Artist Plans to Travel the Length of the Mississippi River to Connect Communities by Kraig Becker A Louisiana-based artist has big plans for the summer ahead. Victoria Bradford Styrbicki has announced an ambitious and unique new project that seeks to connect more than a hundred communities located along the Mississippi River as she spends July through November traveling its length. The journey will cover 2400 miles (3862 km) from source to sea as Styrbicki goes in search of the “voice” of those communities as it exists in the 21st century. Dubbed Relay of Voices, the project will begin at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and …