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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.
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.)