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Nitin Mukul: hyper- local art & community action

Artist spotlight: learn about Nitin Mukul, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant, painter, and co-founder of of Epi-Center NYC, a Queens-based community media platform.

Anjali Deshmukh 7/19/24 Anjali Deshmukh 7/19/24

Sabina Sethi Unni: community-centered disaster preparedness

Artist spotlight: learn about Sabina Sethi Unni, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant and a public theater artist, organizer, and urban planner raising awareness about disaster preparedness.

Anjali Deshmukh 7/13/24 Anjali Deshmukh 7/13/24

Veggie Nuggets: fighting for compost education

Artist spotlight: learn about the Veggie Nuggets, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant and youth climate action group participating in state and local advocacy and raising awareness about composting in NYC; check out their PSA!

Anjali Deshmukh 7/8/24 Anjali Deshmukh 7/8/24

Street Work Earth ‘24: Climate experts in creative conversation with artists

Meet the environmental and climate experts connecting with artists in creative conversations for the 2024 Street Work Earth. From interdisciplinary relationships come future friendship, collaboration, co-mentorship, and more.

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Save the date: Street Works Earth, Sept 22, 2024, 11am-5pm

Register to join MJN, artists, and climate experts for a day of co-creative art, community building, and environmental and climate action on 34th Avenue’s Open Street in Jackson Heights, Queens, during New York Climate Week!

Anjali Deshmukh 6/19/24 Anjali Deshmukh 6/19/24

Welcome to 8 artists joining September Street Works Earth!

We’re excited to announce the 8 artists commissioned to participate in MJN’s inaugural Street Works Earth on September 22, 2024! (Image designed by Cari Hanson.)

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Supporting NY HEAT act & climate justice legislation

MJN stands with NY Renews and our fellow CJ and EJ peers holding a Climate Justice Action Week starting May 20th to mobilize for climate action. (Image designed by Anjali Deshmukh.)

Thanks for joining us at the Queens Botanical Garden’s climate art fest

MJN members, Ernest Verrett and Anjali Deshmukh, were glad to promote 34 Ave Open Streets Coalition, Queens Climate Project, and NY Metro Climate Reality Project at the Queens Botanical Garden for their Climate and Art Festival on April 27! (Photo by Ernest Verrett.)

Launching Street Works, public-space galleries for co-creative art

We're excited to announce Street Works, a platform collective members are building for artists who practice co-creation in public spaces. This is one way in which we hope to make justice normal in a cultural asset ecosystem that has not not served justice. (Image: Art: “Bending the Universe,” by Anjali Deshmukh. Photo: by Chasi Annexy.)

Listen to our podcast: Into the Record

What if justice were normal? What and who will it take to imagine new habits, processes, and structures that default to loving care, anti-bias, pro-Earth, and solidarity?

Thanks to the Racial Equity Asset Lab (The REAL) for supporting Into the Record podcast!

We’re grateful for the support from the Racial Equity Asset Lab (the REAL) to design and launch MJN’s podcast Into the Record, as part of our Narrative Change work.