Susan Colangelo, left, co-founded Saint Louis Story Stitchers. Twenty-year-old Emeara Burns, right, joined the artists collective as a teenager to help her process experiences with gun violence.
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Cut & Paste: ‘Stitching the city together’: St. Louis youth process gun violence through art
By NANCY FOWLER
The Sheldon Art Galleries presents
Saint Louis Story Stitchers Artists Collective: Pick the City UP exhibition in the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery (through April 21, 2018) presents an overview of recent Saint Louis Story Stitchers’ projects that focus on stopping gun violence, furthering the message through dynamic music videos, colorful documentary photographs, youth poetry from the Curating Teen Voices portfolio, and music and spoken word events.
Funding for the program was provided in part by Missouri Foundation for Health through a grant to Saint Louis Story Stitches.
Additional funding provided by Alison and John Ferring.
