Garden in Transit may be the most ambitious community collaboration and public art project in the history of New York City.
From September 2007 and until the end of the year, New York City is being visually transformed as the NYC taxi –the ubiquitous yellow icon– becomes a mobile artistic canvas, or Garden in Transit.
As part of this art, education and creative therapy project, 23,000 children in schools and hospitals –in addition to many adult volunteers– have painted 80,000 flowers on 750,000 square feet of adhesive panels for a four-month public art exhibition featured on taxis citywide.
Students from the East Harlem Tutorial Program were part of the 90% of children who participated through schools and hospitals across Greater New York City. Children in New Jersey, California, Ohio, Georgia and Pennsylvania also took part in the project.
