During the 2024–25 school year, students in CAM’s ArtReach Partnership program at Sumner and Vashon High Schools are exploring media and concepts related to the theme of confluence in weekly art classes. Using their different studio practices, Resident Teaching Artists Dee Levang, Adrienne Outlaw, and Rodrick Whetstone have each interpreted this theme differently with students.

ArtReach: Confluence presents a selection of artwork showing how students have worked in a “flow” state with various water-based media, experimented with the “confluence” of multiple disciplines coming together, and learned about the ways to repurpose the post-consumer plastic pollution from the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

ArtReach: Confluence

Student Dhalijah Jones on ArtReach at Sumner High School

Rodrick Whetstone on being a Resident Teaching Artist

Student Tony Kimble on ArtReach at Sumner

ArtReach: Confluence

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis