Art Exhibits
Enjoy art inspired by both nature and the human experience of life in the world at The Green Center. Exhibits are free and open to the public throughout the year. Proceeds of art exhibit sales support The Green Center's youth arts programs.
Contact us if you have nature inspired artwork that you would like to display at The Green Center!
Contact us if you have nature inspired artwork that you would like to display at The Green Center!
Current Exhibit: "Sprung" by Nancy Thias
Opening Reception: March 22, 2023
Exhibit Dates: March 22, 2023- April 28, 2023
Artist Intentions:
I become part of the landscape and the surroundings to capture the unique characteristics of nature on canvas and paper. Painting modern murals and botanicals. Study textile botanical nature for my textile innovations and fiber blends. Create bouquets and study flowers for painting and sketching.
Artist Background:
Nancy Thias was taught how to paint at an early age by her father, Edward Thias, and architect and artist. She studied "Fashion and Textiles" at Mizzou and became a textile designer at Macy's. She founded her own brand Paper Petals in 2001.
Nancy has an interest and studies textile fibers and is working on textile innovations and blends. Her designs and art have been in stores and at events nationwide.
She is currently working on designing her website paperpetals.com for 2023 art and design releases.
Past Art Exhibits
- Webster Groves Nature Study Society Photo Competition, 2015
- 20 Years Celebrating Nature & the Environment through Photography, 2015
- An Enchanted World- Just Add Watercolor: Cocoa, Coffee, Sunflowers and Butterflies by Dina Fachin, 2016
- "A Peek Inside the Artist's Sketchbook" by Hilarie Hunt, 2016
- "In the Garden" by Terri Shay, 2017
- Portraits of Courage, Phyllis MacLaren, 2017
- Vermilion in Tooth and Claw, Winners of the Webster Groves Nature Study Society Natural History Photography Contest, 2017
- "The World, Two Wheels & A Sketchbook" by Sophie Binder, 2017
- "Birds" by Jeff Kapfer, 2018
- "A Journey In Abstraction" by Jane Miles, 2018
- Artwork by Jeffrey Sippel, 2018
- "Flowers for the Garden" by Amber Donlan, 2019
- UCity In Bloom Plein Air Contest Winners-Various artists and students from the School District of University City, 2019
- "Patty Sheppard Ceramics" by Patty M Sheppard, 2021
- "Pen and Ink" by Gary Gackstatter, 2022
- "Native Flora & Fauna of the Midwest in Watercolor" By Catherine Hu, 2022