A PLACE WHERE CLAY MEETS COMMUNITY
What we shape with our hands—transforms our future.
South Broadway Art Project is the largest, most dynamic urban center for ceramic art in the St. Louis metropolitan area. We offer an amazing variety of programming that serves over 5,000 students every year. SBAP is a place where clay meets community where we believe teaching others how to enhance their own life and community through art can help make the world a better place.
MAKE-A-DONATION
Your donation helps provide affordable and free programming in pottery and design for kids, teens, and adults. Donations help us make necessary repairs to kilns and equipment as well as facility improvements which will enable us to continue to advance Community-Focused Open Workshop for EVERYONE.
EVERY $1 RAISED = 1 RAFFLE TICKET
We raised $7,000 at our annual FUNdraiser on April 12th 2026! Help us meet our goal of raising $10,000!
> Every $1 donated is worth 1 raffle ticket for this still life original donated by Sam Slone (pictured below)
> Every $1 spent buying Empty Bowls in our shop is worth 1 raffle ticket too!
> RAFFLE PULL: Once we hit our goal of $10,000 we will pull the WINNER of the raffle for this beautiful painting.
SAM SLOAN STILL LIFE | RAFFLE
SAM SLOAN ART
ABOUT THE ARTIST
I use still-life and landscape painting to both connect with and critique the world around me. My practice centers on such dualities: connection.critique, personal/political, intimate/global. In the studio, I start with slow looking. In a world where we spend just 8 seconds on average looking at images, I believe painting can be resistance—a slow, loving act of attention. While our culture treats attention like currency, I follow philosopher Simone Weil's definition: "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity." I use classical painting techniques to expose how old power structures still shape us. Through careful attention, I seek connection—with my immediate community, global neighbors, and the land beneath my feet. To learn more about Sam Sloan Art click HERE