Don’t miss the Artist Meet & Greet on Friday, November 13!
Featuring Talk on Bob Cassilly’s Cementland & 2025 Tornado
Event Details
- What: Structural Illuminations—Artist Meet & Greet with Christina Shmigel, Gary Passanise, and Richard Sprengeler
- When: Friday, November 13, 2026, 5 to 8 PM
- Where: Link Auditorium, 4504 Westminster Pl, St. Louis MO 63108
- Admission: Free
Photographer Richard Sprengeler to speak on Friday, November 13, 5PM
Richard Sprengeler, one of three artists in Structural Illuminations, will discuss Bob Cassilly’s Cementland and share his experiences photographing the aftermath of the 2025 St. Louis tornado.
Sprengeler’s photographs document the layered industrial history of the St. Louis region, from the buildings, infrastructure, and remnants of manufacturing, railroads, brewing, meatpacking, and brickmaking to the changes brought by deindustrialization and renewal. His talk on Cementland and the 2025 St. Louis tornado extends that inquiry into one of the region’s best-known transformations of an industrial landscape.
ABOUT STRUCTURAL ILLUMINATIONS
Structural Illuminations, on view through January 10, brings together three St. Louis artists working in photography, painting, and sculpture, whose practices explore the physical, historical, cultural, and conceptual structures that shape how we understand the world. Through different approaches to image and material, Sprengeler, Christina Shmigel, and Gary Passanise illuminate what lies beneath the surface of familiar places, objects, and ideas.
Learn more on the exhibition’s main page!
Attention: During this event, the Second Presbyterian Church Parking Lot will be closed