The Church’s Neighbor
One of my favorite interviews from the Light Project – Janese has lived next door to the Spring Avenue Church for many years. She was remembers the congregation that used to call the church home and...
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Today, we’re sending the Light Project booklet to the printers. Like all of our exhibitions, our booklets always include installation photography – which means, that the design can’t begin until after...
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We’ve updated our Flickr pages today with some of the final photography for the Light Project. These images are the ones that will be featured in the upcoming (very soon!) print catalogue. We’ll be...
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Sorry in advance for today’s short post – I’ve been finishing up my guest blogging stint at Art:21 with not one – but TWO – exciting posts today. Click here to read all my posts from the last two...
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Art:21′s blog today featured part 2 of a post by Hrag Vartanian about Prospect.1, a city-wide biennial in New Orleans. Read the first part here, the second part here, with more to come tomorrow. These...
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81 artists, 39 countries, 23+ locations, 11 weeks, 1 city.
This is how the cover of the Prospect 1 map describes the city-wide exhibition on view in New Orleans. Only three years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina hit the city, the biennial aims to...
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Flashback
My coworker Elise was looking through old photos taken of the neighborhood during the construction of the Pulitzer building, and came across a photo of the Spring Avenue Church – roof intact! The...
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Outsourcing Art and Civic Engagement Lecturers
On Tuesday, Assistant Registrar Elise Hall and Community Engagement Manager Lisa Harper-Chang spoke to an Art and Civic Engagement class, at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. In addition to...
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The Light Project . . . MOBOT . . . Your backyard?
Seven months after the close of The Light Project, the solar energy system used for Spencer Finch’s installation Sunset (St. Louis, July 31, 2008) is on view once again! This time, the system is on...
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700 Hours at the Pulitzer: A Practicum Student Reflects
“It appears that cultural organizations, in comparison with other agencies, might be uniquely positioned to act as catalysts for community involvement and as agents for capacity building. Cultural...
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