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The Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary Intends to Encourage a Public Dialogue About the Creative Uses and Possibilities of Urban Abandonment by Confronting History.Read more
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About
On March 16, 1972, at approximately 3:00PM, a series of small explosions flashed inside an 11-story high-rise in North St. Louis. Only 16 years old this complex was the first of 33 buildings to be demolished by the federal government. Over the next four years the remaining 32 buildings were destroyed leaving behind a massive empty lot.
39 years later this vacant lot has slowly transformed into an impressive urban forest camouflaging the history of one of the worst failures of public housing in American history.
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Pruitt Igoe Bee Sanctuary: Hot of the PRESS
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Walking St. Louis with artists — and making back-home comparisons
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Idle Shatters
The snow globe that provides the cinematic link to Charles Foster Kane’s halcyon days crashes to the floor after he whispers his one final word (and subsequent trivia-card answer). Ornamentally staged, it is a textbook example of all that…
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PRUITT-IGOE BEE SANCTUARY @ Los Caminos
I was invited by Los Caminos’ directors, Cole Root and Francesca Wilmott to presentPRUITT-IGOE BEE SANCTUARY: CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION
July 23 – August 13, 2011 This exhibition featured a film and photographs related to my recent explorations.…
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Art Matters Grant Part 2: a historic model of urban apiculture.
A International research trip to Spain and France that exploring the partnership between humans and bees and urban apiculture was made possible through the Art Matters Foundation.
The Second stop was at the oldest Beekeeping School in the world, le Rucher-Ecole
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Art Matters Grant Part 1: exploring the partnership between humans and bees.
A International research trip to Spain and France that exploring the partnership between humans and bees was made possible through the Art Matters Foundation.
Our first stop was to visit the “Man of Bicorp” an 8,000-year-old cave drawing in Bicorp, Spain…
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[Open/Closed] Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary presentation
[Open/Closed] Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary presentation by Juan William Chavez from nextSTL on Vimeo.
I was invited by R.J. Koscielniak and NextSTL to give a presentation on the Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary project.
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Public Proposal: An Urban Farm
Launched in 2010, the Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary is a proposal for the City of St Louis to transform the urban forest where Pruitt-Igoe housing development once stood into a public space that cultivates community through urban agriculture. Drawing…
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Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary: Film
This 8mm film explores the land where the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects once stood in St. Louis, Missouri. After the demolition of all 33 buildings that comprised Pruitt-Igoe the remaining empty lot of several acres over time has naturally transformed into an overgrown urban forest.
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Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary: Documentation
Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary Photographs: explores the land where the Pruitt-Igoe housing project once stood in St. Louis, Missouri. After the demolition of all 33 buildings that comprised Pruitt-Igoe, the remaining empty lot of several acres naturally transformed into…
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