Sherri Cornett
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EAST HELENA FOOD & CULTURE HUB
East Helena, Montana
​2020


As part of an ArtPlace America Creative Placemaking Grant, I was hired as an artist facilitator to create community-engaged projects that would help East Helenans further develop a new identity after their history as a company town (ASARCO smelter) and EPA Superfund Site. Keeping in mind COVID social distancing restrictions, Krys Homes, Executive Director of The Myrna Loy Theater, Betsy Burns, East Helena EPA Director, Bri Shipman, my local creative partner and I developed two mural projects and other opportunities for residents to learn more about each other and the city and build on their resilience and strength. The East Helena Food/Culture Hub is a collaboration between the City of East Helena, The Myrna Loy, the East Helena School District, and the local office of the US Environmental Protection Agency.
PRICKLY PEAR CREEK MURALS
Main Street Park

Prickly Pear Creek runs south to north through East Helena and is the site of many community memories. These panels, created by Vicki Curtiss' high school art students and Brooklyn Bennet's middle school art students, will be installed on the fence along Prickly Pear Creek in Main Street Park. 

SCAVENGER HUNT

To get folks out into the city during the pandemic, we asked them to participate – as individuals, families or teams –  in a citywide, four-week scavenger hunt with quests ranging from East Helena history to buildings to natural spaces to their own families and interests. Answers were collected in the form of writing, drawings, printed out photos, selfies. . . 

KTVH story by Sam Hoyle 

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​SUNFLOWER MURALS
East Helena Volunteer Fireman's Hall

We chose sunflowers as a symbol of this year's East Helena Food and Culture Hub projects because of their diversity of sizes and of shades - happy reds, oranges and yellows - and how they are symbolic of how they, as East Helenans, are individually strong and how, collectively, they stand tall as a proud community and take care of each other. 
​Thank you to the East Helena Girl Scouts and other community members for adding to the murals.

RIBBONS and SUNFLOWER SEEDS PROJECT
In our first reaching out to the community, we provided packages of ribbons and sunflower seeds, asking the community to celebrate their shared, strong, vibrant city by planting the seeds and attaching ribbons to their porches, trees, railings . . . including words of encouragement for each other. 
© 2011 Sherri Cornett
  • HOME
  • WORKS
    • TRANSFORMATIONS
    • FREEDOM SERIES
    • PUBLIC ART
    • GROTTOES
    • CHRYSALIS
    • COLLABORATIONS
    • LENS BASED ART
    • ANCESTRESSES & WISE WOMEN
    • SEAFORMS
    • SHELTERS
  • PROJECTS
    • TRANSFORMATIONS at Kirks for Kirks
    • UNITAS youth art and leadership
    • WHAT IS IT ABOUT MY MEMORY Community Engaged Installation >
      • MEMORY CARDS What Is It About My Memory
      • SOMAS What Is It About My Memory
      • EXHIBITIONS What Is It About My Memory
    • FOOD and CULTURE HUB East Helena
    • THE 2020 AWAKENING BILLINGS For Freedoms 2020 >
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Robert Hall on Blood Quantum
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Indigenous Voices Films and Filmmakers Panel
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS MMIP Community Gathering
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS REDRess Exhibit
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Seeing Patterns Exhibition
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Related Events
      • THE2020AWAKENING BILLINGS Partners and Presenters
    • FOR FREEDOMS Billings >
      • FOR FREEDOMS Billings 2018 Partners and Presenters
    • COMMUNITY GROVE
    • CONVERSATIONS AMONG WOMEN
    • FLOW Interactive Exhibition and Community Project >
      • EXHIBITION Flow
      • VOICES OF THE RIVER SYMPOSIUM Flow
      • MIXING OIL and WATER Film Night and Discussion Flow
      • WORDS ON WATER: POETRY AND JAZZ IN CONCERT Flow
      • LIVING IN HARMONY ON THE YELLOWSTONE Flow
      • YOUTH OUTREACH Flow
      • READING AREAS MSUBillings Library Flow
      • YELLOWSTONE RIVER CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ANALYSIS Flow
    • POINTS OF MANY CONNECTIONS
    • QUEST Guest Art Facilitator
    • ALTITUDE 3123 >
      • EVENTS Altitude 3123
  • CURATORIAL
    • CHINA Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang 2014 >
      • ART & ARTISTS/CHINA Half the Sky
      • ART & ARTISTS/US Half the Sky
      • CULTURAL and COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
      • DELEGATES
      • ESSAYS & ESSAYISTS
      • BLOG Half the Sky
    • UNDOCUMENTED Difference in America Today
    • GUTFREUND CORNETT ART
    • SOUTH KOREA Woman Body Seoul and Gwangju 2012
    • MATRIXXMODULATION Jon Lodge
    • PLANNED PARENTHOOD A Celebration of Expression: An Evening of Wine, Women and Art
    • WOMEN DO IT! Traveling Postcard Exhibition >
      • WOMEN DO IT Gallery
  • WRITING
    • ESSAYS
    • JOURNALISM
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