BigTop Circus Vending Machine

Location: On display at The Garage at Harvard, JFK St. Entrance 

Teen Artists: Aryana Almeida-Alves, Emiliano Black, Jahmaree Carthy, Kayli Charles, Alisha Darilus, Bontu Diriba, Taina Dascelin, Tewahudo Gebremedhin, Preceous Gomez, Ethan Hsu, Nusrat Jahan Jabin, Carla Michel, Garelle Montout, Harrigan Narcisse, Sun-Naisha Narcisse, Jarehlo' Bannon, Ayani Preston-Foster, Ny'Jaeya Roc, Ethan Tejeda Rodriguez, Aniyah Smith, Luciana Sylvain, Ariam Tecleberhan, Rhyan Montes Wells, Meggah LaFortune, Nevaiah Cius-Imbert

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In the summer of 2025, youth in CAC’s Teen Public Art Program wanted to continue to share their artwork and decided to collaborate on the program’s 3rd art vending machine. Teens worked on digital renderings to redesign the new machine, proposed their ideas to each other, and made a vote. Teen Public Art manager at the time, Jack O'Hearn, guided them through the process of fabricating the chosen design By the end of the summer the "BigTop Circus" was ready to make its Cambridge debut. Since then it has moved to its new home at The Garage at Harvard at the JFK St entrance.