the LECTURE: The Real State of Housing
January 21, 5:30-7:30 PM
Boston Room, Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street, Copley Square, Boston, MA
Join Next American City at the Boston Public Library for the second talk in our URBANEXUS lecture series, featuring Angus Jennings, principal planner at Concord Square Planning & Development. Are you young, eager to buy and finding yourself priced out of Boston’s desirable neighborhoods? Join Angus as he breaks down Boston’s current real estate market and introduces smart growth zoning as as an affordable solution.
Admission is free. Find directions and RSVP at
americancity.org/urbanexus/boston.
ANGUS JENNINGS is the Principal Planner for Concord Square Planning & Development, a firm dedicated to working with both municipal and development partners who share a commitment to smart growth. Angus manages most of the firm’s public sector contracts, including planning, zoning and public facilitation. He has served as the Town Planner in Marshfield, where he received the 2005 Massachusetts Association of Planning Directors Chapter Award. He served on the state committee to draft regulations for the 40R legislation, led two statewide workshops on form-based regulation supported by a grant from the American Planning Association and is active in several statewide planning organizations including the Zoning Reform Working Group. Upon receiving his master’s degree in City & Regional Planning at Cornell University, he received the American Institute of Certified Planners student award for promise of success as a professional planner.
the SALON: Urban Art in Public Spaces
January 22, 6-8 PM
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Join Next American City at the Mills Gallery for our URBANEXUS salon. Guests of honor include Janet Echelman, sculptor of large-scale public art; Ricardo Barreto, director of the UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art; and Sarah Hutt, artist and business consultant focused on integrating art into landscape. The night will feature food, drinks and a salon-style conversation on the physical and financial challenges artists face while creating urban art in Boston. NAC limited edition artists Rachel Barrett and Neil Freeman will also introduce their art.
Admission for non-subscribers is in advance or at the door and includes a free one-year subscription to Next American City, and entry to all NAC events & free food/drink. RSVP and subscribe at
americancity.org/urbanexus/boston.
JANET ECHELMAN uses her art to reshape urban airspace with monumental public sculptures that respond to environmental forces like wind, water, and sunlight. In 2009, Janet inaugurates two major art commissions in North America. Exhibitions of her painting, prints, and sculpture have been held in Venice, Madrid, Bombay, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Kyoto, and New York City. After graduating from Harvard College in 1987 with Highest Honors in Visual Studies, she received graduate degrees in painting and in psychology.
RICARDO BARRETO is the Director of the UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design which is dedicated to the facilitation of public art projects in the region. Prior to that he worked for the Massachusetts Cultural Council where he was initially Program Coordinator for Individual Artists and then Program Officer for Organizations. With degrees in art history (BA and MA) from Oberlin College, Barreto has a long track record of managing art projects, and as a curator of many shows in the United States, Mexico and Europe. He has written numerous exhibition catalogues and has published essays on a variety of arts related topics.
SARAH HUTT is a multi-media artist and arts advocate living in Boston. Her work is included in numerous private and public collections, including those of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts; SUNY-Potsdam, Potsdam, New York; and Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Hutt has perviously served in the Mayor’s Office in Boston as Director of Visual Arts Programming and as the Director of the Boston Art Commission.
RACHEL BARRETT uses her work as an investigation into the everyday, an effort to connect with and memorialize the world she encounters and the disappearing city of New York that has been her home for nearly a decade. Her photographs have been widely exhibited in both solo and group shows, featured in the New York Times and various private collections. She was raised in Cambridge, but is currently based out of New York City.
NEIL FREEMAN is an artist and urbanist whose work has been exhibited at the London Design Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Flushing Town Hall. He currently lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
When: Thursday, April 2, 7 – 9 pm
