Art in the Parks

The Underground Sound Project is a soundwalk and interactive public art installation based on a series of underground acoustic recordings made by artist Nikki Lindt. Along a wooded trail, starting at a trailhead by Dog Beach, visitors will encounter features, such as a stream, a maple tree, the forest floor, wildflowers, and many more. Via a sign with a QR code at designated locations along the walk, visitors will be able to experience the corresponding subsurface sounds in a series of one minute videos accessed on The Underground Sound Project’s interactive website.

This exhibition is presented by the Urban Field Station Collaborative Arts Program, organized by the USDA Forest Service and The Nature of Cities, and presented in partnership with the Prospect Park Alliance.

The Need You Know It Is A Letting Light is a set of three abstract wooden sculptures and an accompanying mural that together expand the artist’s exploration of communication between external and internal psychic space. The mural’s colors, sourced from the natural beauty of Prospect Park, both draw viewers in and radiate out from the Bandshell and stage into the park, reflecting the function of the bandshell to expand voices. Sculptural abstraction, for Brook, is based on a commitment to create spaces for queer, gender non-conforming, and trans folks to experiment with embodied perception, encouraging and affirming a multisensory experience of being whole in the world.

This exhibition is presented by BRIC and Prospect Park Alliance.

This interactive and educational installation aims to connect participants to the humanity of individuals killed by police. Through an auditory and visual experience, the installation fosters a deeper connection to each celebrant and expands on the pervasive impact of policing and systemic racism in America. 1-800 Happy Birthday was originally created in 2020 by EVEN/ODD Founder, Creative Director and Artist Mohammad Gorjestani as an ongoing voicemail project to honor Black and Brown victims of police killings and systemic racism. The project exists online, at 1800HappyBirthday.com, and allows loved ones and the public to leave and listen to voicemails left on the birthdays of those unjustly killed.

This exhibition is presented by worthless studios.

Co-created by Joel Bergner (aka Joel Artista) and the residents of the Brownsville Houses NeighborhoodStat Team, this mural visualizes the bonds that contribute to Brownsville’s social fabric and celebrates the rich culture of this neighborhood. The Brownsville Houses NeighborhoodStat Team framed this composition within the “best of times” to visually communicate unity in the face of violence.

“The Warmest Years on Record” explores the emotional, psychological, and sensorial experiences of living in the climate crisis. During the summer and fall of 2021, the artist spoke with community gardeners across Brooklyn who shared stories about how global warming affects the personal and practical aspects of their daily lives.

“The Warmest Years on Record” is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

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The Hanging Gardens of Brooklyn project proposes a public art installation and community gathering space, envisioned as the synthesis of an interactive sculptural pavilion and a hanging botanical garden.

The pavilion supports a hanging garden which grows in spiraling channels mounted on the trellised roof. The garden will feature a mixed palette of vining flowers and vegetables and will employ an automated drip irrigation system.

This exhibition is presented by Brooklyn Arts Council, City Artist Corps, and SITU

Community Heroes aims to bring together residents in the neighborhoods of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Farragut, and celebrate those who empower and nourish these neighborhoods. Individuals were selected as representatives of the community, or heroes, from a pool of nominations collected during a community outreach process. Community Heroes seeks to tell the stories of the neighborhoods’ unsung heroes through the collaboration of newer residents and long-time residents, often people of color whose families have lived in the community for generations. Community Heroes continues to collect nominations for heroes and seeks photographers to take their portraits.