Creating Celebrations

Mattapan Cultural Arts is launching a new art space for community arts and showcase events!

Mem Nahadr is set to launch our showcase series this September.

Details to soon come.

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Boston Harbor Islands Issues Call for Artists

How will you summer in 2017? Boston Harbor [Re]Creation initiatives has issued a call for an Artist In Residency , based on Spectacle Island; and a Temporary Sculpture Exhibition on Peddocks Island; hoping "to draw a diverse and skilled pool of artists who share a passion for parks." The application deadline is Monday, 30 January 2017 @ 11:59 p.m. So if nature's your thing, you might want to consider attending the information session on Wednesday, 14 December 2014 from 5 to 7 p.m. Meanwhile, peruse Boston Harbor [Re]Creatiion's website for more details. We'll forward the RFP via email to all artists in our network. If you don't receive one, please forward email message with subject line "Boston Harbor Islands RFP" and we'll send it via reply.

LISC Boston Prepares to Fund Creative Placemaking in Mattapan

Mattapan Cultural Arts Development Live Arts l Creative Placemaking l Arts Advocacy FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: G. Sierra Khan 857.333.3513 LISC Boston Prepares to Fund Creative Placemaking in Mattapan LISC Boston has been selected to receive sixty-thousand dollars to support creative placemaking projects coordinated through Mattapan Cultural Arts Development ( MCAD )--a network of artists and arts organizations invested in making Mattapan a cultural destination. The grant goes to support the implementation of projects derived from community engagement processes prior to August 2016. LISC Creative Placemaking requested proposals from LISC field offices that are integrating arts and culture into their comprehensive community development work. LISC Creative Placemaking was launched with major fundi...

Just Seventeen Days Ago…

On September 6th, 2017 a message dropped from a Boston.gov email account announcing a "Farewell to Mattapan-Dorchester and the Haitian Community." Buried in the message (in the very last paragraph, in fact), was a a cryptic mention that there would "also be updates regarding Mattapan Square...and the addition of a new tattoo parlor." This struck me as curious, since I already had an entry in my calendar, by then, to attend a hearing of the City's Zoning Board of Appeals about a tattoo parlor slated to go into the building next door to where I live. The Zoning Board's hearing notice had arrived in snail mail weeks before. It confirmed what prior to then, was only rumor. So I resolved to go and lodge a formal protest; specifically about the lack of public process related the proposed change of "business uses" at 438 River Street in Mattapan, MA. I listened intently as Ruth Georges, out-going Boston Neighborhood Liaison, assured t...

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