Through his multidisciplinary work, artist Manuel Acevedo ( New York, NY) uses both interior and exterior urban landscapes to create dialogues about myth, identity and cultural understandings. Acevedo’s narrative imagery encourages a closer look at our basic humanity.

Acevedo’s work has been widely shown in the US, including P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, The Queens Museum of Art, Exit Art, and internationally, including the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, and the Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Germany. In the past few years, Acevedo received grants from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Center for Book Arts in NYC.

superorg.net , a term inspired by the new scientific category of "superorganism," an organism made of interdependent and cooperating entities, encapsulates the idea that positive and lasting ecological changes must begin by considering the entire region from the standpoint of interdependent systems. Conceived by Frances Whitehead and Lisa Norton in response to the Towpath Trail Extension Initiative, superorg.net is an experimental model for public planning processes that includes artists as key members, proposing possible futures for the larger region and the Cuyahoga River Valley, it's economic, industrial, cultural and environmental vitality.