Luminary Center for the Arts: Saturday, 4 May 2013

Whole City: St. Louis
organized by Works Progress (Minneapolis)

The Luminary Center for the Arts
Temporary Gallery at 2644 Cherokee Street, St. Louis 63118
May 4 – May 25, 2013
Opening Reception on May 4th from 7-9pm
Part of the How to Build a World That Won't Fall Apart Exhibition Series

Join us this Saturday during Cherokee Street's Cinco de Mayo festival for the Whole City opening reception. Whole City is a month-long project by Minneapolis-based public art studio Works Progress asking inhabitants of St. Louis to tell us about its identity as a place, as well as the creative life and aspirations of its residents – beginning with the question, What makes us whole?

Using collaborative inquiry and reflection, Works Progress will explore St. Louis – specifically, the connections and disconnections that socially-engaged artists and other creative practitioners have made both inside and outside the arts community, and how those connections or disconnections might shape and shift the future of the city.

Throughout the course of an intense one-week residency Works Progress will tour St. Louis, asking residents from in and outside the arts the same question: What makes us whole? The variety of answers collected through face-to-face conversation, postcards, images, short interviews and social media will be on display at The Luminary from May 4th-25th, 2013 along with a broadsheet compiled in dialogue with parallel initiatives nationwide.

This project is part of a broader conversation about the creative reimagining of public life being launched by artists in Minneapolis-St. Paul. To join the conversation visit wholecity.us.