苏格拉底雕塑公园是一个社区参与的纽约市滨水公园 致力于支持艺术家 在公共艺术的创作和呈现中。.
公园里正在发生的事情
马克·迪·苏韦罗人们的生产力如果能得到发挥，不受限制，将会创造出怎样的景象 创新, ，那是 打开, ，那是 以某种方式支持.
穿越时空的苏格拉底
一条发源于今皇后区大桥以北、注入今哈莱特湾的溪流，曾是莱纳佩人梅斯皮奇、卡纳西和洛克威亚支族重要的渔业、农业和贸易中心。尽管这些部落说的是门西语，但他们称这条溪流为 Sunkisq，这是一个可能的阿尔冈昆语词，推测意思是“女酋长”，而南端被称为 Sintsinck，意思是“石地”。后来它被称为孙斯威克溪。.
英国人威廉·哈莱特从荷兰西印度公司获得了一块现在被称为哈莱茨湾和桑斯威克溪的争议地区。他从现在的康涅狄格州格林威治搬到那里，建立了一个种植园。种植园被韦克奎斯吉人烧毁，以回应荷兰人对莱纳佩人的袭击。10年后，哈莱特声称正式从马塔诺（Nyack和史泰登岛社区的萨加莫尔酋长）手中“购买”了这片土地。.
约瑟夫·哈莱特在溪口“右侧”建造了一座磨坊，而那个地方之前曾被他的曾曾祖父筑坝。他的祖先威廉在第二次获得土地所有权后不久就建造了一个石灰窑，而这个磨坊则标志着孙斯威克溪快速工业化的开端。.
到1910年，孙斯威克溪的大部分被皇后区大桥的建筑垃圾填埋。在其尚存的河口处，安装了一个潮汐门，有效地截留了受污染、死水成片、蚊虫滋生的水体。在被市政府忽视后，孙斯威克溪（当时称为拉文斯伍德）附近地区的居民用斧头摧毁了潮汐门。1920年，市政府最终在溪流上建造了一个混凝土和木材的驳船码头，将其彻底封堵。.
马克·迪·苏维罗（Mark di Suvero）为了寻求一个可以进行自己创作的空间，修复了位于哈勒特湾（Hallet's Cove）附近的两座几近废弃的仓库。他立即邀请了通过其雅典娜基金会（Athena Foundation）支持的其他艺术家入驻，并与他们共享工具。这家命名为“时空构筑公司”（Spacetime Constructs Corporation）的工作室至今仍作为他的工作室以及其他艺术家的创作空间。.
马克·迪·苏维罗开始看中了Spacetime CC和野口勇美术馆之间的一块空地，这块地大部分被用作非法倾倒场，他打算将其作为雅典娜基金会的一个空间，以实现基金会帮助艺术家实现愿景的使命，从而使社会变得更健康、更合作、更快乐、更统一。1985年10月21日，雅典娜基金会与港口和码头局签署了一份租约，获得了现在苏格拉底雕塑公园所在的那块土地的所有权。最终被接受的提案规定，该公园只是一个临时性措施，而市政府正在寻找一个更永久的所有者。租约的期限为五年，年租金为一美元。.
苏格拉底雕塑公园的每一版提案都包含某种形式的劳动力发展计划，迪苏韦罗于1986年春夏季实施了该计划。他和苏格拉底雕塑公园的创始总监兼董事会主席恩里科·马蒂尼奥尼招募艺术家以及当地社区成员，承担清理覆盖土地的垃圾和瓦砾的繁重体力劳动。.
1986年9月28日， inaugural exhibition 在苏格拉底雕塑公园开幕，该公园被描述为“泥泞”和“大获成功”。展览在《纽约时报》上获得了好评，促使港口和码头部门斥责该公园展出了未经申报的、危险的高大雕塑。.
Soon after its opening, free and public education programs begin at the Park. Artist / Educators Anthe Zacharias, Maria Cocchiarell and Maria Mingalone contribute to the earliest manifestations of community engagement programming including Zacharias’ painting of the rocks along Hallets Cove with youth from Astoria Houses.
在五年租赁期圆满结束，其公园项目获得成功的鼓舞下，苏格拉底雕塑公园开始着手将其整合为一个独立于雅典娜基金会的非营利组织。.
Socrates Sculpture Park formalizes its Education Program offering a variety of innovative programs to local community youth, such as its Saturday Sculpture Workshops and Summer Outdoor Art-Making Workshops summer camps.
第一个 国际青年雕塑家展览 已推出。这将为延续至今的年度展览奠定基础。.
萨格拉底雕塑公园被正式指定为公园绿地，从而阻止了可能影响周边地区的房地产开发。该协议会定期重新谈判，至今仍在进行。.
公园的 十周年, 苏格拉底的’新兴艺术家奖学金”由执行总监凯瑟琳·吉尔兰（Kathleen Gilrain）设立，最初由伊芙·苏斯曼（Eve Sussman）和玛丽亚·明加隆（Maria Mingalone）提出，旨在更正式地体现苏格拉底一直以来致力于为艺术家提供创作大型公共雕塑空间的宗旨。在其成立的最初五年，艺术家的作品将包含在同期举办的群展中，之后，于2001年，展览形式转变为专门展出来自奖学金项目的群展。.
户外电影项目已成立，最初由影像博物馆策划。.
苏格拉底推出其 百老汇广告牌 系列.
Socrates 聘请了第一位全职员工——执行董事 Alyson Baker。.
苏格拉底推出其首个网站并正式化 新锐艺术家奖学金展览 使用 EAF01。.
执行董事艾莉森·贝克发起了一系列题为 开放空间.
独立策展人萨拉·赖斯曼策划 浮动, ，一系列在周六和周日举办的临时装置展览。由于反响热烈，在接下来十年里，它被重新构想为一项双年展，邀请众多策展人和艺术家参与，他们的短暂作品可能不适合公园的展览项目。.
随着公园部门协议续签，该部门重新规划了土地，正式将哈莱特湾海滩划入苏格拉底场地。.
马克·迪·苏维罗设计、建造并捐赠了这个有遮蔽的工作室（棚屋），作为金属加工和制造的覆盖空间。.
苏格拉底发起了 愚蠢, ，一个为响应 EAF 申请中日益增长的、专门针对建筑领域的趋势而设立的驻留和展览项目。该项目是与建筑联盟（The Architectural League）合作举办的，每年举办一次，直到 2020 年，并且是园区内两处仍然存在的建筑的来源： 棍棒一和二, 一个多功能结构系统，同时兼作储物空间。.
Concurrent with Superstorm Sandy, the Park exhibits Civic Action, a collaboration with the Noguchi Museum highlighting the social and geographic history of the area both of these institutions inhabit. WICK CREEK: Reflecting Forward, 2012, by Mary Miss, traces the path of the Sunswick Creek that once ran through the Park.
Superstorm Sandy floods the Park and its adjacent office, damaging and destroying many institutional records, and severely corrodes the already tenuous shoreline—an issue that would eventually lead to the 2026 Seawall Reconstruction Project.
执行主任约翰·哈特菲尔德（John Hatfield）正式启动了一系列为职业中期艺术家举办的个展委托项目，旨在 稻草人 由Žilvinas Kempinas创作，这是迄今为止在Socrates上展出的最大规模的装置艺术。.
Socrates launches Sculpture Studio, partnering directly with local high schools to develop integrated lesson plans that connect 3-D sculpture-making, artworks on view, and critical thinking skills.
苏格拉底委托 “活的金字塔”, 自她标志性的城市干预以来，艺术家艾格尼丝·德内斯 (Agnes Denes) 在纽约市的首次大型公共艺术作品，已有三十年, 麦田 - 一场对峙 1982年。. “活的金字塔” 稍后将在卡塞尔文献展第十四届（documenta 14）和第五届沙漠双年展（Desert X）上展出。.
该公园推出一系列园区个人展览，其中‘娜丽·沃德：公羊，又来了,’ New York’s first institutional solo exhibition of work by artist Nari Ward.
The Emerging Artists Fellows program is renamed “The Annual”. The cohort includes Devra Freelander, for whom the 德夫拉·弗里兰德基金 每年会有一位研究员获得此奖项，他/她体现了弗里兰德在可持续性、身份认同和女权主义方面的艺术价值观，以及她独立和富有冒险精神。.
马克·迪·苏维罗的挚友伦纳德·康蒂诺意外的遗产捐赠，将用于扩建教育工作室——Sticks 2.0。.
苏格拉底启动其首个三阶段展览，展出 纪念碑现已, ，展出...的作品 诺娜·福斯蒂娜, 杰弗里·吉布森, 保罗·拉米雷斯·约拿 和 泽维拉·西蒙斯, and including a responsive work made by local high school students participating in the Park’s art-education program.
Socrates presents Planeta Abuelx’, 由...创作的个人作品展 瓜达卢佩·马拉维拉. 作为我们从疫情中走出来之际，献给社区的一份礼物，艺术家举办了一系列疗愈音浴——其中一些是专门为癌症患者或无证移民等特定群体准备的。.
Astoria Houses – Youth Enrichment Services is established in partnership with the Park, as the precedent to Socrateens, a year-long, high school-level, experimental art-making program at the intersection of artistic production and environmental justice.
Socrateens contributions work to improve the built environment, first designing and building two roof-top meadows and living walls – now home to hundreds of native plants growing on 28 tons of soil. Participants later build two solar-powered charging carts and upcycled tech planter boxes.
执行主任凯蒂·迪克森发起 在公共场所练习，, 与利益相关者进行为期三年的愿景构想过程，以探问：“利用索克拉底艺术家领导的激进主义历史，构想一个根植于归属感、社区力量和爱的激进未来，这将意味着什么？”
经过十年的过程，苏格拉底的员工居住在“立方体”, 一个由创新建筑工作室 LOT-EK 设计的、占地 2,640 平方英尺、两层楼的新建筑。这个新的永久性空间在设计上就具备多功能性，为公园的行政办公室、艺术教育和社区工作提供了设施。.
Socrates initiates plans for 要点, ，将约一英亩的公园用地整合起来，从一个长期的存储和维护区域改造成了一个新的、可供公众进入的海滨绿地，并展出了马克·迪·苏沃罗的多件雕塑作品。.
执行董事肖恩·莱昂纳多启动了公园的 40 周年系列活动，其中包括 艺术家选择艺术家：苏格拉底年度奖学金周年庆, 组织驻地，始于 艺术用品, ,-以及名为" 返乡 与艺术家们 查卡亚·布克, 桑福德·比格斯 和 约翰·摩尔斯.
Socrates anticipates the unveiling of The Point, honoring di Suvero’s instrumental role in founding the Park and highlighting the legacy of artists, activists and neighbors working in collaboration to create civic community space for creativity and belonging.
安 档案与口述历史
庆祝我们40年
Socrates 首次通过对其拥有四十年历史的档案进行重大投资，将其机构知识公之于众。这项工作得到了一个口述历史项目的补充，该项目通过与邻居和艺术家校友的合作，扩展和丰富了其历史记录。这项工作不仅出于保存我们过去的愿望，还扩展和深化了其叙述，突出了根植于该特定地点、反映该公园复杂而不断变化的身份的多种声音和视角。.
Rachel Stevens
Bread, Mascots and Heroes
詹姆斯·萨德克
Big Top, Big Pool Ball, Big Block
Houston Conwill
Light Books
Melvin Edwards
Point of Memory
Helen Lessick
WATERHOUSE
Sherwin Banfield
A Cypher in Queens
Richard Mock
Perceiving Space
玛丽·马丁利
Water Clock
Aris de Bakker
Kaleidoscope
Ashley Harris, Ndivhuho Rasengani
Dwell in the Light
保持联系
看看我们在做什么
Field Guide is back on Sept 12th! Explore Socrates Sculpture Park with @juliapnorton an educator from The Noguchi Museum.
In this program you will work with clay and collect found objects in the Park to create mixed-media sculptures. Participants will consider how Isamu Noguchi combined materials in his abstract sculptures to express the forces of nature.
Pre-registration is highly recommended and groups are limited to 25 participants. Children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
PS: All participants will be given a free pass to visit The Noguchi Museum after the program.
Visit our link in bio to learn more!
🎬 OUTDOOR CINEMA IS BACK AT SOCRATES!
After more than two decades of bringing neighbors together through film, food, music, and culture, our beloved summer series returns with a two-night pilot inspired by the rich cultural fabric of Queens and New York City in partnership with @rooftopfilms.
SEPT 12 🌙 BOUCHRA by Meriem Bennani + Orian Barki
DJ set by Bergsonist @bergsonist + Moroccan food by @amazighfoodtruck
SEPT 26 🌙 Jean-Michel Basquiat
Ambient set by L’Rain @turrelljames + Haitian food by @eatnaos
☀️ And for our youngest moviegoers: Cinema Kids! On the morning of each screening, we’re partnering with @chateaulewoof and the New York International Children’s Film Festival for special children’s short film programs across the street from the Park.
This return was made possible by our Ambassadors, Community Council, and hundreds of neighbors and supporters who helped bring Outdoor Cinema back. 💛
Two nights. Film, food, music, and community. See you at Socrates. 🎥✨
For full program details and to RSVP, click the link in bio.
Join us Saturday, September 19, 2026, from 12-5 pm for Party in the Park: Trio Under the Triboro.
Co-presented in collaboration with Franklin Furnace and Materials for the Arts, we invite you to gather at the waterfront for a full-day performance art festival celebrating the decades-long partnership between three Queens-based arts organizations committed to providing artists with resources, space, opportunity, and community.
A milestone year for each organization—Socrates Sculpture Park`s 40th anniversary and Materials for the Arts’ and Franklin Furnace’s 50th anniversary — the festival brings together their shared communities for a dynamic day of live performance, music, and public engagement.
Curated by Francheska Alcántara (@francheskaalcantarastudio) and titled Performaxxing, the program will feature bold, body-based, durational performances that embrace a more-is-more aesthetic as both symptom and material of contemporary life.
Performaxxing asks a single, unresolved question: what is revealed when we take the self all the way to the maximum, and what, then, is destroyed?
We can`t wait to party with you on September 19. RSVP now for free tickets! Link in bio 🔗
Artists:
Itala Aguilera @italaaguilera
Crackhead Barney @crackheadbarneyandfriends__
Jake Brush (with Candystore and Mike Feswick) @jake__brush
kara lynch
zavé martohardjono @zavozavito
Reed Rushes @reedrushes
Sandy Williams IV @sandywilliams_iv
Coco Villa @c0c0villa
Music by Madre Guía @madre_guia
#PartyWithAPurpose
Homecoming, Chapter three: Sanford Biggers (@sanfordbiggers)
Beyond just a Park, Socrates has long been a site for experimentation and artistic exploration.
A safe haven for those leaning towards the unfamiliar and bridging worlds through art, Socrates has been home for many visionary artists. This summer, in celebration of the Park’s 40th anniversary and as part of our Homecoming Series, we welcome back Artist Fellow alumni, Sanford Biggers, whose “Unsui” Mirrors installation will be on view through June 2027.
Biggers first debuted at Socrates in 2001 with the Terra Mandala, a piece blending Hip-Hop culture and Eastern Buddhist spirituality.
“Being at Socrates, studying Mark`s work before I got here, knowing that there were inventions that he happened upon, in terms of working very large scale, with industrial metals, and found pieces, and using cranes as tools, that type of approach was endemic to the attitude here at Socrates.” Sanford Biggers
The Homecoming video series are part of something bigger: for the first time in our four-decade history, we`re building a public record of the people who imagined, built, and transformed Socrates from a riverside landfill into a home for art and public life. The Point Digital Archives and Oral History Project goes live soon.
Learn more and add your own story at the link in bio.
Homecoming: Sanford Biggers on view through June 2027
Video credit: Petite Monsieur for Socrates Sculpture Park
"It’s not just C for Cinema, it’s also Culture Community and Cuisine" – Shaun Leonardo Executive Director, Socrates Sculpture Park.
Thank you to our neighbors and community champions @chateaulewoof for helping us amplify the word around our Outdoor Cinema Campaign.
What initially began as an invitation for neighbors and friends to visit the park for an evening of film, food and discovery quickly became a space for placed based connection and true community building here.
This year, as Socrates celebrates its 40th anniversary, we want to bring this beloved program back for the community.
Donate today and help us bring this series back to life! Visit our link in bio!
Video credit: @creatorkeira
Some Socrates stories start before the Park even opened. Floris Brasser arrived just ahead of opening day in 1986, and for Artists Choose Artists (1987–88) built Commuting Senses, a wooden sculpture rising 17` × 17` × 24` over the reclaimed waterfront.
"My experience with Socrates was exhilarating, working for and with other artists. I was supported and encouraged, which gave me a lifelong drive to make my public pieces. Mark di Suvero`s support, and working for him, was very much part of that."
Floris shared this story for our Oral History and Digital Archive, proof that the Socrates community spans decades and oceans.
Explore the Artist Archive at the link in our bio 🔗
Imagine this: as the sun sets over the East River, live music fills the Park. Families unpack picnic blankets. Neighbors greet one another. Visitors hear a language they don’t recognize—and then discover a story that stays with them long after the credits roll.
That’s the experience we’re working to bring back.
Each Outdoor Cinema evening costs approximately $15,000 to produce, covering film licensing, projection and sound, technical crews, live cultural performances, staffing, and the care required to welcome thousands of people into the Park.
Our goal is to raise $50,000—enough to support up to three evenings of free international cinema beginning this September.
And even if we don’t reach that goal, we’re committed to bringing Outdoor Cinema back with at least one screening.
Because in a moment when so much pulls us apart, gathering together in a public park to experience another culture’s stories feels more important than ever.
Join us in bringing Outdoor Cinema home by making a donation at the link in our bio.
#OutdoorCinema #Queens #InternationalFilm #PublicSpace #SocratesSculpturePark #Community
"I was young and the Park was even younger."
In 1997, artist in residence Luisa Caldwell (@luisagramiam) transformed the Park`s shipping-container office into Trailer Park Fantasy for From the Ground Up: paper, grass, and concrete, 8`6" × 38` × 15`.
"In those days there weren`t many rules, which added to the experimental nature of the experience. It was a little wild and a lot of fun, but it also proved to be an important professional experience, even reviewed by Roberta Smith in The New York Times. That was cool!"
Luisa`s memory is one of many we`re preserving through The Point Digital Archives and Oral History Project.
Explore the Artist Archive at the link in our bio 🔗
Outdoor Cinema has always belonged to this community.
Like everything at Socrates, it exists because people believe art belongs in public.
Every year, Socrates raises 100% of the funding needed to keep the Park open, care for the landscape, commission artists, and present free programs for everyone.
Outdoor Cinema was once supported through that same community of donors and neighbors, but rising costs and the disruptions of the pandemic brought the series to a pause.
Today, we’re asking our community to help write its next chapter.
Not because Outdoor Cinema is nostalgic.
Because it remains a rare opportunity to gather across cultures, generations, and experiences in a public space that belongs to everyone.
If Outdoor Cinema returns, it will return because hundreds of people decided it was worth bringing back—together.
Every gift helps. Help us bring it back by making a donation at the link in our bio.
#SupportPublicArt #OutdoorCinema #SocratesSculpturePark #QueensCommunity #FreeArts
"As a sculptor who primarily works indoors, Socrates has been one of the rare institutions that has given us the opportunity and support to explore and experiment with working outdoors, while also fostering a great sense of camaraderie within its community of fellow artists."
Kazumi Tanaka (@kazumi_tanaka_artist) built with us twice: The Levels of Democracy for 50 NY 93, and Shelter (1996), 15` × 5` × 25`, for our 10th Anniversary exhibition, a roof overhead drawing together a community seeking sanctuary.
Kazumi`s words come to us through the Oral History and Digital Archive project: 40 years of artists, in their own voices.
Explore the Artist Archive at the link in our bio 🔗
For nearly two decades, Outdoor Cinema wasn’t simply a movie night.
It was one of the few places in New York where thousands of people could gather to celebrate the stories, music, languages, and traditions that make Queens one of the most diverse places in the world.
Each film was chosen not because it was the newest blockbuster, but because it offered a window into a culture, a community, and a different way of seeing the world. Every evening began with live music or performance inspired by that country’s artistic traditions, transforming the Park into a place of shared discovery before the first frame even appeared on screen.
For many, these weren’t just screenings—they were celebrations of home. For others, they were an invitation to experience a culture they may never have encountered before.
That’s what Outdoor Cinema has always been about.
Not just watching films.
Experiencing the world together.
Help us bring it back by making a donation at the link in our bio.
#OutdoorCinema #SocratesSculpturePark #Queens #InternationalCinema #PublicArt #Community
All the world`s a stage—especially this one. On Sunday, August 16 (4:30–6:30PM), Hip to Hip Theatre Company (@hiptohiptheatre) returns to Socrates with As You Like It, Shakespeare`s beloved comedy of love, disguise, and life in the forest—where Rosalind outwits everyone in sight.
The Kids & the Classics workshop (ages 4–12) starts at 4:30, followed by the performance at 5PM. Pack a picnic and stay for the golden hour. Rain or shine.
Free with RSVP. Link in bio 🔗
#SocratesSculpturePark #HipToHipTheatre #AsYouLikeIt #ShakespeareInThePark #FreeTheaterNYC #QueensNYC #LongIslandCity #OutdoorTheater
