Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park

Thank you, I Love My Park Day volunteers! 💙

Every first Saturday of May we welcome volunteers to help get The Park ready for summer. Volunteers prepared Adirondack chairs and took care of the landscape. They are the best!

+ We even had some unexpected volunteers! 🦆

Thank you, I Love My Park Day volunteers! 💙

Every first Saturday of May we welcome volunteers to help get the Park ready for summer. Volunteers prepared Adirondack chairs and took care of the landscape. They are the best!

+ We even had some unexpected volunteers! 🦆

Out of Silence featured on Spectrum News NY1 Roger Clark. 🌳

Out of Silence, a sound installation by artist Hans Rosenstrom, is available on the hour, from 10 AM until 6 PM daily, except on Tuesdays when The Park is closed. Now through June 21, 2026!

Roger: If you're visiting the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Four Freedom State Park at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, and hear the linden trees speaking to you, trust me, you're not imagining things.

It's a site-specific voice-based sound installation from Finnish artist Hans Rosenström.

Hans: I always wanted to create something that also like asks for your attention and your attunement so that you would—especially slower beginning—that you kind of have to listen to your surroundings and find a relationship to it.

Roger: The installation, which features 14 speakers in the trees, is the result of a collaboration between Rosenström and independent curator Alina Girshovich, inspired by the music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and the architecture of the Park, designed by Louis Kahn, who was also born in Estonia.

Alina: I realized that there's a lot of similarity and overlap in terms of how they approach each of their disciplines.

Roger: The Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis was also part of the collaboration. The piece runs around 14 minutes, and it's played on the hour, from 10 AM until 6 PM [ET] every day, except Tuesday, when The Park is closed.

Rosenström says, since he's not a musician or a composer, he did write text for the work.

Hans: It was important to work with people who know parts of music. Instead of giving them sheets. We went to the same room and we started to work on a soundscape together and just basically improvising and testing things, discussing the team.

Roger: The team hopes Out of Silence will provide a different tempo to the city's pulse through
public art.

Alina: To be able to just walk into a piece and to enjoy it, is what we're trying to do here.

Roger: Plan your visit at www.FDRFourFreedomsPark.org. On Roosevelt island, Roger Clark, New York 1.

Out of Silence featured on . 🌳

Out of Silence, a sound installation by artist Hans Rosenstrom, is available at the on the hour, from 10 AM until 6 PM daily, except on Tuesdays when The Park is closed. Now through June 21, 2026!

Roger: If you’re visiting the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Four Freedom State Park at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, and hear the linden trees speaking to you, trust me, you’re not imagining things.

It’s a site-specific voice-based sound installation from Finnish artist Hans Rosenström.

Hans: I always wanted to create something that also like asks for your attention and your attunement so that you would—especially slower beginning—that you kind of have to listen to your surroundings and find a relationship to it.

Roger: The installation, which features 14 speakers in the trees, is the result of a collaboration between Rosenström and independent curator Alina Girshovich, inspired by the music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt and the architecture of the Park, designed by Louis Kahn, who was also born in Estonia.

Alina: I realized that there’s a lot of similarity and overlap in terms of how they approach each of their disciplines.

Roger: The Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis was also part of the collaboration. The piece runs around 14 minutes, and it’s played on the hour, from 10 AM until 6 PM [ET] every day, except Tuesday, when The Park is closed.

Rosenström says, since he’s not a musician or a composer, he did write text for the work.

Hans: It was important to work with people who know parts of music. Instead of giving them sheets. We went to the same room and we started to work on a soundscape together and just basically improvising and testing things, discussing the team.

Roger: The team hopes Out of Silence will provide a different tempo to the city’s pulse through
public art.

Alina: To be able to just walk into a piece and to enjoy it, is what we’re trying to do here.

Roger: Plan your visit at FDRFourFreedomsPark.org. On Roosevelt island, Roger Clark, New York 1.

Thank you to everyone who visited in March! We celebrate you! 💙

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Come help your park on Saturday, May 2!

RSVP for I Love My Park Day 2026: https://bit.ly/4cMSvqw. 💙

Who: You and a friend!
Where: FDR Four Freedoms State Park on Roosevelt Island 📍
When: Saturday, May 2 from 10:30 AM to 2:00 PM ET
What: Help with arbor and garden care, preparing the Adirondack chairs and seating for the Out of Silence artist talk.

We’re the first stop on ’s Roosevelt Island of Art Map! 💙

1. FDR Four Freedoms State Park - Louis I. Khan
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2. The Blue Dragon - Gustav and Ulla Kraitz
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3. RIHS Visitor Center and Tramway Plaza
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4. Island of Art Mural - Tony Vita
📷 Piaskowski

5. RIVAA Gallery
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6. The First Plinth - Michael Poast
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7. Motorgate Gallery
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8. Marriage of Money and Real Estate - Tom Otterness
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9. The Octagon Gallery
📷 Piaskowski

10. The Girl Puzzle / Nellie Bly - Amanda Matthews
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“Out of Silence,” a sound installation by artist Hans Rosenström, opens at The Park April 29 through June 21, 2026! 🌳

Inspired by the music of the composer Arvo Pärdi Keskus / Arvo Pärt Centre and Louis Kahn’s memorial to President FDR and featuring recorded vocals by Estonian vocal ensemble Vox Clamantis - curated by Alina Girshovich.

On International Women’s Day we recognize the Iranian artists who collaborated for the Eyes on Iran 2022 exhibition.

Iranian artists of the diaspora–Sheida Soleimani, Aphrodite Désirée Navab, Z, Icy and Sot, Shirin Neshat, Mahvash Mostala, Sepideh Mehraban, and Shirin Towfiq–joined forces with For Freedoms and Vital Voices for a weeks-long multi-media experience at FDR Four Freedoms State Park.

Nazanin Afshin-Jam Mackay, Human Rights Activist: “Today we have more eyes on Iran than ever before. Therefore, an opportunity that requires everyone staying awake to this moment. We can see justice. It's only a matter of how soon.”