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These events provided a safe space to reflect and process together as we re-emerge to social, school, and work settings during a very challenging time. The responses were overwhelmingly honest and beautiful. Through playful outdoor arts activities and an interactive photo booth at Kendall/MIT Open Space Programing, Cambridge, the artist teamed up with art therapist Laura Menucci to engage the community to make art and respond to three questions:Ī word/drawing for what this year challenged.Ī word/drawing to describe what helped you keep moving forward. Engaging local neighbors, residents, students, and businesses, to create a temporary street-level art on glass windows, the artist incorporated stories, reflections, hardships, and hopes of the past year in portraits, patterns, and words sourced from community contributions. ‘A Community Reflects’ is part of the Kendall Square Art Activation within the MIT campus during Fall 2021, made possible by MITIMCo. Grateful for the MIT + MITIMco teams along with Graffito SP, Bluebird Graphic Solutions, assistants, interns, and volunteers that made it all happen! As well as the amazing documentation of Dominic Chavez. It incorporates 16 words using the prefix /rē/, which hope to create connections to meanings relating to the return and emergence of people back into society after a tragic year and serve as a moment to reflect, recognize our similarities, and see themselves as a vital part of this environment. The mural utilizes acrylic paint, markers, stencils, hanging paper shapes, and dichroic film on glass. Textiles, tiles, and objects of various world regions and countries of origin of the people living and working in Cambridge inspired the artwork. installation, which is home to the MIT Press & Bookstore along with offices and retail space.īased on Cambridge’s demographics and data research from the Census and the American Community Survey, the imagery borrows elements from cultural patterns and symbols that represent the makeup of Cambridge’s population. The images in this gallery show work in progress and finished shots of the 314 Main St. that incorporates stories, reflections, hardships and hopes of the past year through color, portraits, patterns, and words sourced from community contributions.

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and a program series with MIT Open Space Programming to engage people and create art at 290 Main St. This temporary public art installation at MIT in Kendall Square, Cambridge, commissioned by MITIMco, encompasses two parts: A glass mural on 314 Main St. #ArtforthePeople #ArtfortheEarth #USEmbass圜hina #USEmbassy #PublicArtBeijing #StreetArtChina #SilviaLopezChavez An image of my mural ‘Rise’ created during SeaWalls Boston: Artists for Oceans in collaboration with the PandeaSeed Foundation was selected and reproduced almost as large as the original mural! The outdoor exhibit is scheduled to remain on display for six months and will also be shared virtually on the Embassy’s Weibo accounts.Ĭheck out the press release, photos, and videos HereĪnd at and videos by the Chinese Embassy team. This effort highlights the universal value of freedom of expression, as well as our ongoing commitment to direct engagement with the Chinese public, says Sani Hoop who curated 15 artists during the first installment earlier this year ‘Art for the People’ and another 15 contributing artists for this second round, this time to bring attention to protecting our environment. ‘Art for the People: Earth’ is the second public art installation at the U.S.

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