When the then-emerging businessman Andrew Carnegie ordered the construction of the man-made wonder The Eads Bridge more than 150 years ago, his intention was to bring the country together.

The first bridge across the Mississippi River south of the Missouri River is also the oldest bridge on the river. It connects East St. Louis to St. Louis.

This successful completion was a symbol of strength and possibility. With it Carnegie was launched into the stratosphere as an industrialist whose groundbreaking mass production of steel helped modernize skylines of metropolitan areas – and made him one of the wealthiest men in history.

As part of its culminating complimentary programming for “Like Water” which closes on August 10, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (CAM) brought a group together

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