Artist Susan Leibovitz Steinman salvages materials directly from community waste streams to construct public art installations that connect common daily experiences to broader social issues. Projects include conceptual sculpture gardens that meld art, ecology and community action.

This website traces art work created since the 1980's in the public domain—sculpture steeped in historical conceptual, performance, feminist and activist political art movements.

In July 2002 Steinman and collaborator, New York artist Jackie Brookner, were awarded the National Park Service (NPS) Art and Communities commission cosponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Fund for the Arts and the National Park Service, Northwest Region, to produce public art projects in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. In 2000 Steinman was awarded the Potrero Nuevo Prize in San Francisco, for "Gardens to Go"—for a prototype community organic food garden of portable sculptural raised beds using "zero waste" material; installed in Oakland, California.