601 Walton Studio

Captivating Culture

A Center for Truth, Witnessing, and Justice at the Live Oak Plantation 2021

August - December

The Live Oak Plantation found in Louisiana is home to centuries of history. However, this land has been defined by itʼs dark past with slavery. This project offered an opportunity to show how architecture can be used to heal the physical land and the people that have history tied back to the land, while being a space that can also be used to inform any person that visits of the whole history of the site. By creating a cultural arts center that aims at filling voids in the historical communicates, the land that was once used to oppress people suddenly becomes a place of liberation that helps the Tunica Biloxi and African American communities reinvigorate their dying arts of basket weaving and indigo dying.

Model Contents:

Continuing Education Basket Weaving Studio Wild Flower Field Tree of Truth

Size: 6ʼ x 5ʼ

Materiality: Colored Paper Cardboard Wood Moss

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