Part of the LIVING PROPOSAL – PRUITT-IGOE BEE SANCTUARY exhibition at Laumeier Sculpture Park was a roundtable discussion on Pruitt-Igoe and North St. Louis community base projects.Roundtable panelist – Juan William Chavez, Michael Allen and Sylvester Brown, Jr.
Part of the LIVING PROPOSAL – PRUITT-IGOE BEE SANCTUARY exhibition at Laumeier Sculpture Park was a roundtable discussion on Pruitt-Igoe and North St. Louis community base projects.Roundtable panelist – Juan William Chavez, Michael Allen and Sylvester Brown, Jr.
Part of the LIVING PROPOSAL – PRUITT-IGOE BEE SANCTUARY exhibition at Laumeier Sculpture Park was a roundtable discussion on Pruitt-Igoe and North St. Louis community base projects.
Roundtable panelist - Juan William Chavez, Michael Allen and Sylvester Brown, Jr.
Sylvester Brown, Jr talks about the Sweet Potato…
When did the buildings come down?
The St. Louis Housing Authority demolished three buildings in 1972; these were demolished through explosive blasts. The remaining 30 buildings came down in 1976 and 1977; these were demolished by wrecking ball.…
Living Proposal is a Pilot Project of the Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary, where we took the proposal off the page and implemented it in Old North St. Louis. The pilot consists workshops that focused on addressing vacancy through beekeeping, gardening and the arts. This program was
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Luxembourg Conversation from Juan William Chavez on Vimeo.
An interview at the Luxembourg Gardens with a French teacher who taught in the Saint Louis Public School system for two-years. The film touches upon issues of…
Inspired by education and public space we took the proposal off the page and developed a pilot project and created a
bee sanctuary and an urban garden on a vacant lot in Old North St. Louis. This pilot project required…
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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