THIS SUNDAY 5/3: Join MSCG + Arts Committee for a garden-wide celebration: Earth Day Community Event!
Join MSCG + Arts Committee for a garden-wide celebration: Earth Day Community Event. We look forward to seeing you in the garden!
DATE: Sunday, May 3rd, 2026
TIME: 10am - 3pm
🪴SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES:
✨Gardening Workday: 10am-1pm*
✨Mural painting: 12pm-3pm
✨Storytime: 1pm-1:30pm
✨Cartonnage Using Cardboard Workshop: 12:30pm-3pm
✨Arts + Crafts Table: 1pm-3pm
*The gardening committee will have a workday so if you want to help to plant seedlings, flowers and herbs or add mulch/compost to new garden beds, you’re welcome to join us anytime between 10am-1pm. No gardening experience is necessary!
ABOUT OUR INCREDIBLE FACILITATORS + FEATURED ARTIST:
🎨Zhenia N. (she/her) has been co-leading the Compost Committee at MSCG since 2016, and in 2025 initiated the Arts Committee. In 2026, she’s thrilled to host 9 new community events alongside Chelsea Bravo and other Arts Committee members that center creativity, play, self-exploration and sustainability. She is a fierce advocate for public gardens, a community writer, a sustainability education and a wellness practitioner. She will be overseeing the mural paintings on 4/19.
🦉Jess F. (she/her) is Co-Coordinator of the Communications Committee at MSCG, where she also supports Fundraising and Arts and serves as a shift leader on Team Compost. She serves on the Steering Committee of the Council of Gardeners NYC with Green Guerillas and is the Social Events Coordinator for Community Cleanup PLG. A master composter and storyteller, she believes in giving young people the tools early to live more sustainably and is excited to bring that spirit (in costume) to “Storytime with Jess, the Barn Owl” which is rooted in curiosity, creativity, connection, and celebrate Mother Earth.
📦Haebin C (she/her) is an active member of the Fundraising Committee at MSCG and studied environmental science in college. Exploring the intersection of art and science was one of her greatest passions! In her free time, she crafts miniatures and 3D print little gadgets and gizmos. She will be hosting the Cartonnage Using Cardboard Workshop where cardboard will be repurposed into making decorative fabric covered journal covers; Cartonnage is an art technique with roots in ancient Egypt and 1800s France. It is a no-sew technique using cardboard, fabric, and adhesives to create decorative boxes and cases. In her workshop, she hopes to create a space where attendees can come together as a group and explore applications of sustainability in art.
🤖Ellie d’E. (She/her) is a Brooklyn-based textile street artist. Her solo and community yarnbombs have been published in the AP and Gothamist and are seen by thousands on scaffolding across NYC. She has been commissioned to produce large-scale installations for live events at Lincoln Center and in Prospect Park, and her art has been on exhibit both here and abroad. Ellie is the recipient of an Awesome Foundation NYC grant.
Whether leading others in creating public art or crafting complex knit pieces that uplift, she believes art is vital to our wellbeing. Many of her projects are driven by working collaboratively with others and creating meaningful, emotional visuals accessible to children. Ellie will be overseeing the Arts + Crafts Table, which will include creative activities for both children and adults.
Flo Low is a British-Armenian artist, graphic designer, and art educator based in Brooklyn. They use printmaking and textile to explore the figures and landscapes of the past, how they shape us and how we shape them in response to loneliness and alienation. Inspired by the children they work with, their ongoing project Bags for Life plays with form and function through designing and making single-purpose (but not single use) bags. MSCG is excited to feature Flo Low as the mural designer/artist for Earth Day Community Event on May 3rd; their design includes insects, flowers and birds that the community will help to paint on Sunday and enjoy throughout the season.
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We look forward to seeing you and beautifying our green space together!