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Creating meaningful engagement with the most innovative art being made today. The Contemporary Art Museum St.
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Louis works to enrich lives and inspire curiosity, creativity, and learning through experiences with contemporary art. Focused on a dynamic array of changing exhibitions, the Museum reflects and contributes to the global cultural landscape while engaging thousands of visitors through a wide array of public programs. CAM nurtures the creative minds of ourcity’s youth through free, in-depth art educ

ation, making a long-lasting impact on the community. We are a site for discovery, a welcoming space, free and open to all.

06/03/2026

We’re excited to announce the lineup for our fall/winter 2026 exhibitions ✨

→ Ayana Evans: Nobody’s Gonna Love You the Way I Do
→ Great Rivers Biennial 2026: Vaughn Terrell Davis Jr., Lauren dela Roche, Vincent Stemmler
→ Tony Cokes, presented as part of Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time
→ Juanita McNeely, presented as part of Counterpublic 2026: Coyote Time
→ ArtReach: Near Futures

Mark your calendars! The exhibitions will open at CAM on Thursday, September 10 and remain on view through February 7, 2027. Learn more: camstl.org/exhibitions

06/02/2026

Join us on Saturday, June 13 for “Behind this Mask: Celebrating Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore,” a program that brings together contemporary creatives who, like Cahun and Moore, use innovative language, visual art, and personal expression to explore self-presentation.

Beginning at 2 pm, hear from:
🎭 Actor, writer, director, and singer John Cameron Mitchell as he shares his interest in Cahun and Moore and reads excerpts from his forthcoming play, “LSM,” inspired by the artists’ lives
📖 Writer Elizabeth Hoover, who will read a poem and excerpts of new works that address Cahun and Moore’s lives
🗣️ Writer and art historian Jennifer Shaw, who will be joined in conversation by the co-organizers of “And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth,” Dean Daderko and Svetlana Kitto, along with Hoover and Mitchell

🔗 Register now: camstl.org/behind-this-mask

05/22/2026

🪄 Celebrate Pride month with Faeded 🪄

This high-fantasy art, music, and costume party unfolds across CAM and on Friday, June 5, creating an exploratory space for femmes, Qu**rs, people of color, and those who love them!

Catch a DJ set by at the Pulitzer at 5 pm, then head to CAM for drinks and the Fairy Art Bazaar. DJ spins at CAM from 6–8 pm, followed by the premiere of “Faeded: The Opera,” a psychedelic fantasy written and produced by featuring drag, vogue, and local musical stars. Take advantage of free HIV and STI testing throughout the event by .

This program is free and open to the public. Complimentary light bites and drinks will be available for purchase. We can’t wait to see you!

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05/19/2026

🍴Feast Your Eyes returns on July 21! Acclaimed chef of .stl and .stl will serve a special three-course dinner with refined yet approachable dishes inspired by the exhibitions on view at CAM.

Tickets are on sale now and are priced at $150 for non-members; $125 for CAM members. Space is limited.

✨ CAM Members, check your email for the link to purchase tickets and the discount code to receive $25 off the ticket price.

05/13/2026

📣 St. Louis artists, don’t forget: applications for our two current opportunities close May 17!

Resident Teaching Artists (RTAs) lead our ArtReach in-school programs and teen studio programs at the Museum—LEAP Middle School Initiative and New Art in the Neighborhood. RTAs meet regularly for skill sharing and professional development, and help organize exhibitions of student work twice a year.

Through the Teen Museum Studies (TMS) program, a St. Louis-based artist collaborates with a cohort of high school students to organize an exhibition in CAM’s Education Galleries in spring 2027. Students gain hands-on experience in museum careers, collaboration, and critical thinking—and you get to help shape that.

Learn more and apply: camstl.org/st-louis-artists

04/27/2026

🌷 Join us this week for First Friday: Spring Social 🌷

Kick off the weekend in the ! Cocktail hour starts in CAM’s courtyard at 5 pm on Friday. Enjoy a walk down Washington Boulevard to explore other arts organizations, then head back to CAM for Artwork and Arias, an opera performance presented in partnership with at 8 pm. This musical program, curated by OTSL Gerdine Young Artist Ashlyn Brown, explores ways that art can act as a force of resistance against challenging times and oppressive ideologies.

Head to our website to learn more and register. See you Friday!

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04/23/2026

✨ What an incredible night! We are so grateful for the bright burst of support at Spark, our 2026 gala. The many generous sponsors, patrons, donors, paddle raisers, and attendees helped raise over 🌟$415,000🌟 for CAM ensuring that access to art remains free for all! Every shining point of light in CAM’s universe showed up and our sky is so much brighter for it.

A special thank you to our gala chairs, honorary chairs, and gala committee who helped make this extraordinary night such a success. This night commemorated the ways art serves as a beacon of creativity, imagination, and possibility across the St. Louis region—it truly ignited a spark that will glow for years to come. Thank you! ✨

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04/22/2026

“What can writing and artmaking do in the face of structural violence? Quite a bit, it seems, as this collaboration between the museum’s chief curator, Dean Daderko, and writer and oral historian Svetlana Kitto reveals. In Daderko and Kitto’s hands, the show centres not just the artistic and romantic partnership between Cahun and Moore – including photos of their shared life in Paris and Jersey alongside photo-collages they made together – but also their anti-fascist activism in Jersey during the island’s N**i occupation.”

Thank you to Annette LePique and for writing this thoughtful review—Cahun and Moore’s story is as inspiring as ever, and we’re honored to bring it to new audiences. Their brave, boundary-defying partnership still resonates and has so much more left to tell.

→ Head to our link in bio to read the full review.

“And I Saw New Heavens and a New Earth: The Partnership, Art, and Activism of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore” is on view through August 9.

04/19/2026

We are so delighted to see the extraordinary Emily Rauh Pulitzer celebrated in .

Emmy has been a champion for arts organizations in St. Louis for decades and CAM would simply not be what it is today without her vision, generosity, and commitment. What made this profile so special wasn’t just the facts of a remarkable life and career, but the chance to hear her voice. Her sharp wit and warmth. To understand her not only as a curator, collector, and patron, but as a person.

That is a rare and wonderful thing.

Congratulations to Emmy, and thank you for sharing so much of yourself with all of us. What a treat!

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Thursday	10am - 5pm
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