4. The Door Project at The Green-Wood Cemetery
In collaboration with the Art Students League of New York’s Seeds of the League program, Green-Wood Cemetery has produced its first youth art exhibition, on view until September 4th. Through the program, Brooklyn public school students took part in field trips to the cemetery and weekly classes with Seeds where they considered the meaning of doors, as a word and as a concept. The young artists used 12 doors as the canvases for their final project as well as the inspiration for their designs.
They explored doors as symbols of the boundary between the living and the dead, or metaphors for transitional periods in life. The installation addresses themes like climate change, race and belonging, and love, loss, and community. The students’ hard work and unique view of life itself is free and open to the public at Green-Wood’s Fort Hamilton Parkway Entrance.
