Meet up at Howl! Happening, 6 East First Street near Bowery

Saturday, May 7, 2022
1:00 PM

As part of “Othered” at Howl! Happening we are participating in the Municipal Arts Society’s “Janes Walk”

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/pollinatorwalkNYC

Led by Dr. Amy Berkov and Christy Rupp

Join us for a pollinator-plus walk around the Lower East Side. Dr. Berkov will lead us around to drop in at a few local community gardens. Amy made a mid-life career change from art to science. Her research program focuses on host associations of Neotropical wood-boring beetles—but she seeks out local biodiversity.

This link will show you some of the insects frequently seen in April and May. https://bit.ly/nycbugs

Howl Happening will host this walk, in partnership with the exhibition “Othered” by sculptor Christy Rupp.

About Christy Rupp:
As artists rummaged through the remnants of a crumbling city in the mid 1970’s, Rupp developed an interest in urban ecology, noting that the city is an ecosystem with a delicate balance. Transforming that discovery, she created work at the intersection of performance and site, joining a stream of artists breaching the boundaries of the gallery system’s white box.

In Othered, an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper, a nonhuman world view represents the voices of invisible microbes and species long displaced. Using collage and cast off materials, Rupp has investigated topics including climate chaos, the industrialization of our food supply, and water pollution through the lens of discard studies, or the examination of the waste stream. Her work is less concerned with representation of animals than with the framing of our attitudes toward habitat, and how we construct our opinions of nature.
Sign up for this special event here:
https://bit.ly/pollinatorwalkNYC