St. Louis, Missouri 63108
Admission: free and limited free parking.
http://www.thesheldon.org/
The Sheldon Art Galleries were created in 1988.
There exists eight galleries on two floors covering over 7,000 square feet. Within the galleries the exhibits change throughout the year with over 20 different exhibits each year.
The largest gallery is the Gallery of Music.
The music gallery consists of three rooms. The first one houses the signal horns.
As in all three rooms, each instrument or group of instruments comes with an excellent informative poster as shown below.
A highlight of this room is the the 1000-year-old Moche clay trumpets from Peru.
Many other interesting horns are on display.
Other instruments on display with the Rkang-Gling and the Rag Gshog-Ma Trumpet are the Naisiga Trumpet from Nepal and India, The Budahist Dung-chen from Tibet, the Horagai Shell Trumpet from Japan, the Ranasringa from India, and the rKangling Trumpet from Tibet, all seen below displayed together.
Ivory, bronze, horn of a bull and wood are used to make these African instruments below. They are the Side-Blown Trumpet from Benin, the Oka Trumpet from Benin and Nigeria, a Ceremonial Horn from Benin and Nigeria, a Komo Trumpet from Mali, and a Messenger Horn from Cameroon.
This twelve-foot-long bicycle-powered "Pedalphone" was designed by a local teacher.
The second horn room is dedicated to military horns.
Below are three of the European horns in this exhibit.
The final music room is full of jazz horns.
The room includes an eight-foot tall Recording Bass.
More unique jazz instruments.
Horn music is heard throughout the three rooms and each room includes a screen displaying an ongoing film about the instruments.
The Dellwether Gallery of St. Louis Artists currently has an exhibit comprised of a selection of large-scale murals by professional and amateur artists made in the days and weeks following the 2014 protests in Ferguson and in South St. Louis. The murals were painted on plywood and found wood used to board or protect local businesses.
The remaining four galleries all also have a St. Louis connection. The Art Gallery of Children's Art currently has an exhibit of works by Whitfield School students as part of the This I Believe project.
The Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg Gallery includes artwork by local artist Amy Reidel who currently teaches at St. Louis University and the St. Louis Community Colleges.
Tumor Storm, 2016, was made with loose glitter and colored sand on printed vinyl.
Audrey Wig, 2016, was made using friendship bracelets, ribbon, sequins, fake flowers on a Styrofoam wig stand.
The small Ann Lee and Wilfred Konneker Gallery includes nine photographs of a subject dear to the hearts of St. Louis locals.
The Bernoudy Gallery of Architecture and Gallery of Photography currently highlights the work of ...
Dan Kiley designed more than 1,000 projects including the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial here in St. Louis.
The two-room gallery includes photographs of different projects of his around the country.
In 1999, The Sheldon was awarded the Excellence in the Arts Award presented by the Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis.
The Heart Called Orchid, 2003, by American Jim Dine is on an extended loan from the Gateway Foundation.
And no museum is complete without a gift shop that includes jewelry, stationary, books, and other items.
The Sheldon Hall, which is attached to The Sheldon Art Galleries, was built in 1912 as the home of the Ethical Society. Over the years many famous people have spoken on its stage including Albert Einstein, Ernest Hemingway, and Dwight Eisenhower. The hall is known for its perfect acoustics and is referred to as the Carnegie Hall of the Midwest, thus it is no surprise that in 1984 it became a concert hall. In 1988 it was named The Sheldon. The same year the galleries were created. The Sheldon also includes a ballroom plus a 500-seat room thus is the home of many fund-raisers and receptions. Over 350 events each year are held at The Sheldon.
Around the corner, on Grand Avenue, next to the Fox is the newly-opened Stage Left Diner, previously the home of the City Diner.
Only open five weeks when we stopped for a late breakfast before touring the Sheldon, it was obvious that the staff was eager to please and open to suggestions. All of our food was good including the breakfast crepes...
The other galleries were very different from each other and we enjoyed the variety of artwork, be it paintings, photographs, three-dimensional pieces, etc. The connection to St. Louis found in each exhibit made it fun, too.
The website has a section on current exhibits and one on upcoming exhibits.
We arrived when the galleries opened at noon and had the entire museum to ourselves except for an employee and two docents/interns. We stayed an hour.
There is a free parking lot south of the building and paying lots across the street plus metered street parking. Within the galleries there is an opportunity to make a donation but there is no admission fee.
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