The Point at Socrates: Opening Access, Honoring Our Past
Opening in 2026, The Point at Socrates marks a significant transformation in the Park’s landscape and in the way we steward our history. Spanning approximately one acre of waterfront parkland, the site will be reimagined from a long-time storage and maintenance area into a newly accessible green space featuring an exhibition of multiple sculptures by Socrates’ founder, Mark di Suvero.
Private support makes this transformation possible. Funding will not only enable the installation of di Suvero’s work, but also the landscaping and infrastructure improvements required to safely open the site to the public. Through new signage and storytelling, the exhibition will honor di Suvero’s instrumental role in founding the Park and the collective legacy of artists, activists, and neighbors who built this civic space for creativity and belonging.
Community Engagement & Public Programming
The Point will serve as a dynamic platform for public engagement. New interpretive materials—on-site signage, archival texts, and contextual storytelling—will guide visitors through the social, ecological, and artistic significance of Socrates and Western Queens.
Public programs and education initiatives will invite residents, artists, and advocates to engage with the Park’s legacy of ecological resilience, artistic collaboration, and creative community-building. By the time The Point opens in 2026, visitors will encounter a rich experience that brings the site’s layered history to life—from its transformation from industrial landfill to cultural landmark.
In parallel, Socrates is undertaking a major investment in making forty years of institutional history publicly accessible for the first time. Through The Point Digital Archives Project, conducted in collaboration with alumni artists and community members, we will illuminate and preserve the stories that shaped Socrates—ensuring they remain part of the Park’s future.
This work deepens our understanding of the Park’s evolution, foregrounds multiple voices, and expands a history that has often been incomplete or hidden.
A Future Shaped by Community
While The Point will transform the Park’s landscape, its deeper impact lies in how it transforms the way Socrates engages with its public. For the first time, the Park is centering a communal history—one built by the people whose contributions sustained it through decades of change.
Support from individuals, foundations, and community partners is essential to bringing this work to life. Your generosity strengthens the Park’s role as a civic space, fuels artists’ practices, sustains education and public programming, and helps preserve the stories that define our collective past.
You can help ensure this project—and the many initiatives it anchors—has the resources it needs to thrive.
Donate to support The Point and the future of Socrates Sculpture Park.