Latest News from Street Lab
Launching new effort to bring NYC artists to the street
Today Street Lab launches a new effort to activate streets with the work of City Artist Corps grant recipients who have not been able to exhibit their work indoors due to COVID. We're creating open-air, pop-up galleries in restaurant dining sheds, inviting artists to...
Decades
Tomorrow morning, a decade ago in Lower Manhattan, we created our first pop-up reading room. We wanted to mark a day that forever changed us a decade before. And we were thinking of the future. Thank you to everyone who has joined with us across these years. Peace. -...
Street Lab Teens reflect on their summer experience
This summer, we launched a new program called Street Lab Teens. It offered ten New York City public high school students a chance to work with Street Lab and bring community-oriented programming to neighborhoods across the city. Please read on as Anaya and Ashly,...
New Initiative launched: 100 Activations for NYC
Today, we're excited to announce: in the second half of 2021, Street Lab is adding 100 new deployments of Street Lab’s signature programs to newly-created Open Streets, NYCHA public housing developments, and other public spaces in the 33 of the hardest hit...
Mid-year update—dreams for our streets
Dear friends and followers, Here’s a quick update on Street Lab at the halfway mark of 2021. To date, Street Lab has already popped-up a record 95 times on the street, providing reading rooms, play streets, and drawing studios across the city. And 150+ more...
Drawing Comparisons—a photo-essay inspired by Helen Levitt
My favorite place in the Lower East Side is… – the boy eyed the chalk prompt written in the middle of Avenue B, “What about my favorite place to hang out with my friends? Can I write that?” “Sure,” I answered. He dropped to his knees. S – T – S, he chalked carefully....