Art-Rooted at 6/15 Green for City of Forest Day!

ART-ROOTED at 6/15 Green for City of Forest Day 2026

FREE! Art Exhibition + Performances + Workshops

Saturday, October 3, 11am-5pm, 6/15 Green, Brooklyn

“...the earth gives us everything we need. The exchange of recognition, gratitude, and reciprocity for these gifts is just as important in a Brooklyn flat as under a birch bark roof.” - Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

6/15 Green is pleased to announce Art-Rooted, a one-day event celebrating trees on Saturday, October 3, 2026, 11am-5pm in conjunction with the annual citywide City of Forest Day! Art-Rooted explores our ecological, historical, botanical, and cultural roots embedded in trees that require our collective care and love to preserve. Trees cool neighborhoods during heat waves, prevent flooding by absorbing stormwater when it rains, clean our air, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve mental health and quality of life, and create vital habitats for plants, birds, and other animals. Discover ways to help raise awareness and get involved in your local community’s urban forestry efforts. Learn about historical factors that have shaped current tree canopy disparities as well as creative solutions to achieve equitable canopy expansion in high-need neighborhoods. This one-day community event invites artists and the public to re-imagine a world rooted in regeneration and reciprocity with nature, equally accessible to all, rather than extraction and consumption.

PROGRAM

●11am: Welcome by Curator Alyssa Fridgen & 6/15 Green Co-Founder Sheila McDevitt

●11am-3:30pm: Arts workshops for all ages

●11:15am & 2:15pm: Curator Tours

●12pm: STREET / ART, PARK SLOPE: regeneration walk with artist Rich Garr (details below)

●1pm: “dendro-chrono-apology” performance by Winonaalice 450 and andrea haenggi

●2pm: Sure We Can Executive Director, Ryan Castilia

●3:30pm: Artichoke Dance performance

●4pm: Community Potluck Closing Celebration!

Art-Rooted features over 28 artists and performers working art in all media, participatory workshops, and interactive performances, including a dance performance by nationally renowned eco-arts company, Artichoke Dance, and a poetic Socratic performance-dialogue-gathering with artist and choreographer Andrea Haenggi and Winonaalice 450. Explore art throughout the garden by Oscar F. Aguilar, Sherwin Banfield, Aileen Bassis, Michele Brody, Chris Costan, Tamara Damon, Julia Drucker, Ronen Gamil, Rich Garr, Andrea Haenggi and Winonaalice450, Ianthe Jackson, Tom Keough, Ella Mahoney, Backyard Utopias (Katerina Marcelja and Monika Wuhrer), Seema Lisa Pandya, Pierre Mercier-Puccio, Jasmine Murrell, Sarah Olson, Gabriel Pacheco, Seema Lisa Pandya, Niceli Portugal, Elisa Pritzker and Graciela Cassel, Natsuki Takauji, Jeremiah Teipen, Lucia Warck-Meister, and Kasia Zurek-Doule, curated by Alyssa Fridgen in collaboration with a community advisory committee and 6/15 Green.

Funding for “Art-Rooted” has been made possible by The Puffin Foundation. 6/15 Green is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. City of Forest Day is presented by Forest for All NYC in partnership with Parks & Open Space Partners coalition and NYC Parks.