Outdoor fiber art installation in Bronx Park through June 2023. Crocheted by Artist Ruth Marshall
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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.
New York Botanical Garden, “Around the Table: Stories of the Food We Love”
New York Botanical Garden exhibition featuring 30 bronx artists, including Ruth Marshall with her “Tossed Salad” picnic table.
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…
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 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 in the Air
My local library here in the Bronx has amazing programming for the general public to participate in. Working with library manager Dawn Holloway, who allowed me to install artwork in the library, and targeting children, teens, adults, senior and special needs, dozens of people were involved in the creation of Art in the Air. This…
Hanging Garden
At the start of the year I got a strange phone call from Jodi Moise, the curator of the fine art program at Montefiore Health System, asking if I would consider an outdoor commission of my floral work. I wasn’t really sure since I’ve always worked with woollen yarn for my knitted artwork. But that’s…
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