The Queer Ecologies Project is owned and maintained by the Alice Austen House. The Alice Austen House (AAH) has partnered with students from the Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment and the New York Restoration Project (NYRP) to plan and install this new community garden that echoes the LGBTQIA+ themes found throughout our historic house museum and fifteen-acre waterfront park.

The AAH engaged garden consultant Marisa Prefer. Marisa works as invisible labor, drawing from alternative pedagogies, deep observation and ancestral wisdom to engage in tactile experiments that cultivate care among multi-species communities. 

For more information on our partners and where our garden has been featured, see the links below.