In anticipation of the application of Accelerator Cohort Four closing June 20, we caught up with past Accelerator artist, Gabriel Sosa, to hear how it’s been going since the launch of his billboard series last year.

Announcing an open call for N+T Public Art Accelerator Cohort Four.

Announcing the return of the N+T Public Art Accelerator — now open to all Boston-area artists.

Our 2020 Accelerator artists, Shaka Dendy, Ang Li, Karthik Pandian, Gabriel Sosa, and Yu-Wen Wu, successfully completed a six-month intensive designed to demystify the process of creating public art and will each receive a $25,000 stipend to realize their projects in over 7 Boston neighborhoods between now and September 2021.

We’re thrilled to introduce our powerhouse keynote speaker for the Now + There Forum: Public Art Accelerator, Dr. Kymberly Pinder! A public art curator with decades of experience with community-oriented and ephemeral public art projects, Dr. Pinder was named the Provost and Senior Vice President of MassArt in 2019.

2019 Public Art Accelerator Artist Pat Falco walks us through the process of building a three-decker among the towering glass walls of the Seaport.

2019 Public Art Accelerator Artist, Cat Mazza, shares the research and development process that shaped her project, Electroknit Dymaxion and reflects on how tradition, craft, globalism, and digital making techniques inform the work and its purpose.

2019 Accelerator Artist, David Buckley Borden shares insight into his inspirations, the ways design thinking has shaped his artistic practice, and how learning along other artists is helping him bush new boundaries in his work.

Congrats are in order! Our 2019 Public Art Accelerator artists have completed our six-month curriculum on how to create public art and successfully proposed projects to be executed this summer in Boston.

We all desire to be understood and recognized. N+T’s Kate Gilbert reflects on the pilot year of our Public Art Accelerator program and how the artists’ empathy and vision helped shaped the program for 2019.

We’re excited to continue learning, growing, and supporting Boston’s artists and communities and humbled to announce the second year of Now + There’s Public Art Accelerator.

2018 N+T Accelerator Artist Cynthia Gunadi and her partner Joel Lamere opened their Accelerator Project Lost House to the public on Sunday October 28, 2018. Read how, in Cynthia’s words, their community outreach, which began as due diligence, ended up being an honor to take part in.

N+T Critic-in-Residence, Leah Tripplett Harrington dives into the 2018 N+T Public Art Accelerator projects, exploring how they use social exchange as their main medium and participation as their most critical material.

“I was stoked to observe the many artists whose work was included in the event attend and observe their pieces being projected at a massive scale. One highlight was Cyrille Conan and his daughter Coco playing together, while his piece “Diwezhat Goañv” was drummed into existence. “

What does it really mean to have a home? A place where your cultural roots are? A place where you identify with others? A place where a community supports each other? Or a place where you feel safe, loved and respected?

Public art cannot be finished, it can only be prepared.  

“On a hot Monday outside the Grove Hall branch of the Boston Public Library, Roxbury artist Ekua Holmes watered a dry garden bed. Inside the planter were seedlings sown in early June. Barely visible, tiny green petals were the beginnings of her public art project.”

Entering its third month of demystifying the process of creating public art, the N+T Accelerator met last week in a collaboration with the City of Boston’s A.I.R. program and NEFA’s Creative City to chart the wild world of insurance and budgeting. And it wasn't that scary! 

Public art demands collaboration. We’re ensuring that the Accelerator is a program that will demystify the process of creating public art—not just for our cohort of artists, but for all of Boston—with workshops codesigned with Boston AIR and NEFA's Creative City.

Today, we’re excited to announce the Now + There Public Art Accelerator, which will serve local artists with the curatorial, technical and financial support they need to develop new temporary artworks in Boston in 2018.