Projects
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Current / Ongoing Projects
Past Projects
photo by Boris Niehaus (1Just.de)
photo by Lanna Apisukh
photo by Galya Feierman
photo by Robert Stolarik for the NYTimes
Refashioned Garbage
ARTIST & EDUCATOR
Disrupt the flow of consumption by flipping concepts of fashion and garbage. Refashioned Garbage workshops focus on learning techniques and designs to upcycle discarded materials into beautiful objects. Materials such as bicycle tubes, plastic bags, cardboard, and netting are upcycled into jewelry, portraits, figures, etc.
Presented on this work at Pratt Institute, and The Society for Domestic Museology
Seeing Collective
CO-FOUNDER & PHOTO CAFÉ COORDINATOR
Seeing Collective (SeeC) was created to foster community and a supportive network within the photography industry. We are not only a resource for knowledge but also an inclusive space for creative feedback and artist development.
Photo Café is a conversation series with photo industry professionals in an effort to grow and educate our community while challenging the status quo. We cover topics ranging from analog photography, education, getting your work seen, and opportunity while also digging deeper to address the impact of systemic inequality. This program is organized in collaboration with BKC.
Papergirl-Brooklyn
PROJECT DIRECTOR
Papergirl-Brooklyn (PGBK) is a participatory art project bringing an interactive art experience to various communities around Brooklyn, centering resident voices, and redistributing contributed art to the unsuspecting public by bike. This art project includes a multi-location exhibition and corresponding audio program to highlight resident voices and support independent local businesses.
PaperGirl-NY
PROJECT DIRECTOR
Papergirl is a community-reliant art project that brings art to new audiences. This project starts with an open call for rollable art that is exhibited in a group show before being rolled up and distributed at random and for free to pedestrians on the street by a group of bicyclists.
Exhibitions:
PaperGirl-NY, 2010: Dumbo Art Center, Brooklyn; The Park Ave Armory, New York; Marketplace Gallery, Albany
PaperGirl-Albany, 2009: FLUX exhibition at St. Josephs Cathedral, Albany
ArtSpecs Lab
CO-FOUNDER & TEACHER
ArtSpecs Lab (ASL) operated as a catalyst to help transform each child’s ideas into an artwork. Participants were guided through the translation of concept to craft. Through artistic and didactic strategies, the language-incorporated workshops operated as full immersion programs to provide the quickest and most beneficial method of creative endorsement. All of the workshops were comprised of all sensory didactics that inspired kids to see, feel, taste, smell, and touch the experience of learning.
ArtSpecs Lab is a Funpreneur Wettbewerb 2012 grant recipient, a business grant from the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany.
Klunkerkranich Garten
COORDINATOR, & GARDENER
Klunkerkranich is a Kulturdachgarten, or a cultural roof garden. Scattered between visitors who come for the drinks, food, and the view is a community garden that is the foundation of this venue. Sina was part of the original garden team who built the garden and everything that goes along with it. The Garten later developed cultural programming, educational programming, and art festivals.
The Klunkerkranich Garten is currently referred to as Horstwirtschaft.