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45 designs Featured in Street Works sustainable fashion designer of the year!
Learn more about the 45 designs featured at the Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards, Sept 20, at Street Works Earth!
Get to know the 45 designers Competing for Street Works sustainable fashion designer of the year
Learn more about the 45 designers that will be showing their work at the Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards, Sept 20, at Street Works Earth!
Climate Resiliency Fellowship
Are you 17–24 and interested in climate, design, art, community work, or creating a more resilient New York? Apply by October 31 for the Climate Resilience Fellowship, a 16-week training and career program by Waterfront Alliance over 16 weeks for young people from New York City on the frontlines of climate change.
Participants who complete specific fellowship requirements receive a $700 honorarium. If you have any questions, contact Furhana Husani: fhusani@waterfrontalliance.org.
Calling Volunteers!
We are seeking volunteers for Street Works Earth, our annual climate, justice, and art festival in Queens, scheduled for 9/20. Sign up by 8/20 to get integrated into our awesome community and get to know the festival alongside us!
Interested in modeling sustainable fashion at Street Works Earth? Sign up here
Several community members have asked if they can model in the 2026 Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards Show. So we created this interest form! By submitting, you'll be added to a pool of potential models that we share with designers connected to Street Works Earth 2026.
Fashion Sustainability Standard for Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Award
Below are the questions registered designers for the Sustainable Fashion Designer Awards will fill out when they submit designs after June 26.
We’re setting a minimum standard for sustainability for individual designers, while creating space to see how standards should go up as they start selling their work.
Designer Registration Open: Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards
This September, we’re bringing a fashion competition to Street Works Earth to celebrate designers, artists, and neighbors creating outfits that show how care for people, communities, and the planet can be gorgeous, inventive, and stylish.
We’re inviting fashion designers at any level — self-taught, students, emerging, or established — to submit one original wearable outfit that demonstrates sustainability. Designers must be available in person in Queens, NYC, September 20-27 to present their work (exact day to be confirmed.)
Call for Art with CRECE in Queens
CRECE + Street Works are building a directory of Queens artists interested in presenting work in CRECE's beautiful community space, scheduled to open in May 2026. Submit your art here!
Tell Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani: Invest in Green Healthy Schools
In 2026, Climate Works for All will deliver hundreds of postcards created by children at Street Works Earth 2024 and 2025 to Mayor Mamdani calling for green, healthy public schools, alongside messages from educators, families, and community members. Sign the petition to join!
Draft 2026 Events Calendar, Jan-Sept: Open for Feedback!
We’re releasing 3 quarters of the Street Works 2026 calendar in draft form, so members of our community can weigh in. Before we lock in content, dates, and times, take 1 minute to share feedback.
09/21/25, 11AM—6PM: Street Works Earth details
Street Works Earth is this Sunday, 9/21, from 11 AM-6 PM! This is your at-a-glance guide to what’s going on, when, and how to get here. Directions and schedule inside!
A note from Thread Lightly organizers: Fashion in an arts festival, 9/21
The way we decorate ourselves is an artistic act. But it’s also shaped by systems. Thread Lightly was a fashion focus in Street Works Earth 2025, co-designed this year with We Act for Environmental Justice and Kaleidospace. Let us know if you have ideas for how we can carry this into 2026 and beyond.
Calling Volunteers for Street WorKs Earth
We’re looking for volunteers to help bring Street Works Earth to life. Read here for roles. To sign up, email collective@makejusticenormal.org. What we most need is flexibility and reliability, but we’ll do our best to match people with roles that fit their interests!
9/21/25: Future@Work, Career Fair at Street Works Earth
Take the survey for a career fair, called Future@Work, as part of Street Works 2025, concentrated mostly from 12-2pm on Sept 21.
Thank you to the 2026 Street Works Earth Team!
Thank you to the 2026 Street Works Earth Team!
Submitting Designs: Sustainable Fashion Designer of the Year Awards
This September, we’re bringing a fashion competition to Street Works Earth. After registering, designers can submit designs on this page starting in early June! In the meantime, see the sustainability guidelines and form question here.
09/22/24, 11AM — 5PM: Street Works Earth details & logistics
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!
Public space at work: 34 Avenue open 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.
Relationship at work: where the 2024 Street Work is and who it's for
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.
Co-creation at work: 2024 Street Work installations
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!