WORK/PLAY

Check out our updated, beautifully designed website: w-o-r-k-p-l-a-y.com

STL Small Press Expo 2017 -- looking forward to making it this year and not being in labor!! October 14 @ St Louis Central Library.

Collaborator Spotlight with Pulitzer Arts Foundation

Artists Danielle and Kevin McCoy— a St. Louis-based couple known together as WORK/PLAY—use illustration, minimal design, and experimental printmaking practices to spark dialogue and inspire audiences. For the inaugural season of the 100 Boots Poetry Series, WORK/PLAY was invited to create limited-edition broadsides to commemorate this new collaboration and continue the rich tradition practiced at the former fort gondo poetry series of producing prints of selected poems by each visiting writer. Seeking inspiration from Medardo Rosso: Experiments in Light and Form currently on view, WORK/PLAY closely examined the textures and colors of Medardo Rosso’s sculptures, as well as the layered experimentation in the artist’s photography. The resulting prints, a visual artwork of text authored by each of the six poets in the 100 Boots series, are available for free at each reading where visitors may have their broadsides autographed by the featured poets. Check out these broadsides at the next 100 Boots reading this Friday, March 3, at 7pm, with poets Rae Armantrout and Evie Shockley.

WORK/PLAY’s current body of work investigates predisposed stereotypes and narratives pertaining to the African diaspora often propagated by media. Working together over the last decade, the duo has led numerous print-making workshops, developed public murals, and participated in group exhibitions at the Mark Miller Gallery in New York, The Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis, the O Cinema Wynwood in Miami, and several other galleries in the St. Louis metropolitan area.

"Elephant in the Room", 2017. Silk-screen on faux velvet. 1 of 3 banners.
Works from ENCODED. Exhibition up until February 23 // Mon-Thurs 10a-2p

New work coming soon...stay tuned

And we're off! A small run of zines now being offered at Printed Matter.

working on grant proposals........

compost can be such a beautiful thing. made some natural dyes while at . Also digested some amazing food made with love.
we also went foraging one hot, sweaty day and took my finds to make a floral bundle.

ACRE Residency 2016

Finally posted some images of our work on the website. It's been a long time coming, but life has briefly slowed down...for only 2 more weeks