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Extraordinary Achievement - Humanitarian Vision in Practice
Internationally Recognized and Award Winning Inwood Butterfly Sanctuary
We Grow Life!🌻 Cultivating Community and Nature in NYC with transformative "Wings Without Borders" Initiatives citywide.
We Grow Life!🌻 Cultivating Community and Nature in NYC with transformative "Wings Without Borders" Initiatives citywide.
The Inwood Butterfly Sanctuary at Good Shepherd is a vibrant community-driven initiative in New York City, launched by Keith De Cesare. The initiative began with a focus on monarch butterfly conservation and has since grown into a popular community gathering place and an educational hub. From a grassroots personal cause for his own childr
The Inwood Butterfly Sanctuary at Good Shepherd is a vibrant community-driven initiative in New York City, launched by Keith De Cesare. The initiative began with a focus on monarch butterfly conservation and has since grown into a popular community gathering place and an educational hub. From a grassroots personal cause for his own children and students, Keith De Cesare, has achieved exceptional acknowledgement on a shoestring budget as evidenced in significant media coverage and recognition, such as being featured in a PBS documentary, interviews on WNYC, ABC, and New Yorker of the Week.
We Grow Life!🌻 Cultivating Community and Nature in NYC with transformative "Wings Without Borders" Initiatives citywide.
We Grow Life!🌻 Cultivating Community and Nature in NYC with transformative "Wings Without Borders" Initiatives citywide.
We Grow Life!🌻 Cultivating Community and Nature in NYC with transformative "Wings Without Borders" Initiatives citywide.
Launched by Keith De Cesare "Wings Without Borders" transforms neglected urban spaces into monarch waystations, empowers communities through training, and inspires youth with hands-on environmental education. This innovative pilot seeks to model replicable partnerships and support by creating habitats and fostering environmental education
Launched by Keith De Cesare "Wings Without Borders" transforms neglected urban spaces into monarch waystations, empowers communities through training, and inspires youth with hands-on environmental education. This innovative pilot seeks to model replicable partnerships and support by creating habitats and fostering environmental education by planting pollinator pathways in partnership with city agencies, schools and plan citywide growth. A recent proposed Wings Without Borders at Audubon Terrace in Washington Heights, NYC.
"Bridging Tomorrow" Equitable Generative Learning STEM AI for early enrichment in New York City.
We Grow Life!🌻 Cultivating Community and Nature in NYC with transformative "Wings Without Borders" Initiatives citywide.
"Bridging Tomorrow" Equitable Generative Learning STEM AI for early enrichment in New York City.
"Bridging Tomorrow: FREE Generative Learning AI Education for NYC's Young Students" is an innovative Generative Earning proposal for ethical STEM AI integration citywide. As a teacher at a public charter school, Keith De Cesare hopes to empower students with future forward skills and democratize his unique edtech framework fostering digit
"Bridging Tomorrow: FREE Generative Learning AI Education for NYC's Young Students" is an innovative Generative Earning proposal for ethical STEM AI integration citywide. As a teacher at a public charter school, Keith De Cesare hopes to empower students with future forward skills and democratize his unique edtech framework fostering digital fluency. This approach also engages parents strengthening community bonds.
Citywide Community Engagement Proposals by Keith De Cesare
Bridging Tomorrow: FREE Generative Learning AI Education for NYC's Young Students - NYC Civic Engagement Commission
Isham Park Revitalization: A Children's Pollinator Garden, Monarch Butterfly Waystation and Endangered Species Preservation
Isham Park Revitalization: A Children's Pollinator Garden, Monarch Butterfly Waystation and Endangered Species Preservation
Bridging Tomorrow: FREE Generative Learning AI Education for NYC's Young Students - NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) for iVirtue platform.
submitted by Keith De Cesare
Isham Park Revitalization: A Children's Pollinator Garden, Monarch Butterfly Waystation and Endangered Species Preservation
Isham Park Revitalization: A Children's Pollinator Garden, Monarch Butterfly Waystation and Endangered Species Preservation
Isham Park Revitalization: A Children's Pollinator Garden, Monarch Butterfly Waystation and Endangered Species Preservation
submitted by Keith De Cesare
We Grow Life! Isham Park Revitalization: A Children's Pollinator Garde
Isham Park Revitalization: A Children's Pollinator Garden, Monarch Butterfly Waystation and Endangered Species Preservation
We Grow Life! Isham Park Revitalization: A Children's Pollinator Garde
Isham Park Revitalization: A Children's Pollinator Garden, Monarch Butterfly Waystation and Endangered Species Preservation Program - NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) proposal submitted by Keith De Cesare
The Audubon Terrace Installation: Audacious Artistry
New York artist De Cesare’s most recent and perhaps most affecting large-scale project, "Waystations of Hope: A Shared Journey," transformed the hallowed grounds of Audubon Terrace, the namesake of famed naturalist John James Audubon, into a vital waypoint for one of nature’s most miraculous migrations. The installation provided a poignant visual manifestation of the plight of the monarch butterfl
Keith De Cesare is not only decorating public space; he is transforming it into a site of conscience, where art enhances the community spirit that is felt, and where the visual landscape seen contributes directly to the healing and inspiration needed to protect the natural world. De Cesare’s dedication to empathy and compassion for his causes is palpable in the final aesthetic. His work is undenia
Keith De Cesare serves, a celebration of the ephemeral, the endangered, and the power of shared human experience. De Cesare, a New York City native, is swiftly redefining the role of public art, moving it beyond mere spectacle to a powerful tool for ecological activism and community engagement. His signature is not a single medium but a philosophy: making "the invisible visible" and democratizing
Audubon Terrace in Washington Heights
A Shared Journey of Audubon Terrace
De Cesare’s most recent and perhaps most affecting large-scale proposal, "Wings of Hope: A Shared Journey," transforms the hallowed grounds of Audubon Terrace, the namesake of famed naturalist and artist.John James Audubon, into a vital waypoint for one of nature’s most miraculous migrations. The installation provided a poignant visual manifestation of the plight of the monarch butterfly, and iconic species at risk of extinction.
City Cows encouraged making "selfies" before their time.
Activating the Environment with an immersive experience.
City Cows, a unique outdoor installation at the Detroit Institute of Art, Keith De Cesare created a moment of whimsical but intentional intervention with life-size, trompe l'oeil photo-sculptures of Holstein cows, incongruously placed in downtown Detroit. An immersive engaging environmental experience.
Early Work of Keith De Cesare
Demolished by Neglect Photo-Activism in Detroit, 1987
Demolished by Neglect (1987) was a landmark Detroit photo-installation by Keith Piaseczny (later Keith De Cesare), blending art and activism to expose systemic abandonment in the city’s neighborhoods and historic architecture. His work confronted institutional neglect by making Detroit’s hidden decay publicly visible and was widely writte
Demolished by Neglect (1987) was a landmark Detroit photo-installation by Keith Piaseczny (later Keith De Cesare), blending art and activism to expose systemic abandonment in the city’s neighborhoods and historic architecture. His work confronted institutional neglect by making Detroit’s hidden decay publicly visible and was widely written about creating a pre-internet example viral access to mainstream media.
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Humanitarian Photography of Keith De Cesare
Following closely in the footsteps of renowned masters of humanistic photography, Cartier-Bresson, Andrez Kertesz, Robert Frank, Keith De Cesare traveled through several countries on personally driven photojournalistic projects, to document, educate, advocate. To change what needed to be changed in spirit of Lewis Hines.
The Decisive Moment for Social Change
Trained in sociology self-designed MFA photographs are intended to educate, advocate, and cause social change where needed. Grounded in Franciscan roots, De Cesare communicated with compassion for humanity.
Franciscan Foundation
During his most formative years, Keith De Cesare grew up in inner-city Detroit, influenced by the Franciscan devotion of grandmother, "Gramma Max" Piaseczny