Press
Greenwood Pond: Double Site Press Updates
Between Mary Miss’s ‘Greenwood Pond’ and a Hard Place - Eric Gibson, Wall Street Journal;
“Greenwood Pond: Double Site” Letters of Support - The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Peter McCourt, former Director of Planning and Design at Battery Park City Authority, Writes in Support of “Greenwood Pond: Double Site” - The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Iowa Museum Plans to Demolish Land Art Installation - Rhea Nayyar, Hyperallergic
A Leading Land Art Installation Is Imperiled. By its Patron. - Julia Halperin, The New York Times
Curators and Artists Call for Iowa Museum to Reverse Plan to Remove Mary Miss Land Art Installation - Angelica Villa, ARTnews
Acclaimed Artist Mary Miss’ Renowned Land Art Installation “Greenwood Pond: Double Site” to be Torn Down by Des Moines Art Center - The Cultural Landscape Foundation
Structures at Greenwood Park to be removed due to deterioration, Des Moines Art Center says - We are Iowa Local 5 News
Metropolis Magazine: Milwaukee’s WaterMarks Initiative Builds a Community Connection to Water
By: Stephen Zacks
December 2023
Solar-powered signage is decorated on top with vibrant blue glyphs, this one an eñe—the Spanish “Ñ”—rising up from a field in Milwaukee’s Pulaski Park along Kinnickinnic River. It is one of 10 water markers in a series connecting the city’s transformed hydrological infrastructure. During storms, the characters will turn red, signaling for residents to conserve water to help prevent […]
UWM TODAY — CHANCELLOR’S REPORT: WaterMarks, Exploring Water systems and Infrastructure
The program aired on Thursday, Nov. 4 from 1:30 – 2:00 pm CDT.
City-Scale Sustainability
Interview with Karen Olson
2020
IN 2015 THE UNITED NATIONS ANNOUNCED its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A blueprint for achieving a more sustainable future for all people, the SDGs were adopted by every country in the United Nations, including the United States. Among its 17 interconnected global goals to be reached by 2030 are zero hunger, gender equality, decent work and economic growth, […]
Why Chinatown is so delicious, and why it might not be so forever
by Oscar Perry Abello
May 16, 2019
During summers when I was in high school, my cousins and I would help out at my uncle’s Chinese restaurant on Staten Island, N.Y. We’d stay at his house, wake up early and ride into the city with him in a Chevy Lumina minivan with the back two rows of seats taken out, replaced with a shallow metal bin. It was like a rite […]
Connecting Milwaukee's neighborhoods to its waterfront with public art -- and a 350-foot beacon at Jones Island
By Tom Daykin
April 19, 2019
Jones Island might not make anyone's list of Milwaukee's best-known landmarks.
But that could change because of a growing public art project focusing on the city's waterfront, and its relationship to the Harbor District and other redeveloping neighborhoods […]
