Art Projects

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“The Big Apple”

by LeMonde Studio

2025

Northwest corner of West 97th Street and Columbus Avenue.

Designed by LeMonde Studio from Québec, this captivating installation activates public spaces, inviting visitors to pause and reflect, and celebrate the power of art and community. “New York City represents so many things to so many people. For some, it is the land of opportunity and productivity. For others, it is all about creativity and inclusivity. For all, New York City is the Big Apple. Our design team wanted to create a unique structure that allows New Yorkers and its millions of visitors to stop and reflect” - LeMonde Studio

“Bloomingdale Medallions”

by Beatrice Coron

2024-2025

Booker T. Washington MS field, Happy Warrior Playground, Frederick Douglass Playground Funded by SBS Small BID Grant In partnership with El Taller Latino Americano, NYC SBS

This series of seven stainless steel medallions honors Bloomingdale neighborhood residents who have shaped our world, including The Malagon Sisters, musical group; Ben E. King, musician; Duke Ellington, musician; Bernardo Palombo, musician; Ismael Rivera, musician; Alvin Ailey, dancer and chorographer; and Angelo Romano, artist. Over the course of a year, the exhibition will rotate between three neighborhood parks: Booker T. Washington Playground (August 16, 2024 to December 12, 2024), Happy Warrior Playground (December 13, 2024 to April 10, 2025), and Frederick Douglass Playground (April 11, 2025 to August 15, 2025).

“Bloomingdale Medallions”

by Beatrice Coron

2023-2024

Booker T. Washington MS field, Happy Warrior Playground, Frederick Douglass Playground Funded by SBS Small BID Grant In partnership with El Taller Latino Americano, NYC SBS

This series of eight stainless steel medallions honors Bloomingdale neighborhood residents who have shaped our world, including John Coltrane, musician; Elizabeth Acevedo, poet; Mario Bauza, musician; Constance Baker Motley, judge; Jose Feliciano, musician; Isamu Noguchi, artist; Abbey Lincoln, vocalist; Billy Strayhorn, composer. Over the course of a year, the exhibition will rotate between three neighborhood parks: Booker T. Washington Playground (July 15, 2023 to November 9, 2023), Happy Warrior Playground (November 10, 2023 to March 14, 2024), and Frederick Douglass Playground (March 15, 2024 to July 11, 2024).

“Grady Alexis Gallery Retrospective”

by Grady Alexis Gallery

2022

Funded by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, City Council, Jacob & Ruth Epstein Foundation, individual donations In partnership with El Taller Latino Americano, NYC Parks, Friends of Anibal Aviles Playground

As part of NYC Parks’s Art in the Parks program, El Taller Latino Americano put on a retrospective exhibit at their Grady Alexis outdoor gallery featuring works by thirty NYCbased artists that had partnered with the organization since its founding in 1979. The installation celebrated ETL’s longtime efforts to promote local artists and highlight the history of Latino art and artists in NYC.

“Anibal Aviles Playground Installation”

by j. maya luz, Bernardo Palombo, Atu Ram, Mark Romero

2022

Funded by the Creative Engagement regrant program through NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC City Council, NYS Council on the Arts, & Lower Manhattan Creative Council, additional funding and support from the Jacob & Ruth Epstein Foundation, El Taller Latino Americano, Materials for the Arts, Valley Restoration Local Development Corporation, Friends of Anibal Aviles Playground, NYC Parks

Corporal Anibal Felipe Aviles Jr. was a local resident and Purple Heart recipient who lost his life in 1966 at the age of nineteen while serving in the Marines during the Vietnam War. The playground across from Booker T. Washington Middle School, where he attended in his youth, was dedicated to his memory in 1969. Decades later, El Taller Latino Americano began their “Art Without Borders” series and installed a large portrait of the playground’s namesake on the park’s easternmost wall. This piece was part of artist j. maya luz’s yearslong “Good Neighbors” project, serving to connect the current residents of Bloomingdale to those of the past.

“Good Neighbors”

by Grady Alexis Gallery

2021 - 2022

Funded by the Creative Engagement regrant program through NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, NYC City Council, NYS Council on the Arts, & Lower Manhattan Creative Council, additional funding and support from the Jacob & Ruth Epstein Foundation, El Taller Latino Americano, Materials for the Arts, Valley Restoration Local Development Corporation, Friends of Anibal Aviles Playground, NYC Parks

“Good Neighbors” is a photography series by j. maya luz that highlights residents and business owners in the Bloomingdale area. It is displayed in the Anibal Aviles Playground, which houses El Taller Latino Americano’s Grady Alexis outdoor gallery as part of ETL’s “Art Without Borders” series. The collection contains photographs taken from 2010 to the present, and new photos were installed when the exhibition’s run was extended in 2022.

“Mundillo”

by Samantha Holmes

2021

97th Street and Amsterdam Avenue

Funded by NYC DOT | In partnership with NYC DOT & the Bronx River Art Center

“Mundillo” (or “Little World”) by Samantha Holmes was a steel sculpture inspired by the traditional Puerto Rican practice of lacework. The work was originally commissioned in 2020 for the Bronx River Art Center through the NYC DOT Art Program’s Community Commission initiative and was reinstalled in the Columbus-Amsterdam BID in 2021

“Roots and Seasons”

by Beatrice Coron

2021

145 West 108th Street

In partnership with the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing

The West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing opened a new building on West 108th Street in 2021 and commissioned local artist Beatrice Coron for several decorative elements of the new location (tree guards, fences, plaques, logos, etc.) The final product was a collection of cut iron panels installed at various interior and exterior locations in the new building.

“Bloomingdale Arches wayfinding kiosks”

by Michael Davis Glass, GarnerDesign, GSB Digital, Jorge Parada

2014

Amsterdam Ave & 103rd St, Columbus Ave & 97th St, Amsterdam Ave between 96th/97th St

Funded by SBS & NYCEDC’s Neighborhood Challenge Grant, discretionary funding by NYC City Councilmember Mark Levine In partnership with the Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group, City Councilmember Mark Levine, NYC SBS, NYC EDC, Bloomingdale Restaurants

Bloomingdale Arches wayfinding kiosks were created and installed as part of the Columbus-Amsterdam BID’s larger Bloomingdale District-Wide Marketing Project, intended to rebrand the area between W 96th and 110th Streets as “Historic Bloomingdale” and to attract visitors to the district. The Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group put together a neighborhood map and a list of notable residents displayed on these informational kiosks for tourists and locals alike to learn more about the area’s history

“DOT Vision Zero Banners”

by Animus Art Collective

2018

Banners on Broadway, Amsterdam, Columbus Avenues between 110th and 104th Streets

Funded by NYC DOT Safety Education Division In partnership with NYC DOT, Universe City NYC, Ascension School

The Vision Zero Traffic Safety Banner Residency Program was an initiative that NYC DOT began in 2016 to spread traffic safety awareness at the local level by partnering with schools and neighborhood organizations. Students at the Ascension School collaborated on a slogan and graphic that would be displayed on DOT light pole banners. Their final design, “Stay Alert, Don’t Get Hurt,” was placed in twelve locations across the neighborhood and many still stand in the BID today.

“Dandelions” by Carin Mincemoyer

by Carin Mincemoyer

2014

97th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues

Funded by NYC DOT | In partnership with NYC DOT

Dandelions” by Carin Mincemoyer was an outdoor sculpture installation featuring aluminum dandelions sited on the sidewalk outside of P. S. 163. This project was part of the NYC DOT Art Program’s Community Commissions initiative

“Dream Outside the Box”

by Animus Art Collective

2009

97th Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues

Funded by NYC DOT Urban Art pARTner Program | In partnership with NYC DOT, Action Art League, P. S. 16

“Dream Outside the Box” by Animus Art Collective (Preston Dane, Annie Vainchenker, David Ort) was a public art project made possible through the NYC DOT Urban Art pARTner Program in 2009. Students at P. S. 163 contributed their own writing on themes of “the American dream” that was engraved into red, white, and blue boxes arranged in a representation of the American flag.