A “nature school” meets in Brooklyn

A series of workshops organized by the artist collective Field Meridians will try to get New Yorkers to open their eyes to the nature around them .

Nature is everywhere around us, even in New York. Although it can be difficult to appreciate the magnolias and ginkgoes when running to catch the subway, we are in fact surrounded.
Field Meridians, a Brooklyn artist collective, aims to help busy New Yorkers stop and smell the Callery pears. The group recently launched a six-month program called Nature School that aims to help New Yorkers take their natural surroundings out of their peripheral vision and into focus.
Their goal is to keep Crown Heights residents connected to the ecology of the city by creating space for breathe everything. On a sunny Saturday afternoon—a respite from a week of torrential rain, flooding, and earthquake—Brooklyn residents gathered at the Brower Park Library in Crown Heights to admire Mother Nature at her best .
In a room at the back of In a brand new branch of the Brooklyn Public Library located on the ground floor of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the students of Nature School began gathering shortly before 1 p.m. Shirley Cox, 85, and Robin Badger, 61, were the first of 10 participants to arrive this month at the “Stitching Our Experience” workshop led by Megumi Shauna Arai, an artist who works primarily in textiles.
ImageLinYee Yuan, the founder of Field Meridians, wants to remind New Yorkers “that nature is in our cities and that we we are nature. ourselves. »Credit... Ahmed Gaber for the New York Times
ImageRita Troyer, a relatively recent arrival in the city, was grateful for the opportunity to reconnect with the land as a New Yorker. It's possible, she said, you just need "a longer taproot" to access it.Credit...Ahmed Gaber for The New York Times

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A series of workshops organized by the artist collective Field Meridians will try to get New Yorkers to open their eyes to the nature around them .

Nature is everywhere around us, even in New York. Although it can be difficult to appreciate the magnolias and ginkgoes when running to catch the subway, we are in fact surrounded.

Field Meridians, a Brooklyn artist collective, aims to help busy New Yorkers stop and smell the Callery pears. The group recently launched a six-month program called Nature School that aims to help New Yorkers take their natural surroundings out of their peripheral vision and into focus.

Their goal is to keep Crown Heights residents connected to the ecology of the city by creating space for breathe everything. On a sunny Saturday afternoon—a respite from a week of torrential rain, flooding, and earthquake—Brooklyn residents gathered at the Brower Park Library in Crown Heights to admire Mother Nature at her best .

In a room at the back of In a brand new branch of the Brooklyn Public Library located on the ground floor of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the students of Nature School began gathering shortly before 1 p.m. Shirley Cox, 85, and Robin Badger, 61, were the first of 10 participants to arrive this month at the “Stitching Our Experience” workshop led by Megumi Shauna Arai, an artist who works primarily in textiles.

ImageLinYee Yuan, the founder of Field Meridians, wants to remind New Yorkers “that nature is in our cities and that we we are nature. ourselves. »Credit... Ahmed Gaber for the New York Times

ImageRita Troyer, a relatively recent arrival in the city, was grateful for the opportunity to reconnect with the land as a New Yorker. It's possible, she said, you just need "a longer taproot" to access it.Credit...Ahmed Gaber for The New York Times