30 Years / 30 Blocks is an introduction to thirty works by nationally recognized interdisciplinary artist, and native New Orleanian, Jan Gilbert. Her works are commemorative itineraries of experience that mine memory, loss, and transition. These projects run the gamut from idiosyncratic, personal meanderings to commissioned, large-scale installations and international public art exchanges.

This book accompanies an exhibition held at The Front in the St. Claude Arts District of New Orleans, between June 9 and July 8, 2012. The Front, an artist-run collective and gallery, becomes host and microcosm to the body of public art works by Gilbert. Through a new collection of photographs, architectural details and elements of The FrontÕs interior and exterior act as formal and conceptual partners for each project. The new photographs are presented alongside archival documentation of her 30 years of public art works.