A two-day free festival will bring some top street artists together in St. Louis — and create large-scale works both north and south of Delmar.The first-ever St.ART Street Art Festival will take place over the final weekend in September, commissioning artists, both local and national, to create pieces that invoke themes of truth and hope. The goal: to inspire a dialogue that bridges the city's deep racial and socioeconomic divide.
“Street art, on its own, really speaks a universal language,” says founder Michael Tompkins.
At the time of Michael Brown's shooting in August 2014, Tompkins was a fairly new resident to St. Louis, having recently moved to south city.…