“Who owns the atmosphere?” “Who owns the street?” “Who owns the power?” “Who owns community?” These are some of the questions written on small, flat boxes arrayed across the lawn…Continue Reading →
“We not only garden with seeds and plants and flowers, but we garden in our communities with souls and minds and hearts,” Boston artist Ekua Holmes said of the temporary,…Continue Reading →
The design for Boston artist Paul Goodnight and Larry Pierce’s temporary, printed mural “No Strings Detached” began with Goodnight’s row of animated musicians playing violin, stand-up bass and banjo. “The…Continue Reading →
Artist Nick Cave’s “Joy Parade” today escorted the Chicago artist’s inflatable sculptures (pictured above) from the Boston Center for the Arts to 555 Columbia Ave. in Uphams Corner in Boston,…Continue Reading →
What brings you JOY? Seeking performers: Join us, Wonderland Spectacle Company, in artist Nick Cave’s JOY parade on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019. We’re seeking people to help present our walking…Continue Reading →
“This is all that’s going on right now in the world, all this chaos,” Nick Cave tells me during a visit to the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the…Continue Reading →
This week the American Library Association announced that Boston artist Ekua Holmes had again won its Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award, honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books…Continue Reading →
“I thought that this sunflower because of its special attributes would make a great symbol or emblem for Roxbury,” Ekua Holmes told me in June as her “Roxbury Sunflower Project”…Continue Reading →
“Who has access to space, both public and private?” Liz Glynn says she wants to ask with “Open House,” her public artwork on Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Mall. “What kind of…Continue Reading →
Last Friday morning, Ekua Holmes (pictured above) was outside the Grove Hall Public Library in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood with folks from the Urban Farming Institute who were helping her plant hundreds…Continue Reading →