“We Are All Connected” is an art and environmental program dedicated to helping save the Monarch Butterfly. Workshops June 10 – August 5 at Morris Park Library in the Bronx from 2-4pm. Join us!
Category: community art
Hanging Garden at local Community Garden
Crocheted outdoor art installation built with the community of Morris Park Bronx, NY in 2022 with artist Ruth Marshall. In partnership with Morris Park BID, Morris Park Community Garden and funded by Bronx Council on the Arts.
HANGING GARDEN – a crochet workshop series
I created an installation called Hanging Garden for a Montefiore Health System courtyard in 2016. After the installation came down, it became the property of the dust bunnies under my bed. My new friends at Morris Park Business Improvement District asked me for help with trying to make our local community garden attractive and eye…
Plastic in the Air
It was a great pleasure to build a new art installation this year, in our chaotic 2020. I received a community arts grants – Arts Fund – from Bronx Council on the Arts to partner with NYPL – New York Public Library. But as we know, New York City became the epicenter for the Covid-19…
YES to plastic!
Yes to reducing, reusing and recycling plastic bags that is! In 2020, New York City, (where I live), will transition into a plastic bag free world! I am very excited about this, and I have ideas to reduce, reuse, recycle plastic bags by creating temporary art installations using this maligned item from our daily lives….
Poetry in the Air
The ‘Art in the Air’ program that I began in 2018 at Parkchester Library in the Bronx continued this year in a new dynamic way with guest collaborator – talented poet and artist Orlando Ferrand. With 2 grants from Bronx Council on the Arts we embarked on a very fun, very challenging and ultimately engaging…
Art in the Air Presents: Poetry in the Air
With funding from Bronx Council on the Arts with their Community Arts Grant AND Arts Fund Grant I am proud to continue working with New York Public Library Parkchester Branch in the Bronx to revitalize, and decorate their outdoor courtyard to bring excellent, high quality FREE art programming to their local community. This year I…
Plastic bag yarn – Workshops!!!
I was delighted to be invited by New York Public Library to hold a series of six workshops in 2019 at four different branch locations in the Bronx and Manhattan. So…… Let’s make Plarn! Plastic yarn made from plastic bags. Local Bronx artist Ruth Marshall will teach you how to crochet using this FREE yarn…
Art in the Air 2
When I walked into the New York Public Library branch at Parkchester, I had a bit of an ‘aah’ moment. They had an outdoor courtyard!!!! Perfect for an art installation of paracord! It was very visible from the busy street and overhead subway, library patrons can only enter the branch by walking through it, and…
Art Recycled
I was glad to be back at Morris Park Library in the Bronx to run a new program funded by Bronx Council on the Arts through New York State Council on the Arts. ‘Art Recycled‘ was all about reuse, reduce, recycle, an environmentally friendly art program that was FREE. You know all of those plastic…
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