Category: Rockaway Beach

Rockaway Beach Revitalization Unveils a $4.7 Million Shore Front Parkway Adventure Course and Pickleball Court

NYC Parks Department, Rockaway Beach

 

 

 

Rockaway Beach Revitalization. Image credit: NYC Parks/Daniel Avila

NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue joined Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato, Council Member Joann Ariola, Community Board 14 Chair Dolores Orr,  representatives from USA Pickleball, children from camp P.S. 317 and the Millennium Development Summer Program, and members of the community to cut the ribbon on the brand new adventure course and pickleball court in Rockaway Beach. The new adventure course and pickleball court are part of continued efforts to rebuild Rockaway after hurricane Sandy in 2012.

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Nancy Baker Cahill: Liberty Bell through 4th Wall App

Art Production Fund, Jamaica Bay, Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy, Online Exhibition Viewing, Rockaway Beach

 

 

 

Nancy Baker Cahill: Liberty Bell; 4thWallApp

Liberty Bell is an animated, monumental, and richly sonorous augmented reality (AR) drawing in 360 degrees. The public artwork will be geolocated at a series of sites and experienced on smartphones and tablets through Baker Cahill’s free 4th Wall app. This project, which is two years in the making, lives at the vibrant intersection of public art, social consciousness, and tech. It is being presented simultaneously in six cities in the United States: Boston, MA, Charleston, SC, Philadelphia, PA, Rockaway, NY, Selma, AL, and Washington, DC.

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35-Foot-Tall ‘Mother Earth’ Sculpture, New Installation at Rockaway Beach

Art Installation, NYC Parks 'Art in the Parks' Program, NYC Parks Department, Rockaway Beach

 

 

 

Kris Perry stands with pieces of Mother Earth outside his studio. Photo by Daniel McCabe. Image courtesy of the artist.

Contemporary artist Kris Perry’s monumental sculpture Mother Earth will be installed at Rockaway Beach (Queens) as part of the NYC Parks’ Art in the Parks program, which brings both experimental and traditional art to the public in locations throughout the five boroughs. Continue reading “35-Foot-Tall ‘Mother Earth’ Sculpture, New Installation at Rockaway Beach” →