Program Type: Gallery Talk

Join fashion designer Michael Drummond for a gallery talk about his latest solo exhibition, Michael Drummond: Being Played, featuring garments inspired by the intersection of chess, fashion, and the world’s current climate crisis. Learn more about the pieces on view as Michael discusses his processes and various inspirations. Following the talk, Drummond and fashion editor Sarah Stallmann will engage in a dialogue, expanding on the topics and themes presented in the exhibition and will answer questions from the audience.

A multi-faceted artist and fashion designer, Michael Drummond is a veteran of Project Runway with a clientele including actress Tika Sumpter, New York Fashion Week Founder Fern Malis, and supermodel television host Heidi Klum. A largely self-taught artist, Drummond works as a fashion design consultant, a commercial stylist for print and film, and creates a clothing line under his given name Michael Drummond. Learn more at www.michaeldrummond.net.

Sarah Stallmann is an award-winning writer, content producer, and consultant who specializes in strategizing, managing, and executing creative projects while providing a distinct point of view. She also serves on the board of the Saint Louis Fashion Fund where she specializes in inclusive community engagement, event production, and curated styling events. Learn more at www.thewickedwallflower.com.

Reservations recommended. Free admission.

Appetizers and refreshments provided.

For more information, please email: [email protected]. Metered on-street parking is available, as well as paid lots adjacent to Kingside Diner and at the Schlafly branch of the St. Louis Public Library.

Wednesday, Jan 15 – 6:30 pm

Watch Saint Louis artists Stan Chisholm and Peat “EYEZ” Wallaeger discuss their new artworks featured in “Keith Haring: Radiant Gambit.” Each artist will talk about their creative process, chess connections to their work, and how Keith Haring’s legacy has influenced their individual aesthetics.

South Saint Louis native Stan Chisholm works under the alias 18andCounting, building himself as an experimental music producer and multidisciplinary visual artist and educator. In 2009, he earned his Bachelors of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chisholm’s visual work takes an abstracted or socio-critical perspective using an ever-changing array of themes including character design, graphic abstraction, and text. Sonically, he produces hardware-driven tones of electronic and hip-hop genres with low tolerance for pop tactics.

Saint Louis native Peat Wollaeger is an internationally-known stencil graffiti artist famous for his signature EYEZ. They can be found around the city of Saint Louis, bringing life to inanimate objects on the streets, his murals, galleries, and the clothing in his EYEZbrand line. Wollaeger believes in public art as a way to beautify a community, to shape people’s lives, and to introduce art to people who may never step into a gallery. Most importantly, he believes art transforms cities and improves people’s quality of life.

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Wednesday, Feb 3 – 6:30 pm

Watch Saint Louis artists Dail Chambers and Edo Rosenblith discuss their new artworks featured in Keith Haring: Radiant Gambit. Each artist will talk about their creative process, chess connections to their work, and how Keith Haring’s legacy has influenced their individual aesthetics.

Dail Chambers is a visual artist and creative consultant. Her visual art practice is a multimedia exploration in genealogy, women’s narratives, and social art. Chambers received her BFA with a concentration in ceramics from the Memphis College of Art in 2007 and completed Postgraduate Studies in Women’s Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. As a homeschooling teaching artist, she has traveled internationally, implementing lesson plans to enhance and motivate intergenerational learning environments. 

Born in Tel Aviv, Edo Rosenblith received his BFA in painting in 2011 at the Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA in Visual Art at Washington University in 2017. Rosenblith has exhibited throughout Saint Louis at The Contemporary Art Museum; Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis; The Luminary; Fort Gondo; Parapet Real Humans, and Center of Creative Arts. His first book, PINK, was published by Fort Gondo Press in 2013.   

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Wednesday, Mar 10 – 6:30 pm

Attend a complimentary artist talk with Emmy Award-winning Costume Designer and Entrepreneur Marina Toybina at Steinberg Auditorium at Washington University! Marina will discuss her professional journey, how chess inspires her creative process, and fully explore her chess piece costume designs featured in Katy Perry’s iconic Super Bowl XLIX halftime performance, currently featured in WCHOF’s exhibition, Sound Moves: Where Music Meets Chess. A Q&A session will follow, and guests are invited to mix and mingle with cocktails and enjoy open chess play following the talk.

 

Emmy Award-winning and record-breaking Costume Designer Marina Toybina is well known for her exceptional work in entertainment. Born in Moscow, Russia, Toybina immigrated to the United States at age 11. After graduating high school in Phoenix, AZ, she attended the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and launched a signature line called GLAZA. Toybina’s creations are now seen worldwide in a variety of mediums, including television’s The Masked Singer, So You Think You Can Dance, and The X Factor US; award shows including The Grammys, Billboard Awards, BET Awards, and Country Music Association; and collaborated with celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, and Juliette Lewis.

 

Please RSVP to [email protected]

Saturday, Oct 14 – 3:00 pm