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.

Guest blog post by MBTA public art finalist Elisa Hamilton on the importance of public art in her childhood and it's influence on her career as an artist.

"Did you know that the glass tile wall of that bus tunnel used to light up?  I have childhood memories of waiting near that wall all aglow in blue and red, as if it was magically lit from within.  Those colors are still vivid in my memory; maybe you’ve also felt that brilliance.  I believe that the people in our communities deserve to have that light alive in our public spaces, and I believe that - with enough support - we can keep the light of public art shining in Massachusetts, so that we can all be illuminated in its glow."

In an art town as small as Boston, worlds often collide. Recently N+T’s own Kate Gilbert sat down with fellow SMFA alum Thomas Stevenson to discuss his latest project, “Living Room”, commissioned by theLawn on D at Gilbert’s suggestion. The following is an excerpt of the conversation between artist and curator about how “Living Room” came to be, about fear in public spaces, and about learning to be flexible when you come upon big rocks in your tiny sandbox.

In February the Brooklyn/New Orleans street artist MOMO arrived in Boston in the midst of Snowpocalypse ‘15, an unrelenting series of snowstorms and freezing temperatures that left Boston under 93” of snow. Undaunted by it all, MOMO completed a massive 250’ x 34’ mural over eighteen nights in the lobby of Boston’s iconic John Hancock Building bringing his signature combination of blending techniques, harmonious colors and universal forms to warm up the austere lobby and its wintery surrounds.

We had the pleasure of sitting down with him on his fourteenth night of painting to talk about his technique, the challenges he faced and that delicate balance of making a public artwork that's accessible yet not silly. The following is an excerpt from that conversation which was published by our friends at Brooklyn Street Art on March 26.