NYC Parks Announces Four Artists Selected for Fort Totten Park’s Urban Field Station Artist-in-Residency Program

 

 

 

Exhibitions and Events, Urban Field Station Artist in Residence Program. Photo credit: Daniel Avila, NYC Parks.

Since the Artist in Residence program’s inception in 2017, artists have yielded an array of unique installations that reflect the cultural, ecological and built landscape. These include Mary Mattingly’s Swale, a floating food forest built atop a barge to advocate for healthy food and gardening, and Katie Holten’s New York City Tree Alphabet, which assigned drawings of local tree species to letters of the alphabet to generate public engagement with nature and conservation. This year, the residency has expanded to support artists across the United States and internationally, with plans to continue expanding in the coming years.

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