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:
Uni begins Bronx residency at Concrete Plant Park next to Swale, a floating farm
The Uni launched a four week residency at the newly renovated Concrete Plant Park in the Bronx today. We're here in partnership with a terrific Bronx community organization, Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, and we're deploying next to Swale, a floating urban...
READ, DRAW, and more in Hunts Point, Bronx
We're in the middle of a string of visits to Hunts Point Playground in the Bronx. Our weekly deployments are made possible by Leaves of Grass Fund and are part of a partnership with NYC Parks to support the Community Parks Initiative. Photos below. Almost every day...
Uni goes “Under the Viaduct” in West Harlem
On July 16th, the Uni transformed a block of 12th Avenue under the viaduct at a festival called “Under the Viaduct” organized by Savona Bailey-McClain and her West Harlem Art Fund. Check out the moss below!
Uni begins a run at Sean’s Place, a park in Astoria, Queens
Through the end of the month, the Uni reading room will appear every Friday at Sean's Place in Astoria, Queens. Our work here is in partnership with NYC Parks in support of the Community Parks Initiative. We're reaching some of the city's parks that have the greatest...
The Uni at Morrison Ave Plaza in the Bronx
On three Mondays in June, the Uni transformed Morrison Ave Plaza in Soundview, the Bronx, into a place for the community to gather, read, and draw. Our host was Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, and our partner was the nearby Clason’s Point branch of the New...
NYC Chinatown residency to extend through July
For eight weeks, a Uni has taken up residence in NYC's Chinatown, serving up reading, drawing, and learning opportunities to people of all ages in Sara D. Roosevelt Park. Thanks to new support from the Ong Family Foundation, we'll keep things rolling an extra month...