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 reading room at Diversity Plaza, Queens, July 11, 2015
Photos from deployment of the Uni reading room at Diversity Plaza, Queens on July 11, 2015. Our host and partner was Friends of Diversity Plaza and Sukhi New York. Our participation was made possible by funds granted by the Charles H. Revson Foundation through the...
Uni portable reading room: 5 deployments, 2 days
This weekend, throw a stone in New York City, and you're likely to hit a Uni open-air reading room. Here's the schedule. Thank you to our outstanding staff for working with us all weekend, all across the city. Read. Draw. Together. NYC. Saturday, July 11 Play Street,...
Draw at the Uni, Sunday, Brooklyn Bridge Park
The Uni Project began with books. For several years now, we've offered New Yorkers the chance to read at staffed, open-air reading rooms that pop-up across the city in parks, plazas, and other public spaces. That's still our game, in a big way. But in 2015, we're...
Uni Project embarks on 8-week initiative to reach kids at NYC play streets
Every year, in July and August, we turn our attention to a special effort: how to reach NYC kids with reading and learning opportunities outside of school, during summer. With start-up funding from the Shippy Foundation, we deploy the Uni portable reading room right...
Meet our 2015 Uni Artists-in-Residence
In May 2015, the Uni Project put out a call for applications for a new Artist Residency Program, giving student artists a chance to explore the city’s neighborhoods and create site-specific work in conjunction with our new DRAW NYC program. Eligibility was limited to...
Draw together in the Uni
We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new program in the Uni — DRAW NYC! Read more about it here and see many more photos. Funded by Burning Man Arts. Draw. Together. NYC.