Jrt Photography & Art

03/12/2026

My son taking after his mother making a poster to protest children's right at schools to not have ICE agents outside. Proud mamma bear

11/13/2025

So sad it's so beautiful

We are saddened to share that the world lost a former member of the City Museum family, Sharon von Senden. You may not have known her name, but everyone who has walked through the doors of City Museum has been awestruck by Sharon's expansive tile mosaic work that crawls with sea creatures across the entrance and first floor, reptiles that climb up the columns of Lizard Lounge on the Mezzanine, and invites guests to explore other worlds outside the ArtQuarium on the second floor.

A self-taught master mosaicist, Sharon started her artistic career while redecorating Venice Cafe St. Louis in the Soulard neighborhood of south St. Louis. In 1997, just months before City Museum opened to the public, Bob Cassilly invited Sharon to use her mosaic skills to spruce up five plain concrete columns on the first floor. Bob and the crew, as well as the museum's earliest visitors, loved the results, and Sharon was asked to expand her mosaic murals as far as the space allowed. Sharon, along with her band of tile artists that included her daughter Amy, artist Laurie Marrs, and many others, created their sprawling works of art by following Bob’s chalk and marker sketches on the bare concrete, which still live on under the mosaics. Working together, they filled the first floor with a kaleidoscope of tile, mirror, and a myriad of other materials.

City Museum would not be the same without Sharon. Her talent, determination, and spirit will be missed.

09/11/2025

It's that time of year again I'm starting to do my Halloween build now this is just for me not commission but I'm working on a petting zoo spider tunnel for my circus and these are the creatures I'm creating I even added solar wire lights so that they will glow at night. Much more coming this is only the beginning.

09/11/2025

Working on some remade skeletons taking my old skeletons and other I have collected and turning them into something different with solar lights so that I do not have to turn them on and off

08/02/2025

My favorite person that I haven't met

04/04/2025

Getting everything packaged up ready for graduation

Check out Janean Wilson Thudium’s video.

04/04/2025

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Working on these for my son's graduation

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03/27/2025

Senior end of the year gifts for some special teachers

03/27/2025

My large hurricane base is finally ready to have roses added to it and for it to be presented at my son's final concert is senior year I'm not crying....

03/27/2025

As you can see I've been very busy the last few weeks preparing for end of the year senior graduation gifts

03/27/2025

I sealed this with a dishwasher safe sealant so it's got a foggy look but I like it

03/27/2025

Working on some graduation gifts