Our 2018 season is getting underway, and you can help us add something special—drawing at street festivals. Here’s the backstory: neighborhood groups have begun asking permission from NYC Department of Transportation to close local streets on weekends so...
We have an Artist-in-Residence program here at Street Lab where we invite local artists to come on-site and inspire people participating in our DRAW program in parks, playgrounds, and other public spaces across NYC. This year we had the pleasure of hosting Luyi Wang,...
Today, we landed at “Party on Park”, a street festival hosted by our friends at New Harlem East Merchants Association (NHEMA). We offered a reading room and a taste of our DRAW program as well. Special thanks to Blick Art Materials for joining us on the street. You...
Every Saturday in May, the Uni DRAW cart will transformed into a field station of the Department of Tropical Research at the Central Park Zoo, where visitors can draw from specimens and learn how ecologist William Beebe and his team of scientists worked with...
This summer, we are once again deploying to play streets in Harlem and the Bronx. Today, I worked one of our favorites, run by Caldwell Programs in Morrisania. I hung out, and took some photos, let the kids take photos, and gathered feedback for our new...
On July 16th, the Uni transformed a block of 12th Avenue under the viaduct at a festival called “Under the Viaduct” organized by Savona Bailey-McClain and her West Harlem Art Fund. Check out the moss below!
Friends of Stryker Park is committed to transforming the north side of 97th St between Columbus and Amsterdam into a greener, safer public space. The Uni Project teamed up with NYC DOT to help create a One Day Plaza to help demonstrate and build support for this...
Sam and I are always looking for more ways to encourage interaction between people at the Uni. So we partnered with students of Professor Rachel Urkowitz at Parsons to design us new, communal drawing activities. Here are photos of the students as they test and...
The Uni rounded out our public season with a deployment at Social Innovation Week NYC. Thanks to Nicky Frankel and the SIW team for inviting us to share our DRAW cart with visitors to the SIW storefront on Mott St. See you in 2016!
