This exhibit is free and open to the public.

In May 2025, a devastating tornado tore through North St. Louis, damaging homes, neighborhoods, and landmarks across the city. In the days that followed, Heartland Art Club founding member Sandy Haynes began documenting what remained—not with a camera alone, but through paint.

Forgotten: North St. Louis Homes One Year Later brings together approximately fourteen works from Haynes’ ongoing series inspired by the tornado and its aftermath. Her paintings depict damaged and partially destroyed homes with an artist’s sensitivity to architecture, place, light, and memory. Buildings that might otherwise be seen only as evidence of destruction become portraits of the lives and communities they once sheltered.

A longtime painter and educator, Haynes has spent decades creating portraits, landscapes, florals, and architectural subjects. In this deeply personal body of work, she turns her attention to a city changed by disaster, preserving a visual record of places that may eventually be repaired, transformed, or lost altogether.

The exhibition follows recent recognition of Haynes and the series in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and offers visitors an opportunity to experience this important body of work together at Heartland Art Club.