Deschutes Public Library

Third Ward TX

eng

videorecording

Third Ward TX

921965946

Originally produced by New Day Films in 2007

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THIRD WARD TX - a documentary about community, art, and real estate. How do we bring back a once thriving communityђ́وone with a vibrant African American history and culture? What was good and positive and sustaining for the people who lived there? What would this look like now? Once change is in motionђ́وhow can we manage gentrification so that it doesnђ́ةt drive out long-time residents? THIRD WARD TX introduces the artists and neighbors of Project Row Houses who successfully confront their communityђ́ةs decay and reimagine such a place. In 1993, a step ahead of city of Houston demolition crews, a group of artists and volunteers, led by Rick Lowe, clean up two blocks of abandoned shotgun houses and paint the boarded up doors and windows for a ђ́جdrive byђ́ح exhibit to draw attention to this deteriorating neighborhood. THIRD WARD TX traces how Lowe, a 2014 MacArthur ђ́جGenius Awardђ́ح winner, and Project Row Houses parlay that action into a decades-long transformation of the Third Ward neighborhood with visionary thinking about art, low-income housing, community building and inner-city renewal. THIRD WARD TX has been used to provoke and focus discussion in classrooms and at international conferences among people concerned with creating equitable, livable and stimulating communities. THIRD WARD TX has been featured at the 2008 Loeb Bruner Forum at Harvard Graduate School of Design; Real Community is Real Art, symposium in Austin, Texas; The 2008 Regional Equity Conference in New Orleans; and Art in the Contested City at Pratt Institute in New York City, among many others

live action