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:
Penguin Random House supports reading across NYC
Thanks to a generous donation from Penguin Random House, The Uni Project was able to add ten reading room deployments to our 2014 season. The company also pledged 500 books to our collection—a terrific resource that we will continue to draw upon in 2015. Thank you to...
Uni returns to Brownsville for Halloween at Zion Plaza
The Uni met several hundred kids and a marching band in Brownsville this Halloween. We went to Brooklyn to join a festival organized by Halloween 2013.
Uni Tower at Brooklyn Children’s Museum October 2014-January 2015
The Uni Project has teamed up with Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) to create a science reading station inside the Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Part of an exhibit called “More Than Meets the “I” exploring the new frontiers of biology, health, robotics &...
Uni Tower on Governors Island, 2014
Photos Archive: Governors Island, New York Harbor. Summer 2014 For the second year in a row, the Uni Project partnered with the Brooklyn Public Library, the Queens Library, and the New York Public Library to offer an open-air reading room on Governors Island....
Uni at play streets. Booyah!
This summer, we created regular pop-up reading rooms at six different play streets in Harlem, the Bronx, and Brooklyn. Play streets are just what they sound like—streets closed to traffic so kids can play and get physical exercise. In NYC, the Uni Project is...
The Uni’s first Artist-in-Residence
This summer, illustrator and Parsons student Tiffany Lin was our artist-in-residence. We first met Tiffany as part of a class that created handmade books for the Uni on Governors’ Island. Tiffany made a scrolling book called LOOK UP! that told the story of a girl...