There’s a small, white picket fence, and trees and bushes so there’s a little bit of privacy for the bees. Whenever you think beekeeping school, you think of a building, but it’s actually a gazebo that has the beehives, and is a shelter for the supplies and stuff like that. This school has been teaching Parisians beekeeping for a very long time. I decided to apply for international research and proposed to go to Paris, where they have a well-known public garden called Luxembourg Garden and inside that garden is the oldest beekeeping school…it was founded, so it’s been around for a while. I was awarded a grant from the Art Matter Foundation, and it supports international research for artists, or international collaboration. Once that idea came up, I wanted to start doing research on this kind of model. Then from there, I started thinking more about taking the content I generated through the studio to put together a proposal for the city of turning it into a memorial park-slash-bee sanctuary. Then through that process, I started to develop the concept for the bee sanctuary. Going into the spring of 2010, I went in there and just documented and filmed a lot of the inside of Pruitt-Igoe. JC: The project has been done in different stages. Louis Magazine: So, explain Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary. We spoke to him this fall, soon after he had returned from a research trip from Europe. Artist Juan William Chavez has been working on his own project, The Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary, which he began working on after closing his Cherokee Street gallery, Boots Contemporary Art Space. In our November issue, as part of our Innovators package, we profiled Pruitt-Igoe Now, an international design competition asking for proposals for the 33-acre site where the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex once stood.
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