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arrangements of the bureaucracy surrounding climate change and possibilities to reclaim agency for environmental justice and resilience. Transforming the gallery into a site for performance and as a departure point for collaborative production, The Department of Human and Natural Services aims to foster trust, experimentation, and open dialogue. The exhibition puts forward the role of artists in activism and proposes creative strategies in response to the current course of global warming and its myriad effects on environmental, political, and emotional levels. If the multiscalar and multirelational “disconnect” is the primary contributor to the ecological crisis and its denial, as suggested by philosopher Bruno Latour, artists in the exhibition deal inherently with connection—between humans, between humans and other species (plant and animal), and between disciplinary methodologies—as a gesture towards reparation and repair. Rather than in the artist’s studio, most of this work is done directly in communities, making face-to-face connections to address immediate human needs, to collaboratively imagine a better or sustained future, and to mobilize. The Department’s office is therefore a repository, a stopover, and a meeting place. Of the many artists and creative activists addressing today’s climate emergency, those represented here expand contemporary discourse on the anthropocene, posthuman, nonhuman, and more-than-human. The EPA positions plants, specifically weeds, as sentient beings and agents for epistemological revolution; the group invites visitors to collect data, co-produce ecological knowledge, and think more holistically about and foster care for the living things affected by climate change. Through direct engagement and collaborative performance, the choreographer and visual and performing artists that comprise the EPA prompt viewers and participants to shift away from an anthropocentric worldview, encouraging a thoughtful consideration of interspecies ethics. Data, findings, and speculative thinking resulting from their Embodied Scientist Training will be recorded over the course of the exhibition on the suits visitors are invited to wear for the Emergent Plantocene Clean-Up. Li Sumpter situates humans within the cosmic scale and writes myths and science fiction as a world-building (or rebuilding) practice to work through systemic societal problems such as economic inequality and racial injustice. Sumpter’s Boom 4 Real Escape Pods compose a survival kit for mythological and real-to-life emergencies, Graffiti in the Grass promotes creative resistance and community readiness across narrative platforms, and the Oracle Box collects impressions and aspirations. Over the course of planning and designing her project Citizen Bridge, a participatory, collective infrastructure project to realize a pedestrian crossing over Buttermilk Channel between Brooklyn and Governors Island, Nancy Nowacek has developed a discursive project. Citizen Bridge addresses sea level rise, resistance, reclaiming the waterways as public space, and creating bridges between people and communities. The Department displays the conference calls made, measurements taken, calendars followed, agreements signed, and business cards collected since 2012, all activities that continue and together demonstrate the networks and layers of an artist’s labor by way of visual ephemera. Allison Rowe is connected to the Department by way of telephone, offering visitors an ear to listen to their hopes and fears as well as share the knowledge she has gained through her ongoing project Trying to Talk to Climate Change Researchers About the Future and their Feelings. Visitors are invited to draw in response to their conversation with Allison and leave their work as part of the exhibition files. Rowe, however, may not always be available, therefore placing visitors on an “emotional hold,” and weaving concepts of feminism, labor, and caretaking into the environmental crisis. Additionally, Rowe’s Geologic Time visualizes the literal reshaping of the earth’s geology by human impact over the past 8,000 years. Together, the exhibiting artists respond to and infiltrate conventional systems by way of their process-based aesthetic projects to catalyze change. Staged as a government office with records and artifacts of past investigative work as well as survival kits and tools for citizen science and expanded communication, the exhibition suggests nontraditional workspaces for hybrid and innovative practices. Perhaps the traditional office is no longer of service for the reconfigured conditions we face, for challenges so enormous. In demonstrating the range of work that artists take on, sometimes resembling scientific research, interpretation, and even administrative work, the exhibition puts forth the potential of artists to influence governance and policy making within existing structures. Artists are increasingly being embedded in schools and even bureaucratic spaces. What might we be able to achieve if we moved the cubicle from the office to the expanded field? Rather than look away or sink into melancholy, artists in The Department of Human and Natural Services encourage us to see, hear, and feel in order to think clearly and act swiftly on an individual level, which when aggregated, could in fact shift the course and stabilize our planetary home. Public Programs EPA Embodied Scientist Training, Suit Up: Join the Emergent Plantocene Clean-UpSaturday May 4, 2–3:30 PM EPA Embodied Scientist Training is a call to participate in a multispecies coalition of embodied scientists, activists, and spontaneous plants who are re-imagining federal policy and agency in the face of imminent climate crises and mass extinction. In response to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s unprecedented rollback of 75+ federal environmental rules and regulations, the EPA Embodied Scientist Training is a call to intimate action! Suit up and embark on a DIY fieldwork training in the heart of Bushwick. Data, findings, and speculative thinking resulting from the public’s participation will be recorded on the suits themselves over the course of the exhibition. Following the training, artists will lead a discussion and reflection with participants. The workshop with depart from NURTUREart and take place outside in the streets, bringing people into a close up experience with spontaneous urban plants. No experience necessary; all bodies welcome! Guest Program: The Collaborative Urban Resilience Banquet, Spring 2019 EditionCommunity Walk and Foraged MealSunday May 5 and Sunday May 12, meet at NURTUREart at 3:30 PMSpace is limited, please RSVP here This second iteration of The C.U.R.B. is a roving picnic through East Williamsburg in which guests will participate in various acts of environmental remediation and stewardship, followed by a meal of experimental tamales and wild brews foraged (almost entirely) from the city streets. Learn how Mugwort, Mulberries, Amaranth, Pigeons, and more came to be our neighbors, and what they can teach us about surviving and thriving in the midst of our own hot mess. Through citizen science and storytelling, Banquet host Candace Thompson seeks to render visible our fragile food web in the era of manmade climate change, explore our historically complicated relationship(s) to land, and imagine alternative forms of economy and ecology that are regenerative and resilient rather than exploitative and extractive. NOTE: this event will be video documented, and some of the food items are slightly contaminated due to human activity. As such, the meal is not suitable for young children, and individuals who are, or are planning to become, pregnant should use some caution. Mariel Villeré researches, writes, and organizes exhibitions and cultural programming at the intersection of architecture, art, landscape, and the city. Her practice engages complex issues in urban and natural environments and encourages a wide public to think critically by way of collaborative, open-ended, and pedagogical approaches to display and demonstration. Currently the Manager for Programs, Arts, and Grants at Freshkills Park/NYC Parks, Mariel is building the integrated art program for the 2,200-acre landfill-to-park site on Staten Island through an open proposal process, an inquiry-based artist residency program, Field R/D, and through the on-site Studio+Gallery she founded in January 2018. Allison Rowe is a Canadian interdisciplinary artist, educator, and researcher. Her artistic work attempts to re-personalize political discourses, exploring the possibilities that exist in this transitional process. Allison is a doctoral candidate in Art Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she is researching socially engaged art. Nancy Nowacek makes art engaged with the power and politics of the body in a late-capital, post-industrial, changing climate. Her interests focus on the design of digital technologies and the built environment, the regulation of the natural environment, and the forms of behavior and choreography embedded within. Li Sumpter, Ph.D. is a mythologist, educator, and social practice artist who employs mythic literacy and eco-conscious design as modes of creative resistance and community empowerment. Her academic work and socially engaged art projects synergize world building, afrofuturism, environmental justice, and land sovereignty as a praxis of freedom. Li is Founder/Creative Director of MythMedia Studios, an art and design studio that employs myth, media, and liberation technologies to address existential concerns and environmental issues The Environmental Performance Agency (EPA) is an artist collective founded in 2017 and named in response to the ongoing rollback of Federal environmental policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Appropriating the acronym EPA, the collective’s primary goal is to shift thinking around the terms environment, performance, and agency—using artistic, social, and embodied practices to advocate for the agency of all living performers co-creating our environment, specifically through the lens of spontaneous urban plants, native or migrant. Current EPA Agents include Catherine Grau, andrea haenggi, Ellie Irons, Christopher Kennedy, and spontaneous urban plants. About NURTUREart NURTUREart transforms the lives of emerging artists, emerging curators, and local public school students by providing them resources, support, and platforms to nourish creativity and strengthen dynamic communities in New York City and beyond. What began in 1997 as a slide registry in a filing cabinet, NURTUREart today supports more than 50 artists and curators, presents more than 20 public events, and reaches more than 200 public school students annually. It does this through:Artistic ExperimentationNURTUREart provides space and financial support to artists and curators for creative risk-taking and conceptual development. It provides opportunities to public school students inside and outside the classroom for creative investigation and hands-on learning.Creative ExchangeNURTUREart offers accessible programming for diverse audiences to engage in the imagination and inspiration through exhibitions, performances, talks, screenings, and publications.Innovative LearningNURTUREart promotes equitable education for students and adults by providing unique opportunities to make, discuss, and experience contemporary art in public schools, community centers, local neighborhoods, and NURTUREart’s gallery. https://marielvillere.com/Freshkills-Park-Art-Program Sun, 10 Jul 2016 15:45:03 +0000 Mariel Villeré https://marielvillere.com/Freshkills-Park-Art-Program <img width="2000" height="1584" width_o="2000" height_o="1584" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d406182059abe770a571214381fd3c6f75c11227abf2e05cf3da7a8fcbb1a646/freshkillspark4x5023_sm.jpg" data-mid="26768684" border="0" alt="Photo: Natalie Conn" data-caption="Photo: Natalie Conn" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d406182059abe770a571214381fd3c6f75c11227abf2e05cf3da7a8fcbb1a646/freshkillspark4x5023_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2996" width_o="2000" height_o="2996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c403c72fb1373eafcd8809e4bef2e714cd31fded3d29ad70a111174864da077/opening-6_sm.jpg" data-mid="27449088" border="0" alt="Photo: Natalie Conn" data-caption="Photo: Natalie Conn" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c403c72fb1373eafcd8809e4bef2e714cd31fded3d29ad70a111174864da077/opening-6_sm.jpg" /> Freshkills Park Art &amp; ProgramsRole: Manager for Programs, Arts, and GrantsJanuary 2014-presentAt 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park is almost three times the size of Central Park and the largest park to be developed in New York City in over 100 years. It also has a significant history as the site of the former Fresh Kills Landfill, which was the largest landfill in the world before closing in 2001. Since then, the landfill has been covered with layers of soil and infrastructure, and the site has become a place for wildlife, science, education, and art. As the park is built in phases, free tours and events provide early access for learning and recreation opportunities.Art and cultural activities at Freshkills Park aim to engage the public and foster understanding of the astounding ecological transformation and design process from landfill to park. The engineered landscape and unmatched scale offer opportunities for artistic research, experimentation, demonstration, and presentation unlike any other public space in New York City. In the current environmental moment, the Freshkills Park project is a model for landfills and brownfields across the world. Artists therefore engage the park project to investigate, innovate, interpret the developing park and incite social change beyond its bounds.As Manager for Programs, Arts and Grants for Freshkills Park (NYC Parks), I conceive of, research, curate and implement cultural projects and programming for the changing landscape. Heavily informed by the history of socially engaged art and pioneering artist-in-residence programs at Fresh Kills Landfill, the cultural projects that I support and organize engage the public with the site’s history, current conditions, and future. I also work with my colleagues to create cross-disciplinary research and engagement, showcased in the 2018 Reclaimed Lands Conference. https://marielvillere.com/Field-R-D Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:35:06 +0000 Mariel Villeré https://marielvillere.com/Field-R-D <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fc326848c32d601614ffaaaa4b67c2fe58a399e897ccdcad00db803c25d5ea7/17_0430_gauthier6_sm.jpg" data-mid="26762995" border="0" alt="Photo: Dylan Gauthier" data-caption="Photo: Dylan Gauthier" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fc326848c32d601614ffaaaa4b67c2fe58a399e897ccdcad00db803c25d5ea7/17_0430_gauthier6_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03db942d45d35a6ae58dc0162d9aa9f0e58cf4e46d167a62b975e7d6169b05ab/8_sm.jpg" data-mid="26762994" border="0" 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src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/343a278f169434a3615b328449d01703305703621fa814131345f9692ca77f69/DSC00802_sm.jpg" /> Field R/D April 2017- presentRole: Co-Curator with Dylan Gauthier and Project Manager Photos: Natalie Conn Cohort One (2017-2018): Gabri Christa, Billy and Steven Dufala, Mary Mattingly, Nancy Nowacek, Lize Mogel, Joe Riley, Audrey Snyder with photographer Natalie Conn and writer Kendra Sullivan Cohort Two (2018-2019): Sto Len, Jen Liu, Antonio Serna&nbsp; “Freshkills Park: Field R/D” is an expansive art-research program organized by artist/curator Dylan Gauthier and Mariel Villeré. The goal of “Field R/D” is to work with artists to develop an approach for bringing an exhibition, discussion and event series to Freshkills Park on an annual basis. Invited participants create work in visual and performing arts, written word, architecture, pedagogy, and multimedia. The group of artist/collaboratives meet several times over the course of the “residency” and are granted special access to the closed Freshkills Park site by appointment. The project involves independent and collaborative research, site visits and field trips, shared meals and conversations in a seminar-style format, culminating in exhibition, publication, and presentation of the proposals that they developed in this supportive environment. Pictured here are presentations made at NADA NY as a cultural partner in March 2018, Open Engagement: Sustainability at the Queens Museum/New York City Panorama in May 2018, and at the 8th Floor for a program titled Waste Time: Breakdown, Decay, and Regeneration at Freshkills Park in September 2018. Unless otherwise noted, all photographs by Natalie Conn, who also visited each participating artist in their workspace to document their individual process and environment. This project is made possible with support from the Shelley &amp; Donald Rubin Foundation Art and Social Justice Grant Program. https://marielvillere.com/Fastnet-Plein-Air Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:36:00 +0000 Mariel Villeré https://marielvillere.com/Fastnet-Plein-Air <img width="2000" height="1227" width_o="2000" height_o="1227" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d711925c9d79bcb19d2d51a75794c4414ccaebb5c9bdf6f2921759ed3249fbfe/freshkills_highres_06_sm.jpg" data-mid="27448946" border="0" alt="Photo: James Powers" data-caption="Photo: James Powers" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d711925c9d79bcb19d2d51a75794c4414ccaebb5c9bdf6f2921759ed3249fbfe/freshkills_highres_06_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1273" width_o="2000" height_o="1273" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4f3d6d8160c5bb6fbbc2a280212762cb4d638ae4bf8fc7f920237ede7a4c992/freshkills_highres_15_sm.jpg" data-mid="27448947" border="0" alt="Photo: James Powers" data-caption="Photo: James Powers" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4f3d6d8160c5bb6fbbc2a280212762cb4d638ae4bf8fc7f920237ede7a4c992/freshkills_highres_15_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1339" width_o="2000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c13656d8f9dfc66850cc399a906608a3eab871d1056f0520d5358b65648fc2d/DSC_9148_sm.jpg" data-mid="26764029" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c13656d8f9dfc66850cc399a906608a3eab871d1056f0520d5358b65648fc2d/DSC_9148_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1339" width_o="2000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6707c4ab2a48c1da8d3867cc208a42c54b54eae15a5e40cd4440978d252ef20d/DSC_9508_sm.jpg" data-mid="26764030" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6707c4ab2a48c1da8d3867cc208a42c54b54eae15a5e40cd4440978d252ef20d/DSC_9508_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1494" width_o="2000" height_o="1494" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bea8bec28bc7944fddafb2da4f9b8d8221f7781e8d7e88487f35c3681001207/fastnet_workshop_03_sm.jpg" data-mid="26764031" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bea8bec28bc7944fddafb2da4f9b8d8221f7781e8d7e88487f35c3681001207/fastnet_workshop_03_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1536" width_o="2000" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a6194b69c6e2997537904f9c0dbd9f1021b611890d22fae203d3be9b158a5cfe/fastnet_workshop_06_sm.jpg" data-mid="26764032" border="0" alt="Photo: James Powers" data-caption="Photo: James Powers" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a6194b69c6e2997537904f9c0dbd9f1021b611890d22fae203d3be9b158a5cfe/fastnet_workshop_06_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1333" width_o="2000" height_o="1333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b91e60bb7002175c2a10294a145bef51126e2386a83a780586393e733750c6eb/fastnet_wagner_05_sm.jpg" data-mid="27448944" border="0" alt="Photo: James Powers" data-caption="Photo: James Powers" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b91e60bb7002175c2a10294a145bef51126e2386a83a780586393e733750c6eb/fastnet_wagner_05_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1378" width_o="2000" height_o="1378" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03c5751de6acb7e5021a619f916a44c056719d4567ea4443161524260fc1e5a8/select-drawings-LR_05_sm.jpg" data-mid="27448948" border="0" alt="Photo: James Powers" data-caption="Photo: James Powers" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03c5751de6acb7e5021a619f916a44c056719d4567ea4443161524260fc1e5a8/select-drawings-LR_05_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b768bd3b7f202f1b71e8a1983f4b9ee1015d99a7b472ef42a6a7085395fb2488/IMG_5891_sm.jpg" data-mid="26764033" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b768bd3b7f202f1b71e8a1983f4b9ee1015d99a7b472ef42a6a7085395fb2488/IMG_5891_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1230" width_o="2000" height_o="1230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24920015dee63b4df730c64dfd9722566fae141b2738041ab60e0e79cc3544d6/Fastnet_discoveryday_06_sm.jpg" data-mid="27448942" border="0" alt="Photo: James Powers" data-caption="Photo: James Powers" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24920015dee63b4df730c64dfd9722566fae141b2738041ab60e0e79cc3544d6/Fastnet_discoveryday_06_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1126" width_o="2000" height_o="1126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e8d170e09196da4038b9c31ade4a60a988a7161d7e974dc87efb5984fceecd6b/fastnet_discovery-day-2_02_sm.jpg" data-mid="27448940" border="0" data-scale="100" alt="Photo: James Powers" data-caption="Photo: James Powers" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e8d170e09196da4038b9c31ade4a60a988a7161d7e974dc87efb5984fceecd6b/fastnet_discovery-day-2_02_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="3000" width_o="2000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/440ad0eb3bd7d01c67bc53ed49c438ce406d95730cd669c23a2169c95ccf9e95/Fastnet_discoveryday_15_sm.jpg" data-mid="27448943" border="0" alt="Photo: James Powers" data-caption="Photo: James Powers" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/440ad0eb3bd7d01c67bc53ed49c438ce406d95730cd669c23a2169c95ccf9e95/Fastnet_discoveryday_15_sm.jpg" /> Fastnet Plein-Air April-October 2018 Role: Project Manager Artist: James Powers Fastnet is a 20-foot shipping container that artist James Powers has outfitted as a mobile gallery that has opened its doors in Red Hook, Gowanus, and Jersey City. For Freshkills Park, the container became a drawing studio. Situated in the “Confluence” at Freshkills Park, an area formerly used by the NYC Department of Sanitation for landfill operations and planned as a cultural and waterfront hub in the future park, the container opens up with a view onto Main Creek and South Mound in the distance. Through the Freshkills Park art program, we have invited school groups and the public for plein air landscape drawing lessons led by practicing artists. The landscape at Freshkills Park, and from this vantage point, prompts discussion about the human-nature relationship and what is “natural” on a completely engineered site with a topography made from municipal solid waste and infrastructure to manage that material content. Lessons impart a visual awareness of the landscape and foster understanding of the consequences our actions have on the environment. This project is made possible (in part) by a DCA Art Fund Grant from Staten Island Arts, with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and Con Edison. https://marielvillere.com/Windows-into-Freshkills-Park Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:50:10 +0000 Mariel Villeré https://marielvillere.com/Windows-into-Freshkills-Park &nbsp; Windows into Freshkills Park 2017Role: Project ManagerDesigners: Slanted Studios and MTN GODS Brooklyn-based Slanted Studios and MTN GODS created a series of interactive vignettes to inform the public about the fundamentals of the Freshkills Park project. Four dioramas tell the story of the landfill-to-park project through the lenses of environmental history, transformative technologies, wildlife and its evolving future as a massive park. The vignettes include bold colors and shapes in different representational forms and depths, such as compartments, platforms, models, dioramas, and digital screens. Visitors using their mobile phones are able to activate dynamic paper cuts with motors and lights, and an interactive voice response system provides visitors with a deeper level of information about the park. The pop-up is meant to inspire viewers with the landscape design of Freshkills Park to learn more about urban ecology in New York City’s built environment. These dioramas tour locations in New York City, with potential for simultaneous display and/or travel. Slanted Studios x MTN GODS were selected to design the installation through an RFQ and juried process organized by the Freshkills Park art program. They are a multidisciplinary team of designers, coders, illustrators and animators with expertise in creating a wide range of commercial projects and public art installations. The team consists of Creative Directors Michelle Higa Fox and Philip Sierzega, Technical Director Charlie Whitney, Content Developer Stuart Higa Fox, and Producer Jennifer Vance. This project is supported in part by funding from the Staten Island Foundation and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Credits Slanted Studios &amp; MTN GODSCreative Directors: Philip Sierzega &amp; Michelle Higa FoxTechnical Direction: Charlie WhitneyProducer: Jennifer Vance Research &amp; Writing: Stuart Higa Fox Designers: Terra Henderson, Philip SierzegaAnimation: Caresse Haaser, Ana Kim, Philip SierzegaFabrication: Junko Shizimu, Victoria Arslani, Taili Wu, Ana Kim, John Hughes, Jennifer Vance, Yiwen Yan Digital Fabrication: GAMMA NYCPhysical Computing: Charlie Whitney, Yiwen Yan Voice Talent: Noah Norman, Alison WillmoreAudio Engineering: Mixtape Club MusicSound Design: Raymo Ventura Case StudyDP: Chris WillmoreMusic: Ketsa “Within the Earth” https://marielvillere.com/2200-Acres-Field-R-D-Artists-on-Regeneration Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:36:25 +0000 Mariel Villeré https://marielvillere.com/2200-Acres-Field-R-D-Artists-on-Regeneration <img width="2000" height="1336" width_o="2000" height_o="1336" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0811d483cf86e41182c67075029229c0feeeeffac0b2ca2c92f556b419998e2/Scheme-1.4_Page_1.jpg" data-mid="26768083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0811d483cf86e41182c67075029229c0feeeeffac0b2ca2c92f556b419998e2/Scheme-1.4_Page_1.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1335" width_o="2000" height_o="1335" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce1ca0029c76ad160026f8f42b7743d4c89d36f46d65ec4a409cd0617773266e/opening-159_sm.jpg" data-mid="26760731" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce1ca0029c76ad160026f8f42b7743d4c89d36f46d65ec4a409cd0617773266e/opening-159_sm.jpg" /> 2200 Acres: Field R/D Artists on Regeneration at Freshkills Park June 2018 – February 2019 Role: Co-curator with Dylan Gauthier Photos: Natalie Conn Artists: Billy and Steven Dufala, Mary Mattingly, Lize Mogel, Nancy Nowacek, Joe Riley, Audrey Snyder, Mare Liberum, and Markley Boyer with Natalie Conn and Seb Choe 2200 Acres is the first exhibition to feature works, research, stories, tours, and reflections on Freshkills Park by the inaugural cohort of Field R/D artists. Over the past year, the seven Field R/D artists “in residence” at Freshkills Park have worked in flexible, collaborative, long-term engagements with the 2,200 acre landscape as it continuously develops from landfill to park -- a process that will evolve over the next 25+ years. Over the course of the residency, artists followed their own paths, developed research methodologies, and posed questions to a range of actors from NYC Parks and NYC Sanitation, to scholars, scientists, ecologists, and environmental writers. As researchers in this first phase, Field R/D artists were propelled into the intertwined legacies of waste and consumerism, novel ecosystems and environmental blind spots, and past, present, and future uses of a major open space resource in New York City. The residency program format, much like the park’s development, emphasizes process as an organizing principle. &nbsp;On display in this culminating exhibition are the artists’ tools and artifacts of the residency period that reflect the unique slice of time and place that the Freshkills Park site occupies within intersecting systems, material networks,and social histories. Collectively, they prompt consideration of how to make infrastructure such as waste management systems in New York City comprehensible and visible. They also engage with the Park as a site in transition. Fittingly, many of these projects will take on new trajectories in the years to come, peeling back layers and adding new interpretations, offering novel ways of noticing change by prompting the unexpected. https://marielvillere.com/Image-Conduit Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:53:02 +0000 Mariel Villeré https://marielvillere.com/Image-Conduit <img width="2000" height="1339" width_o="2000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a3616986bfe55fca41340b1f92d71afd77bf8945fc4f6e3614f918c83149efc9/DSC_7928_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847843" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a3616986bfe55fca41340b1f92d71afd77bf8945fc4f6e3614f918c83149efc9/DSC_7928_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd69ef32c1d7b0da859168131a13cd520d1d317730c9271d0bdd3e9da98ecfbd/IMG_3271_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd69ef32c1d7b0da859168131a13cd520d1d317730c9271d0bdd3e9da98ecfbd/IMG_3271_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7227131463dc71fa6cbc8ed2c0f904f14532f571d65b8fcab132f00e0e47e8eb/IMG_3279_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847864" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7227131463dc71fa6cbc8ed2c0f904f14532f571d65b8fcab132f00e0e47e8eb/IMG_3279_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1330" width_o="2000" height_o="1330" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23c9ef31c75335833e149975f356c4e8722b8d60a8f7ea3b2cb0b0e06ae36120/DSC_9440-copy_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847845" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23c9ef31c75335833e149975f356c4e8722b8d60a8f7ea3b2cb0b0e06ae36120/DSC_9440-copy_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1339" width_o="2000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e05fbb08c648a49c01fa34e58cbb0b120ca47f32d8901816c6ec153f966f8c82/DSC_9434-copy_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847844" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e05fbb08c648a49c01fa34e58cbb0b120ca47f32d8901816c6ec153f966f8c82/DSC_9434-copy_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1339" width_o="2000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26abfa214c63b87d79aa9dd7661cf8b3b5f2eacd2983dc805da11c5d42882708/DSC_9455-copy_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847851" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26abfa214c63b87d79aa9dd7661cf8b3b5f2eacd2983dc805da11c5d42882708/DSC_9455-copy_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1339" width_o="2000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7a074e3af65820d96488036d5e01a161a2c17892329c11833e0e36c616319d4/DSC_9470-copy_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7a074e3af65820d96488036d5e01a161a2c17892329c11833e0e36c616319d4/DSC_9470-copy_sm.jpg" /> Image / Conduit June-September 2018Role: Organizer Artist: Bill Jenkins Image / Conduit responds to the topography at Freshkills Park and the contents beneath that give it form. This exhibition looks at how the flow of refuse from the five boroughs of New York City formed the varied 2,200 acre landscape. Fresh Kills Landfill was the primary repository for the city’s refuse between 1948, when the landfill was established, and 2001, when it accepted the final barge of garbage. Anyone who set foot in New York City in this era contributed refuse to what cumulatively became a series of large mounds, which have been engineered and capped to create the picturesque grassy hills of the present. Artist Bill Jenkins describes the sensation of exploring Freshkills Park as “being inside an image.” This is a unique, perhaps disorienting place to find oneself because images, such as those on a television or in a photograph, are flat; we can only visually enter them, not physically explore them. A quality that Freshkills Park shares with images, though, is compression. An era of granular remnants of life lived in New York City have been compacted beneath a new and final top layer that physically seals off the material past. In an effort to comprehend his own experiences of roaming around the Park, Jenkins devised a method of making video images on site, in the grasses and rainwater runoff, which reenacts the action of compression of physical matter at Freshkills Park into two dimensions. The installation pairs the resultant videos, titled Scans, with sculptures from Jenkins’ Conduit series, which represent fragments of the systems that regulate the interaction between outdoor and indoor environments, whether through climate control or waste management. Through these sculptural pipeline fragments, Jenkins again attempts to metaphorically interpret the Park as an image and a narrative of infrastructure intertwined with a landscape. Bill Jenkins is a visual artist born in northern California in 1981 and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Working in sculpture, installation and video, Jenkins extends the inherent functions of utilitarian things and places to explore potential for alternative modes of their use. With support from: The Freshkills Park Development Team and NYC Parks, The Freshkills Park Alliance, the NYC Department of Sanitation, and the Hyde &amp; Watson Foundation. Special thanks to Teri Hentze (NYC Parks) and to Kristin Lucas and Joe Mackay for technical support. https://marielvillere.com/The-Fantastic-Voyage Tue, 23 Oct 2018 01:47:13 +0000 Mariel Villeré https://marielvillere.com/The-Fantastic-Voyage <img width="2000" height="1339" width_o="2000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6b4ca4bad6881845ae79550fa40c78d23bab988fee994157000551d4264f4ef/012118_TFV_FreshkillsPark_feature_web_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847408" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6b4ca4bad6881845ae79550fa40c78d23bab988fee994157000551d4264f4ef/012118_TFV_FreshkillsPark_feature_web_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1339" width_o="2000" height_o="1339" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5b3165044e790a46345c7eaa38914be68d4cda8c03beaa7f4afd2495c1bf0c7/012118_TFV_FreshkillsPark_install2_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847411" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5b3165044e790a46345c7eaa38914be68d4cda8c03beaa7f4afd2495c1bf0c7/012118_TFV_FreshkillsPark_install2_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1296" width_o="2000" height_o="1296" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9d0b4fa46816f1b0d7a685e0eb3b12e005216482696a1f6a93342078e4aeec5/012118_TFV_FreshkillsPark_jars_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847412" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9d0b4fa46816f1b0d7a685e0eb3b12e005216482696a1f6a93342078e4aeec5/012118_TFV_FreshkillsPark_jars_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d69b9e091360ebccedf4cc5c4bae34ccb33df0644bf91aa3fb6451a1b6c4c16f/IMG_4899_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847415" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d69b9e091360ebccedf4cc5c4bae34ccb33df0644bf91aa3fb6451a1b6c4c16f/IMG_4899_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc5cf4b0809b06e7e691dc15a6d481d7231955ce5b7fa2646cb8cd560e9fede4/IMG_4790_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dc5cf4b0809b06e7e691dc15a6d481d7231955ce5b7fa2646cb8cd560e9fede4/IMG_4790_sm.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="2667" width_o="2000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67180baae33466eec8341c373f4bcc75313912188f4191feb4506188e47b1594/IMG_4893_sm.jpg" data-mid="26847414" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67180baae33466eec8341c373f4bcc75313912188f4191feb4506188e47b1594/IMG_4893_sm.jpg" /> The Fantastic Voyage January-June 2018 Role: Curator Artists: Stefani Bardin and Assaf Tamir What does our gut tell us about our food? The Fantastic Voyage traces the journey of two dramatically different sources of familiar foods through the human body, deconstructs the recipe for each, and visualizes their ingredients. In 2011 at Massachusetts General Hospital, Bardin and gastroenterologist Dr. Braden Kuo from Harvard University conducted the initial trial on the first human subjects to use the PillCam, an 11 x 26 mm capsule, which has a camera, light emitting diodes, and a transmitter. When swallowed, the device wirelessly transmits images of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to a receiver worn by the subject over the eight hour battery life of the pill. Mediated through technology and art, the scientific data highlights our own material existence and its relationship with the foods we buy and consume. This footage gives us a closer-than-ever-before look at our relationship to our own bodies, our relationship with corporate food culture, and the impact of both on our environments. This installation unpacks and decodes these layered systems in both organic and laboratory settings. Outside in the demonstration garden, compost (processed food waste) is the foundational agent to grow new food, the contents of the whole foods meal: oranges, lemons, limes, hibiscus flowers, cherries, wheat, soybeans, scallions, and onions. The garden will grow over time in a natural process, maintained by the artists. Mr. Roost wanders the yard, evading, but representing, the food fate of other chickens. On the shelves inside the gallery, over 60 jars are filled with manufactured ingredients in the processed and packaged meal. Their mostly unrecognizable names are given a physical presence, and their identifiers illuminate the ways in which corporate culture has spread its influence conceptually, nostalgically, and most importantly, literally. The exhibition explores our relationships to ancient permaculture practices, contemporary industrial food production, corporate branding, mono-cropping and the role of food production in our personal health and the health of the environment. Its intention is to make what is invisible, visible; as well as attempt to provide pathways toward regaining agency in our food system and a more holistic stewardship of our planet through multidisciplinary studies and experiences. About the Artists Assaf Tamir moved to NYC from Tel Aviv in 2000 after working as an artist, stage designer, and metal fabricator. For the last 15 years he has honed his skills and now owns and operates two restaurants that he designed and built: Lighthouse (Brooklyn) and Lighthouse Outpost (Manhattan), which are both run with the sustainability of the planet and the health and wellbeing of his staff and patrons at the forefront. He continues to sculpt, paint, and draw using an array of materials and techniques and recently completed a residency with Design Inquiry. Stefani Bardin explores the influences of corporate culture and industrial food production on our food system and the environment. She works with neuroscientists, biologists, and gastroenterologists to ground her research in the scientific world. These investigations take the form of single and multi-channel videos, immersive and interactive installations, as well as tools for measuring and/or mediating these influences. Her work has been written about in publications including Wired Magazine, Scientific American, Art21, Forbes, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and published by the Bauhaus Press imprint Spector Books. Residencies include Eyebeam, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and Design Inquiry. This exhibit was made possible by NYC Parks and the Freshkills Park Development Team, the Freshkills Park Alliance, NYC Department of Sanitation, design assistance from Cole Orloff and Naama Tamir, donations from M. Fine Lumber, Twinsprint, and additional support from Eyebeam.&nbsp; Workshop with the artists Spanning the history of the Green Revolution and the rise of Industrial Food Production this hands-on workshop will use the backdrop of the Fantastic Voyage Exhibition to explore how food has migrated from a source of health and wellness to a co-opted capitalist tool designed to create a dependency on (and some would say addiction to) processed foods and all of its sugar, salt and fat configurations.&nbsp; We’ll then circle back to understanding how we regain a more comprehensive understanding of food for sale versus the food we grow and/or prepare ourselves. Participants will learn how to make Hibiscus Gatorade, Pomegranate-Cherry Gummy Bears as well as natural ways of preserving and preparing food through pickling and fermentation. https://marielvillere.com/Confluence Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:58:08 +0000 Mariel Villeré https://marielvillere.com/Confluence Confluence 2016Role: Co-organizer &nbsp; Video: Aleksandra Gorbacheva, Dylan Gauthier, Joe Riley&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Confluence, the name given to the center of the Freshkills Park site by James Corner Field Operations in the 2006 Master Plan, is also the name of the boat tour co-organized by Dylan Gauthier and Mariel Villeré (NYC Parks) with Classic Harbor Line on October 9, 2016. The tour convened artists, designers, members of the public, and the regional boating community around environmental issues related to the waterways, waterfront, and art. From the Hudson River through Buttermilk Channel, the Kill Van Kull, the Arthur Kill and into the Fresh Kills waterways, Confluence considered the flows of the city through water, a changing waterfront, and artists as catalysts and contributors to the changing urban landscape. Artists Mary Mattingly, Lize Mogel, and Nancy Nowacek discussed their respective artist-created infrastructure projects and architectural tour guide Arthur Platt, AIA contextualized this vein of water-work along the periphery of New York Harbor. As we cruised along the West Shore of Staten Island and into the central creeks of Fresh Kills, Mariel Villeré, Manager for Programs, Arts and Grants for Freshkills Park, guided us through the history of Fresh Kills Landfill and its transformation into Freshkills Park, a new “Confluence” situated at one of New York City’s furthest extents, the West Shore of Staten Island. Artist and Confluence co-curator, Dylan Gauthier, moderated a discussion between the artists and their work spanning food production and waste, citizen infrastructure, and water(front) reclamation. Confluence is made possible, in part, by funding from the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, Tauck/Ritzau Innovative Philanthropy, and in partnership with Classic Harbor Line, the Freshkills Park Alliance, and the City of New York. DYLAN GAUTHIER is a Brooklyn-based artist, curator, and writer who works through a deeply engaged artistic practice that is centered around ideas of ecology, architecture, collaboration, invisible infrastructure, and utopian systems. He is founder of the eco-art and boatbuilding collective Mare Liberum (2007), and of the Sunview Luncheonette (2012), a center for art, community, and innovation in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His work has been shown at the Parrish Art Museum, ISCP, the Brandywine River Museum of Art, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, EFA Project Space, MASS MoCA and the Walker Art Center among other venues. In 2016 he is an Emerging Artist Fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY, and the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art in Chadd’s Ford, PA. In 2015 he was awarded the NEA supported Ecological Artist Residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP). His water-based projects with the collective Mare Liberum, which he co-founded in 2007, can be viewed at www.thefreeseas.org. MARY MATTINGLY creates sculptural ecosystems in urban spaces. With the NYC Urban Field Station, she is working on a floating food forest for New York called Swale. She recently completed a two-part sculpture, Pull, for the International Havana Biennial with the Museo National de Belles Artes de la Habana and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Mattingly’s work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, the Seoul Art Center, the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Public Library, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, and the Palais de Tokyo. In 2009 Mattingly founded the Waterpod Project, a barge-based public space and self-sufficient habitat that hosted over 200,000 visitors in New York. Mattingly has been awarded grants and fellowships from A Blade of Grass, the James L. Knight Foundation, Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, Yale University School of Art, the Harpo Foundation, NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, and the Art Matters Foundation. Swale, Mattingly’s newest project, is a 130 ft. by 40 ft. barge that houses “an edible living system.” Annuals and perennials such as gooseberries, lemon balm, yams, and strawberries co-habitat the garden beds and are irrigated by a mix of rain and river water, filtered on board. Collaborating with community groups, students, artists, and the US Coast Guard to bring Swale to life, the project opened in July at Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx and is now is docked at Brooklyn Bridge Park. LIZE MOGEL is an interdisciplinary artist and counter-cartographer. Her work intersects the fields of popular education, cultural production, public policy, and mapping. She creates maps and mappings that produce new understandings of social and political issues. Her work connects the real history and collective imaginary about specific places to larger narratives of global economies. She has mapped public parks in Los Angeles; future territorial disputes in the Arctic; and wastewater economies in New York City. She is co-editor of the book/map collection “An Atlas of Radical Cartography,” a project that significantly influenced the conversation and production around mapping and activism. Mogel’s exhibitions include the Sharjah (U.A.E.), Gwangju (South Korea) and Pittsburgh Biennials, “Greater New York” at PS1, and “Experimental Geography.” She has lectured extensively about her work nationally and internationally, including at the 2013 Creative Time Summit. Past works include “The Sludge Economy,” which made visible the infrastructure of human waste – specifically sewage treatment plants; and the social, environmental, and racial justice issues that are sometimes equally as invisible as the physical infrastructure. She is currently working on a new counter-cartographic project “Walking the Watershed,” that explores the physical, social, and political geographies of the watercourses, lands and communities that supply NYC with water. NANCY NOWACEK is an artist whose work is rooted in the processes, codes, and habits of life. She focuses on the uses of the body in modern technologies—from iPhones to television to architecture—through labor and leisure, nature and the built environment. Her work examines the gulf between late-capital post-industrial time-sense and body-sense, where physique has been eclipsed by machines as valuable technology. Engaging grammars of exercise, dance, architecture, labor and leisure, she aims to challenge and reshape the contemporary body schema. She makes sculpture, performance and environments that collapse thinking into doing, and reinstate the body’s relevance as functional object, tool, and site of knowledge and imagination. Nowacek’s project Citizen Bridge (2012), a floating pedestrian sculpture to reclaim the waterways as public space, envisions a temporary floating pedestrian bridge for passage between Brooklyn and Governors Island. Inspired by Walt Whitman’s report of farmers once walking their cows across Buttermilk Channel at low tide, the project aims to reconnect New Yorkers to their waterways, reclaim the waterfront step by step, helping New Yorkers gain agency over their bodies in relation to the water, a necessity in the new reality of living in a sinking city. Other recent works include: CB Radio (2015-2016), a radio show/podcast series in collaboration with Jake Nussbaum for Clocktower Radio (Listen: clocktower.org/series/cb-radio); Governors Islands (2012), a proposal to construct more islands in the East River; Horizon line (2012): Performance work mapping a route from the center of Brooklyn to occupy the water. https://marielvillere.com/What-is-Freshkills Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:39:08 +0000 Mariel Villeré https://marielvillere.com/What-is-Freshkills <img width="1545" height="1000" width_o="1545" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a232deee812ca1a464110836a8e6cc269cec4716dbb909ec1b4462a44c01999/FreshkillsPark_Past.jpg" data-mid="26285920" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a232deee812ca1a464110836a8e6cc269cec4716dbb909ec1b4462a44c01999/FreshkillsPark_Past.jpg" /> <img width="1491" height="996" width_o="1491" height_o="996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b994c476faf2d92f4464c2005e4e6a3de925a34c8a6793ffab1291f0ddbff51a/FreshkillsPark_Now.jpg" data-mid="26285921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b994c476faf2d92f4464c2005e4e6a3de925a34c8a6793ffab1291f0ddbff51a/FreshkillsPark_Now.jpg" /> <img width="2000" height="1334" width_o="2000" height_o="1334" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cef8a8d7e19562b78db08b86549f83b140cfe330d49ebbe533c1ee62c1bf7fea/Photoofcover1.jpg" data-mid="26285922" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cef8a8d7e19562b78db08b86549f83b140cfe330d49ebbe533c1ee62c1bf7fea/Photoofcover1.jpg" /> What is Freshkills? 2016 Role: Project Manager Designers: Partner &amp; Partners &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Freshkills Park teamed up with the design studio Partner &amp; Partners to create What is Freshkills?, a fold-out poster pamphlet that illustrates the history, engineering, and ecology of the unique 2,200-acre park in an accessible and easily distributed format. As an educational resource, the What is Freshkills? poster pamphlet aims to increase awareness of the Freshkills Park project in classrooms and for families, volunteers, and park collaborators. Through bright illustrations and typography, the pamphlet provides an overview of some of the many topics surrounding the park, including landfill engineering, waste management, wildlife, native plants, and grassland and wetland ecosystems, and folds out to a 22”x32” poster to express the future park. Designers at Partner &amp; Partners worked closely with NYC Parks to break down complex information into engaging and friendly, yet didactic illustrations and text, which were then reviewed with landfill engineers, waste management and communication professionals at NYC Sanitation. The publication is intended for a general audience interested in city systems, public space, and environmental stewardship in the ever-shifting human-nature relationship, and has a built-in audience of NYC students. NYC Parks is distributing copies of the poster pamphlet to schools all over New York City so teachers can integrate lessons from the park into their curriculum. The pamphlet is also available as a PDF here. Support for this publication was provided by National Grid and Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.