Elayna Toby Singer Creates Art Experiences that Move, and Move You.
As an environmental cross-cultural artist and educator, Elayna Toby Singer is a creative community catalyst who partners with environmental, health, art, and educational organizations to create interactive programs and site-specific temporary tree art installations that connect us with ourselves, our surroundings and each other.
Working at the intersection of environmentalism, multiculturalism and wellbeing, Ms. Singer engages and empowers diverse communities to cultivate personal wellbeing and environmental balance, promoting actions to help reduce climate change.
Named “The Natural Artist” by South Florida Gay News, Ms. Singer was selected for their annual OUT50 recognition of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender leaders, activists, business people and artists across South Florida.
Her community created temporary tree art installations and programs twice received the First Place People’s Choice Award for Outdoor Sculpture at the International Kinetic Art Exhibit & Symposium Biennial.
Additionally, Ms. Singer works with governmental agencies and artists across the U.S. curating and overseeing public art design, fabrication and installation in plazas, buildings, streetscapes and gardens. She's led a municipal Public Art needs assessment and master plan, and an "ARTist in the Garden Master Plan" for a botanical garden.
Elayna Toby Singer’s career in creative placemaking began in botanical gardens and arboreta where she created environments and experiences that engaged community in the science, artistry, and multicultural uses of plants, and their role in sustaining life on Earth.
As a Longwood Gardens Fellow, Ms. Singer earned her MS in Public Horticulture Administration and Nonprofit Museum Management. Her thesis "Diversifying Public Garden Operations and Programs for Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Inclusiveness" continues to inform her work. Her BA is in Cultural Anthropology.
