Former Missouri prisoners stage, "The Buddha" for the Pulitzer Foundation

ST LOUIS AMERICAN
By Kenya Vaughn

Photo by Todd Owyoung

MISSOURI - Through a merger of performance and visual art, Staging Reflections of the Buddha at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts provided the opposite of what art and theatre are often perceived to be. The thought, emotion and spiritual connection that art can inspire in its purist sense was restored via the inspiration of traditional Asian spirituality and community theatre imported into the rarest of artistic spaces. Staging Reflections of the Buddha complimented the exhibit Reflections of the Buddha, curated by the Pulitzer’s own Francesca Herndon-Consagra, in a way a gallery talk never could. [link]