Art is a staple to a thriving community.  The planned studio and exhibition space at 1338 St. Roch Avenue merges the St. Roch neighborhood with the burgeoning art scene on St. Claude Avenue in hopes of building bridges between residents and artists.  The property projects to make available up to six studio spaces where artists will be creating rather than merely exhibiting work.  The space will allow residents of all ages opportunity to physically look in on the process of constructing various cultural goods and have relationships with present artists.  The collective's exhibition space will include a variety of programming, including everything from two/three-dimensional visual art, video/film projects, performances, readings, and lectures.  This modest exhibition space is aimed at making art and its creation accessible and inviting to neighborhood residents.  

Additionally, the double shotgun camelback would allow for an artist and his/her family affordable residential space.  A two-bedroom, single bath apartment unit fills half of the first floor of the property.  The occupying resident would serve as a superintendent to the functioning studios on the other half and second story of the building.  The vision is thus to incorporate the three facets of the working artists' life (residence, studio space, and exhibition space) into a single property, all of which are immediately present and invested in the life of the neighborhood.