ARTIST-IN-VACANCY
AIV 2023
Alison mcnulty
June 30, 2023, Newburgh, N.Y.—Newburgh Community Land Bank Artist-in-Vacancy is pleased to announce our collaboration with local artist, Alison McNulty for our fifth season. Artist-In-Vacancy is a creative initiative addressing vacancy & abandonment in Newburgh by re-imagining vacant sites as places for community engagement, artistic production, aesthetic & cultural research, and renewed inhabitation. This year’s residency initiated from on-going conversation with McNulty since 2021 around the temporary habitation of neglected structures and her embodied practice of sifting through the layers of histories which appear in the (de) materialization of a site. In her project she looks to create an ephemeral spatial and material encounter that explores the topography of human habitat, the house as an ecological space, memory as both residue and residence, and dwelling, in Georges Didi-Huberman’s words, “...not as that which we inhabit, but that which simultaneously inhabits and incorporates us”.*
McNulty’s on-Site residency began in May 2023 and will extend through Fall 2023, with a closing event scheduled for September 30-October 1 during Newburgh Open Studios. Details & additional public viewings to be announced. All AIV events are open and free to the public.
ARTIST IN VACANCY
mission
Artist-In-Vacancy is a creative initiative addressing vacancy & abandonment in Newburgh by re-imagining vacant sites as places for community engagement, artistic production, aesthetic & cultural research, and renewed inhabitation.
The Newburgh Community Land Bank (NCLB) believes we have a unique role in community revitalization to eliminate barriers to redevelopment that go beyond property renovation and sale alone. By opening NCLB properties as temporary platforms for creative interventions, we look to transform our liabilities into sites for engagement: safe, accessible spaces which draw the public experience inside the vacancy and bring life back to marginalized spaces of underserved neighborhoods in the city.
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2021 Artist-In-Vacancy awarded Arts Mid Hudson Decentralization Grant
2020 Artist-In-Vacancy awarded Arts Mid Hudson Decentralization Grant
2019 Times Record Herald highlights Artist In Vacancy — Art Breathes Life into Forgotten Properties
2019 Artist-In-Vacancy Announcement Press Release
2019 Artist-In-Vacancy Laura Genes presents at Art Place America’s National Summit on Creative Placemaking
2019 Artist-In-Vacancy awarded Arts Mid Hudson Decentralization Grant
2018 NCLB presents Artist-In-Vacancy at Center for Community Progress’ Multi-City Convening at the Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference
2018 Center for Community Progress features Artist-In-Vacancy in a case study focusing on Newburgh in
Creative Placemaking on Vacant Properties: Lessons Learned from Four Cities
2018 Artist-In-Vacancy awarded Arts Mid Hudson Decentralization Grant
2017 City Lab features Artist-In-Vacancy in article by Ben Schulman— Lifting a Small Town Through a Land Bank Arts Program
support
Artist-In-Vacancy is made possible through working with local non-profits, arts organizations, and businesses, including Affordable Housing Concepts, Architect Peter Smith, Atlas Industries, City of Newburgh Executive, Planning, Building & Codes, Water, and Fire departments, Dia Arts Foundation (Dia Teens Program), Downing Park Planning Committee, Newburgh Free Academy Elite Track Team, Newburgh Free Academy (NFA West), Newburgh Historical Society, Newburgh Historian Mary McTameney, Newburgh Urban Farm and Food Initiative, Orange County Arts Council, Outdoor Voices, RUPCO Inc., Safe Harbors on the Hudson, Shelter House at Downing Park, Visconti Bus Services, and most importantly, local community members. This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Mid Hudson.
