05/13/2026
🌼 CALL FOR ARTISTS! 🎨
The LES Ecology Center and Make Meadows are curating a two-month exhibition that reimagines a community garden as a living gallery where art and ecology come together. The exhibition celebrates the diversity of urban nature and invites New Yorkers to take a closer look at native plants that help support a healthy, thriving garden. Often overlooked or removed, these plants play an important role in feeding pollinators, improving soil, and creating habitat for urban wildlife.
Set within a community garden, artists are invited to respond to the site as both setting and collaborator. Proposals should consider native plant life, seasonal change, and the relationships between plants, people, and place. Projects may evolve over time through weathering, growth, decay, or interaction (embracing the changing nature of the garden) or be designed to withstand outdoor conditions over the course of the exhibition.
We are particularly interested in artists whose work:
🌳 Engages with the environment materially or conceptually
🧠 Reflects or responds to ecological processes
🍂 Incorporates change over time
🧘 Invites audience interaction or quiet contemplation
Submit your proposal here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdt6tQHwZX3whlX35O7hkICNdOpmrVWNDnJoTlgcXJYiyBzzg/viewform
