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The public art project complemented the renovation of the Jamaica Plain Branch.
You might have heard of the galleries in City Hall, but did you know that there are murals here too?
UPDATE: The deadline has been extended to November 21, 2021, at 11:59 p.m.
Five artists worked collaboratively with various City departments from March 2020 through May 2021 to co-design projects that improve the way we understand and serve Boston’s residents.
Applications for Boston Cultural Council organizational grants and Reopen Creative Boston are due on October 15, 2021 at 5 p.m
The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture awards grants to artists and organizations to create short-term public art projects and activations through the Transformative Public Art program.
Ty-Juana came to the City of Boston from Berklee College of Music, where she worked for 10 years.
This is the third year of the Transformative Public Art Program.
Supporting local artists and arts organizations has long been a priority of the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture. This summer we were excited to extend our support in a way that we haven’t before.
Learn more about how the City of Boston is honoring the anniversary of the day in 1865 when all enslaved people had been informed that they were free.
June is Pride Month, a time to celebrate and recognize the contributions of Boston’s LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, and asexual or allied) community.
The agenda is a citywide invitation to hold space for joy, encourage opportunities for collective processing of grief, and invest in healing, imagination and play.
The City of Boston, in partnership with the Little Saigon Cultural District, has been approved for a $75,000 Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the district.
All events will be conducted in accordance with COVID-19 public health guidance.
All events will be conducted in accordance with COVID-19 public health guidance.
In addition to April Fools and rain showers, this month brings with it the celebration of National Poetry Month!
As Boston Artist-in-Residence Victor Yang and the Boston Public Health Commission’s Violence Intervention & Prevention Initiative (VIP) enter the final months of their year working together, they...
As the Office of Arts and Culture, we know that hateful acts of violence are perpetrated against many of the communities we serve every day, and all of these acts of violence should be denounced.
" The Embrace" is a bronze figural abstraction based on a photo of an embrace between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
This is a blog post written by Director of Public Art Karin Goodfellow and Boston Boston Artists-in-Residence (AIR) Program Manager Sharon Amuguni highlighting learnings from an evaluation of the...
Below is a conversation with Boston Artist-in-Residence Pat Falco and Wandy Pascoal of the Boston Housing Innovation Lab and Boston Society for Architecture about their collaboration this year, the...
Supporting individual artists is at the heart of everything we do in the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture.
Artists have been selected for three long-term public art projects funded by the City of Boston's Percent for Art program.
This initiative is a collaboration between the City of Boston, The Boston Foundation, and the Barr Foundation.
2020 was an extremely difficult year for Boston’s arts community as we faced significant setbacks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and grappled with racial injustices across the country.
This letter to the community was written by the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture and the Boston Art Commission.
A cohort of 16 BIPOC artists and collectives make up the pilot year of the three-year regranting program Radical Imagination for Racial Justice.
Boston’s artists and creative businesses have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic this year, and they need our support now more than ever.
This series was made possible in part by the Academy of American Poets, with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It will culminate in the 2021 Roxbury Poetry Festival.
This year, Victor Yang has been working with the Violence Intervention and Prevention Initiative (VIP) at the Boston Public Health Commission.
