Community Arts and Media Project, STL www.stlcamp.org innovating child-centered, community-supported After School Program. Cherokee Street Parking Day, STL September 21, 2007 Cultivadores Outreach Center, Rantoul Illinois Painted Van Project Cultivadores Outreach Center, Rantoul Illinois Proposed interactive mural project Acknowledge Project, STL Cherokee Street Cinco de Mayo Festival 2006 Lead Artist: Lyndsey Scott; Collaborators: 10 Community artists, 30 neighborhood residents Foam, acrylic paint, liquid nails In order to highlight the benefit of public art in an economically depressed and crime-ridden neighborhood, artist Lyndsey Scott pioneered and paid for an inclusive and interactive, temporary, site-specific community project during the Hispanic Business Association’s Cinco de Mayo festival. Groundwork was laid by open conversations with the street’s business owners who chose a ‘mascot’ from their store. These characters were blown up and transferred to foam cutouts and painted by neighborhood residents during the festival. They were then pasted to the raw wall from a recently, politically motivated demolition of the historic “Empire Sandwich Shop”. The resultant characters formed a hodgepodge family portrait that acted as the key to a visual treasure hunt of neighborhood icons. As a result, the new Cherokee Station Business Association has asked the artist to lead more permanent public art collaborations in the neighborhood. http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2006-06-14/news/ruckus-on-cherokee/ Living Tree Community Mural June 2005-February 2006 Lead Artist: Lyndsey Scott Collaborators: Jason Wallace Triefenbach, Patrick Ritchey, and over 150 citizen artists Clay, glaze, tile mastic, mortar, plaster, scavenged wood, paint St. John’s Episcopal church contracted artists from the South City Open Studio and Gallery to lead parishioners and community members of all ages in the creation of hundreds of hand-built clay leaves. The sculpting took place in non-traditional places such as Sunday school, park festivals, coffee shops, and bars with the intention to “publicize” the democratic, relational act of grassroots design. The artists fashioned a tree from native and found materials, fired the leaves, and installed them in a 3-dimensional arrangement from the ceiling, walls, and branches that emerge from the brick corner of the fellowship hall, The trunk and roots meld into two benches that welcome rest in the tree’s embrace. http://www.towergrovechurch.org/home/livingtreemural/organicgrowth.htm “Iz you in or iz you out?” Lyndsey Scott, Lezlie Silverstein, Mike Pagano; Collaborators: 50 Sumner High School art students, 10 Alumni Ceramic tile, glaze, grout, mortar Spring 2005 Craft Alliance contracted three artists to complete a two-month residency in three Sumner High School art classrooms to produce a permanent interior ceramic tile mural that commemorated the Alumni Association anniversary celebration. Artists photographed students in various postures, highlighting the power of our bodies to communicate power and presence. Archival photographs of historic Sumner High School were introduced by alumni who spoke the history of the neighborhood to students and opened dialogue about “how it was” versus “how it is”. Sumner High students cut and collaged their own photographs into silhouetted shapes, which suggested questions of unity and self-respect. Students transferred their designs onto tile, which were fired and installed into the final murals. Hungry Rhythm Lyndsey Scott, Lezlie Silberstein, Mike Pagano; Collaborators: 75 Yateman Liddell Middle School Art students Ceramic tile, glaze, grout, mortar Spring 2004 Craft Alliance contracted three artists to complete a two-month residency in Yateman Liddell Middle School to produce a permanent, exterior ceramic tile mural. In-classroom design preparation included study of symbols, visual literacy lessons, collaborative drawing games, and poetry exercises. Artists compiled student drawings into a composition which students transferred to tile, glazed; then artists fired and installed into the mural. Argus mural Lezlie Silverstein with the help of Lyndsey Scott 2004 to present Artica site, STL Collected precious: Stories Collected “Unused/forgotten” traffic cones in china cabinet Spring 2002 Rose Petals for Cherokee Dia de los Muertos night-time romancing of the Statue beginning of a love affair with the street, November 2005

From chalk drawings to ceramic tile murals, afterschool programs to business meetings, See Here Productions enlists “color-light&sound” to massage the space that “separates” into the space that surrounds and inspires. Interactively designed and constructed temporary or permanent installations feng-shui the mundane into the magical.