Citygarden is a unique urban oasis where visitors can connect with art, design, plants, and trees. The audio tours were designed to enhance the connection between visitors and the garden's 24 sculptures-as well as the artists behind them-though funny, interesting, and surprising narratives.

In several cases, those stories were gathered from the sculptors themselves, as interviews were conducted with Donald Baechler (Scarecrow), Laura Ford (Bird), Tom Otterness (Kindly Gepetto), Mimmo Paladino (Zenit), Bernar Venet (2 Arcs x 4, 230.5 Degree Arc x 5), and Jack Youngerman (Samarkand). Audio from the interviews was then integrated into the narrative.

Once the tours were scripted, the next step was to recruit notable St. Louisans as narrators. Mayor Francis Slay sent a letter encouraging participation in the project, and national figures and local luminaries alike responded enthusiastically. Recording sessions with the narrators, who identify themselves at the end of each tour segment, followed.

Audio tour narrators:

John Ashcroft, former U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Senator, and governor of Missouri
Erin Bode, jazz vocalist
Christine Brewer, American soprano opera singer
Joe Buck, sportscaster
Jean Carnahan, former U.S. Senator from Missouri
Carmon Colangelo, Dean, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University
Maxine Clark, founder, chair, and CEO of Build-A-Bear Workshop
Jeremy Davenport, jazz trumpeter and singer
Gerald Early, Director of the Center for Humanities, Washington University
Michael Eastman, photographer
Joe Edwards, civic leader and owner of Blueberry Hill
Jenna Fischer, star of "The Office"
William Gass, novelist, essayist, and critic
George Hickenlooper, filmmaker
Ron Himes, founder and producing director of the St. Louis Black Rep
Jackie Joyner-Kersee, three-time Olympic Gold Medalist
Nancy Kranzberg, art patron and radio host
Kim Massie, blues diva
Randy and Jason Sklar, comedians
Torhi Harper (aka Murphy Lee), rapper
David Robertson, Music Director, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Lance Robertson (aka DJ Lance Rock), star of children's TV show "Yo Gabba Gabba"
Rocio Romero, architectural designer
Francis Slay, Mayor of St. Louis
Ozzie Smith, Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Mary Sprague, artist
Rabbi Susan Talve, founding rabbi, Central Reform Congregation
Sally Van Doren, Walt Whitman Award winning poet
Kurt Warner, former St. Louis Rams quarterback and NFL MVP