“sticky” does not display in slider area

I have WordPress 4.7.3 running Highriser theme. I have read the documentation and cannot for the life of me get the sliders to display. Ive created 6 posts and made the “sticky”. I have a static page website. I have tried making it a blog post and still nothing displays.

The demo has big beautiful slides showing, but I cant get mine to show at all. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Its a beautiful theme.