Contemporary Art
Museum, STL (CAM)
Co-Creation on Exhibit
In 2020, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) partnered with Creative Reaction Lab to make use of Equity-Centered Community Design™ to identify, develop, coordinate, and collaborate in artistic interventions that directly relate to the challenges faced in our community. In the years since, we have developed exhibitions and a community-driven public art project that has explored the topics of immigration and citizenship, housing and health, emancipation and abolition, and community safety.
The Effects of Collective Impact
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Estimated visitors of the “Collective Impact: Sense of Home” exhibit.
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Community members involved in Collective Impact community-driven public art project
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Black and Latinx Youth made artivism posters displayed in “Ancestor’s Vote.”
“Working with CRXLAB has...opened up opportunities for our visitors to reflect, share knowledge, and take action. [This partnership] has had an impact on our internal thinking and working in ways that hold us more accountable to communal care. The museum is better inside and out for this partnership.”
CAM Team Member
Collective Impact: “Community Speaks"
CAM exhibited 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. Around the topic of “safety”, a collective of local artists and community members examined their neighborhood landscape in search of a common agenda.
Collective Impact: “A Sense of Home"
CAM hosted an interactive exhibition co-created by Tiana Glass, Sage Youngblood, Reina Stovall, and Quinton Ward with three sections: Immigration & Citizenship, Housing & Health, and Emancipation & Abolition. Hundreds of visitors made Equity Pledges as a result.
“Ancestor’s Vote” Exhibit
CAM hosted an exhibition of 17 posters, made by Black and Latinx Youth in CRXLAB’s Artwork for Equity (A4E) program, and an animation called “Ancestor’s Vote.” The Exhibit covered the topic of voting rights and the voter suppression of historically underinvested communities.
