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.