The Newtown Creek Alliance is grateful to have two projects included amongst a pool of 18 that will receive funding from the first round of the Greenpoint Community Environmental Fund. We are very excited to get underway with these projects (see descriptions below) that will advance our mission of restoring, revealing and revitalizing Newtown Creek. […]
This summer, NCA Artist-in-Residence Jan Mun implemented the second phase of The Fairy Rings, a mycoremediation-inspired art installation for Newtown Creek. Last year, Jan worked with NCA’s Mycoremediation Workgroup to create an on-water version of the rings, and this year, she expanded to a land-based site. With support from NCA, Jan brought her work to the […]
This weekend, members of the NCA Bioremediation Workgroup met at the interim site of the North Brooklyn Boat Club to launch their first project, a collaboration with our Artist-in-residence Jan Mun known as the Fairy Rings. We passed a fine brisk day down by the creek pasteurizing and then inoculating hay with oyster mushroom spawn to create […]
