Place Matters at the Coney Island Museum
A Conversation about Place Matters, part of the "Ask the Experts" series sponsored by Coney Island USA
Sunday, Aug. 2, 2009, 4-5pm

Place Matters at Bard College
Art Spaces Archive Project, Center for Curatorial Studies
A Place Matters workshop about oral history and community programs
Coming, Fall 2009

Place Matters in Rhode Island
John Nicholas Brown Center, Brown University
A Place Matters residency about oral history and community programs
Coming, Fall 2009

Place Matters' "Place Markers"
Your Guide to the Lower East Side
Locations: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, PS 42, St. Teresa's Church, and St. Augustine's Church {signs at Seward Park & Straus Square removed, Feb 2008}.

Place Matters' public art project celebrates people, places, and community life on the Lower East Side. Over two dozen signs installed at six separate sidewalk locations on the Lower East Side capture local history first hand. With photographs and text in five languages, these "place markers" weave personal stories and cherished memories directly into the landscape, often right where the stories took place. A Yiddish-speaking type-setter, Puerto Rican garment worker, and World's-Fair-showgirl-turned-photographer are a few of the New Yorkers who tell tales and share experiences in Your Guide to the Lower East Side.

Click here for a map of sign locations, an online version of our 30-page catalog, and information about how to purchase a printed catalog.

The project was made possible with support from the E.H.A. Foundation, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other Place Matters funders. Permission to install signs was granted by City of New York / Parks & Recreation.