$108,000 in funding granted! From LEDs to healing vibrations… to augmented reality, myth-making and the joy of possibility with “creepy crawlers,” artists of the sixth Cohort of N+T’s unique Public Art Accelerator program are using new media to make their mark in Boston this coming summer.

Go behind the scenes with Cohort 5 Public Art Accelerator artists and learn about their individual projects!

Now + There Accelerator Artists – past and present - are having a moment. A big moment that we at Now + There are relishing as we remember them early in their careers, navigating the city as aspiring public artists with bold artistic vision and promise. We’re proud to see them flourishing.

Inspired by the success and celebration of Cohort Five’s completed projects, we are honored and excited to announce the artists who have been selected next for Cohort Six of the Public Art Accelerator: Jeremy ‘Sobek’ Harrison, Nelly Kate, Michael Berthaud, and Sarah Brophy.

At Now + There, our mission is to foster artists and the public to co-create bold public art experiences that open minds, conversations, and spaces across Boston. This summer three BOS artists are making their mark on the city we all know and love with their reflective and creative projects popping up all over Boston.

In very different ways N+T Public Art Accelerator artists Tanya Nixon-Silberg and Ponnapa Prakkamakul beacon our participation to witness and pay homage to the faces of Boston. We’re thrilled to welcome their projects to Roxbury and the Leather District.

During Rixy’s recent picnic and mural celebration on Saturday, October 15th Pa*Lante, Curatorial Assistant Jasper Sanchez, encouraged the artist to reflect on her new mural at 301 Highland Ave in Roxbury’s Fort Hill. This soundbite offers some highlights from their exchange, with additional details that situate Rixy’s themes and motifs within a larger diasporic context. And, to demystify some of the art-making processes we engage in, hear Rixy’s detailed applications of studies and experience to offer one of her latest contributions to the community.

Announcing three new projects from N+T Public Art Accelerator artists that are coming to East Boston this summer.

Now+There Curator Leah Triplett Harrington invited Public Art Accelerator jurors Jesse Baerkahn and Sabrina Dorsainvil to chat on Instagram Live, last month, about their experience as jurors and their thoughts on N+T’s Public Art Accelerator program.

Announcing four new projects from 2021 Public Art Accelerator artists that will enrich the City of Boston through public art projects coming Summer 2022.

The Public Art Accelerator Cohort 4 has been busy since September! Eleven (of fourteen) workshops in, they’ve delved deep into the complexities of permitting, visited potential sites across the city, discussed “uncooked ideas,” defined success and aired their fears of failure.

Accelerator artist Ang Li launches “Place of Assembly” to reflect back on community and stoop culture in Boston’s Chinatown neighborhood.

In anticipation of the application of Accelerator Cohort Four closing June 20, we caught up with past Accelerator artist, Gabriel Sosa, to hear how it’s been going since the launch of his billboard series last year.

Announcing an open call for N+T Public Art Accelerator Cohort Four.

Announcing the return of the N+T Public Art Accelerator — now open to all Boston-area artists.

Our 2020 Accelerator artists, Shaka Dendy, Ang Li, Karthik Pandian, Gabriel Sosa, and Yu-Wen Wu, successfully completed a six-month intensive designed to demystify the process of creating public art and will each receive a $25,000 stipend to realize their projects in over 7 Boston neighborhoods between now and September 2021.

We’re thrilled to introduce our powerhouse keynote speaker for the Now + There Forum: Public Art Accelerator, Dr. Kymberly Pinder! A public art curator with decades of experience with community-oriented and ephemeral public art projects, Dr. Pinder was named the Provost and Senior Vice President of MassArt in 2019.

2019 Public Art Accelerator Artist Pat Falco walks us through the process of building a three-decker among the towering glass walls of the Seaport.

2019 Public Art Accelerator Artist, Cat Mazza, shares the research and development process that shaped her project, Electroknit Dymaxion and reflects on how tradition, craft, globalism, and digital making techniques inform the work and its purpose.

2019 Accelerator Artist, David Buckley Borden shares insight into his inspirations, the ways design thinking has shaped his artistic practice, and how learning along other artists is helping him bush new boundaries in his work.

Congrats are in order! Our 2019 Public Art Accelerator artists have completed our six-month curriculum on how to create public art and successfully proposed projects to be executed this summer in Boston.

We all desire to be understood and recognized. N+T’s Kate Gilbert reflects on the pilot year of our Public Art Accelerator program and how the artists’ empathy and vision helped shaped the program for 2019.

We’re excited to continue learning, growing, and supporting Boston’s artists and communities and humbled to announce the second year of Now + There’s Public Art Accelerator.

2018 N+T Accelerator Artist Cynthia Gunadi and her partner Joel Lamere opened their Accelerator Project Lost House to the public on Sunday October 28, 2018. Read how, in Cynthia’s words, their community outreach, which began as due diligence, ended up being an honor to take part in.

N+T Critic-in-Residence, Leah Tripplett Harrington dives into the 2018 N+T Public Art Accelerator projects, exploring how they use social exchange as their main medium and participation as their most critical material.