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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.
Nitin Mukul: hyper- local art & community action
Artist spotlight: learn about Nitin Mukul, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant, painter, and co-founder of of Epi-Center NYC, a Queens-based community media platform.
Sabina Sethi Unni: community-centered disaster preparedness
Artist spotlight: learn about Sabina Sethi Unni, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant and a public theater artist, organizer, and urban planner raising awareness about disaster preparedness.
Veggie Nuggets: fighting for compost education
Artist spotlight: learn about the Veggie Nuggets, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant and youth climate action group participating in state and local advocacy and raising awareness about composting in NYC; check out their PSA!
Street Work Earth ‘24: Climate experts in creative conversation with artists
Meet the environmental and climate experts connecting with artists in creative conversations for the 2024 Street Work Earth. From interdisciplinary relationships come future friendship, collaboration, co-mentorship, and more.
Welcome to 8 artists joining September Street Works Earth!
We’re excited to announce the 8 artists commissioned to participate in MJN’s inaugural Street Works Earth on September 22, 2024! (Image designed by Cari Hanson.)
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.)