Emil Frei Studio talk tonight on Zoom webinar! (Tues. 11.16.2021 @ 6:30 pm)

Posted by Andrew R November 16, 2021

Emil Frei Studio talk tonight on Zoom webinar! (Tues. 11.16.2021 @ 6:30 pm)

Friends,

If you’re at all interested in 20th Century religious architecture and exceptional stained glass design, you must make time for this evening’s talk by Aaron Frei, President of the Emil Frei Studio (https://www.emilfrei.com/).

He will be giving a Zoom webinar today at 6:30 pm Central Time in our “Architecture Around the World” series sponsored by the Steedman Architectural Library of the St. Louis Public Library. Please join us at the link below!

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You are invited to a Zoom webinar.

When: Nov 16, 2021 06:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Topic: SAH-St. Louis Chapter/Steedman Architectural Library- Aaron Frei - The Art and History of Stained Glass

Please click the link below to join the webinar:

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/96558484610

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Webinar ID: 965 5848 4610

International numbers available: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/ko4khBEQJ

If you have any last minute questions, we will be monitoring this email to address last minute issues: finearts@slpl.org.

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I’m sharing photographs from two modest sized churches they worked on back in the 1930s. One was designed by the firm Eames & Walsh (yes, Charles Eames when he practiced architecture in St. Louis) for St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Paragould, Arkansas in 1935-36. Emil Frei worked to create impressive stained glass following a modernist compositional approach in most of the church.

The other church by Nagel & Dunn is St. Mark’s Episcopal church of 1939 here in St. Louis which is magnificent in every way. The stained glass designed by Robert Harmon and produced by Emil Frei is one of the masterpieces of socially conscious religious art in St. Louis, perhaps in the country. This talk will motivate you to go back to visit St. Mark’s and see it again with fresh eyes. If you’ve never seen it in person before, then you are in for a feast for the eyes and the soul.