Category temporary art
Enjoy 19th Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit at Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio, “Around the Pond and Through the Woods” 2025
This is a “quick post” to maximize time for you to experience the exhibit and for me to develop a worthy sequel post before it ends! So here are quotes,* links, and a few photos that should lead to the many wonders at Old Frog Pond Farm & Studio, 38 Eldridge Road, Harvard, MA. *All quotes from Old Frog Pond Farm and Studio 19th Annual Sculpture Exhibit
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.
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.
Photo-Collage Aluminum Prints Tell Many Stories in Misa Chhan’s “Year of the Snake” on the Greenway
I loved walking among the compelling pages of this sturdy, large-scale outdoor book in Auntie Kay and Uncle Frank Chin Park on the Greenway one evening in late July. Focused on faces, fabric patterns, and family members, I formed connections at my own pace. My next walk there will bring out more to share. Meanwhile quotes from the Greenway link should offer context and entice you to explore Misa Chhan’s artwork.
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.
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, sequel: Curator Talk by Marla McLeod Opens Eyes to Art on the Ground and among the Branches
On May 25, a wondrously worthwhile walk led by Marla McLeod, as curator and artist, added greatly to my awareness of the art on Brister’s Hill. I had already posted based on a solo walk and online research, but Marla shaped my vision for this sequel. Here are photos from her Curator Talk*, plus my promised focus on three artists not shown in the first post: Ekua Holmes, Perla Mabel, and Anthony Peyton Young.
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.
Banners and Audio Tour Celebrate “People, Plants & Revolution” in Arlington
Artists Suzanne Moseley and Liz Shepherd designed twelve bright banners that hang above the median strip of Massachusetts Ave in Arlington ( April through May) to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Here are quotes, notes, prints, photos and rich resources connecting plants, people and history.
Explore Another Winteractive Highlight: Living Lantern by NEON Studio and Frankie Boyle
With barely two weeks left to visit Living Lantern in Boston, near Dowtown Crossing, here is a quick post, urging you to go if you can. At least I hope the quotes, notes, and photos convey the most compelling features of this fascinating installation.
Art Outdoors 