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:
The Uni at the Central Park Zoo with The Drawing Center
Every Saturday in May, the Uni DRAW cart will transformed into a field station of the Department of Tropical Research at the Central Park Zoo, where visitors can draw from specimens and learn how ecologist William Beebe and his team of scientists worked with...
Uni reading room on the street in Elmhurst Queens
The Uni Project teamed up with NYC DOT to vist a Weekend Walk hosted by Thai Community USA NYC. We were also honored to give a tour of the Uni to librarians from Aarhus, Denmark—they have launched their own mobile library project called MobiBiblioteket, making use of...
Uni Project partners with HYPOTHEkids to launch new STEAM cart in the Bronx
This week, the Uni portable reading room landed at a NYC DOT Weekend Walk hosted by SOS South Bronx and Morrisania. People gathered around to look at ants and other specimens through microscopes and magnifying glasses at a portable science lab that we developed with...
Uni at Westchester Square in the Bronx
Uni portable reading landed at the first of many NYC DOT Weekend Walks this season, this one hosted by the Westchester Business Improvement District. Despite a little April rain, we met some great folks and hope to return on a sunny day! Uni Project participation made...
Uni Project season gets underway tonight!
Ever wish you could invite New Yorkers into your apartment, let 'em browse your books, and read on your couch? Nope, me neither. Fortunately, we have public space and the Uni portable reading room! Sam here, reminding you that our 2017 season launches tonight. Check...
Come work at the Uni Project
Looking for a challenge? You could be running pop-up installations that offer reading, drawing, and more in NYC public space. You are fearless, friendly, and organized. The Uni Project is hiring. Let's do this. (Just want to help the cause from time to...