The Sheldon Art Galleries presented a free gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibit, Wm. Stage: Photographs and Assemblages.

William Stage speaks on his photographic adventures.

This exhibition presents an overview of photographs from the career of journalist, author and photographer William Stage, who has focused much of his attention on the American Midwest. Featured are portraits of workaday and well-known St. Louisans along with internationally-recognized artists seen in Pictures Of People (2006); images from Stage’s long-time endeavor, the documentation of rapidly-disappearing vintage brick wall signs in cities and rural towns; and a group of landscapes made in small town Metro East Illinois. A collection of Stage’s assemblages, whimsical and/or droll dioramas, is also on display.
Stage was a columnist and feature writer for The Riverfront Times from 1982-2004 and a columnist for The St. Charles County Business Record/ The Daily Record for ten years after that. He taught Photojournalism at Saint Louis University’s School For
Professional Studies and has been a guest commentator of KWMU- St. Louis Public Radio. His books include Not Waving, Drowning: Stories, 2012; The Painted Ad: A Postcard Book Of Vintage Brick Wall Signs (2011, with Margaret Stage); Fool for Life (2009); Have A Weird Day: Reflections and Ruminations on the St. Louis Experience
(2003); and the true crime work Litchfield: A Strange & Twisted Saga of Murder in the Midwest (1998).

Part of the American Arts Experience – St. Louis