyinka in St. Louis Conversation at Black Rep
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | April 19th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Wole Soyinka HOMEWORK LINKS 1) Hear Soyinka’s rolling baritone, relaxed, just chatting, sharing wisdom First, let me give you a link to a 1998 conversation between Harry Kreisler and Wole Soyinka that took place in Berkeley, California as part read more
Soyinka’s “The Lion & The Jewel” brings total art to Edison…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | April 18th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
“The Lion and the Jewel” written by Wole Soyinka, directed by Ron Himes and presented by the Washington University Performing Arts Department, opened tonightat Washington University’s Edison Theatre in St Louis, Missouri. The play c read more
Mandel’s “Audition Piece” at First Run Theatre—two weeken…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | April 15th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Gerry Mandel’s “Audition Piece” won First Run Theatre’s 2008 6th Annual Reading Festival (four plays out of nine chosen for production). Now “Audition Piece,” directed by Marc Macormic, will grace the First Run T read more
Riehlife Bonus Poem of the Day: Freida L. Wheaton’s “Saint Lo…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | April 14th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Photo from www.moonraker.com I met Freida L. Wheaton in 2005 at an African American Art Collectors forum at the St. Louis Art Musem. Mother was alive then, still kicking and needing care. I’d gone off on this huge adventure to the big city and read more
Riehlife Bonus Poem of the Day: “Mama’s Powder Puff Was Rough…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | April 11th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
I met Linda Darnece Jones at Kwaanza six days into the new year and we started a conversation about her art and poetry. I heard Linda read “Mama’s Powder Puff Was Rough and Tough” at a recent Women’s Art and Vision event and a read more
National Child Abuse Awareness & Prevention Month in the CWE
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | April 6th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
On a beautiful Spring day two events in the Central West End of St. Louis resonated with National Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month. Ashley Rhodes-Courter’s memoir “Three Little Words” focalized a room filled with adoption read more
Fannie Belle Lebby’s Sizzling One Woman Show “Ladies of the B…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | April 4th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Woodie Award nominee Miss Fannie Belle Lebby performed her one woman show, “Ladies of the Blues”, including portrayals of blues artist/jazz singer Alberta Hunter and comedienne Moms Mabley at The Space. Fannie Belle Lebby has merged her a read more
Riehlife Bonus Poem of the Day: Linda Jo Smith’s “Jazz Marsal…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | April 4th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Sankofa is an Adinkra Symbol from Ghana meaning “Return and Fetch It.” Click here to read Riehlife post from December 5, 2007 on how Sankofa has defined the path of my life. The SANKOFET is a poetry form created by the Sisters-Nineties Li read more
Soyinka’s “The Lion and The Jewel” at Washington University…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | March 13th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Wole Soyinka, playwright, “The Lion and the Jewel” The Lion And The Jewel opens Friday, April 18, 8:00 p.m.at Washington University: Edison Theatre St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri. “The Lion and the Jewel” by Wole Soyinka is dii read more
John Rozelle’s Sanga Series represented at St. Louis Art Museum…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | March 11th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
TWO ROZELLE WEBSITES View images of John Rozelle’s work at his website by the same name and also at Sanaa Productions where you’ll find marvelous collages for sale. _________________ QUOTES “Well, its like jazz: you do this and then read more
Curator Andrew Walker Re-tells the Story of African American Abst…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | March 11th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
“Art is about possibility…it is capacious; its history is ever-changing;and what is lost is only lost until you see it again,” says Holland Cotter in his NY Times essay (April 7, 2006) “Energy and Abstraction at the Studio Mus read more
Phillip Hampton’s experimentation with acrylic media demonstrat…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | March 11th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
(Phillip Hampton’s work is honored at the St. Louis Art Museum’s African American Abstraction: St. Louis Connections.) David Bonnetti at St. Louis Today.com says: Philip Hampton, the fourth artist featured, is sort of odd-man out. Rather read more
John Rozelle featured in St. Louis Art Museum’s “African Amer…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | March 11th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
The Saint Louis Art Museum African American Abstraction: St. Louis Connections, an installation of thought-provoking abstract works from both the Museum’s collection and local private collections features artists Oliver Jackson (born 1935), Joh read more
African American Abstraction: St. Louis Connections at St. Louis…
Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century | March 11th 2008 by Janet Grace Riehl
Click here to watch Naomi Silver’s three vivacious interviews with Curator Andrew Walker, Artist Phillip Hampton, and Artist John Rozelle—all discussing the current African America Abstraction: St. Louis Connections which runs through Mar read more
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