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DREAMERS UNITE! BE PART OF A HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT CELEBRATING YOUR POWER TO DREAM SATURDAY OCTOBER 1 1:00 PM - AT - UNISPHERE FOUNTAIN FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK, QUEENS, NY *Portrait will be followed by an outdoor dance party 3pm-6pm** All who consider themselves DREAMERS a...

WEEK 2, RITE 1 of Open Ceremony — Find Legacy on Saturday, July 2 at SAINT MARK'S CHURCH IN THE BOWERY from 1pm. WEEK 1, RITE 1 of Open Ceremony — Come share your memories of the East Village and Lower East Side with the artist Legacy Russell. On saturday June 25, you'll be able to find her at...

Brooklyn, NY -- Trust Art proudly welcomes its eleventh project, spearheaded by artist Legacy Russell, to the Trust Art community. Russell’s project, OPEN CEREMONY, will be a contemporary exploration of ceremony, ritual, and idolatry through site-specific performative and interactive installat...

After a smashing success at the Festival of Ideas for the New City at the New Museum in Manhattan, the Bushwick Art Park returns to its Brooklyn home for a one day community event hosted by Trust Art, Factory Fresh, and Norte Maar on Saturday, June 4th, 1-7pm. At 2:30pm, we will hold a ribbon...

On Saturday, the Bushwick Art Park took Manhattan by storm at the Festival of Ideas for the New City StreetFest. Produced by Trust Art and curated by Ali Ha at Factory Fresh, the mini prototype for the Bushwick Art Park featured 3d infographic sculptures, park benches, grass, and a Bushwick sign ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 5, 2010 Press Contact: seth@trustart.org PUBLIC ARTS ORGANIZATION TRUST ART AND BROOKLYN STREET ART COLLECTIVE SKEWVILLE TO BRING THE BUSHWICK ART PARK TO THE NEW MUSEUM’S FESTIVAL OF IDEAS FOR THE NEW CITY STREETFEST: SATURDAY MAY 7, 11am-7pm. Come kick it at...

DREAMERS project artist Justin Tellian, along with Jose Serrano-Reyes and Talisa Chang of Trust Art, have finalized travel plans and logistics for the Dream Johannesburg photo shoot, to take place Saturday, April 16 at the Orlando Towers in Soweto, Johannesburg. This NY-based crew could not b...

In November, Trust Art kicked of Chapter One of the Bushwick Art Park, a project with Skewville to convert Vandervoort Place, an underused and garbage-strewn street in Bushwick, into a permanent community art park. More than just a place for art, the park also represents a space for cultivatin...

The School of the Future (SotF) opened July 2010 as an inter-generational free school for the community around Sgt. Dougherty Park, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. From solar-powered lighting to a giant scrabble board, giant Tyvek mountains and experimental food sculptures, the School of the Future is a...

Trust Art is creating a new economic model for public art.Every dollar, hour, or resource you gift to a Trust Art project translates into shares. Shareholders are entitled to proceeds from our Triennial Auction, which is taking place Spring 2012. Dreamers Johannesburg ChapterTrust Art is issui...

Here's a treat from Propel-her's Ani Javian, who is part of the Trust Art Project Dance-Lab. The piece below is FIXED, choreographed by Ani and danced by Stephanie Lane, Meghan MacAlpine, and Alex Schell. An important aspect of the dance is its versatility-- it is a piece that can be performed...

This April, Trust Art's Dreamers project with Justin Tellian will be making its last international city stop in Johannesburg, South Africa. The photo shoot, a large group portrait which invites anyone who considers themselves a "dreamer" to participate, will take place in Soweto, the largest ...

We invite you to check out selected works of Trust Art artist Dave Olsen of the wonderful and weird Vulture project, on view at Choplet Gallery and Ceramics Studio through January. As Vulture, artist Dave Olsen, offers potential solutions to the aftermath of our post-industrial world throu...

In December, the Trust Art gang proudly installed the Helper Statue at Marcy Green South in Bushwick as part of Chapter 3 of the Wildness Project. The Helper, which stands benevolently in a stone-ring filled with grass, will grace the park for three months. The journey to get him there, h...

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We learned about the documentary WASTE LAND just as we have ignited planning around Trust Art's first triennial auction in the spring of 2012. All you need to do is watch the trailer (and perhaps this wooden DVD by Ben Franklin) to know how this is happily relevant. Here is the WASTE LAN...

Justin Tellian is a photographer inspired by the power of dreams. His grandfather, also a photographer, inspired him to pursue photography at a young age. In high school he became a photo-journalist for the regional daily paper, and then attended Brooks Institute of Photography. Tellian moved to ...

Success! The Helper Statue was installed Saturday, December 11 at Marcy Green South for its temporary three-month public appearance. The Helper Statue, which is part of Chapter 3 of the Wildness Project, reconfigures the bricks 
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Greetings, Dreamers! Trust Art has returned from Tokyo and we have so much to share with you. Chapter Four of the Dreamers Project marks the making of many new friends and the discovery of many new dreams. From presenting our project at PechaKucha on our first night, to finding kindred spirits at...

This Sunday, November 28, the Dreamers Project celebrates Tokyo's power to dream in Chapter Four of Justin Tellian's Dreamers Project. At noon, the Dreamers will meet at Harajuku Bridge before rallying to their final destination. The Dreamers Project has already discovered subjects in Brooklyn...

Artists and onlookers convened at Vandervoort Place in Bushwick, Brooklyn on Saturday for the All City Block Party, a day of live painting, DJs, and Calexico tacos. The party, hosted by All City Street Art and Factory Fresh, marks the beginning of Chapter One of the Bushwick Art Park, Factory ...

On November 7, the temporary installment of the Humanity Project fountain concluded, leaving no trace at McGolrick park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Although the installation faced some difficulties, we mended our broken heart. The fountain's resilience adds a deeper layer of meaning and inspirat...

The recently completed Helper Statue has found a site for its three month public appearance: a stone ring in Marcy Green South, by the Marcy Ave J/M/Z stop. This peculiar structure seems like the abandoned outline of a garden that never materialized, though now it will be made purposeful as an ea...

The scented fountain that has graced McGolrick Park since the Summer is closing this Saturday, November 6. To celebrate, the Humanity Project will be present between noon and 3pm offering the Humanity Fragrance First Edition (in a roll-on version) on a 'pay what you wish' model, with all the pr...

The Dreamers project is inviting all the dreamers of Tokyo to participate in a group portrait on November 29. To build community and capital for the Tokyo Chapter, the project is offering a hand-engraved telescope by Justin Tellian and 60 shares in the Dreamers project for a contribution of $60 o...

From the very beginning of the Humanity project, we knew that the biggest challenge would be to really capture the essence of compassion in scent, and then be able to transmit that feeling to the public through a fountain. Throughout the nearly two years leading up to the installation of the Hum...

The Tokyo chapter of the Dreamers project is now official. We have tickets and dates: November 27-28. We have been asking our friend and friends of friends to support us by helping us connect with the good people of Tokyo who identify with the word: dreamer. Our main goal is to find a...

Watch this video. All that is left of Seth Aylmer's reading of a poem by Analee Aurora during the lighting ceremony for the Helper sculpture. Jumpy video, no audio, and Seth disappears into nothingness. For the people that attended the ceremony, this is not actually that surprising. It felt...

A statue with an ancient past has appeared in North Brooklyn. Join us for a ceremony to give life to The Helper on October 15th @ 6pm. Based on a 2000 year old Native American rock carving of a benevolent spirit who aides powerful shamans, the statue pays homage to wilder times. Learn more...

Because freedom is the value that unites all of us. Freedom from tyranny gives us collective strength. It is freedom that binds us together and more than any other value - defines our society. Without the idea of Liberty, our country would have no founding story. Great monuments embody our gre...

Trust Art and the Centro Civico Cultural Dominicano invite you to a fundraiser exhibition for the Homebuilding Project, public art by Facundo Newbery connecting urban New York and a rural town in the Dominican Republic through a home built in each location from found objects and a 'do-it-now' mi...

An excerpt from the Greenpoint Gazette story by Julia Linderman: The broken heart was largely considered to be a casualty of vandalism, and it certainly was. However, Serrano believes that when examined through the lens of the project as a whole, the heart’s destruction is part of the installa...

Here you can see archival images of artworks and images from opening night at '5 Social Victories', the TRUST ART exhibition at KIDD YELLIN that presents the artworks and achievements of five ambitious public art projects commissioned by the TRUST ART community.

Trust Art and Kidd Yellin present 5 Social Victories, an exhibition dedicated to charting the evidence, processes, communities, and achievements surrounding five visionary public art projects, including the School of the Future by Cassie Thornton and Chris Kennedy, Wildness by Seth Aylmer, Humani...

The fountain has been broken. You can find the fully story in this New York Times article: Heartbreak at a Monument to Humanity If you are in Greenpoint/Brooklyn, please help us adorn the fountain with flowers until we can replace its heart. These are the first flowers. Your offerings ar...

BROOKLYN, NY - In Greenpoint's McGolrick Park a fountain has been installed that emits an all-natural fragrance which carries across much of the park's landscape. The fountain is the work of public artist Anne McClain and a team of five other Brooklyn-based artists. The project was inspired by th...

Brooklyn, NY - Burning Man, on its 25th anniversary as an art-based Metropolis, is emerging as the next chapter of the Dreamers project, a series of group portraits of self-identified ‘dreamers’ that photographer and street artist Justin Tellian has been shooting in urban centers around the world...

Welcome to our new home! We have been hard at work on this new website, and now it is time for you to tell us what you think. Every shareholder now has a profile on this site that reveals their 'shares' in the different projects and gives them a way to give part of their shares to friends...

Rafe Furst knows a thing or two about betting. The enigmatic and self-professed “possibilities accelerator” became known for his winning hands at the World Series of Poker, and his investments in innovation and social entrepreneurship through The Black Swan and the Presumed Abundance Fund.