Emerson Young Artists’ Showcase is a juried all-media exhibition of artwork created by high school students between 15 and 19 years old residing within 150 miles of the St. Louis Artists’ Guild. The annual Young Artists’ Showcase has supported artistically inclined students for over 60 years. We aim to promote a career in the visual arts while providing an opportunity to exhibit in a professional gallery.
Juror: Phil Robinson
Phil Robinson is a Chicago native who has exhibited throughout the Midwest in Chicago,Indianapolis, Memphis, and various places throughout Missouri. Robinson’s creative practice has included sculpture, installation, 3D design, and cross-disciplinary media. He has also created public artworks for numerous state and local agencies and worked as a design consultant. Robinson earned his BFA in painting and drawing at TheSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago and his MFA at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
He served as an adjunct instructor of art,and then the Henry L. and Natalie Freund Fellow of Painting, at Washington Univeristy in St. Louis before joining the University of Missouri - St. Louis. In 1998, he performed Hot Buttered Blackman for the ContemporaryArtists’ Series at the St. Louis Art Museum. In 2009, he created Ornamental Bodies forGallery 239 at Chadron State College, as wellas The Codex Project at the Contemporary Art Gallery at Florissant Valley Community College in Ferguson, Missouri. In 2010,Robinson participated in the 23rd Annual Nude show for the Kentucky Art League at Gallery 209 in Lexington, Kentucky. He also exhibited his artwork at the North FloridaCommunity College gallery in Madison,Florida in 2010.
List of Participating High Schools:
Affton High School, Brentwood High School, Central Visual & Performing Arts High School, Clayton High School, Cor Jesu Academy, De Smet Jesuit H.S., Incarnate Word Academy, John Burroughs School, Kirkwood High School, Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Lafayette High School, Liberty High School, Lindbergh High School, Mehlville High School, Metro Academic and Classical High School, MICDS, Nerinx Hall High School, Oakville High School, Parkway Central High, Parkway North High School, Parkway South High School, Parkway West High School, Pattonville High School, Principia School, Salem High School, St. John Vianney High School, St. Joseph's Academy, Thomas Jefferson School, Timberland High School, Villa Duchesne High School, Whitfield School
