Pruitt-Igoe: Sound of the Forest

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 Project.  The mission of the Sweet Potato Project is to create a North St. Louis program that offers educational and money-making opportunities for “at risk” urban youth. The expanded goal of the project is to bring vibrant economic activity back to long-neglected urban areas by creating alternative and progressive ways to create and distribute products that are grown and created within these disadvantaged communities.


Roundtable Discussion Part 3-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.

Michael Allen talks about the Pruitt-Igoe Now Competition. Pruitt-Igoe Now was a competition that sought the ideas of the creative community worldwide: we invited individuals and teams of professional, academic, and student architects, landscape architects, designers, writers and artists of every discipline to re-imagine the 57 acres on which St. Louis' Pruitt Igoe housing project was once located.

Roundtable Discussion Part 2-Michael Allen

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.

Roundtable Discussion Part 1- Pruitt-Igoe, urban issues and creative renewal

Juan William Chavez (He/Him), a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow in Fine Arts, is an artist, activist, educator, and beekeeper of Indigenous Latinx and Irish descent. Chavez collaborates on social-practice art projects related to community building, environmental issues, food sovereignty, environmental stewardship, and decolonization. His creative practice includes public art, installations, knowledge-sharing workshops, paintings, zines, unconventional forms of beekeeping, and agriculture.

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