- What is Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary?
About & Contact
This creative placemaking initiative aims to transform the urban forest where the Pruitt-Igoe housing development once stood into a public space that preserves the remaining 33 acres of green space and cultivates community through beekeeping and urban agriculture.Read more
Public Proposal: video
Transform the urban forest where Pruitt-Igoe housing development once stood into a public space that cultivates community through education and urban agriculture.Read more
Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary Pilot Project
Students learn about bees, the environment and the benefits of urban gardening by planting seeds, harvesting produce. preparing healthy meals and making art.Read more
Roundtable Discussion
Pruitt-Igoe, Urban Issues and Creative Renewal. Panelist: Juan William Chavez, Michael Allen and Sylvester Brown, Jr.Read more
News & Press
Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary have received awards and grants from Creative Capital, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Graham Foundation and Art MattersRead more
Living Proposal Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary
Laumeier Sculpture Park Kranzberg Exhibition Series October 27, 2012 - January 20, 2013Read more
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Community as a Superorganism
Video by Timothy Nordmann from Nordmann Video.
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… -
Living Proposal: Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary Pilot Project
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: Pre-Existing Model of Bees in Public Space
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…
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The Living Proposal: Bee Sanctuary and an Urban Garden.
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… -
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PRUITT-IGOE ART
By Kelly Shindler, Bad At Sports -
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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