Rebuild Foundation, the arts, education and cultural development organization committed to transforming urban communities, announced a $1.6 million grant award from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s Neighborhood Opportunity Fund to revitalize and repurpose the shuttered St. Laurence school into an arts and business incubator in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood.  The 40,000 square foot school will be transformed to include community spaces for art programming and art skill training and to provide artist work space. The revitalized St. Laurence School will accommodate varying kinds of artistic practices and will include a guild build school offering training and apprenticeships in painting, drawing, printmaking, milling, wood craftsmanship and product modeling for youth and adults.  Shuttered in 2002 and located on the South Side’s Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, the St. Laurence School sat vacant for over a decade before being purchased by Rebuild Foundation/Space Fund. For more information, please visit rebuild-foundation.org.