sanitation celebration
DSNY art show
The DSNY Art Show celebrates the artistic talents of the NYC Department of Sanitation workforce. It continues the Department's longstanding commitment to the arts—from creating the country’s first public Artist-in-Residence program with famed Mierle Laderman Ukeles, to being an early supporter of Materials for the Arts, to curating employee art shows throughout the 1980s, to preserving and promoting the Treasures in the Trash Museum, to our present day partnership with the Public Artists in Residence (PAIR), a municipal residency program that embeds artists in city government to propose and implement creative solutions to pressing civic challenges. The 2020 Virtual Exhibition and 2021 Gallery Exhibition were created to bring the public and the Department together, in celebration of DSNY’s positive impact on our City.
2021 Gallery Exhibition
Sanitation Celebration was an exhibition featuring artwork by 20 DSNY employees, a specially curated collection of pieces from Nelson Molina's Treasures in the Trash collection, artwork from DSNY Artist-in-Residence Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and artwork from the new DCLA Public-Artist-in-Residence, sTo Len.
The DSNY Art Show was co-hosted by Pace University in Downtown Manhattan, and is made possible by our partnership with Mack Trucks.
The gallery exhibition is now closed.
2020 Fall Virtual Show
In the fall of 2020, we debuted over 20 employee artists in a virtual exhibition, sponsored by Mack Trucks. The exhibition was created to bring attention to the important work of the Department during a very turbulent time.
