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🧠 CHECK YOUR EMAIL. CHECK YOUR SMARTS. LET’S PARTY. 🎉
Smarty Party Trivia Night is coming to Crossroads on Saturday, February 6, 2027, and it’s time to start assembling your dream trivia team!
Gather your history buffs, pop culture experts, science whizzes, and favorite know-it-alls. You’re going to need them!
📅 Saturday, February 6, 2027
📍 Crossroads College Prep
🚪 Doors open at 6 PM | Trivia begins at 7 PM
Start brainstorming your team name, planning your brainiac-inspired outfits, and brushing up on your random facts. It’s going to be a night of trivia, friendly competition, dessert auctions, raffles, prizes, and plenty of fun for a great cause!
Ready to get in on the fun? Registration and sponsorship opportunities are available now!
🔗 Visit the link in our bio or head to crossroadscollegeprep.org/smarty-party/ for all the details.
Let’s see how smarty you party!
From internationally recognized artwork to a brand-new community fitness park, Basil Kincaid ’05 continues to find innovative ways to bring creativity, connection, and positive change into the world.
We’ve previously celebrated Basil for his incredible work as a multidisciplinary artist, particularly his large-scale textile installations and quilts exploring Black heritage, cultural memory, and identity. His work has earned recognition on an international stage, with exhibitions at prestigious institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Royal Academy in London. His work is also part of the permanent collection at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, where he is currently an artist-in-residence at The Momentary.
Now, Basil is bringing that same creativity and vision back to his hometown in a new way. He recently helped design and develop a free outdoor calisthenics park in South St. Louis, transforming an underused grassy lot into a welcoming space for fitness, recreation, and community connection. Working alongside the Melvin Theatre Community Center, the Regional Arts Commission, and playground designer KOMPAN, Basil helped bring this project to life, even contributing his own resources to make it happen.
For Basil, the project reflects the intersection of his artistic practice, personal wellness, and belief in the power of shared spaces. It’s also a wonderful example of how creativity can extend far beyond a traditional canvas or gallery.
We’re proud to see Basil continuing to make an impact in St. Louis and around the world!
Read more about Basil’s latest project in St. Louis Public Radio (https://www.stlpr.org/sports/2026-09-14/basil-kincaid-artist-fitness-park-dutchtown-gravois-park 🔗 in bio)
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What does it look like when students get to create their own joy? 🌈🌈
At Crossroads, it looks like students racing through hallways gathering supplies, transforming tables into immersive worlds, making dino nuggets and boba in the school kitchens, and figuring out how to bring their wildest ideas to life. It looks like middle schoolers learning from upperclassmen, high schoolers rediscovering the freedom of play, and an entire 6th–12th grade community dancing, laughing, and celebrating together.
That’s the magic of Double Rainbow, now in its 17th year. And it’s all by and for students.
Each grade takes ownership of its own corner of the festival, from planning decorations, food, and activities to solving the inevitable last-minute problems along the way. Teachers are there to guide and support, but the creativity, collaboration, and work belong to the students. They’re not simply participating in a celebration someone else created for them. They’re learning how to create one together.
This year’s celebration is captured through the lens of Treyton P. ’30 (pictured hard at work in the final image), whose photographs offer a student perspective on a tradition that is, at its heart, built by students themselves. We love seeing Double Rainbow through his eyes!
🏆 Most Creative: 8th Grade (Horror)
🏆 Judge’s Choice: 9th Grade (Fantasy)
🏆 Best in Show: 12th Grade (Romance)
Seventeen years in, Double Rainbow continues to remind us that community isn’t something built for us. It’s something we build for each other. 💛
What can fingerprints, blood evidence, and a collection of clues tell us about a crime? Our Middle School 5th Day Forensics students are finding out! 🔬
As part of Crossroads’ distinctive 5th Day program, students step beyond the traditional classroom to explore subjects in greater depth through hands-on, experiential learning. In this forensics course, students have been developing skills in fingerprint identification, blood analysis, evidence collection, and investigative reasoning.
Now, they’re bringing those skills together to investigate a mock case, evaluate evidence, form hypotheses, and work through the process of solving a mystery.
It’s an opportunity to put scientific concepts into practice while strengthening the critical thinking, collaboration, and problem-solving skills at the heart of our Middle School experience.
Why a potluck? Because what we bring to the table matters.
Co-Head of School and SMOOD Advisor Mark Norwood explores this idea through the work of Eboo Patel, who uses the potluck as a metaphor for the cultural fabric of the United States. Rather than melting into one homogenous group, we each bring our own histories, traditions, and identities to the table. We remain distinctly ourselves while making room to experience and learn from one another. 🍂
That’s the idea behind Many Cultures, One Table. This November, we’re inviting Crossroads students and their immediate families to share a dish that tells a story about their family, background, or personal history. Mark shares a few dishes that are part of his own family’s story, and he can’t wait to hear (and taste!) the stories everyone else brings.
As those stories come together, they weave the beautiful garment of mutuality that makes up Crossroads. 🧶
Current families: We hope you’ll join us Saturday, November 7, from 5:30–7:30 p.m.! Please RSVP by Wednesday, November 4, using the link in your email (also shared in this week’s NWAC).
Thank you to Marketing Intern Madi C. ’28 for capturing this conversation!
Many cultures, one table. 🍁
SMOOD (our new Smart & Good Student Group) and the Crossroads Family Organization (CFO) are teaming up to bring Crossroads students and their immediate families together for a family potluck centered on sharing food, stories, and culture. It’s an evening to share a little piece of what makes each of our families unique.
Join us Saturday, November 7, from 5:30–7:30 p.m. Bring one dish that’s meaningful to your family and share a bit of your culture with the Crossroads community. We’ll take care of the drinks and dessert!
Current families: Please RSVP by Wednesday, November 4, using the link in your email. You can find it in this week’s Next Week at Crossroads (NWAC) and in the additional potluck email sent Thursday.
A special thank-you to Marketing Intern Madi C. ’28 for creating this video!
We’ll see you around the table!
Art, experimentation, and a little room to play 🎨✨
Lillian Stephen ’13 is exploring new possibilities in printmaking with A Hum Beneath the Surface, her first solo exhibition at the Kranzberg Gallery. Inspired by midcentury design, architecture, and textiles, Lillian transforms geometric shapes, vibrant colors, and unexpected textures into prints that feel both playful and intricate. Her latest work pushes her practice in new directions, embracing experimentation and the freedom to discover what’s possible.
After earning her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Lillian returned to St. Louis to build her creative practice, including launching LCQKS, a textile design studio specializing in hand-printed fabrics.
We invite the Crossroads community to experience Lillian’s work firsthand! A Hum Beneath the Surface is on view at the Kranzberg Gallery through November 8. The gallery is open Saturdays and by appointment. Go see it for yourself!
Our doors are opening tonight, and our Crossroads community is ready to welcome you! 💙💛 Swipe through photos from last year’s Open House for a glimpse of the people, conversations, and connections that make this evening so special.
Our students, faculty, staff, and parents can’t wait to meet our next group of prospective Crossroadians!
While our demo classes are now full, there’s still plenty to experience. Even if you haven’t RSVP’d, you’re welcome to stop by to explore our building, visit interest tables, and hear directly from our student, parent, and teacher panel.
⚡ Fall Open House | TONIGHT
📅 Tuesday, October 27 | 5:30–7:30 PM
Come curious, leave inspired, and get a look into life at Crossroads. We can’t wait to meet you!
