Who We Are
Our Team
Pacia Elaine Anderson
Co- Director, Programs + Community Building
she/herMs. Anderson is the 4th Poet Laureate of St. Louis. She collaborates as a poet, visual and teaching artist, creative consultant, arts administrator, and community engagement coordinator, both locally and nationally. She is the STL City Regional Coordinator of Poetry Out Loud, and the Poet-In-Residence at the Intersect Art Center. In 2020 she was named Community Impact Artist by the St. Louis Visionary awards, and currently serves on the boards of The Saint Louis Poetry Center and St. Louis Art Place, an artist housing initiative.
Pacia completed the Community Arts Training program in 2014.
Co-Director, Organizational Development
she/herJenny Murphy
A St. Louis-based community artist and organizer, Murphy founded the St. Louis creative reuse organization Perennial in 2011 and is currently an owner at Garrity Tools, where she helped transition the company to a worker-owned cooperative in 2022. Her artistic practice spans design, installation, sculpture, community arts, and teaching, often focusing on solidarity economies, mutual aid, and cooperation.
Jenny completed the Community Arts Training program in 2012.
Our Founding Board
Kathryn Bentley, Vice President
Shelly Goebl-Parker, President
Sue Greenberg , Treasurer
Executive Director Emeritus
St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts
