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Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time is OPEN! Counterpublic connects the region like no other project can, bringing us into contact with unfamiliar sites and stories, allowing us to see ourselves and each other differently through the experience. Counterpublic is the city’s exhibition. We invite you to get out and discover or rediscover St. Louis through the artworks of visionary artists. Explore Coyote Time: counterpublic.org Directed and produced by Hieu Luu @hieu.sangvisuals
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Meet Charlie Farrell (@artfully.thought), a St. Louis-based curator, researcher and writer. Critical Minded sat with Charlie during the Art Papers Symposium in 2025 to discuss the relationship between critics and artists. This conversation now lives among the others in our portrait series, Not for Sale. Charlie is the Assistant Curator of arts organization, Counterpublic. She served as the 2022-2024 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Recent projects include Radical Rage (2026) at Stove Works, Wangechi Mutu: My Cave Call (2024), and Romare Bearden: Resonances (2024), both at the Saint Louis Art Museum. Farrell has also held positions at the Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora (MoCAAD) and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, both in Florida. Check out Charlie’s full interview along with the rest of the Not for Sale portraits at the #linkinbio. #criticalminded #artswriters #curators #stlouis
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Hello Karaoke friends! We’ve got two more karaoke nights before we head back into semi-retirement (again 😂), and the first one is THIS SUNDAY! 🗓️ 9/27 and 10/25 🎤 8pm–midnight Come sing with us while you still can! 🎶✨
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as we say in good portuguese: "se chorei ou se sorri, o importante é que emoções eu vivi". thank you st. louis, thank you counterpublic, thank you james, thank you to my spice girls jordan, nora, steffi and wanda, thank you not only to the amazing artists i worked with, but to all artists, and institutions that collaborated with all of us. thanks to all professionals involved in counterpublic and at the many venues that welcomed us here. "coyote time" is coyoting until december 13th. lots of love involved.
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3 years of prep, research, morphing. Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time opens tonight 🐺 @counterpublic
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On July 28, I celebrated a full year of working as @counterpublic Public Programs Manager! It has been such a journey from 6 years as full-time stay-at-home-dad / freelance graphic designer to being a full-time employee of an arts org in St. Louis’ vibrant and bustling arts and culture community! I couldn’t have asked for a better place to land or a better team to be a part of. It’s something special to be fully aware that the “good old days” are now and that you’re a part of a “golden era” crew. When I came on board, I immediately felt like everyone had my back and I theirs. After a year of workshops, talks, activations, a freaking Convening, and literally 1 million e-mails, I know that that bond remains stronger than ever. As we gear up to the opening of Counterpublic 2026 Coyote Time (September 10 - December 12), I urge every single one of you to check out this incredible citywide arts exhibition. We’ve had the great fortune of working with 5 amazing curators, 50 incredible artists, and a legion of creatives, builders, and community partners working tirelessly behind the scene to bring dreams into fruition. I’m incredibly proud of Counterpublic’s work and I know in my heart of hearts that St. Louis deserves a triennial of this caliber. We should all be so proud. All info, programs schedule, and more can be found at counterpublic.org P.S. Catch some incredible performances from composer Nina Keith and SLSO musicians, Natural Information Society (performing a durational set amongst Joshua Abrams and Lisa Alvarado’s sculpture), Kite (along with Alex Cunningham, Lex Kosieradzki, Mere Harrach, and Andre Lubart) in response to their dream sculpture piece in Tower Grove Park, Tromarama (activating their sculpture with Ousmane Gaye, Danielle Feinstein, NNN Cook, and Alberto Patiño), Damon Smith performing Ben Patterson’s ‘Variations for Double Bass (1961)’, and more!!
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Thank you!! Thank you to everyone that showed up for our season openings! Our hearts are full from the turn out and enthusiasm. We are endlessly grateful to be able to share our work and the work of the curators and artists involved! A special thank you to Charlie Farrell for curating the exceptional “Radical Rage”, to Terry and Will at St. Andrew’s center, to Scenic City Clay Arts, to Desmond Lewis for his invaluable assistance in not only roasting corn but aiding in the final moments of install, to Patrick for cooking up some delicious eats, to our sponsors and funders, to our friend Emerson who graciously hosted Charlie, to our Board, to all of the Artists particpating in these exhibitions and especially those who made it to the opening. And, finally and most importantly to our staff, fellows and interns, who worked tirelessly to make this all happen. It’s all in the people who make the work, who make the work happen, and for those who show up to witness. You are at the center of what was a most brilliant evening! Thank you!! @artfully.thought @standrewscenter @sceniccityclayarts @desmond_lewis93 @willsuttonstudio @waveswellnessandcounseling @carolinegikas @chelseacouch @aprilisdead @camclark.art Check out calendar and website for more information and events.
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Cómo se aprende [How do you learn], 2026 was born out of frustration. As both an educator and a student, I keep thinking about how education can be used to liberate, but miseducation is to discipline, assimilate, and manipulate people into understanding themselves through the language of power. In School Begins (1899), Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hawai‘i, and the Philippines are literally imagined as children in Uncle Sam’s classroom, forced to receive a lesson in “civilization” after U.S. expansion. The message is clear: the United States believed it had the right to govern these territories with or without their consent, until they could supposedly govern themselves. Nearly fifty years later, Jack Delano photographs a Puerto Rican child pledging allegiance to the U.S. flag. Decades later, we arrive at an abandoned public-school classroom in my hometown of Carolina. These images sit with me because they make visible a longer history of colonial education: what Puerto Ricans have been taught, what we have been taught to forget, and who benefits from that forgetting. Images: 1. Cómo se aprende [How do you learn], 2026, in Radical Rage 2. School Begins, Puck, January 25, 1899. Library of Congress 3. Jack Delano, Pledging Allegiance to the Flag in a School in Puerto Rico, 1946 4. Carlos Conde Marín School, Carolina, Puerto Rico. Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi for The New York Times
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The work has arrived! Artist Desmond Lewis is disassembling and reassembling this tractor inside the gallery for his work in Radical Rage, curated by Charlie Farrell. Opening Friday! 6 - 8 pm If you would like to witness the installation, swing by 1 - 5 PM today and tomorrow from 1 - 3 PM! “I am an object maker who explores political, social, religious, and economic issues regarding race and class in the United States. Through the creation of fabricated, carved, and forged sculptures, installations, and pyrotechnic displays, my work seeks to stimulate the conversation with regard to the American South’s dark racial past, challenging present, and questionable future. I seek to develop sculptural forms that incorporate aspects of the past and present to further the notion that society has a tradition of perpetuating an explicit attachment to the “separate, but equal” past. My work often uses industrial materials to correlate the invisible appearance of structural materials in buildings with the concealed structural importance of Black Americans in the United States. Steel provides a structure that can be beat, heated, and manipulated and yet it is still a strong material. Black Americans have been beaten, burned, and exploited but we are still very resilient people. The use of industrial materials requires a commitment from the mind, body, and soul to transform it from a raw state to a finished object.” Desmond Lewis was born and raised in Nashville, TN and currently resides in New Haven, CT and Memphis, TN. He earned his BS from Tennessee State University, an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Memphis and an MBA from The University of Tennessee at Martin. Desmond has completed residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Vermont Carving and Sculpture Center, and Pittsburgh Glass Center. Desmond’s work can be found in several public and private collections around the US including: Penland School of Crafts, Carolina Bronze Sculpture Park, City of Hickory, NC, Vermont Carving and Sculpture Center, The University of Memphis, Soulsville USA, NexAir LLC, Skowhegan Parks and Recreation, Orange Mound Neighb
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Next Friday, August 7th from 6 - 8, we launch our Fall exhibition program! We’re deviating from our usual style of opening! Artist Desmond Lewis will be roasting veggies. We’ll have words from the Curator, Charlie Farrell. Patrick Thompson, a Highland Park neighbor, will be providing BBQ and sides. And we’ll have music! Radical Rage, curated by Charlie Farrell, explores rage as a starting point for an artist’s interventions. Rage can be a destructive emotion, something that sits and smolders. Something that is explosive and furious. This exhibition posits rage as a generative catalyst, the start of change. Rage can be imaginative and positive and necessary. Upstairs and Left Down the Stairs is a group show of Artists and Community members who are a part of Saint Andrew’s Center in Highland Park. In Bloom, organized by Scenic City Clay Arts, explores personal journeys of becoming and challenges the idea that growth has to be neat, linear, or “perfect.” Think of it like the life cycle of a flower—bud to bloom—but with your own twist on what blooming actually looks like. About the evening’s performers: 2$ON The Prince (previous Stove Works resident) will be performing with Noah Prince on bass, Adam Stone on guitar, and John Hooker on drums. 2$ON The Prince is a hip-hop artist who blends jazz and alternative hip-hop, creating a unique sound that inspires listeners to engage in higher thinking and goal-setting. Music provided by Sound Corps. @soundcorps
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This is Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time. The city’s exhibition. Officially opening September 10th in St. Louis! Register for free via the link in our bio. Directed and produced by Hieu Luu @hieu.sangvisuals Narration by Aloha Mischeaux @alohamisho Music by Molly Bazow @mollybazow
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What a team of cheerleaders!! 💛 Thank you for showing up, celebrating the Counterpublic 2026 artists, and dancing with @nyara.world + @sireddiec last night. This year is gonna be a wild ride and we’re so excited you’re a part of it. September, here we come! 🚀 📸 @neuer.world @justinmikhailsolomon @idunnomarty #Counterpublic2026 #CoyoteTime
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