After a bustling, month-long residency at Chelsea Market, our WRITE program served a few last patrons before heading out onto the streets for the rest of summer. WRITE is being developed with Therese Cox, a Heyman Center Public Humanities Fellow at Columbia University. Thanks to our host Chelsea Market for hosting DRAW and now WRITE in Chelsea Local. Scroll down to look back at blog posts from our deployments here during 2019.
Look back at more of our deployments at Chelsea Market:
Creating a place to gather around drawing at Chelsea Market
Our DRAW residency continues at Chelsea Market, and today people gathered around a clever still life created with Bowery Kitchen Supplies. Thanks to volunteers from The Garden School in Jackson Heights! Come find DRAW every Sunday from 11am-2pm in Chelsea Local on the...
DRAW at Chelsea Market for Lunar New Year
Our DRAW residency continued at Chelsea Market this Sunday, featuring artist Felicia Liang. People gathered around to draw a beautiful Lunar New Year still life, created by Pearl River. Come find DRAW every Sunday from 11am-2pm through March 10 on the lower level of...
New residency for DRAW launched at Chelsea Market this weekend
Our DRAW program began a residency at Chelsea Market this weekend, offering locals, visitors, and shoppers a place to sit and draw together. Special thanks to the folks at Manhattan Fruit Market, who created a large still life that was a hit. Thanks also to our...
DRAW comes inside to Chelsea Market this winter
We're expanding our work to include more indoor deployments during the winter! Starting this weekend, we'll bring our DRAW program to Chelsea Market, which is a great place to gather in the cold. Drop-in and draw with your neighbors at Chelsea Local on the lower level...
A year-end letter from the co-founders of the Uni Project
Dear Friends of the Uni, We’re writing with news of the Uni Project and to ask for your support. In 2018, we blew past a milestone—600 deployments in public space—and our work continues to expand beyond portable reading rooms. Through it all, we try to...
At the 2018 Hindsight Conference with NYC DOT
We created a special pop-up reading room in partnership with NYC DOT at Hindsight 2018, an annual conference focused on diversity and planning organized by the Diversity Committee of the New York Metro Chapter of the American Planning Association. In between sessions,...