N+T Assistant Curator Jasper A. Sanchez shares the story, labor, and care behind Sam Fields’ recently installed nautical rope sculpture, Stay, at Lot Lab. 

Talking to artists and community members--listening and learning from them--brings life to all our projects. This year of Mending looks at stories of innovation, global connection, individual perseverance, and tenacity, weaving together the impossible and offering opportunities to amplify what is most delicate (collective joy), transient (dreams), or everlasting (love) in our interconnected world.  

Listen or read along to a conversation between Kate Gilbert, Executive Director, and two former Public Art Ambassadors, now full-time Now + There staff, Blu Prinston and Jasper Sanchez, who are helping N+T redefine public art.

Since its inception, Black History Month has stood as a clear call toward active listening, critical thinking, and consistent practice of sustainable values, agreements, and cultures. We have the tools we need to grow and opt for different choices instead of answering to the urge of making the same choice(s) over and over again. Keep reading for nudges to help activate your learning and practice! Send us YOUR leads! 

Evolution takes trust—in people and systems—and I want to take this moment to thank all those who joined us, and trusted us, in 2022. Your critical feedback and financial support demonstrated that bold public art plays a vital part in building a more vibrant and equitable Boston.

Harvest season is upon us. As stands our annual tradition, we use this time to reflect and express gratitude for the incredible year Now + There has had.

We take this time and space to celebrate the artists, partners, community members, generous supporters, and especially the participants in our public art experiences, who are at the center of all we do. Your engagement drives us towards a more robust and vibrant #PublicArtCity.

On this Indigenous Peoples’ Day, may we recognize and honor the traditions and wisdom first peoples have carried to this present day. And may we stand with them to create equality for all Indigenous people throughout the world.

As we eagerly await the installation of Five Marble Leaves by Claudia Comte, Guest Curator Pedro Alonzo and Curatorial Assistant Inés Maldonado Cabañas unlock the mystery of how an ancient tree, a chainsaw, 3D imaging, and the vision of one artist result in marble forms destined for Central Wharf Park soon.

N+T Curatorial Assistant Jasper A. Sanchez decodes and takes inspiration from Ponle Vuelo A Tus Sueños/Let Your Dreams Take Flight

We take this day to honor all Indigenous Peoples past, present, and future, including the Massachusett tribe who first inhabited the Shawmut Peninsula where many Now + There projects have occurred.

We’re working from home too, which means curating from the kitchen table. Click to read about our second virtual studio visit with artist Maya Gurantz, who uses film, installation, and photography to refocus common understandings of our shared—and not-so-shared—histories.

Read Assistant Curator Leah Tripplett Harrington’s personal reflection and curatorial exploration of what it means to take down confederate and colonialist monuments and other memorials that are inherently anti-Black.

We’re working from home too, which means curating from the kitchen table. Click to read about our second virtual studio visit with artist Joanna Tam whose interdisciplinary installations amplify the voices of others and reflect on the artist’s lived immigration experiences. Click to read more about Joanna and where she’s finding hope right now.

We’re working from home too, which means curating from the kitchen table. Click to read about our first virtual studio visit with interdisciplinary artist Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi whose work blending media to “analyze” absence, distortion, and distance is particularly poignant during this time. Click to read more about Zsuzi and her perspective on “possibility”

Our Assistant Curator, Leah Triplett Harrington, reviews the recently opened MassArt Art Museum’s (MAAM) inaugural shows, including “Valkyrie Mumbet,” “Game Changers” and “Yesterday is Here.”

Click to listen to Mass Cultural Council’s Anita Walker interview N+T’s Kate Gilbert for the Creative Minds Out Loud podcast!

Writer Arielle Gray interviews Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs about the traditions and dangers of being a practicing graffiti artist, even amid a rise in the desire for “street art”.

A call for Boston to fully embrace temporary public art as a catalyst for the cultural change we seek.

A call for Boston to fully embrace temporary public art as a catalyst for the cultural change we seek.

Leah Triplett Harrington's latest blog post reflects on Arts in Transit and how its producer, UrbanArts, influences N+T today. 

“I recently drove 1,000 miles of deserted Arizona roads to see some of our country’s most memorable landscapes including Sedona’s red rocks, the Grand Canyon, and Monument Valley.” Kate Gilbert reflects on travel and its tendency to reminded one of what they already know and cherish.

Guest contributor Conor MacDonald explores the evolution of Kenmore Square as a gathering place, a social nexus point, and now, an iconic location for site-specific public art.

N+T Critic-in-Residence Leah Triplett Harrington explores parallels in Boston’s public art in the 1980’s and today.

The first post from N+T's 2018 Critic-in-Residence, Leah Triplett Harrington explores how UrbanArts has became Now and There and how bringing Bostonians artwork considering place, ecology, and gentrification relates to public artwork presented in Boston in the 80s. Is Boston’s public art - permanent or temporary - a way that we can make sense of the enormity of economic and political “transactions” happening globally?

Emily Glaser explores the ways that memory, self, and community are reflected in Agnes Varda and JR’s "Faces Places."