Now and There Accelerator

Accelerator Program 2020: Projects Announced

Accelerator Program 2020: Projects Announced

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.

Public Art Powerhouse - Dr. Kymberly Pinder

Public Art Powerhouse - Dr. Kymberly Pinder

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.

Design Thinking, Artist Making | Introducing David Buckley Borden

Design Thinking, Artist Making | Introducing David Buckley Borden

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.

Lost House: Lessons in Serving the Neighborhood

Lost House: Lessons in Serving the Neighborhood

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.

Art as Experience

Art as Experience

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.

Artist Ekua Holmes wants to plant hope all over Roxbury

“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.”