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🏆 THE CHAMPIONS ARE BACK.

Eight Studio Showdown winners. One final competition. One champion of champions.

After a season of surprise prompts, 30-minute rounds, audience votes, and some seriously incredible art, we’re bringing the winners back for the Studio Showdown Championship Edition.

These are the artists who came out on top throughout the season, and now they’re going head-to-head one more time.

🎨 MEET THE CHAMPIONS:

Artist | Illustrator DORMIR 💤 Lauren Younge Thomas Guadalupe Sam Questy Celi Maxy Arts Jeremy UncleDubb Garnier

📍 Angad Arts Hotel
📅 Saturday, October 24th
⏰ 7–10 PM

The format stays the same: surprise prompts, live painting, audience voting, and you helping decide who moves on.

But this time, it’s the best of the best.

🏆 $500 grand prize
🖌️ The giant Studio Showdown paintbrush
🏨 An Angad Arts Hotel staycation
🎁 Plus giveaways for the audience throughout the night

Tickets are LIVE now at the link in our bio.

This is the Championship. You won’t want to miss it. 🎨🏆

🎥 Footage by Chris Bauer

🖼️ The artwork seen hanging in the background is part of the Angad Arts Hotel’s collection and is available for purchase at the hotel and through their website.

Introducing our next Studio Showdown contender: Stacey Luba 🎨🔥

Stacey’s creative journey started in the kitchen as a pastry chef, but after being diagnosed with lupus, she had to step away from that career. Over the past few months, she’s been pouring that same creative energy into making art.

She may not be formally trained, but as Stacey puts it, she’s “just a touched in the head creative person trying to make fun stuff.” And we’re excited to see exactly what that creativity looks like under the Studio Showdown clock.

On Friday, September 25th, Stacey will take on a surprise prompt at the Angad Arts Hotel with just 30 minutes to bring her idea to life.

Come watch Stacey compete live and remember, you decide who moves on.

📍 Angad Arts Hotel
📅 Friday, September 25th
⏰ 7–10 PM

🎟️ Tickets available now. Link in bio.

Introducing our next Studio Showdown contender: Karla Bess 🎨🔥

Karla is a whimsical artist who loves working with bright colors, intricate details, and storytelling. Her work is driven by emotion, with each piece designed to feel like it has a story waiting to be discovered.

She pours love, feeling, and imagination into her art, creating work with a sense of depth and personality that carries beyond the canvas.

On Friday, September 25th, Karla will bring that colorful storytelling style to Studio Showdown at the Angad Arts Hotel, with just 30 minutes to respond to a surprise prompt and bring her idea to life.

Come watch Karla compete live and remember, you decide who moves on.

📍 Angad Arts Hotel
📅 Friday, September 25th
⏰ 7–10 PM

🎟️ Tickets available now. Link in bio.

Introducing our next Studio Showdown contender: Thomas Guadalupe 🎨🔥

Thomas is a painter with a strong foundation in traditional academic techniques. After beginning as a self-taught artist, he went on to earn his M.A. from Fontbonne University in St. Louis and further developed his practice through the study of painting traditions spanning the 16th through 19th centuries.

Now, Thomas is expanding that foundation through stronger composition and storytelling, bringing a more narrative approach into his work.

On Friday, September 25th, Thomas will put that experience to the test at Studio Showdown at the Angad Arts Hotel, with just 30 minutes to respond to a surprise prompt and create something completely original.

Come watch Thomas compete live and remember, you decide who moves on.

📍 Angad Arts Hotel
📅 Friday, September 25th
⏰ 7–10 PM

🎟️ Tickets available now. Link in bio.

Introducing our next Studio Showdown contender: Joshua Steinbruegge 🎨🔥

Joshua is a St. Louis based multidisciplinary artist and founder of Joshisms Art Studio, where science, movement, imagination, and experimentation all collide.

With a background in environmental science and water chemistry, he approaches art with the curiosity of a scientist and the freedom to constantly experiment. His work spans painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture, graffiti influence, and psychedelic imagery, all guided by his philosophy of “Chemical Mind: Regulated Chaos.”

On Friday, September 25th, Joshua will bring that experimental mindset to Studio Showdown at the Angad Arts Hotel, with just 30 minutes to respond to a surprise prompt and create something completely original.

Come watch Joshua compete live and remember, you decide who moves on.

📍 Angad Arts Hotel
📅 Friday, September 25th
⏰ 7–10 PM

🎟️ Tickets available now. Link in bio.

Introducing our next Studio Showdown contender: Gale 🎨🔥

Gale is a St. Louis based interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores storytelling, sensory experience, growth, and transformation. With a background spanning painting, sculpture, illustration, and writing, Gale has also illustrated seven published children’s books.

On Friday, September 25th, Gale will bring that wide-ranging creative background to Studio Showdown at the Angad Arts Hotel, with just 30 minutes to respond to a surprise prompt and create something completely original.

Come watch Gale compete live and remember, you decide who moves on.

📍 Angad Arts Hotel
📅 Friday, September 25th
⏰ 7–10 PM

🎟️ Tickets available now. Link in bio.

Introducing our next Studio Showdown contender: SNDR 🎨🔥

SNDR is a multidisciplinary artist working across both digital and physical painting. Art has been a lifelong way of understanding both self and the world around them.

The name SNDR comes from “sonder,” the realization that everyone around you is living a life just as vivid and complex as your own. That idea sits at the center of their practice, especially through a love of abstracted portraiture.

On Friday, September 25th, SNDR will bring that perspective to Studio Showdown at the Angad Arts Hotel, where they’ll have just 30 minutes to respond to a surprise prompt and bring their vision to life.

Come watch SNDR compete live and remember, you decide who moves on.

📍 Angad Arts Hotel
📅 Friday, September 25th
⏰ 7–10 PM

🎟️ Tickets available now. Link in bio.

Introducing our next Studio Showdown contender: Imani Tyson 🎨🔥

A St. Louis native, Imani explores color through a range of subjects, most notably portraiture. They work across multiple mediums, but often find their home in oil pastels.

For Imani, art is a way to externalize an introspective nature and process the world around them through color, form, and expression.

On Friday, September 25th, Imani will bring that perspective to Studio Showdown at the Angad Arts Hotel, where they’ll have just 30 minutes to respond to a surprise prompt and bring their idea to life.

Come watch Imani compete live and remember, you decide who moves on.

📍 Angad Arts Hotel
📅 Friday, September 25th
⏰ 7–10 PM

🎟️ Tickets available now. Link in bio.

Introducing our next Studio Showdown contender: Michelle Ross 🎨🔥

Michelle is a St. Louis based multidisciplinary artist known for vibrant color, loose gestural marks, and spontaneity. With a bachelor’s degree in illustration from Columbus College of Art & Design and 22 years of freelance photography experience, she’s now returning to classical fine art painting through acrylics and oils.

On Friday, September 25th, Michelle will bring that mix of training, experience, and spontaneity to Studio Showdown at the Angad Arts Hotel, where she’ll have just 30 minutes to respond to a surprise prompt and bring her vision to life.

Come watch Michelle compete live and remember, you decide who moves on.

📍 Angad Arts Hotel
📅 Friday, September 25th
⏰ 7–10 PM

🎟️ Tickets available now. Link in bio.

✨ STUDIO SHOWDOWN IS TAKING OVER ANGAD ARTS HOTEL! 🎨🏨

On Friday, September 25th from 7–10 PM, eight artists will step up to the canvas for a night of live painting, surprise prompts, audience voting, and creative chaos, all inside one of the most art-filled spaces in St. Louis.

And this one is extra special. ✨

Every artist competing in Studio Showdown will have their application fee waived for Angad Arts Hotel’s next Biannual Exhibition, and our Studio Showdown Champion will win a FREE one-night staycation at Angad Arts Hotel! 🏆🛏️

Come watch blank canvases turn into works of art right in front of you, vote for your favorites, bid on the finished pieces, and help us crown the next Studio Showdown Champion.

Friday, September 25th | 7–10 PM
📍 Angad Arts Hotel
🎟️ Tickets in bio!

🎨 Featured paintings in the background from Angad Arts Hotel’s 14th Biannual Exhibition by:
Adam Zipprich
David Yates
morphdbymud (KaVan Ward)
Jane Steinhauer (Jane Steinhauer)
The Soulful Artist (Kenneth D. Randle)
Fine Art x Marquis Terrell (Marquis Terrell)
Lauren Darling
Zipporah Cunningham
Jess Boyer (Jess Boyer)
Amela Cikota (Amela Cikota)

🎨 Also featuring work from our last Studio Showdown artists:
Jeremy UncleDubb Garnier (Jeremy)
Mas (MAS)
(chrissyHepp)
Molly Budinger (Molly)
✨Angel✨ (Angel)
PacARTi (Romel / PacARTi)
ColorTripz (Janessa / ColorTripz)
Christine Lampe (Christine)

🎥 Video from our last Studio Showdown shot by Kevin de Miranda (Kevin de Miranda)