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:
SoHo Memory Project’s portable museum on the street
We build our pop-up gear for libraries and other organizations that want to make a place for learning. The SoHo Memory Project has taken a Uni cart in a special direction, creating a roving local history museum for the neighborhood. Here it is on Sullivan Street...
Fall residency launched in Washington Square Park
Today, the Uni Project returned to Washington Square Park to create an open-air exhibit about urban nature in the northwest corner of the park. We called it EXPLORE NYC, and our focus today was urban birds, presented in partnership with Washington Square Park Eco...
Open-air art studio DRAW NYC lands in downtown Brooklyn
Today DRAW NYC landed at street festival—a NYC DOT Weekend Walk—hosted by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership. Participation made possible by NYC DOT with support from Blick Art Materials. We set up next to staff from the local Blick store on Myrtle St. and we featured...
Open-air science exhibit EXPLORE NYC begins residency in Chinatown
EXPLORE NYC, our portable, hands-on science exhibit about urban nature landed in Sara D Roosevelt Park to begin a fall residency in NYC Chinatown. Passersby could stop and try biological drawing techniques using water color brushes donated by Blick Art Materials.
The Uni Project turns seven today
Seven years ago, on the morning of Sept. 11, 2011, we created a pop-up reading room at New Amsterdam Market in Lower Manhattan. This is how we launched the work of the Uni Project in New York City. And it isn't too different from how we do it...
Help bring opportunities for learning and creativity to NYC Chinatown this fall
Behind the bustle of commerce in Lower Manhattan's Chinatown is an immigrant community with residents less likely to have completed high school and more likely to be in poverty than the average New Yorker. Chinatown residents have also been chronically underserved by...