THE POINT's Riverside Campus for Arts and The Environment
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One of THE POINT's Hunts Point Re-Envisioning Projects, The Campus is the first stop on the South Bronx Greenway, at 1399 Lafayette Avenue and is adjacent to the Hunts Point Riverside Park. The goal of the site is to enhance the community's access to the Bronx River while creating new opportunities for the arts and environment beyond the reach of THE POINT's door. Current Tenants & Projects: |
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HUNTS POINT VILLAGE OF MURALS
Village of Murals – Walking to THE POINT Campus for Arts and The Environment and Barretto Point Park is a large-scale urban design/public art project that commissions artists and art groups to green industrial pathways with murals to Hunts Point parks. Featured here are two mural/green walls sponsored by Sims Metal Management, local industrial and largest scrap metal recycling company in the world. An ongoing project of THE POINT's Visual Arts Program, these featured public artworks are just a few of many more to come throughout Hunts Point. We encourage you to visit and enjoy the view!
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.jpg) 3- Yes She Can! ¡Ella Si Puede!, Groundswell Mural Projects. Sponsored by Majora Carter. Group LLC, Hunts Point Ave. 2009. |
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 6-Untitled, Comie One, Fred-Ones, Dah One Koter, Beond Tyke, Rate. Sponsored by Bronx Charter School for the Arts. Longfellow and Garrison Aves. 2008. |
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.jpg) 8- Village of Murals II, detail In progress. Green/Mural Wall. Sponsored by Sims Metal Management directed by THE POINT in partnership with SSBX. Edgewater Rd., near Lafayette Ave. 2010. |
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KEY TO THE CITY
This summer, Creative Time is pleased to present Key to the City in cooperation with The City of New York. This project, by artist Paul Ramírez Jonas, reinvents the civic honor of bestowing keys on luminaries as a master key able to unlock more than 20 sites across New York City's five boroughs - one within THE POINT CDC's Campus for Arts and The Environment, the Brooklyn Museum and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Members of the public will award thousands of these custom-made keys to each other in one-to-one ceremonies. Key to the City is a public art project that is free and open to everyone.
Your Key to The City will unlock The Brick House at THE POINT's Riverside Campus for Arts and The Environment with public art by world renowned TATS CRU.
"You can make art while participating in this art work"
As mayor Bloomberg said, “Key to the City is an innovative public art project that encourages New Yorkers to recognize each other with the quintessential symbol of civic honor - a key to the city. Every day, millions of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world interact with one another in every neighborhood-on subways, at coffee shops. Paul Ramírez Jonas' project celebrates these day-to-day interactions by helping bring a tradition typically reserved for special occasions in our everyday lives.” He also pointed out that unlike the keys he presents to dignitaries these actually open something.
THE POINT CAMPUS - was made possible in part by Congressman José Serrano, NOAA, HUD - and designed by Weiz and Yoes Architects, and Judith Heinz Landscape Architects.
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