Dutchtown Main Streets is teaming up with local poets, artists, and community members to show some love to spaces in need of a pick-me-up!

Led by their Design Committee, "From Dutchtown, With Love" is a public poetry and art initiative that will brighten up the boards on some of our vacant buildings. Original poems, written by and for the Dutchtown community, speak to the history, resilience, and identity of the people who call Dutchtown home.

"From Dutchtown, With Love" got off the ground with a seed grant from Invest STL's Small Dollars Action Fund and is expanding thanks to WahsU's Engaged City project.

Want to get involved? Contact the Design Committee at design@dutchtownstl.org.

This project is supported by The Engaged City. The Engaged City is a project led by the Center for the Humanities, the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, and the Office for Socially Engaged Practice at Washington University in St. Louis. The project is funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Office of the Provost’s Here and Next initiative.