Now in its second year, Collective Impact—a multiyear partnership between Creative Reaction Lab (CRXLAB) and CAM—moved toward a community-centered public art project developed for and with the neighborhoods CRXLAB and the Museum share: Covenant Blu/Grand Center, Vandeventer, and The Ville. A “Collective” was formed, a cohort of locally based artists and members of the community who examined their neighborhood landscape in search of a common agenda—a topic they could name that would elicit a creative response. The topic they selected was “safety.” CAM mentors helped participants collaborate with an artist to develop a public art project that speaks to what “safety,” or the lack of it, means. The exhibition in CAM’s upstairs galleries features documentation of the Collective and the artistic process, including interactive prompts for visitors to reflect on their own relationships to community safety.
Collective Impact
Community Speaks
Mar 25 – Jul 24, 2022
Sponsors
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This program is presented by PNC Arts Alive.
Collective Impact is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [ARPML-250647-OMLS-22] and a Phillips x AAMD Museums and Communities Grant.
Collective Impact: Community Speaks is organized in partnership with Creative Reaction Lab’s Cordell Billups, Program Coordinator; and Antionette Carroll, Founder, President and CEO; and Ryan Page, Program Director alongside Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’s Michelle Dezember, Director of Learning and Engagement; and Miriam Ruiz, School and Community Partnership Manager.