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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.
Update: The deadline to apply for Boston Cultural Council organizational grants has been extended to December 14, 2020.
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the arts and culture sector, particularly performing arts organizations.
The Mural Crew employed nearly triple the amount of youth for their ordinary summer program, with 27 youth participating in this year's program.
The budget for this project is $300,000 and funded by the City of Boston's Percent for Art program.
The City of Boston is seeking an artist or artist team to create a permanent public artwork for the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library.
These funds support innovative arts, humanities, and interpretive sciences programming.
Destiny Palmer’s project at BCYF Vine Street is the second public art project at the center.
The funding for this new grant program was made available by the City of Boston's allocated CARES Act funding.
The Boston Art Commission called for a process to re-contextualize the statue in a new setting.
Memorials long known to be symbols that promote white supremacy are being challenged and removed around the world in response to the demands of protesters calling for anti-racism and decolonization.
Our Town applications require two primary partners, a nonprofit organization and a government entity.
The City looked for artworks that responded to COVID-19 and provided creative approaches to public connectedness and community rituals at a time of disorientation and insecurity.
We stand in support of our black communities, in support of justice, and in support of anti-racist policies.
Here's what we're thinking about during COVID-19.
The $1.2 million award from the Surdna Foundation will support Boston-connected artists of color. Deadline extended to July 8, 2020.
With nearly 1,000 applications already received, we’ve decided to close applications on May 15 and set a goal of $250,000 in total donations by May 31, 2020.
The City is looking for artworks that respond to COVID-19 and provide creative approaches to public connectedness.
Every year on One Boston Day (April 15), the City of Boston comes together to celebrate resiliency, unity, and kindness.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture today announced five artists have been selected for the fourth year of Boston Artists-in-Residence (AIR) .
We established an Arts and Culture Response Forum at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to address the needs of individual artists and organizations.
The Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture is receiving many questions from arts and culture organizations seeking guidance on responding to Coronavirus Disease 2019, also known as COVID-19. This is a...
We talked to one of the newest members of the Boston Art Commission, Robert Freeman, about his personal experiences as an artist and his vision for public art in Boston.
In the third year of the Opportunity Fund, we have already funded opportunities and experiences for 78 individual artists through $106,787 in grants.
Bobadilla is a 17-year-old student at Fenway High School.
Since the creation of the Boston AIR program in 2017, the City has had a total of 20 artists-in-residence.
Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture announced that applications are now open for the fourth round of Boston AIR, the City of Boston's artist residency program. The...
