MANDEL SCHOOL
NEWS AND EVENTS
July 22, 2011
Neighborhood Art Installation Offers Creative, Healing Response to Gas Explosion
Freshwater Cleveland recently covered a project headed by Richey Piiparinen, a research assistant who recently joined the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development.
The project focuses on the psychological effects of abandoned properties in Cleveland's neighborhoods. In partnership with the City of Cleveland and Detroit Shoreway CDO, Richey is a part of a team that is implementing an urban art therapy project on W. 83rd St., which is the site of devastating vacant house explosion that rocked the community. The project entails turning one of the vacant houses condemned due to the explosion into an interactive art exhibit that will open with a reception July 28th. The house/exhibit will be deconstructed, with salvageable materials relocated to a reading garden that will be built down the street.
