Community
Water is a challenging medium—a formidable force—and it is inherently collaborative and cross-disciplinary. Water invites curiosity and passion but working with water also requires respect, rigor and expertise, and community.We build partnerships and collaborations to bring art, science and policy together.
Voices are stronger when joined together. To increase the impact of our environmental advocacy mission, we are committed to building cross-disciplinary partnerships. Our community of multi- and interdisciplinary artists are natural collaborators and translators between different practices and vocabularies. We seek to join—and learn from—the work of scientists, planners, policy advocates, and community activists—as well as other cultural organizations and institutions—dedicated to the urgency of climate change and urban water ecologies.
Past partnerships have included the New Georges, Guerrilla Science, and the US-Netherlands Water Management Network in the production of large-scale exhibition events and conversations.
We then partnered with Culture Push and the New York City Department of City Planning. Our relationship began in 2019 as the DCP was beginning its outreach plan for the next Comprehensive Waterfront Plan. Our first collaboration was Waterfront Planning Camp (2019). From its development, Walking the Edge emerged as a large-scale urban planning and durational performance artwork in which the public was to be invited to walk all 520 miles of the city’s waterfront, until the Covid-19 shutdown of 2020. Walking the Edge transitioned to a series of artist interventions in the waterways via Instagram from May-October 2020. We are excited to continue our collaboration with Culture Push and the New York City Department of City Planning to build awareness of the new Comprehensive Waterfront Plan with Tending the Edge (2021).
We’re now proudly partnering with The Wildlife Conservation Society and the New York Aquarium towards building awareness of and advocacy for Hudson Canyon.
interested in building a partnership with us? We welcome institutions and organizations committed to addressing climate change, environmental justice, water, and/or environmental art. To initiate a conversation, please contact info@worksonwater.org.
WORKS ON WATER ARTISTS BY YEAR
2025
Frank Bloem
Jeremy Dennis
Sherese Francis
Perrin Ireland
sTo Len
Stacy Levy
Marie Lorenz
Mary Mattingly
Lize Mogel
Eve Mosher
Nancy Nowacek
Sarah Cameron Sunde
Sunk Shore (Carolyn Hall & Clarinda Mac Low)
Elizabeth Velazquez
Marina Zurkow
2021
Elecrtic Djinn
Cody Herrmann
Perrin Ireland
Kate Liebman
sTo Len
Clarinda Mac Low
Tyler Rai
KC Trommer
Amy Wetsch
Elizabeth Webb
2020
mayfield brooks
Carolyn Hall
Leah Harper
Tessa Grundon
Simone Johnson
Art Jones
Cory Tamler
Elizabeth Velazquez
2019
Mariam Abazeri
Patterson Beckwith
Alex Branch
Willa Carroll
Christina Catanese
Melissa F. Clarke
Gaby Cody
Sherese Francis
Vered Englehard
Valerie Sullivan Fuchs
Tessa Grundon
Carolyn Hall
Maggie Haslam
Leah Harper
Cody Ann Herrmann
Art Jones
Robin Michals
Edmund Mooney
Eve Mosher
Sarah Nicholls
Nicki Pombier
Killian Quigley
Susannah Ray
Philip Sanchez
A.E. Souzis
Sarah Cameron Sunde
Cory Tamler
Sam Turich
Elizabeth Velazquez
2018
Nicole Antebi
Amber Atiya
Aaron Beebe
Lise Brenner
mayfield brooks
Tobias Carroll
Victoria Catherine Chan
Maya Ciarrocchi
Creative Traffic Flow
Ty Defoe
Hsini Des
Bel Falleiros
Devra Freelander
Emily A. Gibson
Ayash Guerin
Simone Johnson
Dena Igusti
Zaid Islam
Deanna Lee
Silnina Lopez Medina & Wo Chan
Robin Michals
Natasha Muhoza
Rebecca Pappas
Jianna Jihyun Park
Rena Priest
Courtney Puckett
Tidtaya Sinutoke
Rachel Stevens
Kelly E. Sullivan
Lilly Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri
2017
Lise Brenner with C’naan Hamberer, Carmen Bouyer, Merlyn Ranzer, Brad Marhsll, Rae Richards, Sarah Olson
Torkwase Dyson
Eve Mosher
sTo Len
Mare Liberum
Marie Lorenz
Paloma MacGregor
Mary Mattingly
Mary Miss
Nancy Nowacek and Celine Song
Sarah Cameron Sunde
Sunk Shore (Carolyn Hall & Clarinda Mac Low)
Rachel Stevens
Marina Zurkow and The Studio for Dark Ecologies
PARTNERS
Culture Push
Wildlife Conservation Society
New York City Department of City Planning