After decades of bronze memorials, whimsical public art is reinvigorating Boston’s public spaces this summer. What's more, this playful spirit is drawing huge crowds. From Höweler + Yoon Architecture’s iconic Swing Time and the recent Pentalum inflatable at the Lawn on D, to Janet Echelman’s ethereal sculpture on the Greenway, to Figment’s upcoming Giant Typewriter, Boston’s public art projects are generating national excitement and doing so with a playful tone. 

Join co-sponsors BSA Space, D Street ArtLab, and Now and There on July 9, 6–7pm for Play in Public Art a lively discussion with the artists, architects and citizens who are making public art happen in Boston. We’ll explore the role of play in three current public art topics – spectacle, site, and architecture – in a fast-paced, round-robin discussion followed by Q&A.

This event coincides with the opening of “Intrude”, a spectacularly playful four-day installation by Tasmanian artist Amanda Parer at the Lawn on D, and will be hosted among Parer’s larger-than-life inflatable rabbits as part of the D Street ArtLAB’s “WonderLAND” exhibit.

PANELISTS :
• Ian Deleón – interdisciplinary artist
• Chris Frost – educator and exhibiting ArtLAB artist
• Kate Gilbert – D Street ArtLAB curator and Now and There director
• Kelly Goff – educator and exhibiting ArtLAB artist
• Mary Hale – educator and architect at Shepley Bulfinch
• Robert Lobe – exhibiting ArtLAB artist
• Amanda Parer – exhibiting ArtLAB artist 
• Alice Vogler – artist, curator for Time, Body, Space, Objects (part of the Isles Arts Initiative) and Arts Program Manager at Boston Children’s Museum.

MODERATOR: Chris Wangro, Lawn on D Impressario and Artistic Director.