HUMBOLDT PARKWAY: NOW & THEN

Created during a residency with the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, this body of work explores the destruction of Humboldt Parkway — once a tree-lined boulevard connecting Buffalo’s East Side neighborhoods — to make way for the Kensington Expressway in the 1960s. Through archival research, interviews, murals, and public installations, the project examines the long-term social and ecological consequences of urban highway construction and the narratives that have been lost along the way.

As a result of this work, I became an active member of the East Side Parkways Coalition (ESP), serving as their Visual Communications Director. In this role, I help shape the coalition’s public-facing materials, campaigns, and storytelling efforts as they advocate for the full restoration of the parkway. The project now lives at the intersection of art, activism, and historical repair — a sustained attempt to visualize what was lost, and imagine what could return.