The Lindale Gardens Community Art Project, or “Art House”, was the final project of the series of graffiti art installations in the area.
After gaining the owners permission to paint the house, a student consensus meeting was held in the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture to discuss design ideas for the house. Ideally, the community, or surrounding neighbors, would have been asked to collaborate on design ideas. However, because of time constraints and the particulars of the circumstances, design collaboration with the neighbors did not occur. But they were informed that the house would be painted.
With the help of more than 20 volunteers, the house took approximately 32 collective hours to complete. The entire budget of $1,000 was donated by a very generous community philanthropist!
The house was created to inspire Detroiters to rethink the way we see blight and be creative in the way we reclaim our visual real estate.
Art House
After the last occupants of this house moved away, the owner removed the doors and front windows on the first floor in preparation for demolition and to discourage squatters from moving inside of the house.
Within a few weeks time, vandals came and stripped the house of anything valuable. The aluminum siding was taken as well as the bricks on every side of the house but the front. After the house was vandalized it became more of an eyesore for the community and extremely unsafe.
"How can you turn blight into beauty?"
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