For the conclusion of their project, the artists invoke healing, which implies that there has been some sort of trauma or, at the very least, an event that requires care. This healing extends to both land and community, with the demolition of 3721 Washington as an emblem of the collective loss of many buildings in the City of St. Louis.
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The landscape is so shockingly different that I gasped when at the difference when we crossed from the black neighborhood into the white neighborhood. One of the activists I met was new to the city. She shared that when she first started to travel around the northside, she would weep at the catastrophe.
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Four grants up to $2,500 awarded to local groups to give harvested bricks from demolished building new life in community design projects across the St. Louis region.
Read MoreOn May 6, 2017, the Pulitzer hosted a public conversation with Amanda Williams, Andres L. Hernandez, and Walter J. Hood, Professor of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning and Urban Design at the University of California at Berkeley. The following is a partial transcript of their discussion.
Read MoreThese icons speak a language, read legibly as landmarks, and establish historical and spatial thresholds. They are relics of the cultural attitudes of a moment. A Way, Away (Listen While I Say) operates as a different kind of icon, one of a long instant—a building painted gold and atomized, its razed materials embedded within a social landscape.
Read MoreCentral to the work’s efficacy is the artist’s research and intervention, as is her commitment to remapping the visuality – or color – of race and poverty through alternative channels of circulation.
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