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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.
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.
Action at work: meet the experts & contribute to action libraries
We’re working to bridge from experience and joy to practical actions that anyone can take. For us, action is about giving and receiving and resting when you need to.
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.
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.
Save the date: Street Works Earth, Sept 22, 2024, 11am-5pm
Register to join MJN, artists, and climate experts for a day of co-creative art, community building, and environmental and climate action on 34th Avenue’s Open Street in Jackson Heights, Queens, during New York Climate Week!
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.)
Celebration! April convening of 2024 Street Works artists
Thank you to the 2024 Street Work artists for meeting in Travers Park for the first artist convening!
NY’s Climate Change Superfund Act passes!!
June 2024: After years of slow action, the New York State Assembly joined the State Senate in passing the Climate Change Superfund Act— intended to make the most polluting corporations in NY pay for the harm they’ve caused.
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!
Thanks to Queens Arts Fund for supporting Street Works!
We’re grateful to be among artists selected to create new work through the Queens Arts Fund (QAF), administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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
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
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.)