Past, Present, Future
Summer 2022
Location: 88 Ames St. Cambridge, MA
Partners: Boston Properties
Lead Artist: Jack O’Hearn
Teen Artists: Elias Estivaliz-Liceaga, Ethan Tejeda-Rodriguez, Mickey Liao, Nadisha Chowdhury, Sarah Suarez Cuello, Tewahudo Gebremedhin, Vanessa Drayton
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Past, Present, Future is a mural that was a collaboration between our youth artists and program manager, Jack O’Hearn. Each teen created their own artwork inspired by local history. They learned about local stories of immigration, industry, urban renewal, protests, and social justice, and explored CAC’s photographic archives. Through their artwork, teens were instructed to tell a story of local history or tell their own story as being part of that history. Some teens chose to tell stories of their family’s immigration to the U.S. or their life growing up in Cambridge while others were inspired by Cambridge’s industrial past and pulled source imagery from the archives. O’Hearn then integrated all of the teens’ artwork into one image, which became the finished mural.
Teen artwork: