At Now + There, our mission is to foster artists and the public to co-create bold public art experiences that open minds, conversations, and spaces across Boston. This summer three BOS artists are making their mark on the city we all know and love with their reflective and creative projects popping up all over Boston.

N+T Assistant Curator Jasper A. Sanchez shares the story, labor, and care behind Sam Fields’ recently installed nautical rope sculpture, Stay, at Lot Lab. 

We caught up with the four local artists who make up Cohort Five of the Accelerator Program: Krystle Brown, Eben Haines, Tanya Nixon-Silberg, and Ponnapa Prakkamakul. They are all bees-y developing artworks for Boston. Here’s what they absorb as they plan, prep, and build their way to transforming 25K into four BIG projects for YOU to see/touch this summer!  

Rehashing 2022, we grouped our best clips + videos for your enjoyment!

N+T Communications Assistant Blu recently touched base with local artist and muralist Percy Fortini-Wright. This interview explores his practice and latest mural, Charlesgate, at 139 Main Street, Kendall Square, Cambridge, commissioned by MIT Investment Management Company’s Kendall Square Public Arts Initiative and curated by Now + There.

During Rixy’s recent picnic and mural celebration on Saturday, October 15th Pa*Lante, Curatorial Assistant Jasper Sanchez, encouraged the artist to reflect on her new mural at 301 Highland Ave in Roxbury’s Fort Hill. This soundbite offers some highlights from their exchange, with additional details that situate Rixy’s themes and motifs within a larger diasporic context. And, to demystify some of the art-making processes we engage in, hear Rixy’s detailed applications of studies and experience to offer one of her latest contributions to the community.

Co-hosted in partnership with Goethe-Institut Boston, N+T Asks: How are memorials (equitably) funded? On June 22, Kathrin Jentjens and Abigail Satinsky share their perspectives on collaborative public art projects and available funding opportunities. Moderated by Educator Devin Morris of the Teacher’s Lounge, this two-hour-long conversation challenges dated and inequitable social processes involved in the construction of collective memory and place-making.

Co-hosted in partnership with Goethe-Institut Boston, N+T Asks: What role do artists play in reimagining the construction of our public space? On April 19, Juan Obando and Mischa Kuball share their perspectives on counter monuments, archives, and intangible memorials. Moderated by Educator Devin Morris of the Teacher’s Lounge, this two-hour-long conversation challenges dated and inequitable social processes involved in the construction of collective memory and place-making.

During a recent virtual N+T Asks conversation , these two art friends, co-conspirators, and hustlers discussed the role that the “HOOD” continues to play in their artmaking practices, personal inspirations, and art influences.

Follow Cicely Carew on her journey of creating “Ambrosia” for the Prudential Center with Now + There and partners Boston Properties.

On March 25 at 12pm, we marked the opening of Cambridge, MA-based artist Cicely Carew's "Ambrosia," which for the first time brought her ethereal, mixed-media painted abstractions fully into the third dimension, infusing Boston's iconic Prudential Center with a renewed sense of joy.

Did you know that the first “playground” in the United States was a giant sandbox (called a “sand garden”) in Boston’s North End? Neither did we…until now.

Assistant Curator Leah Triplett Harrington chats with Sari Carel, the artist behind our latest project, “The Shape of Play.”

Today as we excitedly announce Sari Carel’s new multi-media installation The Shape of Play, set to debut in Fall 2020 in the North End’s Waterfront Park, we’re offering up insight into the ideas, concepts, research, and artistic and practical influences that inform the curatorial and collaborative process that get us from early renderings all the way to fully realized artwork. Read on to hear from leaders on the JArts and Now + There project team, as well as the artist about some of the things that have shaped The Shape of Play.

After we lit up the Prudential Center together with ¡Provecho!, artist Justin Favela sat down with Afro-Latina, agitator, activist and Boston City Councilor, Julia Mejia for a special interview. Click to listen!

As we gear up to open ¡Provecho!, Assistant Curator Leah Triplett Harrington spoke with artist Justin Favela about , why taking up space is important, the complexities of identifiers, and his favorite comfort foods. 

Augment creator, artist Nick Cave is dubbed “The Most Joyful, and Critical, Artist in America” by T Magazine for their annual The Greats issue, out now.

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.

On May 7, N+T is going before the Boston Landmarks Commission with our newest collaborator, Boston painter, muralist, and street artist Problak. Read

UNLESS offered a creative outlet and a reflection on the bigger picture, rekindling the spirit of community organizing that led to the creation of IBA. Problems that are created collectively demand solutions within a collective mindset.

Leah Triplett-Harrington talks with Liz Glynn and Stephanie Cardon about public space, Boston, and how their projects recontextualize two of our city's most iconic malls. Header photo by Ryan McMahon.

Elisa H. Hamilton reflects on her inspiration for and experience during Slideshow, her October 2017 project with N+T and HUBWeek. 

Making public art has its own unique qualities. The creative process is vulnerable as people can comment and judge before the work is finished. And yet, its very openness at this delicate stage is, in turn, more dynamic in that it constantly sparks interactions with local inhabitants. 

Four months after the inaugural celebration of the mural See Her, artist Ann Lewis and Kate Gilbert, to debrief with Martina Tanga about the successes and stumbling blocks of the project. 

Hear Elisa H. Hamilton's slide talk from Slideshow. Presented live to the public at HUBWeek on October 12, 2017

An interview with Elisa about Slideshow -- what inspired her, what’s new, and what this piece of “analog” art has to do with a technology and innovation festival (hint -- Instagram wasn’t the original photo sharing platform). Read on to get an inside look at Slideshow and join us for the slide talks, starting Thursday October 12.

An interview with Ann Lewis about her process working with the women at McGrath House and why creating this piece is important to her as an artist activist.

Maggie Cavallo wrestles with the thorny issue of addressing quality in socially engaged art in this guest post, the third in our four-part series Art in Service with Big Red & Shiny and Alter Projects.

Five artists, curators and instigators answer the question: "Who is your practice for?" and their answers are as complex and generous as their work. With Che Anderson, Jennie Carlise, William Chambers, Elisa Hamilton, and Lori Lobenstine.