Experiencing Boston's Waterfront Through An Artist's Lens

If you walk around the neighborhood, odds are you go along the Harborwalk during some part of your daily travels. The Harborwalk isn't just in our neighborhood. It extends over forty miles from Dorchester to East Boston and offers a variety of experiences along narrow paths and wide open spaces with varying degrees of what my mother would have called southern hospitality (even though she was born in Connecticut and worked in Boston).  

This summer photographer Leonardo March went exploring throughout the Boston Harbor capturing how people interact or don't interact with the waterfront. Who feels welcome. Who does not. Through his art, Leo challenges us to think of the potential, the vision, required to create spaces that feel "like another room in your house."

Join the Barr Foundation, Fort Point Arts Community, and photographer Leonardo March for an opening reception of "Another Room in the House" on:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf

290 Congress St. 

The reception will feature opening remarks from Barr Foundation President Jim Canales as well as a a conversation between exhibit artist Leonardo March and curator Lucy Rosenburgh of Kate Chertavian Fine Art. Attendees will be able to network, enjoy refreshments, and view the exhibit.  Register here to reserve your spot. 

In closing, I must express gratitude to the Massachusetts Public Waterfront Act, commonly referred to as Chapter 91, for protecting and guaranteeing public access to the water and honoring our maritime history, especially in an era of rapid growth and development of #ourwaterfront.

The People's Harbor: A Happening In A Street Park

Artist For Humanity invites you to participate in the culminating exhibition of "The People's Harbor," a series of community-based collaborative art experiences produced by Artists For Humanity's teens and mentors this summer. Add your creative voice to the series’ final large-scale painting. 

August 16, 2018

5 pm - 7 pm

A Street Park

141 A Street

R.S.V.P.

Artists For Humanity (AFH) is but one of a larger consortium of organizations working to increase access to and sustain Boston's beautiful waterfront. For more information about the collaborative initiative click here.