Programs

Join Field R/D artist Lize Mogel and NYC Parks staff and scientists on a special bus tour of Freshkills Park. The tour will explore the landfill-to-park project within a longer trajectory of a changing urban environment....MORE

Join Field R/D artist Lize Mogel and NYC Parks staff and scientists on a special bus tour of Freshkills Park. The tour will explore the landfill-to-park project within a longer trajectory of a changing urban environment....MORE

Freshkills Park: Field R/D is a project to develop a visionary, community-responsive residency program for the former NYC landfill. Through the residency process, artists followed their own paths, developed research methodologies, and posed questions to a range of actors, from city agencies to scholars, scientists, ecologists, and environmental writers.

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Freshkills Park: Field R/D is a project to develop a visionary, community-responsive residency program for the former NYC landfill. Through the residency process, artists followed their own paths, developed research methodologies, and posed questions to a range of actors, from city agencies to scholars, scientists, ecologists, and environmental writers.

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Freshkills Park: Field R/D is a project to develop a visionary, community-responsive residency program for the former NYC landfill. Through the residency process, artists followed their own paths, developed research methodologies, and posed questions to a range of actors, from city agencies to scholars, scientists, ecologists, and environmental writers.

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Freshkills Park: Field R/D is a project to develop a visionary, community-responsive residency program for the former NYC landfill. Through the residency process, artists followed their own paths, developed research methodologies, and posed questions to a range of actors, from city agencies to scholars, scientists, ecologists, and environmental writers.

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Visit Freshkills Park for an artist-led observational drawing workshop in Fastnet, a shipping container converted into a studio and project space....MORE

Join Venerable Thupten Phuntsok to learn about Buddhist cosmology and its thirty-one planes of existence. This unique meditation walk is part of an ongoing collaboration between artist Tattfoo Tan, the Jacque Marchais Museum for Tibetan Art, and Freshkills Park. ...MORE

At the 8th Floor, Field R/D co-curators and resident artists will share findings from the first year of the experimental residency program Freshkills Park....MORE

This exhibition features the work of the inaugural Field R/D cohort, who have developed research projects independently and collaboratively since April 2017....MORE

Artist Bill Jenkins describes the sensation of exploring Freshkills Park as “being inside an image.” In an effort to comprehend his own experiences of roaming around Freshkills Park, Jenkins devised a method of making video images on site, in the grasses and rainwater runoff, which reenacts the action of compression of physical matter at Freshkills Park into two dimensions.

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Artist Bill Jenkins describes the sensation of exploring Freshkills Park as “being inside an image.” In an effort to comprehend his own experiences of roaming around Freshkills Park, Jenkins devised a method of making video images on site, in the grasses and rainwater runoff, which reenacts the action of compression of physical matter at Freshkills Park into two dimensions.

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Artist Bill Jenkins describes the sensation of exploring Freshkills Park as “being inside an image.” In an effort to comprehend his own experiences of roaming around Freshkills Park, Jenkins devised a method of making video images on site, in the grasses and rainwater runoff, which reenacts the action of compression of physical matter at Freshkills Park into two dimensions.

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Join New York State Department of Environmental Conservation staff for their I FISH NY Education Program! Participants will be rod and reel fishing by a mix of land and kayak in Main Creek, with fishing equipment provided....MORE

Cruise on the vibrant waterways of the Kill Van Kull and the Arthur Kill and into the heart of Freshkills Park on a Classic Harbor Line luxury yacht. ...MORE

Cruise on the vibrant waterways of the Kill Van Kull and the Arthur Kill and into the heart of Freshkills Park on a Classic Harbor Line luxury yacht. ...MORE

Join local naturalist Cliff Hagen for "Birding Gems of Staten Island: Freshkills Park," organized by NYC Audubon. ...MORE

Experience the unique landscape and spectacular views the landfill-to-park project has to offer with tours, bicycling, and activities for all ages....MORE

Join a small group of photographers on a guided van tour and document Freshkills Park’s transformation from landfill to 2,200-acre park. ...MORE

Join a small group of photographers on a guided van tour and document Freshkills Park’s transformation from landfill to 2,200-acre park. ...MORE