Through our Art Programs, we provide a range of activities and opportunities that includes the integration and creation of art as a mode of communication, action, and reflection in which individuals and groups of residents engage.
ARTIST COMMISSIONS
INSIDE/OUT
2025
Inside/Out, a limited edition book by Project EATS founder Linda Goode Bryant, editor Sam Rauch, and designer Tanya Quick, documents three site-specific public installations by artists David Hammons, Maren Hassinger, and the duo Arthur Jafa and Garrett Bradley. Commissioned by Project EATS, the artworks were exhibited in 2022-2023 at farm sites in Brownsville, Brooklyn, and the Lower East Side, Manhattan, as well as in local bus shelters and billboard spaces.
Arthur Jafa and Garrett Bradley a Negro, a Lim-o Two-channel video installations
Brownsville and Essex Crossing Farms
Winter 2022–Spring 2023
a Negro, a Lim-o is a collaborative video work by Garrett Bradley and Arthur Jafa that evokes the spirit of Just Above Midtown (JAM)–a gallery founded by artist Linda Goode Bryant in 1964 as a self-described laboratory foregrounding the work of African American artists and other artists of color.
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David Hammons
Concerto in Black and Blue (2002/2022) Billboards and Bus Shelter Posters Brownsville, Brooklyn (multiple locations); Lower East Side, Manhattan (entrance to the Willamsburg Bridge); Flushing, Queens (Citi Field)
Winter 2022 - Spring 2023
David Hammons’ cryptic series of billboard- and bus-shelter- sized photographs collectively entitled Concerto in Black and Blue (2002/2022) were subtly woven into the urban landscape beyond the boundaries of ProjectEATS’ farm sites, hidden in plain sight amidst the visual cacophony of New York City.
Maren Hassinger Industrial Nature (2022) Cast concrete, steel cable
Essex Crossing Rooftop Farm, Manhattan, and Marcus Garvey Apartments Farm, Brownsville, Brooklyn
Winter 2022 – Spring 2023
Maren Hassinger’s sculptures attune to the formal connections between the natural world and the built environment, using industrial materials like wire rope and concrete to create organic forms that reference plant life, often leaning on their surroundings or even moving in response to environmental conditions.
Local Network
Multiple locations, New York, NY
Aug 15, 2022–present
Created by and for residents, the Local Network (LN) is an internet station that streams sound and platforms image, text, visual, and graphic-based programs including music, video, photos, drawings, paintings, community news and information, and real or imagined stories.