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Street Work Earth ‘24: Climate experts in creative conversation with artists

Meet the environmental and climate experts connecting with artists in creative conversations for the 2024 Street Work Earth. From interdisciplinary relationships come future friendship, collaboration, co-mentorship, and more.

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Save the date: Street Works Earth, Sept 22, 2024, 11am-5pm

Register to join MJN, artists, and climate experts for a day of co-creative art, community building, and environmental and climate action on 34th Avenue’s Open Street in Jackson Heights, Queens, during New York Climate Week!

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Welcome to 8 artists joining September Street Works Earth!

We’re excited to announce the 8 artists commissioned to participate in MJN’s inaugural Street Works Earth on September 22, 2024! (Image designed by Cari Hanson.)

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Celebration! April convening of 2024 Street Works artists

Thank you to the 2024 Street Work artists for meeting in Travers Park for the first artist convening!

Anjali Deshmukh 6/14/24 Anjali Deshmukh 6/14/24

NY’s Climate Change Superfund Act passes!!

June 2024: After years of slow action, the New York State Assembly joined the State Senate in passing the Climate Change Superfund Act— intended to make the most polluting corporations in NY pay for the harm they’ve caused.

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Thanks to Queens Arts Fund for supporting Street Works!

We’re grateful to be among artists selected to create new work through the Queens Arts Fund (QAF), administered by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

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Supporting NY HEAT act & climate justice legislation

MJN stands with NY Renews and our fellow CJ and EJ peers holding a Climate Justice Action Week starting May 20th to mobilize for climate action. (Image designed by Anjali Deshmukh.)

Thanks for joining us at the Queens Botanical Garden’s climate art fest

MJN members, Ernest Verrett and Anjali Deshmukh, were glad to promote 34 Ave Open Streets Coalition, Queens Climate Project, and NY Metro Climate Reality Project at the Queens Botanical Garden for their Climate and Art Festival on April 27! (Photo by Ernest Verrett.)

Launching Street Works, public-space galleries for co-creative art

We're excited to announce Street Works, a platform collective members are building for artists who practice co-creation in public spaces. This is one way in which we hope to make justice normal in a cultural asset ecosystem that has not not served justice. (Image: Art: “Bending the Universe,” by Anjali Deshmukh. Photo: by Chasi Annexy.)

Listen to our podcast: Into the Record

What if justice were normal? What and who will it take to imagine new habits, processes, and structures that default to loving care, anti-bias, pro-Earth, and solidarity?

Thanks to the Racial Equity Asset Lab (The REAL) for supporting Into the Record podcast!

We’re grateful for the support from the Racial Equity Asset Lab (the REAL) to design and launch MJN’s podcast Into the Record, as part of our Narrative Change work.