Sandbox
2015-2016

Organizing my own community in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, via conversations in a sandbox and giving diptychs to participants. I made a User Guide to DIY Community Organizing for others to do the same in their own neighborhoods.

User Guide to DYI Community Organizing







Re-Animator, curated by John Avelutto
January, 2016

Sandbox off-site interview (#5) with John Avelutto in front of audience for the Re-Animator exhibition at Bay Ridge Art Space, where I showed the Sandbox diptychs.

Team Darkroom
2016-2018
The Sandbox Conversation with Salim Hasbini about Ig Mata's donation of enlargers led to our setting up an analog darkroom at the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) in Bay Ridge - in a tiny room with a sink and a door that opens to a rooftop. In addition to implementing the darkroom, I donated books for a photography library and made prints for a Hallway Archive of shared actions.
Bay Ridge March in Support of Muslim Neighbors.
January, 2016
I am one of a handful of organizers for this march - in spite of freezing temperatures, around 400 people showed up.
The Safas of Al Safa

For SAW 2013, I approached Mr. Safa of Al Safa, who gave me permission to hang two images, visible to the street, as well as conducting conversations by the open windows - on what it is that makes people feel at home in a place. As part of the conversations, I treated participants to Al Safa food with my SAW honorarium for materials.

Storefront Art Walk (SAW)
May, 2013
5th. Avenue, Bay Ridge


For both walls, I chose to make a photograph of a local, blooming tree - as a soothing image for Mr. Safa who misses Lebanese trees, especially cedar trees. These tree flowers hang among his other photographs and objects from Lebanon.
The second of my Open Window Conversations


Space All Over: The Transient Village Green since 2004. All images copyright Anna Lise Jensen.