Nicole Rupersburg wrote a great piece about my collaboration with Calvin Phelps and the Pike School of Art in McComb, Mississippi. I think she really hit the tuning fork on what reusing a politically charged building looks like in a rural context. Calvin says it best in this passage; “I’m more about asset-based community development…[w]e already have all the assets that we need; we just need to use them.”
Go read it, and support the Pike School of Art’s work by donating some money towards the redevelopment of the youth jail.