This past year we shared our performance work in the Brooklyn Utopia exhibition, Open Streets program and EcoCity Pageant and hosted two cohorts of Artichoke Ambassadors, our training and mentorship program for artist activists. Read more…
2020 Reflections and Transformations
The world looks and feels a lot different than one year ago. We started 2020 with a series of performances in NYC and then began working on a new dance that was to premiere on Earth Day. Then a whole lot changed. A priority since March has been to keep artists employed and engaged in creatively connecting and responding. During the pandemic, we’ve offered several series of virtual and in person events. Now we need your help to keep innovating. Please support our ground breaking and timely work.
Artichoke meets Urban Planning…continuing an Environmental Justice Journey
I’ve recently had a heart to heart with myself over where I’m putting my time and why. I want to make a difference in the world, and at the core I hope we all do. Over the last several years, I’ve been doing a lot of creative envisioning of what a supportive, interconnected, sustainable world looks like through performance and participatory projects. With the Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition for Justice, this visioning of the future, I hope, is becoming a reality through collective effort and action.
An Aha Moment in Arts and Climate Change Activism
Real and lasting change is required to create the cultural shift necessary to overcome the climate crisis. I believe it takes reencountering engaging experiences from many perspectives, and this is where the arts play a key role. Here I talk about an encounter with Carry the Earth that reinforces this in my own life.