Tags: Mierle Ukeles
A Park Many Hands Have Built: Understanding Freshkills as Maintenance Art
Mierle Laderman Ukeles first toured Fresh Kills Landfill in 1977. She had just been appointed the New York Department of Sanitation’s first (and only) Artist-in-Residence. At that time, there were landfills in every borough except Manhattan, and Fresh Kills was known as the largest municipal landfill in the world.
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