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Take in Bike Tour of Public Art in Cambridge: Central Square, Cambridgeport, and Riverside

September 16, 2022 · by · in African American History, architecture, Art, Artists, ceramic tiles, families, guides, interactive art, libraries, Mosaic, mural conservation and restoration, Murals, parks, playgrounds, poetry, political issues, portraits, public art tours, Sculpture, social justice, visual art · 4 Comments

This post notes outstanding outcomes of an exciting event one perfect evening in late July 2022: the beautifully organized free bike tour of Cambridge public art between Central Square and the Charles River. 1. Bike-riders of all ages gathered outside the Central Square Library for an overview of art around the library and along the planned route of the whole tour. Cambridge police and attentive volunteers guided everyone safely through the sunset finale. 2. The tour is now engagingly documented in a 2-minute video. 3. The route has become a self-guiding tour for cyclists, though certainly adaptable to walkers. Facts, links and videos on the tour site are informative and intriguing for interested readers far from Cambridge. 4. The whole experience even elevated my already towering enthusiasm for public art!

Applaud Playground Turtles and their Creators: Nancy Schön and Lilli Ann Killen Rosenberg

September 9, 2020 · by · in animals in art, Arlington Public Art, Art, art and science study, Artists, Boston Public Art, bronze, ceramic tiles, ceramics, collaborative art projects, commuity, design, families, fences, gardens, interactive art, Mosaic, Nature study, parks, playgrounds, public art, Sculpture, trees, visual art, women artists · Leave a comment

Endurance is a quality shared by the turtle sculptures in this post. Lilli Ann Roseberg’s colorful concrete turtles in Cambridge have been ridden, jumped on, snowed in, flooded over and lots more in the past three decades. Nancy Schön’s bronze Myrtle the Turtle was bound up and relocated within Boston’s Myrtle Street Playground soon after settling in last year. These sculptures endured isolation while playgrounds were closed in the spring and then cautiously reopened.

Look Up to Mosaic Masterpieces at Fletcher Maynard Academy, Cambridge

July 1, 2020 · by · in architecture, Art, art education, art history, Artists, basketball, ceramic tiles, ceramics, children, collaborative art projects, collabrative murals, commuity, design, drawing, Mosaic, mural process, Murals, photography, public art, schools, sketching and drawing, studios, visual art · 2 Comments

Closed all spring 2020 like every school, Fletcher Maynard Academy in Cambridge continues to offer art that is open to public view. People can look up above the school’s doors at the corner of Broadway and Windsor Streets to marvel at the Mosaic Masterpieces created a year earlier by students with artists David Fichter, Liane Noddin, and art teacher Lolly Lincoln.

Randal Thurston’s Birds and Butterflies Guide Our Ways through Yerxa Road Underpass in Cambridge

June 19, 2020 · by · in animals in art, architecture, Art, art and science study, Artists, bikepaths, ceramic tiles, children, commuity, design, history, landmarks, landscape architecture, local birds, masks, Massachusetts history, mural process, public art, public art tours, Sculpture, visual art · 1 Comment

Maybe best to show some of what I have seen lately along this pertinent passageway without trying to explain why I didn’t post earlier. I hope the links and quotes will give you ways to appreciate the efforts and effects of this public art project completed in 2006.