Visions of Tibbetts Brook was conceived by Bronx-based photographer and conceptual artist Manuel Acevedo. The project started at the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center (KHCC) in summer 2022 and moved to AmPark Neighborhood School in early 2023. At AmPark, Acevedo conducted 9 classroom art-making sessions and two site visits with the Van Cortlandt Park Director of Environmental & Garden Education followed by an in-school session with Jessica Wilson, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Manhattan College.

The students learned how wetlands and living shorelines improve our watershed quality. The final banner project included one collage by each student that rendered the future greenway and a personal statement of their vision for the future of Tibbetts.

Emilio Martínez Poppe's Estamos en el Agua is a community artwork taking the form of a newspaper. It recounts the stories of Queens residents and brings together historical maps and practical tools to confront the growing reality of cloudbursts —sudden, intense rainstorms that flood streets and homes.

Un Paseo al Agua is a series of road signs installed from 10th and Greenfield moving East towards Milwaukee’s Harbor District.
The signs depict the unique and diverse landscapes of the Harbor District - illuminating it’s industrial past, it’s critical role in the transportation of people and goods, and it’s more recent development of spaces for public recreation and water access. 

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.” Tap the image to receive a copy today!

Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Manhattan Chinatown’s Public Realm is currently on view in Columbus Park.

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.

Water Gods are a series of art panels featuring water deities by Gabriela Riveros that were installed in 2018 between 13th and 16th streets north of the Kinnickinnic River in Milwaukee. Each panel shows water deities drawn from the mythic traditions of an ethnic or cultural group who came to live here in the KK River neighborhood.

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.

Bird Houses are a series of colorful bird and bat houses designed by Mollie Oblinger and were installed as part of a WaterMarks artist project in 2019 between 13th and 16th streets north of the Kinnickinnic River.

“G” is for gather, growth, gritty, Garden Homes... Green Tech Station is a unique site that advances Milwaukee’s global leadership in green infrastructure technology and practice. It is an oasis of green space intentionally designed on a remediated slice of abandoned industrial wasteland. It is a beautiful educational amenity amid underserved neighborhoods. It is tenacious as a phoenix.

Tan’s project WuXing Oracle Cards highlights local Asian produce and connects food to concepts of healing in traditional Chinese medicine. Over the course of a few months, Tan created beautiful watercolor oracle cards by working with TCM practitioner Donna Mah to explore the healing properties of each featured item of produce. The deck is meant to help explore these ideas and share recipes and food memories with community members.

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.

Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Manhattan Chinatown’s Public Realm is currently on view in Columbus Park.

As part of Artist Jean Shin’s project, TAKE ROOT, participants in this workshop created dynamic sculptures that also function as stackable, vertical gardens for distribution of Chinese Medicinal plants. Creating new value out of leftover plastic waste, the project reclaims these unwanted containers and turns them into small habitats for living plants ready for redistribution and growth in the community.

Visions of Tibbetts Brook was conceived by Bronx-based photographer and conceptual artist Manuel Acevedo. The project started at the Kingsbridge Heights Community Center (KHCC) in summer 2022 and moved to AmPark Neighborhood School in early 2023. At AmPark, Acevedo conducted 9 classroom art-making sessions and two site visits with the Van Cortlandt Park Director of Environmental & Garden Education followed by an in-school session with Jessica Wilson, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Manhattan College.

The students learned how wetlands and living shorelines improve our watershed quality. The final banner project included one collage by each student that rendered the future greenway and a personal statement of their vision for the future of Tibbetts.

For WaterMarks, he created the sculptural pieces flanking the south walking path at Green Tech Station. These are inspired by African water vessels and contain the words “Water Has No Enemies” and “Water Is An Ancestor.”

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.

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.