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?

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The ARTery: At MassArt Art Museum, Artists Examine Racial And Gender Systems

The ARTery: At MassArt Art Museum, Artists Examine Racial And Gender Systems

Our Assistant Curator, Leah Triplett Harrington, reviews the recently opened MassArt Art Museum’s (MAAM) inaugural shows, including “Valkyrie Mumbet,” “Game Changers” and “Yesterday is Here.”

"A vision of what women artists can do for our city..."

"A vision of what women artists can do for our city..."

With each new Year of the Woman project, we seek to bring people who have traditionally been left out of the art world into the spotlight. Both Ann and Silvia bring the voices and perspectives of marginalized groups into their art. This, of course, means bringing themselves into the work as well.

New contemporary art for the Charles River Esplanade

New contemporary art for the Charles River Esplanade

Esplanade Association and Now + There collaborate to bring a new mural by Silvia López Chavez to Boston’s historic park. The concept for Patterned Behavior takes inspiration from The Esplanade’s immediate environment and the many ways this space is enjoyed day-to-day.

For Boston: A Year of Public Art

For Boston: A Year of Public Art

Site-specific public art is the lens through which we experience common spaces and grow as a community. In 2017, Chicago is celebrating a Year of Public Art by funding permanent and temporary works, performances, education, and gatherings to promote civic discourse through art. Here's how we think Boston can—must!—have a Year of Public Art.