Events
Throughout the year, CALL has a diversity of events, from virtual conversations to outdoor walks and artistic performances. Here are a few upcoming events Click Here for the full line-up →
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Highlights from Current Projects
Artist and art historian Myles Zhang and designer, architect, and urbanist Stephan Fan, collaborated with CALL to delve deeper into public space use in Chinatown. Pedestrian Observations was inspired by a drop-in event led by Myles and Stephan in Sarah D Roosevelt Park in 2021 where individuals shared observations about street life in Chinatown on a map-inspired outline illustration. Multiple conversations with Chinatown residents and based on walking tours, sidewalk outreach events, and community forums, helped shape the materials, themes, and activities illustrated in the “map.” By highlighting these relationships, we hope to stimulate conversations about how to foster a healthy symbiosis between these spaces and uses: how the public realm can be better used, designed, managed, and re-imagined to shape a more resilient and inclusive public realm.
We aspire that Pedestrian Observations will be a classroom and community resource to equip people with questions to examine their own built environments, as well as a directory of community organizations that engage with these issues.
Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Manhattan Chinatown’s Public Realm is currently on view in Columbus Park.
The Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Manhattan Chinatown’s Public Realm resource pamphlets are finally here! Please feel free to fill out the information below and we’ll happily send a copy your way!
WaterMarks aims to create a new water narrative for the City of Milwaukee, where citizens recognize water as resource and responsibility, vital to life as well as general well-being across the region. This City-scale project is comprised of sculptural installations, public programs, an interactive app, and the transformation of the Jones Island water treatment plant smokestack into a glowing rain indicator.
The Tibbetts Estuary Tapestry Project imagines green roofs on all of the buildings along Broadway that were built on former wetlands. Artists Matthew López-Jensen and Ana de la Cueva have designed this public art project to imagine the possibilities of green roofs with thread. The finished tapestry will be fifteen feet long and six feet tall, and involve 120 people in embroidery.
This collaborative virtual exhibition experience connects participants with the nature around and within them through a series of artistic exercises in and around the Bronx. While most of these experiences are place-based, many of the exercises and reflections can be done wherever you are. On this page, you can engage with video artwork, listen to a conversation between NDERE and Dr. Renee Lertzman, download a self-guided meditation you can take with you to any spot where you’ll encounter a tree, pause and hum like a bee, or engage with other experiences created in and around the Bronx. This virtual exhibition space is a part of the Art Prospect 2021 Festival, and will be updated with new content throughout the duration of the Festival.
Ambitious projects addressing the most critical environmental issues cities face.
Documentation of CALL’s November 2017 WALK along Tibbetts Brook with Eric Sanderson, Charles McKinney and SLO Architecture. CALL/WALKS are an important part of our framework for creating dialogs about our most pressing issues that lead to substantive, community-engaged change.
Bring CALL’s innovative programming to communities across the country…
If you are concerned about the environmental challenges facing our communities, and believe that art can be an important catalyst for change, we ask you to support CALL at this important moment – to enable us to experiment, learn, and drive change. With your help artists working with CALL can make these complex environmental issues tangible and accessible in many diverse communities, from the riverbanks of Milwaukee to the streets of New York City.
Our programming, like the walk you can learn about in this video, has a very real capacity to change the way cities and local communities address these challenges- and none of it is possible without generosity of our supporters.
Your financial support can truly make a difference, whether it is $10 a month or $5,000 a year, every penny will be translated into tangible programs and projects reaching residents of some of the most environmentally challenged urban areas and influencing change.