Street Lab wins a 2021 Best of the City Award from Time Out New York Time Out New York’s Best of the City Awards for 2021 are out today, and Street Lab made the list, recognized for our initiative 100 Activations for NYC, which brought a total of 165 activations...
Street Lab Teens 2021 Recap In 2021, Street Lab launched Street Lab Teens–a program for New York City public high school students to shape public space and impact local communities. Working alongside staff and community partners, Street Lab Teens help develop and...
Meet Street Lab’s 2021 Artist in Residence Our 2021 Artist in Residence is Sanika Phawde – an illustrator, cartoonist, and reportage artist based in New York and Mumbai who recently graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a Masters in Illustration as...
Barnard students volunteer with Street Lab across NYC Street Lab and Barnard College have teamed up to activate Open Streets in neighborhoods across New York City, with students leading our Street Marker program to create chalk murals with New Yorkers of all ages....
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
