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...
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....
Residency launched in Flushing Meadows Park with Queens Museum We return to Corona to serve on of the hardest hit communities during the pandemic, creating an open-air art studio for families waiting in line for a food pantry hosted by the Queens Museum. The line can...
