Lincoln Center, a cultural center in New York City, was built on the destruction of the neighborhood of San Juan Hill, a thriving multicultural enclave. While Lincoln Center’s cultural importance cannot be understated, its displacement of thousands calls into question whether culture was cultivated or destroyed.
How can art talk about Displaced Neighborhoods? Did you know Lincoln Center was built on top of a once-hustling neighborhood, with diversity beyond imagination? Or New York City had a prosperous Neighborhood that was displaced due to racial inequality.
Our study aims to answer the following: How will Ailanthus altissima affect New York City’s urban landscape over time?
The Arts in NYC Seminar emphasized that NYC is our classroom! While we have heard this statement so many times, we decided to document our journey exploring this truth.
Explore NYC takes you around the five boroughs through the city’s very own subway system.
A curated art exhibit of 4 texts based off on the concept of “concentric circles” titled “Where Are You in All of This?
In sharing our experiences with you, we hope to show how the intersections of
our identities as queer people and Latinos color our view of the world.
Specifically, we present ourselves through the exploration of how society’s
perception of us impacts the way we see ourselves. We hope you can immerse
yourself in the colorful world we live in as!!
Our project discusses the white gaze along with forms of captivity and how the messages from the artists are relevant to issues in our contemporary society.
Japanese Knotweeds are one of the worst invasive species. It’s bullying the surrounding plants to take over NYC. See what effect this plant has on our Biodiversity.
A correlation study between Spotted Lanternfly observations made on iNaturalist and humidity levels and temperature from 2020 to present.
