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  • Tuesday, July 28, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm – A Taste of Ethnic Boston

    The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy is happy to partner with Get Konnected! to host a second annual food event, A Taste of Ethnic Boston. Join them on Tuesday, July 28 from 5:30-8pm at the Harborside Inn, 185 State Street, to sample an array of foods from some of Boston’s most exotic ethnic restaurants while enjoying live music. The Greenway’s Public Art Curator, Lucas Cowan, will also be in attendance to share thoughts on the Greenway’s Janet Echelman sculpture and the Greenway’s public art efforts.

    Purchase your tickets today ($15) at http://getkonnected.com/events/a-taste-of-ethnic-boston.

  • Thursday, March 26, 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm – Preview at The Palm

    Please join the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy at The Palm Restaurant on Thursday, March 26, from 4 – 6:30 for a special preview of Janet Echelman’s Aerial Sculpture.  $100 per person, includes hors d’oeuvre, beer and wine.  Proceeds will benefit the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.

    Meet the Conservancy’s new public art curator, Lucas Cowan, who will present a sneak peek of world-renowned artist Janet Echelman’s aerial sculpture, designed for Boston’s Greenway and on display May 2015 – October 2015.

    RSVP by Tuesday, March 24 through our secure donation page, or call 617-603-7739.
    Visit www.rfkgc.org/events for more information. Image courtesy of Studio Echelman.

  • Brookline Artist Janet Echelman Commissioned by the Rose Kennedy Greenway

    Internationally renowned artist Janet Echelman will create a monumental, aerial sculpture to suspend over the Greenway from Spring 2015 to Fall 2015 as the signature contemporary art installation in the Greenway Conservancy’s Public Art Program.

    Echelman is known for her soft, billowing sculptures the scale of buildings that respond to the forces of nature – wind, water, and light. Her creation for Boston will be a knotted-fiber sculpture suspended hundreds of feet over the central section of the Greenway. The ultra-lightweight art moves gently with the wind in ever-changing patterns. In daylight, it casts shadow-drawings on the ground, and at night it becomes a beacon with dynamic colored light. The sculpture is Echelman’s first major Boston commission and will connect between existing buildings to form a visual linkage and focal point for civic life.

    This major contemporary public art project is made possible by a generous challenge grant from the Richard and Susan Smith Family Foundation. The project has also received initial grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the Fund for the Arts, a public art program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with others pending.  Pictured below is an installation she created over the canals in Amsterdam.