Community Engagement
Mary-Liz Murray
N+T Asks: How can art offer hope to artists and ...

On April 24, 2020, we hosted our fourth N+T Asks conversation. This week Assistant Curator Leah Triplett Harrington asked you and our guests Stephanie Cardon and Charla Jones, "How does art offer hope to artists and the public?" Click to watch or listen to the full conversation.

N+T Asks: How can art offer hope to artists and the public?
Critical Reflections & Opinion
Leah Triplett Harrington
Virtual Studio Visit | Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi

We’re working from home too, which means curating from the kitchen table. Click to read about our first virtual studio visit with interdisciplinary artist Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi whose work blending media to “analyze” absence, distortion, and distance is particularly poignant during this time. Click to read more about Zsuzi and her perspective on “possibility”

Virtual Studio Visit | Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi
Community Engagement
Mary-Liz Murray
N+T Asks: What can artists do right now?

On April 17, 2020, we welcomed artist and curator Rachel Allen, social change designer and founder of DS4SI, Kenny Bailey, and over 80 of you into a conversation exploring the question: “What can artists do right now?”

N+T Asks: What can artists do right now?
Community Engagement
Mary-Liz Murray
N+T Asks: What does "care" mean right now?

We were glad to have special guests artist Stephen Hamilton (2018 Public Art Accelerator and creator of The Founders Project) and Tiffany Cogell, a driven advocate and community organizer (and one of the powerful women featured in Elisa Hamilton’s 2017 project Slideshow) join us for our second installment of N+T Asks and help us answer: “What does care mean right now?”

N+T Asks: What does "care" mean right now?
Community Engagement
Mary-Liz Murray
N+T Asks: What does "public" mean right now?

On April 3, 2020, we launched our new online conversation series "N+T Asks." We were excited to welcome artist Silvia Lopez Chavez, Program Director of Public Art at New England Foundation for the Arts, Kim Szeto, and more than 75 participants from across the cultural sector as we asked: “What does public mean right now?”

N+T Asks: What does "public" mean right now?

Liz Nofziger

Art in Service: Documentation

Art in Service: Documentation

Leah Triplett Harrington, editor of Big Red & Shiny, explores how art and time-based work can be recorded or documented in this final essay in our four-part collaboration with Big, Red & Shiny and Alter Projects.

Valuing the Artist's Vision First

How will artists be part of placemaking and public art in Boston? On May 6, 2015 we hosted the"Where's the Art?" panel at the Boston Center of the Arts to discuss just that. Moderated by our director Kate Gilbert, artists Cedric Douglas, Megan McMillan, Liz Nofziger, and Rob Trumbour spoke about the definitions of public art and what we can do to support more of it in our communities.