Award 2021
Welcome to the Social Art Award 2021 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many inspiring contributions from artists around the world. The selected works reflect a broad spectrum of contemporary social art practices and explore new relationships between humans, nature, and technology. They address themes such as ecological regeneration, climate justice, sustainable futures, social resilience, and more-than-human perspectives.
Below you will find the submissions from the Social Art Award 2021 – New Greening edition that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and encourages dialogue around their ideas and approaches; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your visionary and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping New Greening.
Pop-up Garden in a Street Tree Bed, aka Layla's...
Matthew Lopez-Jensen
Tree Love: Street Trees and Stewardship in New York City is a portrait of urban street trees and the spontaneous acts of stewardship found in tree beds. With nearly 700,000 street trees in New York City it is a project that might never end. The photographs here are a selection from an archive of thousands. I have walked hundreds of miles through almost every neighborhood and am spurred on by each instance of people caring for trees. I am also one of the many volunteer Citizen Pruners so it is impossible to see a tree as only a photographic subject. Old growth, self-planted, stunted, scarred, broken, coppiced, blighted, blight-resistant, rare, over-pruned, wild, each tree exhibits time and circumstance in its own way. And tree beds are as equally idiosyncratic with homemade tree guards, hand drawn signs, unique plant and flower combinations, decorations and ornaments, benches, bird feeders, and more often than not, too much garbage.
Tree Love: Street Trees and Stewardship in New York City is a portrait of urban street trees and the spontaneous acts of stewardship found in tree beds. With nearly 700,000 street trees in New York City it is a project that might never end. The photographs here are a selection from an archive of thousands. I have walked hundreds of miles through almost every neighborhood and am spurred on by each instance of people caring for trees. I am also one of the many volunteer Citizen Pruners so it is impossible to see a tree as only a photographic subject. Old growth, self-planted, stunted, scarred, broken, coppiced, blighted, blight-resistant, rare, over-pruned, wild, each tree exhibits time and circumstance in its own way. And tree beds are as equally idiosyncratic with homemade tree guards, hand drawn signs, unique plant and flower combinations, decorations and ornaments, benches, bird feeders, and more often than not, too much garbage.