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MassArt Community Members Selected for Boston Public Art Triennial

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Headshots of Evelyn Rydz and Andy Li (Credit: Evelyn Rydz and Evan Goldberg Photography)
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Congratulations to MassArt alumnus Andy Li (BFA ’12) and Program Area Chair and Professor Evelyn Rydz on being selected for the Boston Public Art Triennial’s accelerator program. Li and Rydz will have the task of producing a public-art project with a budget of $50,000 that will debut May 22, 2025 in Charlestown Navy Yard. The MassArt Art Museum will also be one of the sites for the triennial.

Rydz said she sees the accelerator “as an opportunity to keep learning and to keep growing as an artist with amazing support both to be a student through the workshops that they offer, and also through the financial support to realize a project in public space.”

…”Rydz’s work focuses on human relationships to water. [Sanchez said] Rydz’s work shows the promise to engage the Charlestown immigrant community and “to touch upon some of the site-specific history in relationship to water.” Li was selected because his textile art “brings positivity to the world,” said Sanchez. “It’s accessible, it’s light, it’s vibrant.”

Read more in the Boston Globe.

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