About Joint Art Initiative

Joint Art Initiative explores how members can leverage local communities and artists to provoke conversations around public art. The overarching objective is to use art to inspire civic discourse and deepen connections among the communities surrounding Network projects.

On Growth, Kapwani Kiwanga
November 2023–October 2024
On the High Line at Little West 12th Street

This year, the High Line Network Joint Art Initiative will be partnering with cross-disciplinary artist Ezra Wube to produce a stop motion film in collaboration with participants from each Network site. Each site will welcome community members to help create the film—this could be students, older adults, staff, local artists, visitors, and more. The film is designed and produced by community members through a series of workshops facilitated by Ezra Wube at each site, with support and collaboration from site staff. Ezra has created many artworks like this in the past, using the medium of stop-motion animation as the entry point for collective authorship and reflection. Ultimately, the film aims to depict the Network sites and their communities, as well as the critical issues that both the Network projects and their communities face.

The culminating film will travel to participating Network sites in 2024, acting as a traveling exhibition to engage new and existing audiences and foster community relationships.

About the High Line Network
Presented by the High Line, the High Line Network is a group of infrastructure reuse projects—and the people who help them come to life. As cities become denser and land for traditional parks becomes more scarce, residents are finding creative ways to bring greenspace to their neighborhoods. Projects in the High Line Network transform underutilized infrastructure into new urban landscapes. Redefining what a park can be, these hybrid spaces are also public squares, open-air museums, botanical gardens, social service organizations, walkways, transit corridors, and more.

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Atlanta Beltline. Photo Credit: The Sintoses

Photo by Timothy Schenck. Oliver Lee Jackson, Untitled II, 2024

About High Line Art

High Line Art is the public art program that commissions and produces public art projects on and around the High Line. High Line Art is dedicated to expanding the role of contemporary art in public spaces, sparking the dialogue that is an essential element of city life. Founded in 2009, High Line Art commissions and produces a wide array of artwork, including site-specific commissions, exhibitions, performances, video programs, and a series of billboard interventions. Led by Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, Cecilia Alemani, the art program invites artists to think of creative ways to engage with the unique architecture, history, and design of the park, sparking the dialogue that is an essential element of city life.

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The High Line Network is made possible by the founding support of The JPB Foundation.

Lead support for High Line Art comes from Amanda and Don Mullen. Major support is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, and Charina Endowment Fund.

High Line Art is supported, in part, with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne Adams. High Line Accessibility is also supported, in part, by the New York City Council, with special thanks to Council Member Erik Bottcher.

Self-funded by Grow Greater Englewood.

Buffalo Bayou Partnership is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.