A letter from Courtney Henson:

Many things go on behind the scenes at Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.  If you were to visit us on an open gallery day, you might say, “Hey, what’s behind that door? What’s at the end of that hallway?”  I’m here to tell you that we are bursting at the seams in our Ando building. There is not enough concrete for the work we are doing now, so we have to take space at local schools! 

Rainer and Sebastian, thinking that the lamp roof of the Spring Church was not enough to bring our community into the light, have come up with the Community Light Project. With their artistic guidance, myself and many other artists, volunteers, and social workers proceed in compelling local students from Cole Elementary, Loyola Academy, Cardinal Ritter College Prep and Metro High Schools to build light works of their own.

The groups will not get to come together fully until the Street Festival and opening of the Community Light Project on October 3.  At that time, they will get to see the full reality of all their hard work.  That has been the most difficult part of all this project–for people to realize that this is all part of something much larger. It’s worth participation, because something big is brewing. 

I invite everyone in the community to come and see all the efforts of these schools and countless educators, volunteers, artists and social workers.  It will be big and it will be worth experiencing, and it will show you a little of what goes on behind the walls of the Pulitzer, or in this case, behind the walls of  Grand Center schools. 

Courtney Henson
Community Light Project
Creative Coordinator