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MAPC Launches “MetroCommon 2050: Shaping our Region Together”

Posted on May 6, 2022 at 2:21 pm. Written by Elise Harmon

Flanked by Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, MA-07, and scores of public officials and stakeholders from across Greater Boston this week, the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) officially unveiled a land use […]

MAPC Launches “MetroCommon 2050: Shaping our Region Together”

Posted on May 6, 2022 at 2:19 pm. Written by Elise Harmon

Screenshot of the MetroCommon 2050 Digital Hub. Click to open. MAPC Launches ‘MetroCommon 2050: Shaping our Region Together’ New long-range land use and public policy plan offers a vision and […]

Video: Somerville Art Space Risk Assessment

Posted on February 7, 2022 at 4:06 pm. Written by Elise Harmon

Artists and arts organizations across Greater Boston are facing rising costs for studio and performance space, driven by development pressure. But this same development could be leveraged to produce space […]

Making it Public: Public Art Training Opportunity for Municipalities

Posted on December 1, 2021 at 4:32 pm. Written by Elise Harmon

The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) in partnership with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council’s (MAPC) Arts and Culture Department (MAPC) and Forecast Public Art (FPA), is pleased to […]

The Fallacy and Futility of Fixity

Posted on September 3, 2021 at 9:00 am. Written by Daniel Koff

Clouds rolling into Ptown on July 2. The Fallacy and Futility of Fixity Reflection by Dan Koff, Regional Arts and Culture Planner It was June 30, 2021, and the show […]

MetroCommon 2050 Comic: Equity of Wealth and Health

Posted on September 2, 2021 at 5:20 pm. Written by Elise Harmon

Health, equity, and prosperity: there are three strands of a single system, braided tightly together. Read this new original comic by Dorchester’s Ludgy Jean-Baptiste to learn and share the basics. […]

MAPC Leads Public Art Selection in Lynn

Posted on August 6, 2021 at 5:50 pm. Written by Elise Harmon

The votes are in, and the Lynn community has chosen Kevin Orlosky’s Laces of Lynn as the city’s newest public art installation, Mayor Thomas M. McGee announced today. Orlosky’s proposal […]

MAPC Releases Toolkit for Tackling Rising Temps with Art

Posted on July 13, 2021 at 1:14 pm. Written by Elise Harmon

MAPC Releases Toolkit for Tackling Rising Temps with Art As cities across the country experience more frequent and intense weather events due to climate change, the arts offer opportunities to […]

Arts and Equity at MAPC: Reimagining the Region

Posted on May 19, 2021 at 9:48 am. Written by Daniel Koff

As the pandemic transformed everything about MAPC’s place-based work, staff sought new ways to process and understand what we were going through. We sought ways to reflect and be in […]

Interview: Chinatown Story Cart

Posted on May 17, 2021 at 11:27 am. Written by Daniel Koff

Photo Credit Mel Taing Chinatown Story Cart An Interview with Crystal Bi Wegner and Lily Xie Developed in partnership with Asian Community Development Corporation, Chinatown Story Cart is a participatory […]