"After the Revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage?” asked Mierle Laderman Ukeles. In 1977, in a move that would radically reframe public art, she became the first artist-in-residence at the NYC Sanitation Department. Set during the impassioned social and artistic upheavals of the late 20th century, Maintenance Artist is the story of an artist who raised maintenance to an art form and became a force in contemporary art.

Filmmaker Bio: TOBY PERL FREILICH co-produced and co-directed MOYNIHAN, an L.A. Times Critic’s Pick, broadcast on PBS’ American Masters series in March 2024. She directed, produced, and wrote the critically acclaimed INVENTING OUR LIFE: The Kibbutz Experiment. Freilich co-produced and wrote Academy Award-winning director Aviva Slesin’s SECRET LIVES: Hidden Children & Their Rescuers, for which she received an Emmy nomination for her writing, and co-produced Emmy-nominated RESISTANCE: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans. She is a contributing writer to the magazines Tablet, the Jewish Review of Books, and the Forward, where she was awarded a 2007 Simon Rockower journalism Award.