Citizen Artist St. Louis is a non-partisan initiative of St. Louis-based artists, organizers, and civically engaged individuals and organizations working together to ensure that arts and culture, and the values of these constituents are considered in St. Louis politics and policy-making.
Joint Accounts, a weekend retreat at Paul Artspace facilitated by artist/organizer Tori Abernathy and yogi Katie Rodgers, tasked participants to envision “a present and future based on cooperation, non-work, festivity, and health,” a world in which we decouple work from our jobs.
Michael Brown’s tragic death transformed the city of St. Louis into a place of action and connection and serious visualization. In this essay, the actions of artists in support of the movement are surveyed.