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May

02
2012

Bradley’s Thoughts: A Road Trip to Cedar Rapids Veteran’s Center

jessa carlstrom     Blog, Uncategorized     0

On March 1, Jessa and I had the opportunity to travel with Paul Alt to a project that he is working on in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.  Paul Alt is a Chicago based architect who specializes in designing spaces that can be used for healing.  In Cedar Rapids, Paul is applying his behavioral health research (which includes work with the National Institute of Health and the Department of Defense) to the beautiful Veterans Memorial building that was commissioned in the 1920s and built upon an island on the Cedar River.  In the summer of 2008, intense flooding submerged over 100 city

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Sep

01
2011

Our First Blog Entry

Matt     Blog     0

Hey there WAS Community! We’re excited to be able to launch our NEW website, still in its infancy, but growing fast! A very special thanks to Paul & Ryan for their time, dedication and belief in this project. Thanks to all the new Vets and Artists we met at the Warrior Summit last week. We couldn’t think of a better way to kick off our new season of programming than being able to share it with our new community. Now…Get yourself to the Events page and register for a FREE class with one of our great teaching artists and come be

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