slandie prinston is the Marketing + Communications Fellow at Now + There, as well as a writer and activist in and around Boston
“The most exciting part was to be able to see how artists who have existing practice can look at translating prior work and experience into the public realm. And I think that aspiration is super exciting.”
- Jesse Baerkahn
With a guided pitch process and fourteen workshops developed to give transferable art skills to Greater Boston artists, N+T’s innovative Public Art Accelerator Program is helping the next generation of art masters stretch their creativity. The Public Art Accelerator Program is calibrated to support each voice, project, and journey while encouraging its selected artists to dive into the deepest form of meaning-making using new or unusual tools to transform the public realm.
Jurors Jesse Baerkahn and Sabrina Dorsainvil got cozy with N+T Curator Leah Triplett Harrington on IG Live, to share some of their learns and revelations after sifting through fifty-five remarkable applications and picking four artists to join the cohort. Jesse and Sabrina also helped jury the pitch process which took place after six months of workshops where the artists learned even more about how to bring a large-scale public art project to life. Consequently, Mima, Rixy, Eli, and Rhea’s proposals will be hitting four local sites this year. Stay tuned for more!
In the meantime, watch the conversation here.
Top: Leah Triplett-Harrington
L to R: Sabrina Dorsainvil and Jesse Baerkahn
Header Image: Place of Assembly, 2021 by Public Art Accelerator Alum Ang Li, photo by Faith Ninivaggi (c)
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