Trees in NYC: School Art Project

For this sketch, I created wire sculptures to represent the proportion of trees in New York City that are in good health. These wire sculpture kits would be handed out to students in a New York City elementary school art class, with 80% of the students with materials to create a healthy tree (green tree), and 20% of the students with materials create an unhealthy tree (brown tree). The idea is that after students notice that not everyone has the same wire tree kit, there would be discussion and dialogue about the health of trees in New York and how students can get involved. The handout created in a previous sketch (pictured below) would then be distributed to students.

Dataset: https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Environment/2015-Street-Tree-Census-Tree-Data/pi5s-9p35