About the artists

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is a multifaceted artist, curator, and composer renowned for his innovative work with voice and modular synthesizer in the realm of experimental music. With a focus on performance and installation/exhibition, Lowe’s combination of synthesis creates a heightened physicality, often inducing trancelike states in his compositions. He has also recorded and performed under the moniker Lichens, as well as being a member of the bands Om and Singer. 

In recent years, Robert has focused on composing music for film, and has worked with filmmakers such as Ben Owen, Yance Ford, Nia DaCosta, Daniel McCabe, Mariama Diallo, and more. He has composed soundtracks for the films Candyman (2021), Master (2022), and Telemarketers (2023).

Natalie Epstein-Hogue is an interdisciplinary musician, artist, and technologist. Her work engages with urbanism, domesticity, and humanism within tech. Through electronic media, Natalie seeks to reflect the human experience. She works with expressive control and programming bespoke digital instruments, building up a deeply personal sound-space from first principles.

Her 2024 Album Comfort Objects is a synthesis-driven work, seeking to cultivate a soundscape of comfort and healing, in spite of a tumultuous and traumatizing reality. Dealing with themes of grief, PTSD and marginalization, and squaring them with a desire to create beautiful things, to love deeply, and to cultivate peace as a radical act.

This event is free and open to all. Please RSVP at the link below.

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Directions: Please use the entrance located on Congress St, across from Faneuil Hall. Pass security and take the elevators to the 3rd floor. The Mezzanine Gallery is located behind the information desk.

Patterns on Concrete

Group show by the Boston Modern Quilt Guild

Artists: Christina Ackmann, Jo Artz, Patrice Denault, Alexis Deise, Judith Flynn, Juliet Harbage, Joyce Husseini, Stephanie Jurgensen, Amy Kidd, Rebecca Loren, Michele MacDonald, Susan McKinney, Kristine Millette, Monday Night Quilters, Jean Penta, Fran Sharp, Leneigh White, Emily Williams and Louisa Williams.

About the Show

A quilt is made by sewing multiple blocks of fabric together. Small fragments shine as they become something bigger, a tapestry of rhythm and repetition. This exhibition presents a selection of quilts done by members of the Boston Modern Quilt Guild, some working collectively, to address a range of personal narratives, social issues, and formal explorations. Many of these pieces were created during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring both personal and social tension, change and a slower pace to explore the world. 

These pieces build on the long tradition of quilting in New England, reinterpreting patterns and designs passed down through generations bringing a powerful dialogue between tradition and contemporary narratives. 

Within the context of Boston City Hall, with its bold architectural forms and geometric patterns, these quilts invite viewers to zoom in and out and perceive the lines of the building through a new bright lens. Just as the building itself is composed of numerous concrete blocks, these quilts are composed of countless individual pieces, each contributing to a larger, more complex whole.

The Boston Modern Quilt Guild was founded in 2010 with members hailing from Boston, MetroWest, and beyond. They are dedicated to providing inspiration, fellowship, and support to quilters of all skill levels and types. They are a chapter of the national Modern Quilt Guild.

To learn more about this exhibition please visit bostonmqg.org

Update: New Date! Due to inclement weather, this event has been postponed to February 13.

The African American Master Artist-in-Residence Program (AAMARP) was founded at Northeastern University in 1977 by influential artist and educator Dana C. Chandler, Jr. For nearly fifty years, AAMARP has been a vital outgrowth of the Black Arts Movement in Boston with a mission to afford a “living focus” on “the diverse dynamics of African American aesthetics” by providing studio spaces for artists, presenting numerous exhibitions, and serving as a meaningful meeting place. Several generations of artists working at AAMARP and its orbit have made artworks in a diversity of media, from large-scale paintings and assemblage-based sculptures to textile-based works and photography, often oriented to themes of social justice. Today, the program, still supported by Northeastern University, functions as an artist collective of 14 intergenerational artists—several of them long-term residents—whose works reflect an array of approaches to the art of Africa and the African diaspora. 

To learn more about this exhibition please email Hakim Raquib: hakimfoto@gmail.com.

Directions:

Enter on the first floor (Congress Street) and take the elevators to the fifth floor. 

The Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture (MOAC), via the Boston Art Commission and in partnership with Street Theory, is thrilled to enter the second year of A Canvas of Culture—a multi-year initiative that brings murals to Boston’s neighborhoods.

Want to learn more or ask questions before applying? Join us for a virtual question and answer session on February 6, 2025 at noon or 6 p.m.

The Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture (MOAC), via the Boston Art Commission and in partnership with Street Theory, is thrilled to enter the second year of A Canvas of Culture—a multi-year initiative that brings murals to Boston’s neighborhoods.

Want to learn more or ask questions before applying? Join us for a virtual question and answer session on February 6, 2025 at noon or 6 p.m.

RPM Festival has been a cornerstone of Boston’s experimental arts scene, providing a platform for groundbreaking filmmakers and media artists. The festival’s commitment to sustainable practices in filmmaking—through small gauge and low-impact production methods—continues to inspire and challenge artists and audiences.

Schedule

 *Please note: Programming is family friendly from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. After 3 p.m., some film screenings may contain content that is not suitable for children.

RPM presents an analog synth video program by artist Joost Rekveld (b. 1970), who creates sensory experiences through a dialogue with machines. Rekveld's work explores the sensory consequences of his unique systems, often inspired by forgotten histories in science and technology. This program invites audiences to engage with Rekveld’s mesmerizing visual and auditory landscapes, which reflect his ongoing investigation into the relationships between humans, technology, and perception.

RPM opens the Spring program with a tribute to Jon Behrens (1964-2022), a beloved self-taught artist and pioneer of small-gauge and amateur filmmaking. This program showcases Behrens' impressive four-decade legacy, featuring a diverse collection of his films, ranging from simple and poetic to visually challenging and psychedelic. Behrens’ films, both intimate and expansive, embody his deep commitment to personal, tactile filmmaking and offer a meditative exploration of the moving image.

CANCEL VIOLENCE: ARTISTS SPEAKS presents works by Hakim Raquib, Rob Stull, Johnetta Tinker, Laurence Pierce, Rob “PROBLAK” Gibbs, Shea Justice, Paul Goodnight and L’Merchie Frazier. Through their art, they explore causes of violence and possible correctives in an effort to guide communities toward social healing and restored human wholeness. Images from the exhibition intermixed with video clips of artist talking will be projected on the exterior facade of the museum at dusk thus providing one of the earliest grand scale, artistic screenings on a Roxbury building. It will be a must see.

PROJECTING PEACE is in collaboration with ILLUMINUS and FPoint Productions. It is composed of still and video images created by the visual artists cited above. Preceding the outdoor screening, CANCEL VIOLENCE: ARTISTS SPEAK PROJECTING PEACE will present Love, Queens Who Suffer From Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, an original choreo-poem written and compiled by Jamila Batts Capitman and Heather Thomas. Directed by Capitman, Love, Queens was Inspired by Ntozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Consider Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. It explores the impact of violence on communities through dramatic, poetic monologues. A discussion with the playwright and artists moderated by Chaplain Clementina Chéry of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute follows.

CANCEL VIOLENCE: ARTISTS SPEAK is on display Fridays-Sundays, 1 - 5 p.m., through April 27.

Join the Boston Park Rangers at the Jamaica Pond Nature Center this February to discover the forgotten past of Jamaica Pond’s Ice Industry, view our natural history collection, or check in with a Boston Park Ranger as we open up the JP Nature Center for a limited schedule.

Operating Schedule: 

• OPEN - Friday - February 7, 2025 | 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. 
• OPEN - Sunday - February 9, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
• OPEN - Saturday - February 15, 2025 | 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. 
• OPEN - Friday - February 21, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. 

Accessibility

The Jamaica Pond Nature Center  is accessible for wheelchairs and strollers. 

For more information visit the Boston Park Rangers homepage