Caroline: A Collective Experience is a collaborative art exhibit that explores the 3800 through the 5800 blocks of Caroline Street, located at the edge of Houston's Third Ward, Museum district, Midtown and Montrose sections. Each of the 12 participants of the show has selected one or more blocks along Caroline Street as their focus and has presented the experience of that block through the photographic medium. The result is a location-specific installation depicting multiple visions of one group. Each of these 21 blocks is photographed with Polaroid grid film, and then installed linearly to recreate the street. This line then creates the datum, the foundation, from which other participants install their work -- each on the appropriate side of the street.

Mockup of Caroline, Street of Polaroids

After doing some math, I have determined that each block will get a total of 2 feet by 4 feet of gallery wall within which the work will be displayed. If you photographed on the east side of the street, you will display your work above the Polaroid street; if you photographed on the west side of the street, you will display your work below the Polaroid street.

3800 - Correy, Old Armory Building, Center for the Healing of Racism



3900 - Osman(?) Acadian Bakery

4000 - Angelique, Residential, Enviro Tech Chemical Solutions, Property currently for lease



4100 - Osman, Erinn's Heart (early learning academy), residential

4200 - Gabe, Star hair salon - 3.99 haircuts (on Barbee Street - haha), side of Fiesta grocery store



4300 - Correy, Underneath 59, Fiesta parking lot on one side, Warning Camera on opposite side



4400 - Brittney, Attorney's office, MD located on this block, often taco trucks parked here

4500 - AVAILABLE - Happy Jalapeno restaurant and Avela Corporation (sourcing of products and services in China since 2002)

4600 - Osman - Montessori School of Downtown and The Mexican Institute of Greater Houston

4700 - Alejandra, Lots of mid-rise condominiums and one somewhat historic quadplex

4800 - Caroline Collective will represented by a "You Are Here" label

4900 - Yanine - Covenant Church



5000 - Brittney Connelly - Ophthalmic Prosthetics Inc., Butler On-line Meditation Services



5100 - Leah - Weather Museum and empty lot across the street

5200 - Shannon MacGregor (2 residential properties for lease, empty lot, Personal Physician Group located here)

5300 - CJ - Residential, Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research




5400 - Tenshi - Holocaust Museum

5500 - Tenshi - Bank Parking Lot and Structure for Lease

5600 - Shannon - Bodegas Restaurant, MRI Clinic (Park Plaza hospital)

5700 - Alejandra - Parking Garage and Park Plaza Hospital

5800 - Yanine; Museum of Natural Science