"From 1968 to 1972, St. Louis was home to the Black Artists' Group (BAG), a seminal arts collective that nurtured African American experiementalists working in theater, visual arts, dance, poetry, and jazz. In an abandoned warehouse in the city's central core, a generation of innovative artists created a movement of intense and vibrant cultural life. Working to raise Black consciousness and explore the far reaches of interdisciplinary performance, members established a local arts academy for area youths, navigated a relentless calendar of original multi-media productions, and articulated an uncomprosmising social agenda.

"As debates over civil rights, nationalism, and the role of the arts in contemporary struggles all found form in BAG, the organization quickly became one of the Midwest's most significant exemplars of the emergent Black Arts Movement of the 1960's."

from "BAG - Point From Which Creation Begins - The Black Artists' Group of St. Louis" by Benjamin Looker(Missouri Historical Society Press, 2004, St. Louis)