Category: art & travel

• Art Walk Project Featured in the Boston Globe

  

  As you know I’ve been working very hard producing Art Walks the past few years. Over the past spring/summer in particular I produced four different Art Walks (Inkblock Underground, Chinatown, Seaport and The Greenway). So, I’m very excited to share with everyone that The Art Walk project has been featured in the Boston Globe! It […]

  Julia Swanson

  September 28, 2022

  art & travel, Art Walks

• Greenway Art Walk

  

  The Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, aka ”The Greenway,” is a different type of public park. A now integral part of Boston’s cultural scene The Greenway quickly established itself as a contemporary park with a unique mission and vision through its commitment to creating a sustainable green space and innovative programming. Opened in 2008 The Greenway […]

  Julia Swanson

  August 25, 2022

  art & travel, Art Walks

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• Exploring our Connection to the Environment Through “Purple” at the ICA Watershed

  

  One of my favourite things about art is its ability to transcend demographics and open up dialogue about a range of issues. In this day and age few topics are more polarizing than climate change and the challenge we face as we try to understand our growing impact on the environment, and the impact our […]

  Julia Swanson

  August 26, 2019

  art & travel

  art, arte, Boston, Day Trip, East Boston, Massachusetts, New england, Tourism, travel

• “Augument,” Finding Joy at the Cyclorama

  

  There is something pleasantly disquieting about Nick Cave’s “Augment,” which is now on view at the Cyclorama in Boston’s South End. It is colorful, enormous, jarring, and surreal, and in a way it almost looks like something you would expect to see in the Upside-Down. The lawn ornaments which have been sewn together into five […]

  Julia Swanson

  August 23, 2019

  art & travel

  art, arte, Boston, Day Trip, Massachusetts, New england, Tourism, travel

• Female in Rock: Engaging Males, Embracing Allies

  

  *Guest post by Anna Rae ©2017.   *Illustration by Kip Lyall Not long ago I was on a walk with a friend of mine who is a male musician. I was railing about the fact that young females are forced to think about adorning their bodies and pandering for male attention, while young males are […]

  Julia Swanson

  February 28, 2017

  art & travel

  art, arte, Boston, Cambridge, musician

• Road Tripping: A Prodigal Son Rdiscovers the American Northwest. Part 2

  

  When I was in high school in the mid- to late 90’s, I’d occasionally visit Tacoma.  It wasn’t without some trepidation that adults agreed to chaperone whichever trip we were taking.  Local legend pegged it as a rough place that shared an airport with Seattle, a city with much better PR.  Even now, whenever I […]

  Nate Langford

  June 9, 2016

  art & travel

  Road Trip, Road Tripper, Road Tripping, summer trip, travel, Vacation