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Thanks to the Missouri Arts Council for honoring the Delmar Loop with the Creative Community Award.
The unique arts organizations, specialty shops, galleries, music venues and multi-national restaurants along this sixblock street also thank you. It’s a pretty amazing area. There’s a little bit of everything for everyone – including great art. It’s wonderfully diverse and interesting because it has always embraced the arts. Not only have jobs been created and sustained, but the quality of life for those who live, work and visit The Loop has been enhanced.
Here are some examples of what you’ll find: Regional Arts Commission: the largest annual funder of the arts in the region has awarded more than 7,000 grants totaling over $100 million in support of hundreds of groups and individuals from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra to individual artists and neighborhood arts events. COCA, the remarkable Center of Creative Arts with its classes and performances in visual and performing arts from pre-school to adults. Craft Alliance, a non-profit art center offering contemporary craft exhibitions, classes and a gallery featuring the work of national and regional artists. St. Louis Artworks with its innovative training program, providing teens paid apprenticeships in the arts.
There are impactful outdoor public art pieces on display such as the Rain Man statue (with water falling on his umbrella in warm weather), the Delmar Loop Planet Walk of the Solar System, two statues by Dietrich Klinge courtesy of the Gateway Foundation, two installations by Washington University professor Carl Safe and his students, colorful, whimsical bicycle racks designed and welded by local artists, and sculptor Harry Weber’s historic “in-motion” eight-foot statue of Chuck Berry, the Father of Rock & Roll – a popular photo opportunity for visitors from around the world. Enjoy the art and architecture of the City Hall of University City that was built in 1903, Blueberry Hill’s famous pop culture displays, the Moonrise Hotel with the world’s largest man-made rotating moon on its Rooftop Bar and Restaurant, and the 1924 Tivoli Movie Theatre.
The Tivoli features art and foreign films as well as the St. Louis International Film Festival and the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.
The St. Louis Walk of Fame is a form of sidewalk art with stars and informative plaques that highlight 150 great St. Louisans who have influenced our culture on a national level. It’s an educational self-touring attraction open 24/7 all year. Read about and walk across the stars of John Goodman, Bob Costas, Ike and Tina Turner, Nelly, Betty Grable, Miles Davis, T.S. Eliot and Tennessee Williams. Many consider the Delmar Loop to be the live music center of St. Louis with Blueberry Hill’s 340-capacity Duck Room, the 800-capacity Delmar Hall and the 2,000+ capacity of The Pageant. Among artists who have performed: Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Ed Sheeran, John Legend, Sting, Pharrell, and Bonnie Raitt. For recorded music check out Vintage Vinyl Records, rated one of the top five record stores in the U.S. View the neon street-art signs of the Tivoli Theatre, Fitz’s Rootbeer, Blueberry Hill, The Pageant, the Loop Trolley, PinUp Bowl, and the Peacock Loop Diner, voted “Best New Sign in the World” in 2015. Stop in the art galleries that highlight Missouri artists, an independent book store, tattoo studios (yes, they are very artistically creative), and boutiques and shops that feature work by designers from Missouri and around the world. Lastly, this spring everyone will be able to ride the new 2.2-mile, fixed-track, electric, heritage trolley system and delight in what The Loop offers artistically. Even the century-old trolley car designs are stunning.
From restaurants and shopping to entertainment and the arts, riders can take in the magnitude of things to do along the route as they enjoy both the country’s “#1 City Park,” Forest Park, and “One of the 10 Great Streets in America,” the Delmar Loop. Everyone in The Loop thanks you for this great honor. Joe Edwards
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Joe Edwards with Sharon Beshore, Chair of Missouri Arts Council, and Robert Dixon, Director Missouri Department of Economic Development, State Capitol February seventh.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, April–May 2018.
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