Please join us to celebrate Airplay, Adria Arch's monumental installation at the Mezzanine Gallery (3rd floor) in Boston City Hall.

Don’t miss your chance to meet the artist, connect with other artists and art lovers, and explore the artwork!

Directions: Please use the entrance located on Congress St, across from Faneuil Hall. Pass security and take the elevators to the 3rd floor. The reception will take place at the top of the stairs.

Please note the exhibition will be on view through January 30, 2026. For more information please visit boston.gov/cityhallgalleries.

In conjunction with the end of the year celebration of the Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture (MOAC), the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA) presents Finding Ourselves in Public Spaces as its culminating event. The event consists of the premier documentary screening of Cancel Violence: Artists Speak, a public conversation and a first ever video projection onto the museum's prized sculpture Eternal Presence by John Wilson.

During this year end celebration and culminating event, music will be provided by Zack Wilson, grandson of famed artist John Wilson who also created Eternal Presence, and Jamila Gordon on percussion. The premier documentary screening of Cancel Violence: Artists Speak was created by FPoint Productions will showcase artists including Paul Goodnight, Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs, L’Merchie Frazier, and others talking about causes of violence and possible correctives that can guide the community toward social healing. A special feature of the discussion will be a conversation between Alexis Smith, a homicide survivor, and Laurence "Larry" Pierce, an artist and retired teacher,  moderated by Edmund Barry Gaither, director emeritus of NCAAA. Lastly, in collaboration with ILLUMINUS and FPoint Productions, images and video interviews of Roxbury community members will be projected onto  the monumental sculpture Eternal Presence at dusk thus providing another grand scale, artistic screening on the historical Roxburian grounds.

Finding Ourselves in Public Spaces was convened by the Un-monument project and Cancel Violence: Artists Speak under the auspices of the National Center of Afro-American Artists with funds from the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture through a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

We cannot wait to see you there!

Join us on Thursday, December 4, to celebrate the 60 local emerging artists who were selected to show their work in the Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition.

We will also announce the awards, juried by Luisa Castellanos (Art Consultant at Powell Fine Art Advisory), Amor Diaz-Campos (Curatorial and Development Coordinator for the Boston Public Art Triennial), and Gabrielle Domb (Executive Director at Brookline Arts Center)! 

Prizes

• Best in Show: $3,000
• 50+: $2,000
• New Voice: $2,000
• Three Juror’s Choice Awards: $500 each

Getting There

Enter on the first floor (across from Faneuil Hall) and take the elevators or stairs to the 3rd floor. The gallery is just around the corner from the mezzanine steps.

Celebrate the opening of Johnetta Tinker's solo exhibition, "We are Here to Thrive!" Tinker is one of many local contemporary artists that were mentored by Allan Rohan Crite, whose work is currently on view in a community-driven retrospective at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Join us for an opportunity to meet the artist and build community. Light refreshments provided.

Directions:

Please enter on Congress Street (across from Faneuil Hall), pass security and take the elevators to the 5th floor.

View more information about the exhibition.

These Boston rock ‘n’ roll veterans have headlined Boston’s famous clubs and they’re still rocking strong. 🔥🎸

Put on your Halloween costume and join us for Rock the Plaza, a free afternoon of live music celebrating women who rock!

This Halloween, meet us at City Hall Plaza for a FREE concert featuring an all-women line-up of DJs, artists and entertainers!

Don’t miss:

🔥 Live performances by @anyciaaaaaa, @keiweifruit, and @mareko.xyz

🎧 DJ sets by @brandichanel_, @childish.rayvino, and @djkendollaz

🍔 Heated food truck village

🕷️ Vendors curated by @select.markets