St. Louis, MO – Artist, LA Marler (Louise Anne Marler) announces a novel cultural arts gallery to the Cherokee Street community. This pop-up, typewriter antiques and contemporary art gallery will open on Second Saturday, October 9th, 2021, 11 am to 5 pm.
Hosting multi-disciplinary activities during the opening will demonstrate some of the upcoming schedule of fun typewriter-specific and literary oriented workshops. These activities integrate the significant historical, sociological, and educational evolution of the typewriter within this fine art gallery environment.
The TypOsphere StL is located near the southeast corner of Jefferson on Cherokee Streets where renown antique row meets the emerging Midwest art district. We feel the community that embraces up-cycling, history, education, creativity, and analog style is the ideal location for this unique concept gallery – an immersive experience. Admission is free & fun for all ages.
Marler brings an additional relevance to local history with her family story. Three generations of St. Louis typewriter repair and salespeople who collected most of the machines here. This significant story is memorialized by the inclusion in Smithsonian Museum of American History..
And now, can be experienced anew.
This cultural art center is designed to restore our nostalgic writing and typing, of poems, songs, letters, and cards, then mailing and receiving, as central in our culture.
The TypOsphere StL brings together people across the Midwest region as a unique destination that encourages typing for pleasure, expression, and enlightenment.
The event is designed to benefit the city as well as attract sponsors and partners. We are seeking partnerships including technology as a sort of throwback, digital detox room, writing organizations, libraries, etc. We would also like to partner with a non-profit that shares, promotes and sustains this mission.
Features of this event include:
- Tom Hanks’ autographed typewriter from his famous collection he donated recently. (Auction forthcoming)
- Evangeline Whitlock, Professor at Webster University discusses the recent StoryCorp recording of Typewriters Friends in the Pandemic and her 25 machine donations to this mini museum
- Ron Thurber, SLU Graduate student discusses how he scientifically researched and cataloged the collection
- Lisa Simani discusses the value of collecting inspiring art to have in your home and workspace. Bling your Zoom!
- Reginald Quarles at Teatopia is a neighboring business who will sponsor Tea & Typing monthly
- Rock Harris, a local collector and IT professional, will discuss technology now & then. He will also host monthly meetings for the St. Louis Typers’ Union meetups here.
- Nationally shown, by local native, contemporary typewriter art exhibit
- BYOT – bring your own typewriter – to show and tell your typewriter story
- WORD selfie-wall – post, tag, check-in & enter to WIN
- Typing stations -Type a letter and mail it. Supplies available: paper, envelopes, inky ribbons, postage stamps
Title: TypOsphere StL Opening on Cherokee Street
Location: LA Marler Gallery, 2308 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO 63118
(At the intersection of antique row and the Midwest art edge)
Date: October 9, 2021
Time: 11 am – 5 pm
Admission: Free and open to the public with masks. Fun for all ages with masks.
(If you do not feel well, please respect yourself and others by staying home.)
The TypOsphere StL is the latest project by Louise Marler. Other recent projects and ac- complishments include:
- Included April 2021 in NBC interview for a mental health article, “Why are we nostalgic?”
- Featured in Crisp Museum at SEMO permanent art collection and solo exhibit October-November 2021
- NEA Grant recipient through Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Dept.
- Documentary film interview, “Typewriters in the 21st Century”
- Smithsonian Museum of American History
- Founder of The Type Inns experiential concept vacation rentals
More about the artist and curator:
LA Marler (Louise Anne Marler) is an American Photo Artist, whose digital photography features vintage ma- chines, including her “Famous TypOwriters” and“camERA Art” (cameras) collections. Louise is a third generation typewriter collector, who has art studios in the Santa Monica Airport former mechanic hanger as well as Cherokee Street in St. Louis City.
Marler creates mixed-media images from original photography, graphics and illustrations, fine digital printing and painting and other techniques.
Louise Marler has a solo exhibit opening October 1st and showing through mid-November 2021 at Rosemary Berkel and Harry L. Crisp II Museum on the Southeast Missouri State University’s River Campus.
LA Marler donates a portion of her proceeds off the Famous Typewriter works to the Jim Murray Memorial Foundation (which nationally provides journalism scholarships for college students). LA Marler’s work has appeared in 13 primetime TV shows (“Two and a Half Men,” HBO’s “The Newsroom,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Mentalist,” “Criminal Minds,” “Rules of Engage- ment” and more) and 3 films, including “The Typewriter in the 21st Century” with a LA Marler interview. Her media coverage includes “The LA Times,” “LA Weekly,” and “Riverfront Times, “KSDK and NBCLX.”
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Media Contact: Lisa Simani Public Relations (314) 614-7334 lisasimani@gmail.com
