NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS PROJECT SUMMER 2022
NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS PROJECT 2022 SITES
BAKER LIBRARY
THANK YOU
Neighborhood Arts Project (NAP) is made possible with the support of the following community partners:
MT. BETHEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
SCOTLANDVILLE LIBRARY
SCOTLANDVILLE
DELMONT GARDENS LIBRARY
MEMORIAL STADIUM
FAIRFIELDS AVENUE
BATON ROUGE
LSU MOA
BREC GUS YOUNG PARK DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. COMMUNITY CENTER
VILLAGE RESOURCE CENTER
MAIN LIBRARY AT GOODWOOD RIVER CENTER BRANCH LIBRARY
CARVER BRANCH LIBRARY
ALASKA STREET PARK
SOUTH BATON ROUGE
GARDERE INITIATIVE
11 NEW SITES
>700 PARTICIPANTS
>2,000 ARTWORKS CREATED
LSU MUSEUM OF ART NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS PROJECT SUMMER
2022 TEAM
the Neighborhood Arts
In 2022,
Project (NAP) was led by LSU Museum of Art Educator, Brandon V. Lewis (pictured right), along with NAP Assistants and LSU students Chinenye Miriam Emeloqu (middle) and Christian Rubio (left).
15 SITES
NAP brought art education activities to participants at East Baton Rouge Parish Libraries, Gardere Initiative, Village Resource Center, BREC Gus Young Park, Mt. Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, Shaw Center Plaza, and Summer of Hope sites.
MAYOR-PRESIDENT
SHARON WESTON BROOME SUMMER OF HOPE INITIATIVE
LSU Museum of Art partnered with Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome’s Summer of Hope Initiative led by Safe Hopeful Healthy Baton Rouge and brought free art making activities and community mural projects to the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center, Alaska Street Park, Fairfields Avenue near Belfair Montessori Magnet School, and Memorial Stadium in Baton Rouge.
Safe Hopeful Healthy Baton Rouge’s Summer of Hope initiative harnessed the power of neighborhood level engagement between a diverse group of community partners to reduce summer violence. Having Neighborhood Arts Project’s art making activities at our Unity Fest Juneteenth Family Picnic and Heal the Block Summer Bash Series created a positive outlet for youth and families to spread joy and hope. These activities not only sparked creativity and expression, but created a space for participants to participate in art as a form of healing.
Courtney M. Scott
Office of Mayor-President
Sharon Weston Broome
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VILLAGE RESOURCE CENTER AT EDEN PARK
Under pop-up tents, many art activities were held at the Village Resource Center.
The Neighborhood Arts Project meant I had a chance to help other children by helping them to have something to remember from the summer. Art gives me hope to create, think, and to create beautiful pictures and memories.
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D’Myrie W. (age 17)
The Neighborhood Arts Project helped me to learn how to do more creative things. Art gives me a lot of hope to do things on paper that I thought I was not good at.
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Trinity M. (age 11)
As the Camp Director, the Neighborhood Arts Project has always been a way for children to express their emotions, thoughts, and gifts freely and imaginatively. I believe art gives hope because it allows one to be creative, to express feelings and emotions, and is a way to visually say what one may not be able to vocalize.
Eva Collins Camp Director at Village Resource Center
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Louisiana Area Women in Ministry has been a NAP site since June 16, 2016. Since the partnership began, NAP has helped to bring within the community a needful resource to an underprivileged, underserved community. To me and Louisiana Area Women in Ministry, the relationship has shown the power of collaboration and the ability to offer an opportunity which was otherwise outside of our reach. Thus, the partnership created a sense of community with the young and old, came together for fun, fellowship, and to experience the arts as well as to express themselves through art. Thank you, NAP.
Dr. Mary Whitley Moss Village Resource Center
at Eden Park
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EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH LIBRARIES
NAP increased outreach to library sites across the East Baton Rouge region including the Scotlandville Library, Delmont Gardens Library, Baker Library, Main Library at Goodwood, Carver Library, and the River Center Branch Library.
MT. BETHEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
This church was another new NAP site in the summer of 2022. The LSU Museum of Art led art activities to participants of all ages.
NAP brings aesthetics, peacefulness, and creativity that contributes to overall wellness. Art brings hope by exposing our children and youth to art and provides opportunities to express their creativity and imagination in realms far beyond their daily lives.
Dr. Murelle Harrison Executive Director at Gardere Initiative
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LSU Museum of Art partnered with the Gardere Initiative to organize NAP summer outreach and pop-up activities throughout the rest of the year. State of the Art: Record artist Jenelle Esparza (pictured above) joined the museum NAP team at Gardere Initiative in June, where she demonstrated weaving techniques and helped participants with their own weaving projects.
GARDERE INITIATIVE
BREC GUS YOUNG PARK COMMUNITY CENTER
Out of the summer heat, NAP programming was held inside, leading a range of art making activities.
Engaging young people in the arts throughout the summer is truly fulfilling. It is the desire of the LSU Museum of Art’s Education Department that every Neighborhood Arts Project participant returns to school with a better understanding and appreciation of the arts.
Brandon V. Lewis
LSU Museum of Art Educator
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(pictured top left)
Neighborhood Arts Project is made possible with the support of the following community partners: Office of Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, Art Bridges, Bank of America, Louisiana CAT, BREC, and the Summer of Hope Initiative. Thank you also to our Neighborhood Arts Project locations. LSU Museum of Art educational programming is also sponsored by Louisiana CAT and Junior League of Baton Rouge.
Learn how you can support LSU Museum of Art education activities by contacting LSU Museum of Art Deputy Director, Nedra Hains at nhains1@lsu.edu or 225-389-7212.
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