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Public space at work: 34 Avenue open street
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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.

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Remember Y(our) Connection: envisioning beauty and building compassion
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Remember Y(our) Connection: envisioning beauty and building compassion

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.

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All Street Collective: local communities responding to climate change
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All Street Collective: local communities responding to climate change

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.

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Jing (Ellen) Xu: small actions make big impacts
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Jing (Ellen) Xu: small actions make big impacts

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.

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Kaleidospace: seeding hope and creating healing spaces
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Kaleidospace: seeding hope and creating healing spaces

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.

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Bayeté Ross Smith: confronting bias in visual journalism
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Bayeté Ross Smith: confronting bias in visual journalism

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.

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Launching Street Works, public-space galleries for co-creative art
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Launching Street Works, public-space galleries for co-creative art

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.)

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Supporting NY HEAT act & climate justice legislation
Supporting NY HEAT act & climate justice legislation

MJN stands with NY Renews and our fellow CJ and EJ peers holding a Climate Justice Action Week starting May 20th to mobilize for climate action. (Image designed by Anjali Deshmukh.)

Thanks for joining us at the Queens Botanical Garden’s climate art fest
Thanks for joining us at the Queens Botanical Garden’s climate art fest

MJN members, Ernest Verrett and Anjali Deshmukh, were glad to promote 34 Ave Open Streets Coalition, Queens Climate Project, and NY Metro Climate Reality Project at the Queens Botanical Garden for their Climate and Art Festival on April 27! (Photo by Ernest Verrett.)

Launching Street Works, public-space galleries for co-creative art
Launching Street Works, public-space galleries for co-creative art

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.)