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2024 Street Work Earth. Photo by Derrick Seymore.
“What we need to do is what our elders did, our ancient people did, which was pull back to the roots.” -- Nicolas Linares, referring to ancient medicinal and agricultural technologies.
Announcing: Street Works Earth 2024 event details. Here’s an at-a-glance view of details so far on artist installations and participating creatives tabling with resources and actions. See you on the Street!
Street Works seek to make justice normal in the cultural asset ecosystem by resisting systemic injustices. One way is in how we seek to design an alternative to status quo artistic presentation models, including museums. That is why we focus on public space — shared space.
The 2024 Street Work will take place on 34th Avenue’s Open Street in Jackson Heights, Queens, a 26 block stretch starting at 69th Street and spanning about 1.3 miles, that closes every day from 8 AM to 8 PM.
Among the four design principles that ground Street Works is people and local relationship: centering the people participating, with particular focus on people who live and work in an area where an event is taking place. Learn a little bit more about what this means and the location of the 2024 Street Work in Jackson Heights, Queens.
Check out the latest batch of installations that will be at Street Works, an artistic practice dedicated to pushing co-creation in radical directions over time. There are still more installations to come!
Artist Spotlight: Learn about Remember Y(our) Connection, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant. This public participatory art project aims to cultivate relationships through dialogue and conversation about shared struggles and indigenous wisdom. They are presenting Mushroom Power! a creative thought exercise inspired by the power of mushrooms to cleans the environment.
Artist Spotlight: Learn about All Street Collective, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant. This artist collective and gallery exhibits works by emerging and underrepresented artists and hosts programs spanning education, performance, music, and community-building. They will present Community Climate where attendees can participate in building an archive of Queens climate actions.
Artist Spotlight: Learn about Jing (Ellen) Xu, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant, she is a visual artist. For Street Work, she has created an interactive art installation of colorful foam and cardboard rocks reflecting on how small actions can tip the balance toward positive change for the planet and its oceans.
Artist spotlight: learn about Kaleidospace, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant, performance ensemble, and community convenor. For Street Work, they’re developing a 2-part music & dance experience immersing us in the story of corporate imperialism and its roles in climate change, as well as the role of collective community-based action in seeding hope, hard work, and alternative healing spaces.
Artist spotlight: learn about Bayeté Ross Smith, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant and visual journalist challenging bias. As part of Street Works, Bayeté is expanding on his Hip Hip 50 Boombox series blending music and sculptures made of sugar and cotton — two of the largest cash crops of American and European colonial powers.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.)
Thank you to the 2024 Street Work artists for meeting in Travers Park for the first artist convening!
June 2024: After years of slow action, the New York State Assembly joined the State Senate in passing the Climate Change Superfund Act— intended to make the most polluting corporations in NY pay for the harm they’ve caused.
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.)