ARTIST IN VACANCY
Newburgh Community Land Bank
Newburgh, NY
2017-2024
Director/Curator: Diana Mangaser
Artist-In-Vacancy is a creative initiative conceived and directed by Diana Mangaser with Newburgh Community Land Bank to address vacancy & abandonment in Newburgh by re-imagining vacant sites as places for community engagement, artistic production, aesthetic & cultural research, and renewed inhabitation. By opening NCLB properties as temporary platforms for creative interventions, Artist-In-Vacancy looks to transform 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. Diana Mangaser has directed Artist In Vacancy since 2017 piloting & developing the program with inaugural artists, Laura Genes and Colleen Tuite & Ian Quate (formerly known as GRNASFCK). The program has received recognition from the Atlantic’s City Lab - “Lifting a Small Town Through a Land Bank Arts Program”, Center for Community Progress’ Case Study on Creative Placemaking on Vacant Properties: Lessons Learned from Four Cities, and Art Place America’s National Summit on Creative Placemaking. Artist-In-Vacancy is supported 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.
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, NCLB Staff, Contractors & Consultants, 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; Photography: Kiyoto Koseki, Diana Mangaser, Yoshihiro Sergel, Coleen Tuite, Stephen Zacks.
INDEX
TEA HOUSE
Manitoga
Spring Street Garden
Woods Gerry
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL
Lake Cabin
Rowhouse
Live/Work
Studio 2Q
CURATORIAL
Artist In Vacancy
Ann Street Gallery
EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS
Dia: Chelsea
Bauhaus Dessau
Dia: Beacon
Arts Letters & Numbers
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
Codas
Dance Platform
Winter Solstice Bells
Hako Sushi
Bubuto
Salo
TEA HOUSE
Manitoga
Spring Street Garden
Woods Gerry
RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL
Lake Cabin
Rowhouse
Live/Work
Studio 2Q
CURATORIAL
Artist In Vacancy
Ann Street Gallery
EXHIBITIONS & WORKSHOPS
Dia: Chelsea
Bauhaus Dessau
Dia: Beacon
Arts Letters & Numbers
COMMISSIONS & COLLABORATIONS
Codas
Dance Platform
Winter Solstice Bells
Hako Sushi
Bubuto
Salo
Y S D M is the collaborative studio
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.
Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.
Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.
By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.
As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.
of Yoshihiro Sergel & Diana Mangaser,
currently based in Newburgh, NY.
Our practice imagines design as a prismatic lens in which we integrate spatial awareness, architectural sensibility, and aesthetics into the structure of everyday environments we immerse ourselves and invite others to engage in.
Our work aims to mediate the oft divisive disciplinary separation between the speculative yet generative exercises of theoretical inquiry and the immediacy of praxis by undertaking the task of seeing such speculations through to built form.
By selecting to operate from a ground-up, environmentally, economically, and socially conscious framework, we leverage constraints as part of a framework from which we continuously develop our position and conceptual lines of study.
As of late, our interest lies in tea culture; intersections between cultural/traditional materials and methods with contemporary forms; what a regenerative architecture may come to be.