CALL CONNECTS - August 2025
CELEBRATING CLIMATE WEEK WITH GUARDIANS OF FLUSHING BAY
Saturday, September 27th, 12-4PM @ Flushing Meadows Corona Park Kayak/Canoe Launch
Join CALL and Niceli Portugal at Guardians of Flushing Bay's annual end-of-season celebration, SaturBAY! They are partnering with Holes in the Wall Collective as a destination in a Climate Week NYC citywide scavenger hunt. Come along on a neighborhood art walk that will lead participants to the beautiful, but hard-to-access Flushing Bay. Registration will be limited, so stay tuned for more information on how to sign up!
CALL is thrilled to share that we've received a grant from Every Page Foundation!
A very heartfelt thanks to Every Page Foundation for their support of CALL's Cloudburst/WaterWays Initiative.
In this time of capricious grant cancellations, their support is invaluable in helping us bridge the gap and carry out our work: making sustainability tangible through the arts.
Every Page Foundation is a feminist nonprofit dedicated to advancing social and environmental justice. Through advocacy, partnerships, and resource-building, they work to close gender gaps and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion across the arts and sciences.
CLIMATE WEEK IS SEPTEMBER 21-28, 2025
Our friends at the Waterfront Alliance are hosting a Zoom Webinar, From Risk to Resilience: The Nightmare of Basement Flooding on September 22nd, 12-1PM.
Description: Basement flooding is becoming more common place. This panel will explore basement flooding as a silent impact that has complicated solutions and injured communities, and discuss opportunities for policy reform and funding.
Honoring the Ancestors: A Tibbetts Brook Tribute
Join Artist Dennis RedMoon Darkeem at the
JBOLC Farmer's Market!
October 11th & 25th, 10 am - 3 pm
Dennis will guide us through writing and art-making prompts to create pages to design a stamp that will be used for a collective Zine honoring our ancestors, water connections, and the history of Tibbetts Brook. Participants will also use upcycled materials in the art-making process
A CALL FOR THE FUTURE:
Several weeks ago now CALL was hit with the abrupt termination of our grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). This has meant an immediate loss of nearly $250,000. We appealed and won back some of these funds, but are left with a daunting gap.
CALL's loss of funding weakens and may break the chain of connection, knowledge, and creative ingenuity that makes our work meaningful and impactful. With this year's funding terminated, our 2026 funding will also be in jeopardy. But we do not believe the answer is to turn away. With your help, we can make a new pathway and territory for CALL, and for the communities we work with. We must mobilize our collaborators and supporters to proceed with this vital work.
An important first step has been made: we are pleased to announce that Agnes Gund has made a $50,000 Leadership Gift for this year and another for the following year. Our urgent goal is to raise $50,000 to match this year's donation by the end of August. There are still a few days left to give!
You can help us bridge this gap and ensure our work continues to thrive and fulfill our commitments to the communities where we are currently focused --- Milwaukee; the Bronx; and Corona, Queens. We have pioneering work planned to start this summer in Corona with two gifted artists: Niceli Portugal and Emilio Martinez Poppe. The artists will engage the community around growing risks of cloudbursts (increasingly hazardous rainfalls).
We remain determined in the face of these capricious cancellations because we know there is so much more to be done, especially in the face of a warming planet.
We hope you will be part of the future with us.
Your efforts help ensure that CALL is able to continue to use the power of art and science to promote understanding of critical environmental challenges in local communities and spur action for sustainable solutions!
Grab a copy of the Pedestrian Observations map!
The Pedestrian Observations: Mapping Manhattan Chinatown's Public Realm pocket-sized resource map are still available!
In this pamphlet, you'll find an illustrated map by artists and designers Myles Zhang and Stephan Fan, along with extensive information and questions about the uses of public and private space.
We're more than happy to send a copy your way, just fill out the form through the button below.