Be sure to stop by the Shaw Art Fair the weekend of October 5-6 – where a selection of St. Margaret’s students will have their art on display at the Fair. The Shaw Art Fair runs both Saturday from 9am-5pm, and Sunday from 10am-5pm along Flora Place & Tower Grove Avenue, just east of the Missouri Botanical Garden.. $8 weekend passes. $10 at-the-gate. Valid both days. Children age 14 & under free with adult. At-the-gate ticket $1 off with canned food donation. The SMOS exhibition is part of The Schools Exhibit, Art Activity and Demonstration Area, which is located west of Klemm at booth numbers 49 & 78 – center of 4200 block of Flora Place.
Every year, St. Margaret’s students have an opportunity to participate in an art project run by SMOS Art Teacher, Sara Loser, through a program called Square One Art. For this year’s project, the students did an amazing job! Once their projects were completed, a selection committee comprised of Fr. John and the parish staff, reviewed all of the artwork and selected three pieces of art from each classroom – for a total of 63 portraits which will hang at the Shaw Art Fair.
2nd – 8th graders were given personal freedom to express themselves artistically. They did a quick study of artists Romero Britto and Peter Max for color and pattern inspiration, but students truly stretched themselves and made their very own unique masterpieces.
Pre-K art was inspired by peacocks! They learned about peacocks, did a directed drawing of a peacock, and then colored them using the wax-resist watercolor technique. The results were stunning. Some were recognizable and others were beautifully abstracted.
Kindergarten continued the directed drawing of an owl – a tradition for many years in the kindergarten classroom. The results were amazing as usual. Each owl had it’s own unique flare.
And first grade put their heART into their art! They made hearts and divided them into sections and chose the patterns and colors to fill their hearts with. Don’t be surprised if your heart skips a beat when you see them for yourself!
So without further ado… here are the names of students whose art has been chosen for display at the Shaw Art Fair this year. Congratulations!!
SMOS @ Shaw Art Fair 2024 Artists
| Pre-K (Dicker) Catherine Ferrell Margaut Reynolds Polly Toussaint | Pre-K (Hawley) Cora Butler Naomi Scanlon Harper Weber | Pre-K (Nguyen) Jack Burke Bobby Rebe Keijito Sasa-Bertels |
| Kindergarten (Harvatin) Dean Reynolds Avery Stuckmeyer Grace Whealon | Kindergarten (Kean) Vivian Kleinberg Etta Schubert Florence Wysocki |
| 1st Grade (Cheatham) Dominic Ehlman Maya Freedle Asher Scanlon | 1st Grade (Clark) Knox Feder Eva McClure Cormac Schum |
| 2nd Grade (Heffernan) Gabe Anzalone Amelia Clendenin Coen Guenther | 2nd Grade (Kirner) Louis Bania Lane Hopmann William Roberts |
| 3rd Grade (Biegacki) Marina Brockland Theo Howard Brooks Wolf | 3rd Grade (Salameh) Greta Clymer Lucas Martinez Josephine Saracino |
| 4th Grade (Joyce Nora Hayde Colette Olsen Chloe Terrell | 4th Grade (Unverferth) Hugo Acosta Mara Holt Andrew Kleinberg |
| 5th Grade (Komos) Althea Keener Flora Perkins Adelynn Rolwes | 5th Grade (Peterson) Frances Faul Jack Rogers Betty Sherman |
| 6th Grade (Rasure) Emma Fairlie Camila Medina Lucille Trame | 6th Grade (Wells) Madeleine English Rowan Mork Elizabeth Pera |
| 7th Grade (Berry) Lucille Miller Elliot Quinn Mariana Reyes | 7th Grade (Evans) Elizabeth Altman Emmanuelle Defenbaugh Penelope Gray |
| 8th Grade (Baker) Audrey Bushlack William Overberg Rowan Searcy | 8th Grade (Pilato) Benjamin Kelsey Abram Lopez Colleen Moore |