Public Art
Creativity thrives in St. Louis. Sculptures, murals, fountains, mosaics and memorials are part of the fabric of the streets and parks of our region. Public art goes beyond the expected idea of art. Public art in St. Louis extends to a wide range of innovative concepts, projects and programs. Explore the different areas of our community and the public art that enriches our lives below.
Named after a Greek island, Charles Ginnever’s Crete, 1976-78, is one of ten steel sculptures from his Hellenic series. Ginnever titled each sculpture in...
Vito Acconci’s Face of the Earth #3 is a soil carving that invites the viewer to activate the negative space of his...
The title of this piece, Four Shades, is a reference to the four different types of trees used in this garden...
Heritage Schooner for Debra Lakin is a weathervane portraying a pilot and his dog flying in what appears to be a...
The Poet series is characterized by simplified black steel forms. The figure that represents the Poet is often so abstracted as to...
The Poet series is characterized by simplified black steel forms. The figure that represents the Poet is often so abstracted as to...
Trova’s Profile Canto series evolved from his Falling Man series, which became increasingly blossom-like. The more organic Profile Cantos are composed of round, metal petal forms....
Trova’s Profile Canto series evolved from his Falling Man series, which became increasingly blossom-like. The more organic Profile Cantos are composed of round, metal petal forms....
Her “nana” sculptures explore the various roles of women and celebrate the bodies of females and children. The interactive sculpture Ricardo...
Seventy feet long, thirteen feet wide and following the contours of an uneven slope in Laumeier’s Way Field, Robert Stackhouse’sSt....
This sculpture is from Trova’s GOX series of monumental geometric forms made from circles, squares and rectangles that have an...
Robert Lobe has described his sculptures as involving an interrupted, sacrificed-Nature that is not just borrowed, but violated. His works...