Intersect Arts Center

Celebrate and explore our fall exhibition
Seen and Unseen during our Dovetail on Friday, October 9, 2026.

Doors open at 6pm; you’ll receive a guidebook at the main desk, and then travel across the street to ponder José Garza’s work, Sin Fronteras/Stateless (still from a nonexistent film) and enjoy an amuse bouche!

Head back to the Intersect gallery for live music, and small bites crafted by Jeena Gurung in collaboration with Nothing Sacred Kitchen.

What is Dovetail?

This series of interdisciplinary events takes the Dovetail joint as a metaphor for the coming together of different artistic mediums and diverse members of our community.
When we create and partake in reciprocity, the results can express extraordinary frameworks for stronger, more elegant and more generous ways of being, thinking, and appreciating.

Dovetail is now free to attend! Please register using the link in our bio or on our website at intersectstl.org/upcoming-dovetails

Can’t make it to Dovetail on October 9? You can see Seen and Unseen during our normal gallery hours, M - T, Th - F 10am - 6pm, and W 9am - 4:30pm.

And, save the date for a CONCERT + CONVO event for Seen and Unseen, happening Tuesday, November 17, 2026!

Curated by Sarah Schempf Bernhardt , Seen and Unseen features work by:

Boisali Biswas Boisali Biswas
Maria Fee Maria Fee
José Garza José Garza
Young-Ly Hong Chandra Young-Ly Hong Chandra
May Kytonen May Kytonen
Bhavna Mehta Bhavna Mehta
Aram Han Sifuentes Aram Han Sifuentes
Edra Soto Edra Soto 🇵🇷
Mami Takahashi Mami Takahashi

Join us for our next 4 week handbuilding class focused on crafting items that you can use everyday! This class is beginner friendly! No previous pottery expertience needed.

Date: October 5th, 12th, 26th & Nov 2nd
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: Intersect Arts Center
Cost: $200 (Clay , Glaze, & Firing Included)
Link to register in our bio or on our website under the Education tab.

Scholarships are also available; you can email us at [email protected] to inquire about assistance.

Hope to see you there!

For those who come from somewhere and find themselves somewhere else, visibility can be both gift and grief. To be seen may mean welcome, recognition, or dignity; it may also mean surveillance, suspicion, or control. To remain unseen may offer safety and rest, or become erasure and exclusion.

Seen and Unseen gathers artists whose work attends to the visible signs of human migration — documents, rooms, garments, language, food, architecture, faces, and public images — while honoring the invisible realities they carry: longing, fear, faith, family history, grief, resilience, and hope.

The artists begin with material: threads stitched, garments transformed, paper carved and woven, the visible matter of everyday life. These materials carry what often remains beyond view: the childhood room remembered in detail, the word that will not translate, the labor hidden inside an ordinary object, the hope folded into a family story, the private negotiation between who one has been and who one is becoming.

How might we see one another with capacious care when so much remains invisible across difference, without demanding that difference disappear or resolve? Can we come close without consuming, hold complexity without paralysis, and find common ground generous enough to inhabit together?

Seen and Unseen is curated by Sarah Bernhardt (Sarah Schempf Bernhardt ) and features work by:

Boisali Biswas
Maria Fee
José Garza
Young-Ly Hong Chandra
May Kytonen
Bhavna Mehta
Aram Han Sifuentes
Edra Soto 🇵🇷
Mami Takahashi

Seen and Unseen is available to view Monday - Tuesday, Thursday - Friday 10am - 6pm and Wednesdays 9:00am - 4:30pm at Intersect Art Center’s gallery located at 3636 Texas Ave, STL MO 63118. (Be sure to check out José Garza’s José Garza piece on the side of our partner gallery, Mezzo Gallery at the Bridge House at 3617 Texas Ave when you come!)

SAVE THE DATE FOR DOVETAIL!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2026
6 - 8 PM

See the show, explore themes of visibility, and enjoy tasty bites crafted by chef Jeena Gurung in collaboration with Alex Braden of Nothing Sacred Kitchen .

DOVETAIL is now free to attend, but registration is still required; you can register on our website or at the link in our bio.

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New hours for the first part of the fall! Our office and gallery hours now run Monday - Friday, and for the months of September and October, we’ll have some adjusted hours on Wednesdays! If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected]

And stay tuned for more info on our fall exhibition, Seen and Unseen, opening very very soon!

New hours for the first part of the fall! Our office and gallery hours now run Monday - Friday, and for the months of September and October, we’ll have some adjusted hours on Wednesdays! If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected]

And stay tuned for more info on our fall exhibition, Seen and Unseen, opening very very soon!

We’re so excited to have artist Maria Fee (Maria Fee ) joining us these next couple weeks as she creates a version of her work Permeable Frontiers for Intersect’s fall show, Seen and Unseen opening in September.

Part of the piece requires some community participation, and so Maria will lead a workshop here at Intersect on Saturday, August 29 starting at 10:30am

Maria will lead workshop participants in creating three-dimensional paper sculptures, some of which will be displayed as part of her final installation.

The project investigates and imagines what home, shelter, or sanctuary look and feel like. It helps us imagine or express what it means to be without home, or make a new home. Together we will play, reflect, and envision a city, a new creation made from and stimulated by diverse peoples and cultures.

This workshop is free, but registration is required; you can sign up on our website or by using the link in our bio.

Intersect is delighted to announce Maria Fee (Maria Fee ), an artist and academic from California, joining us for a three week residency.

Maria will be creating an installation for our fall exhibition Seen and Unseen. She will lead a community workshop to create works for that installation, and she will be giving an artist lecture this coming Sunday at a collaborative event between Intersect and our partner gallery, Mezzo Gallery at the Bridge House .

AFTER CHURCH COFFEE + Artist Lecture
Sunday, August 23, 2026 | 12:15 - 2:15pm

Intersect Arts Center+Mezzo Gallery, +Holy Cross Lutheran Church
Present an artist lecture with artist in residence Maria Fee entitled: “(Spirit) The Unseen Person: Contemporary Art as Cultural Vessels of the Spirit.”

Featuring the works of Hispanic/Latin@ artists and theologians, the discussion highlights a politics of representation, and art’s power to elevate or exclude. It covers the Spirit’s reviving force mediated through artmaking, rituals, and other aesthetic and embodied experiences. It explores art participates as a vessel for God’s empowering presence via the Spirit found in the ethnic/racial other, the discarded, the beleaguered, the seen and unseen.

Where: Mezzo Galley
When: Doors open at 12:15 with light refreshments, Lecture at 1:00

All are welcome!

Never Gonna Give You Up - Call for Art for our Cabinets of Curiosity

Even if you’re not sentimental about objects, chances are you have something in your home that you don’t use or display, but also can’t get rid of: the tiny, faded newborn hat that came home with you from the hospital, the rubber dinosaurs you loved and knew all the names of in 2nd grade, the middle school sports trophies you’re still a little proud of, or the cross stitch with your name on it that your grandma spent many hours making for your high school graduation. Every time you get out that box, you go through it, relive a few pieces of your personal history, think to yourself, “What should I do with this stuff?” and then reconfigure the careful tetris of the objects and close it back up for the next ten years.

There’s certainly merit to reexamining our relationship with stuff—curbing our appetite for consumption and reminding ourselves that our deepest satisfactions don’t lie in trendy home updates or the newest water bottle fad. But it’s worth recognizing too that our tendency toward overconsumption and wastefulness is more often a result of viewing material things as having too little value rather than too much, as disposable rather than useful, as burden rather than gift.

This exhibition in miniature is a celebration of that which is, perhaps, functionally useless, but somehow precious. We may have a variety of feelings about the things we’ve saved: tenderness, frustration, guilt, gratitude, obligation, but probably not apathy. So, for once in their long material lives, let’s bring them out of the boxes and into the light. Chances are you have something like that. Chances are, it has a story to tell.

Objects will be displayed in a set of historic cabinets. Any 2-D, 3-D, time-based, or digital work will be considered.

NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP Important Dates:

Deadline to submit - August 1, 2026

Decision letters go out - August 14, 2026

Work drop off - August 21, 2026

Install - August 24 - September 4, 2026

Exhibition Run - September 8 - November 7, 2026

Work pick up - November 10 - 14, 2026

Apply online or using the link in our bio!

New workshop happening next week!

Join visiting artist Mami Takahashi for an introduction to Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics. More than a repair technique, Kintsugi offers a way of thinking about care, impermanence, and the ongoing relationships we have with the objects and communities around us.

The evening will begin with a conversation inspired by Intersect’s Dream Street exhibition, exploring themes of repair, memory, and community care. Participants will then learn a beginner-friendly Kintsugi process and repair a prepared ceramic piece to take home.

No prior experience is necessary. All materials will be provided. This class is suitable for participants ages 16 and up.

Where: Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St Louis MO 63118

When: Wednesday, June 10, 2026 | 5:30pm - 8:30pm

5:30–6:00 PM: Gallery conversation on repair, care, and community

6:00–8:30 PM: Hands-on Kintsugi workshop

Class Fee: $20 - proceeds from this class will be used to help prep Intersect’s lower lot on Jefferson to become a splash pad and play area for our community!

Link in bio to register or you can check out our website under the adult education tab!

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and Intersect Arts Center together are seeking a knowledgeable and passionate horticulturist to curate our botanical collections and outdoor landscapes. The ideal candidate will combine scientific expertise, practical skills, and social warmth to ensure the health and beauty of all plant life while engaging volunteers and community in this corner of creation we are privileged to steward.

Holy Cross has an established and ever evolving gardens featuring 10 different topographies and level 1 arboretum with a focus on native plantings and wildlife.

Intersect Arts Center has large rain gardens, community vegetable garden beds, and 1.3 acres of wild potential waiting to be nurtured into a space of community respite, health, and beauty. Intersect’s property has significant opportunities for design ideas incorporating public art, play, and education.

The ideal candidate will have a heart of kindness, generosity, and collaboration, attuned to not only care for plants, but holistic care for people and place in this unique urban context.

This list is a general outline of responsibilities and is not limited to the following:

Plant Care & Maintenance
Pest & Disease Management
Soil and Nutrient Management
Landscape Design & Installation
Technical Operations
Record Keeping
Education
Facility Support
Public Art Management Support

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Horticulture, Botany, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Certified Arborist, Certified Master Gardener, and Certified to Spray Herbicides a plus
Prior experience with 3 references
Knowledge of native plants, rain gardens, vegetable gardens, natural pest management, and soil science.
Ability to lift up to 50lbs and work outdoors in various weather conditions.
Generous communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
Must be interested in working with a Lutheran church community

Pay: $40,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Benefits:
Flexible schedule
Health insurance
Paid time off
Parental leave

Interested? Learn more about the position, responsibilities, and apply using the link in our bio!