Field Guide
by Intersect Arts Center
Exhibition Dates: August 2025 through January 2026
Location: Kling Family Gallery
Intersect Art Center’s mission is to enrich people and place through the arts. Located in South City St. Louis, Intersects interdisciplinary approach serves local youth, artists, and community through education programs, exhibitions, classes, events, maker spaces, and studios.
About the Organization: Intersect Arts Center
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
—Mary Oliver
Field Guide is an exploration of the ways in which we discover and exchange knowledge that transform our experience of looking at the world. Field guides transfigure the invisible to the visible, the foreign to the familiar. A field guide helps us differentiate and identify what is valuable from what could be dangerous. In an era of ever-shortening attention spans, art can be a field guide to help us pay attention, to help us be astonished. This collection of artworks offers unique instruction and insight that can help us both recognize and feel recognized. A field guide to grieving, a field guide to home, to memory, to moving forward, to self recognition, identity, to ritual, and so on. Like compact manuals meant to be carried with us “out in the field,” these artworks invoke moments of empathy and wonder from our heads and hearts that we can carry with us out of this gallery, a field guide for living a life. Whether offered by experts or enthusiasts, these artists make familiar a lived posture of attention through which we can find everything astonishing.
More Art
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Infinity, Try Angles, and Reflections of Law
by David Parks
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Terminal 1 Light Boxes
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Field Notes: An Artist’s Perspective
by Laura Lebeda
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Post-Security, E Concourse
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ArtReach: Zines as Activism
by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
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Post-Security, E Concourse
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Onward Forward
by Mee Jey
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Pre-security, Lower Level A Baggage Claim Windows