Saturday, October 15 is City of Forest Day! Our Fair City is home to more than 7 million trees, hundreds of acres of woodlands, and miles of trials. A healthy urban forest makes for a healthy city, cleaning our air and water, cooling our neighborhoods, providing critical habitat for wildlife, and improving our environment. Presented by Forest for All NYC in partnership with the Parks and Open Space Partners – NYC Coalition and NYC Department of Parks and Recreation, City of Forest Day is sponsoring activities across the city to raise awareness of the importance of the New York City urban forest, and the essential role we play in caring for our essential canopy. Click here to find an event near you. Above: Governors Island, photo courtesy NYC Department of Parks & Recreation

Tree-naissance, on Roosevelt Island’s Lighthouse Park, from 11am to 3 pm is organized by iDig2Learn, offering activities such as adding a mulch blanket to 70 newly planted baby trees. You can sharpen your Arbornaut skills with fun activities, art, movement and tree ID talks. Be part of the tree survey, compost efforts, and learn why native regional trees support butterflies. This is a zerowaste event so please carry in and carry out your items. Follow @idig2learn on IG for event details.

I’ll be there with my watercolors [left: Hurricane Season, 2022] from 1:00 to 3:00 pm—you’ll find me with Anthony, aka GRIN, the compost guru of the Roosevelt Island Community Garden, which planted the 70 baby trees, and where I maintain a plot—with a beautiful Schubert Cherry tree! Rain date 10/16.

Thursday, October 13-Sunday, October 16: 2022 NY Art Book Fair 

This year Printed Matter’s NYABF returns to the historic location of the very first Fair, at 548 West 22^nd Street.  Exhibitors include a broad range of artists, collectives, publishers, institutions, galleries, antiquarian booksellers, and distributors. This year’s Fair will feature many of the longstanding exhibitors and programs that have come to define this beloved event, while also offering new ways to discover artists’ books and explore the full breadth of the art publishing community. Above: John McWhinnie@Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (2011). Courtesy NYABF

Over the course of 4 days, visitors can attend dozens of free conversations, workshops, performances, and other artist-led programs. NYABF 2022 programs also include curated exhibitor projects, exhibitor awards, the Opening Night After-party, publication-focused exhibitions, our first ever Block Party, and much more! Above: Left: Gianluca and Gianmarco Gamberini of L’Artiere Edizione, Bentivoglio, IT. Center: At Colophon Foundry of London and LA, nothing speaks louder than type: The Future III poster, with split fountain printing. Right: Jason Burstein and Christine Labey of Conveyor Editions, Jersey City, NJ. Photos: Peggy Roalf

Advanced registration for The Classroom and CABC are encouraged. More Printed Matter, 548 West 22^nd Street, New York, NY. Visit pmabf.org to view the list of exhibitors, purchase tickets, register for programs, and learn more about NYABF 2022

Offsite at Hauser & Wirth Gallery: An Incomplete History of Printed Matter’s Art Book Fairs

Organized by Darling Green and produced in partnership with Hauser & Wirth Publishers, the exhibition assembles a chorus of personal anecdotes, conversations, documentation, print materials,  and ephemera to give a layered narrative account of the NY and LA Art Book Fairs since their founding. As a key piece of the project, a series of newly-conducted interviews and conversations with current and past exhibitors will shed light on the individual experiences that make up the collective history and life of the Fair.

Hauser & Wirth, 542 West 22^nd Street, New York, NY RSVP

Friday, October 14, 5pm: Freshkills | Photographs by Jade Doskow at Cornell

Jade Doskow, the Photographer-in-Residence at Freshkills Park, on Staten Island, is presenting 18 of her large-scale photographs from this project, with soundscapes by composer and sound artist Heather Campanelli, at the Hartell Gallery. Created at the former, 2,200-acre site of the largest household waste dump on Earth, Doskow’s images of the iconic landfill-turned-park make clear its paradoxical, ethereal beauty while creating an important archive of a major chapter within the story of New York City’s infrastructure. Doskow’s photographs highlight the immense complexity of Freshkills, both the luminous, open, meadows as well as the highly engineered systems enabling this modern wilderness to function. Freshkills Park Alliance

Opening reception at 5pm, Hartell Gallery, Sibley Dome, Ithaca, NY. Continuing through November 4, Info Map Jade Doskow will be giving a CRP Colloquium presentation on October 14th at 12:25 in Cornell's Milstein Auditorium. Info

Saturday, October 15, 5:30-7:30pm: System Sets at Foreland

This group show curated by Jesse Greenberg features works by David Brooks, Nathaniel De Large, Matthew Fischer, Russel Tyler, Susan Wides. With a focus revolving around forms and systems shared between nature and tools of observation.

Susan Wides, known for her large-format images of New York’s urban and rural wilderness, presents works from her Arachnids series. Vice Aletti writes, “Wides’s terrific photos of spiders and their webs look like a combination of automatic drawing and scientific investigation.  Made outdoors under natural light (much of which bounces around the frame in bright prismatic bars) but before midnight blue backdrops, the pictures play nature against artifice without any unnecessary polemics.  Set in their glistening nets, the spiders appear jewel-like or sinister (depending on your arachnid comfort level), but the work is utterly seductive.”

Through November 27^th at Foreland, 107-111 Water Street, Catskill, NY Info

An afterparty with karaoke, dancing, drinks, snacks, and more. Free and open to the public. RSVP required, email gallery@forelandcatskill.com for more information and to RSVP

Saturday, October 15-Sunday, October 16, noon to 6pm: Gowanus Open Studios 2022

This year, 300+ artists at 100+ locations open their doors for a weekend of total immersion in the arts. Presented by Arts Gowanus, this annual event--one of the largest and most inclusive in the city--continues to build on the idea of arts as infrastructure.

The organizers say, “We believe that the diverse creativity of local artists contributes to the singularly vibrant cultural life and energy of New York City, and that it is critical not only for the artists, but also our society in general, that the arts continue to thrive in Gowanus.” Info Above: A community artist portrait mural featuring many of the artists who work and live in Gowanus, located on the wall across the street from the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse at 165 2nd St

Located at the intersection of Gowanus and Red Hook, the Ti Arts building is a great place to start out, with 60+ artists opening their doors for the weekend. Among them is Syma / Ceramic Artist, who produces smoke-fired clay works [left] in her Weber grill, which is parked on the terrace next to her light-filled studio #26 on the third floor at Ti Arts, 183 Lorraine Street. You can also ask her Magic Lady questions about your future. Map and Directory