• Minetta Creatures, an eco-art collaborative to celebrate the historic ecologies of the Minetta Brook watershed

    Updated: 2021-02-03 14:59:00
    , February 3, 2021 Minetta Creatures , an eco-art collaborative to celebrate the historic ecologies of the Minetta Brook watershed Minetta Creatures has a funding page on IOBY and received matching funds from ArtPlace America . Last year , I spoke with ArtPlace about the project . The following is an excerpt from the conversation . Why is it important to make this history visible When I moved to the neighborhood more than a decade ago , I wasn't aware that there once was a stream that flowed through it . I came across that information accidentally while doing some research about the trees of Washington Square Park , the history of the land . I became familiar with the word Minetta and its origins as a Lenape word and dug deeper , did a lot of Googling and realized that we are missing a

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