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Heads Up to View “Heat Blooms” Designed by Art for Public Good

View photos,* quotes, and links for “Heat BLOOMS,” a temporary art installation, August-September: *from two almost hot afternoons
“When temperatures top 85 degrees, the flowers of “Heat BLOOMS”—a new art installation in Cambridge’s Harvard Square—bloom, like a visual thermometer warning of extreme heat.

Arts Enhance Action in Boston Labor Day Parade, 2025

Costumes, displays, banners, posters, music and dance relate to the theme: Workers over Billionaires!

Glad to be there and then go through many photos. Here are a few examples of statements people made in different ways.

Enjoy More Dreams Upon the River, Studios without Walls in Riverway Park, Brookline

This final sequel post shares photos and links for the six sculptures not shown in the two earlier posts.

Gateway Arts Banners Wave For Studios Without Walls: Dream Upon the River, until September 1

These banners are now reminders of the brief time left to explore the exciting exhibit of seventeen sculptures and to find all six Gateway artist’s banners too! This sequel post slips in a few more glimpses, links and notes.

Signs and Connections Grow on Cambridge Common throughout Festival Organized by MASS 50501

Here are photos, quotes, links, and notes from a recent MASS 50501 event that truly engaged me in sustaining ways. Visual art, along with music, poetry, free food, volunteer energy, careful organizing, and good weather, made this a fruitful festival.

Good Signs at Good Trouble Rally on Boston Common across from the State House

This Boston rally, July 17, in memory of John Lewis, drew on many ways to make good trouble: posters, stencils, bubbles, costumes, singing, speaking, signing, dancing, chanting, painting, and much more. Let photos and quotes here suggest the event’s energy and emotions.

Plant Party Grows Creative Interactions Inspired by Give & Take Mural

Here are quotes, notes, links and photos from a truly fulfilling evening, July 15, 2025: Rooted Together, Plant Party, from 5 to 6:30. The event was planned around Little Free Greenhouse, one of three swap boxes in Give & Take, outside Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston.

3D Mural Features Swap Boxes: “Give & Take” Designed by Non Issue Studio

Quotes, notes, links from first visit, with hopes of more to come: “Our newest interactive public art project, presented in partnership with Harvard EdPortal. On view at 224 Western Ave, Allston, MA, from May 2, 2025 to April 2026” (quote from Non Issue Studio: Swap Boxes)

Art Ramble in Brister’s Hill, Walden Woods, Weaving an Address  

After one walk along Art Ramble on Brister’s Hill, I have many photos and much yet to discover about the compelling art and history here. This post, with quotes and links to resources, should serve as a starter for everything I hope to share about Weaving an Address in the months ahead!

Indoor Exhibit Extends Outdoor Art: Banners by Liz Shepherd and Suzanne Moseley in Arlington

This sequel to Banners and Audio Tour Celebrate “People, Plants & Revolution” in Arlington adds photos of the indoor banners and more resources about the art.
The outdoor views are enticing, though distant and dependent on traffic, weather, and your own mode of transport. The indoor venue is generously unrestricted for close-up viewing of each banner.