In this, Now + There’s curatorial year of Shared Power, we celebrate five years of curating and producing 23 public art projects throughout Boston that open hearts, conversations, and spaces.
We are also celebrating many firsts. We mark the innovative ways of connecting across the disconnect of a global pandemic and a call for racial reckoning we’ve created with programs like N+T Asks, live curatorial conversations on Instagram, and the Public Art Accelerator Forum.
And we give thanks to friends like you who believe in the power of public art. Because public art is us. Whether we make it or enjoy it, public art represents the best of who we can be.
Friends like you who share an unrestricted gift during our Annual Campaign before the end of the year support continued artistic risk-taking and the creation of public art that welcomes, reflects, and unites. You fund a diversity of voices who help us define what public art can be — 57 and counting this year alone; 68% of whom are people of color — and together, we create free projects that spark conversations about who defines a public. (Don’t forget, Jose Dávila’s new work To Each Era Its Art. To Art Its Freedom. opens on November 13! )
As we fabricate artworks under strict building codes while accommodating our artists’ real-life challenges, we have never given up because you haven’t stopped believing in the power of public art. Thank you for your support and participation!
Together, we can enter 2021 poised to build a more open and equitable public art city.