This is a small group tour through facilitated discussion in front of works of art featured in the current exhibition, "Revolution! 250 Years of Art & Activism in Boston".

This is a small group tour through facilitated discussion in front of works of art featured in the current exhibition, "Revolution! 250 Years of Art & Activism in Boston".

This is a small group tour through facilitated discussion in front of works of art featured in the current exhibition, "Revolution! 250 Years of Art & Activism in Boston".

Launching in Fall 2025 at Quincy Market, Ways of My Ancestors - Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness is a Native American photography series by Hassanamisco Nipmuc Artist Scott Strong Hawk Foster. He will display images that document the contemporary presence of the descendants of the Indigenous inhabitants of Southern New England and the ways in which they preserve their culture and heritage today. 

With five two-sided portraits at each end of Quincy Market, Scott Strong Hawk Foster's portraits will greet people as they pass by, enter, and leave the building.

Please join us for an opening reception of Ways of My Ancestors - Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness with spoken words by the artist and other members of the Native American community on Wednesday November 19, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. at the west end between historic Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market. Light refreshments will be provided.

Funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture through a grant from the Mellon Foundation, Ways of My Ancestors - Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness is presented in partnership with Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Graffito SP, the Office of Historic Preservation, and the City of Boston Planning Department.

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Join us for the unveiling of Breathe Life: 8piphany by Rob “Problak” Gibbs, honoring youth, hope, and the power of presence and pride.

Join Pao Arts Center, Ecosistema Urbano, and the Rose Kennedy Greenway as we say goodbye to PlanTable with a final celebration.

(Rain date Sunday, 10/19, from 12:00 - 3:00 p.m.)

Over the past three months,  a variety of visitors of all ages have enjoyed the shade provided by the 16 trees, community members have connected with friends and family with additional benches and seating, and learned more about climate change through  a historical temperature timeline on the table.

Stop by to enjoy family-friendly activities, meet the architects and community partners that made this project come alive in Chin Park.

Join artist Audrey Watkins at the intersection of River Street and Babson Street from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. on October 18, for Our Names, an interactive art project that asks, "Whose name would you put on a building?" Stop by to submit a name, pick up a card, and learn more about some of the figures currently named on the exterior of the Boston Public Library. Our Names by artist Audrey Watkins explores the practice of naming the Boston Public Library McKim Meade and White Building. When Charles Follen McKim designed the facades for the Boston Public Library in 1888, he included the names of 537 “writers and thinkers” that would be displayed to passersby for the next century. Of those 537 names, only 21 are not white European males. The goal of this project is twofold: to formally present the histories of those 21 names to the public through a research booklet, and to spark conversations on the names that today's Bostonians want to see on the library’s facade.

Through a series of activations during Mattapan Open Streets, a list of publicly gathered names derived from the prompt, “Whose name would you put on a building?” These activations will be a form of tabling, where a small portable gallery will show the content of the research booklet as well as the prompt, for passersby to engage in reflection on nearby monuments and imagine what a monument could be in 2025. 

Written and oral responses will be recorded, and translations of the prompt and the booklet will be provided. The artist will collect public response, including any further conversations sparked by the prompt. With consent, these responses will be gathered into an index for the booklet. This index and the booklet will be published together on an Internet Archive, as a lasting “re-monument” to McKim’s original design, that can easily be linked to existing articles on the building and the building’s facade.

Learn more about her project here.