SP Weather Station, co-founded by artists Heidi Neilson and Natalie Campbell in 2007, is an interdisciplinary art project centered around weather and environmental observation. Archived here, our activities in 2007 – 2013 include publishing artist-created weather reports, hosting a Guest Lecture Series, and organizing and participating in events and exhibitions. We currently maintain two weather station sites in Queens, New York City: Flux Factory and Socrates Sculpture Park.
SPWS – Flux Factory
Flux Factory is an artist-led space that builds sustainable communities and retains creative vitality in NYC. View weather
SPWS – Socrates Sculpture Park
Socrates Sculpture Park is a community engaged New York City waterfront park dedicated to supporting artists in the production and presentation of public art. View weather
To date, the following artists have participated in SPWS projects: Jesper Aabile, Eric Asboe, Louise Barry, Man Bartlett, Leah Beeferman, Birds’ Ear View Collective (Jon Barraclough and Alexandra Wolkowicz), Emily Bunker, Natalie Campbell, Rachel L. Cohn, Susan Goethel Campbell, Carissa Carman, Ian Cheney, Tara Cooper, Cross Current Resonance Transducer (Tali Hinkis, Kyle Lapidus, and Douglas Repetto), Marianne Dages, Carrie Dashow, Tim Dye, Glen Einbinder, Emcee C.M., Amze Emmons, Mike Estabrook, eteam, Nicholas Fraser, Neil Freeman, Amanda Friedman, Adrienne Garbini, Richard Garrison, Michael Geminder, Isaac Gertman, Anne Gilman, Hope Ginsburg, Beka Goedde, Kenneth Goldsmith, David Grainger, Roni Gross, Ellie Harrison, Kyle Holland, Howard Huang, Einat Imber, Ellie Irons, Vandana Jain, Peter Jellitsch, Katarina Jerinic, May Jong, Heather Kapplow, Paul Kennedy, Emily Larned, Frej Meinild Larsen, Daniel Larson, Nim Lee, Rena Leinberger, Bridget Lewis, Marie Lorenz, Jane Marsching, Paula McCartney, Katherine McLeod, Graham McDougal, Ebbe Dam Meinild, Nathalie Miebach, Lize Mogel, Rafael Hidalgo Múgica, Rick Myers, Heidi Neilson, Naomi Miller, Sarah Nicholls, Mark Nystrom, Graham Parker, Mark Parsons, Douglas Paulson, Chris Petrone, Sarah Nicole Phillips, Andrea Polli, Birgit Rathsmann, Michelle Rosenberg, Stephanie Rothenberg, Elizabeth Sheehan, Laurids Sonne, Travis LeRoy Southworth, Chad Stayrook, Luke Strosnider, Chuck Varga, James Walsh, Angela Washko, Jordi Williams, Robyn York, Jing Yu, and Liz Zanis, Patricia Zarate.
Contact SPWS
spweatherstation(at)gmail(dot)com
Natalie Campbell is a curator, exhibition developer, and part of the exhibits team at DC Public Library in Washington, DC. She is deeply committed to collaboration, interdisciplinary thinking, anti-capitalist space, community building, and the work that is needed to support cultural work outside of (and in between) the institutions that traditionally support it. She has organized exhibitions at venues including the American University Museum (DC), the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (Asheville, NC), School 33 Art Center (Baltimore, MD), among others. She has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History from Hunter College, and has taught art history and curatorial studies at The Corcoran College of Art and Design and the Maryland Institute College of Art. She lives and works in Washington, D.C. natalie(dot)campbell(at)gmail(dot)com
Heidi Neilson is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores connections between people on the ground and off-planet conditions and infrastructure. She works in multiple mediums including radio transmissions, sound, prints, books, sculpture, electronics, and video. She is currently co-operating Here GOES Radiotelescope, a sculptural receiving station for the GRB transmission from GOES-16, a NOAA weather satellite, and mining the volumes of earth observation and space weather data collected by the station for a variety of projects. Other recent work includes Moon Arrow, a mechanical sculpture which continually points at the moon, and Sonic Planetarium, an immersive sound installation made from recordings of orbiting satellites. Neilson holds a BA in biology from Reed College and an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. She is a board member of Wave Farm, teaches art and design at Parsons School of Design | The New School and SUNY Purchase College, and lives and works in New York. Her ham radio call sign is KD2ESI. hn(at)heidineilson(dot)com
SP Weather Station is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Many thanks to our hosts Flux Factory and Socrates Sculpture Park!