Hi. I'm Kyla Fullenwider and I write about and create projects that explore community and place. I've directed and curated public art projects with the City of New York, pop-up community centers with GOOD, and street food adventures with UCLA's Department of Urban Planning. In 2007 I oversaw Garden in Transit (the largest public art project in New York City's history!) working with artist Ed Massey and over 22,000 volunteer artists to hand-paint 80,000 flowers on the hoods, roofs and trunks of the city's yellow cabs for a four month, city-wide exhibition.
In 2010 I received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for directing the community storytelling project Trekking LA and served as the Neighborhoods Ambassador for the Refresh Project. A recent project, City R+D, brought together over 200 urban thinkers from across the country to re-imagine and plot the future of their cities. I was also a founding board member of CicLAvia in Los Angeles from 2010-2011.
Recent collaborators include Portraits of Hope, The City of New York, UCLA's Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance, CicLAvia, Creative Commons, Jonathan Harris, BurdaStyle, UCLA’s Department of Urban Planning, LA Commons, and GOOD. Some of my projects have been featured on CNN and in the NY Times, LA Times, Fast Company, Fader, GOOD Magazine, and covered by local news outlets across the country.
I keep busy directing The Public Studio, writing for GOOD and Next American City, and as a Social Design Fellow, MA candidate, and Faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA).
I am a graduate of Harvard University and hail from the great Commonwealth of Kentucky.