The Lower East Side Ecology Center is working with the Lower Eastside Girls Club to host Community Care: Stewarding Your Neighborhood, a 2-month exhibition featuring art on the theme of environmental stewardship to inspire New Yorkers to play a role in caring for their local environment.
Environmental stewardship refers to the work of individuals and communities to care for and support their local environment. The Lower East Side has a rich history of neighbors caring for and improving their landscape through the nurturing of community gardens, transforming vacant lots into botanical wonderlands, creating vibrant pockets in street tree pits, and so much more. By nurturing our local environmental spaces there is not only an enrichment of biodiversity and wildlife, but a cultivation of health and well-being for our human neighbors too.
September 6, 5-8pm: Opening Reception
Join us to celebrate the opening of the exhibit and come together as a community of artists and environmental stewards. Light refreshments will be provided. Sign up here.
September 13, 4-6pm: Neighborhood Street Tree Care: Sign up here.
Get outside and steward the Lower East Side with us! Sign up here.
November 21 6-8pm: Artist Talk + Closing Reception. Sign up here.
We’ll hear from our artists and local environmental stewards about their work and the role of artists in environmental stewardship.
Drop by the Girls Club anytime during open hours and view the exhibit.
Open Hours Monday – Friday: 11am-2pm / 4-5pm
Featuring work by:
- Alexa Hoyer
- Christian Bachez
- Clyde Romero
- Emma Camell
- Emma Turner
- Felicia Young
- Kathryn Lineberger
- Lindsay Robbins
- Magali Duzant + Christina Labey
- Pauline Galiana
- Susie Oh
We are grateful for the support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to make this exhibit come to life.