Public Art Commission

The Public Art Commission (PAC) is seven-member advisory committee appointed by the City Manager to oversee the implementation of the Public Art Ordinance. Members are appointed to three-year, volunteer terms and are selected to represent various art disciplines as well as the ethnic and geographic make-up of the Cambridge population. The PAC meets once a month in the CAC conference room, with subcommittees meeting as necessary.

Public Art Commission Meeting Schedule:
All meetings are from 5:30pm to 7:30pm in the City Hall Annex, 344 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Cambridge.

Wed., March 14, 2012
Wed., April 18, 2012
Wed., May 23, 2012

Meeting Minutes
Wed., January 5, 2011 - Meeting Minutes
Wed., February 16, 2011 - Meeting Minutes
Wed., March 23, 2011 - Meeting Minutes
Wed., April 16, 2011 - Meeting Minutes
Wed., June 15, 2011 - Meeting Minutes
Wed., September 21, 2011 - Meeting Minutes
Wed., November 16, 2011 - Meeting Minutes
Wed., December 14, 2011 - Meeting Minutes
Wed., January 18, 2012 - Meeting Minutes

Contact: Jeremy Gaucher, Public Art Administrator, jgaucher@cambridgema.gov or 617-349-4388


Members:
Stephanie Boyé
Julie S. Graham
Mags Harries
Teri Hensick
T.K. McClintock
Brent Ryan
Cynthia Smith
Miriam Stewart
Gregory Williams

Contact the Public Art Commission: PAC@cambridgema.gov

Stephanie Boyé is Manager of Special Projects at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where she serves as programmatic liaison between the SMFA and the Museum of Fine Arts. She serves on the Board of Overseers of Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Town Meeting Steering Committee of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Community Arts Initiative Team of the MFA, and the Community Outreach Committee of the Fenway Alliance. She has been a Cambridge resident for over 20 years.

Julie Graham is an artist who lives in Cambridge, and has been teaching painting at the Museum School, Boston for 16 years. She has an intense interest in architecture, which serves as the starting point for her abstract work in painting, sculpture and photography. Julie exhibits her nationally, and also does design and color consulting in collaboration with local architects.

Mags Harries has 20 years of experience working as a public artist and collaborating with designers, landscape architects, engineers and fabricators to realize large-scale, complex projects. In 1990 she, along with partner Lajos Héder, formed Harries/Héder Collaborative in Cambridge, MA. Mag’s public art projects have received national recognition and have won many awards. Cambridge projects include Drawn Water at the Cambridge Water Dept building, revealing the landscape of water to the residents of Cambridge, and Glove Cycle at the Porter Square, Cambridge MA, subway station, which has become a landmark for the community. In addition, Mags teaches sculpture and public art at the Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts and gives lectures and workshops around the country on public art. She has exhibited her work in numerous one person and group shows and installations in museums and institutions around the country.

Teri Hensick has been Conservator of Paintings at the Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard University Art Museums since the 1980’s. She holds a BA in Art History from Wellesley College and trained in paintings conservation in Florence (Universita Internationale dell'Arte), Zurich (Swiss Institute for Art Research) and Nuremberg (Germanisches Nationalmuseum). She interned in paintings conservation at the Harvard University Art Museums and was Associate Paintings Conservator at the Detroit Institute of Arts from 1977-1980. In addition to working on the collections of the Harvard University Art Museums, Teri has worked on the conservation of the murals by Sargent, Puvis de Chavannes and Abbey at the Boston Public Library. In 1995, she received a National Endowment for the Arts professional development grant to research Puvis de Chavannes's painting materials in France.

Cynthia Smith is a Principal with Halvorson Design Partnership, Landscape Architects in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a project manager and landscape architect for several award-winning urban design, waterfront, campus, and park projects that involve art, including the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, Post Office Square Park, City Square Park, Porter Square streetscape, Quincy Square Park, and the recently completed Nashua Street Park along the Charles River. Ms. Smith received her Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, and Bachelor Degree in Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon. She began her career at Sasaki Associates, Inc. in Watertow, MA, and later joined the SWA Group. She is a past President of the Boston Socicety of Landscape Architects and has served as a design criti at MIT, Masscahusetts College of Art, and the Boston Architectural College.

Miriam Stewart is Assistant Curator of Drawings at the Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, where she is associated with the public study room for prints, drawings, and photographs (Agnes Mongan Center). She has a particular interest in artists' materials and sketchbooks, and has contributed to many Fogg publications, including David to Corot: French Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum, Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, and Sargent at Harvard. Miriam has organized many exhibitions devoted to drawings, including Sargent in the Studio and Under Cover: Artists' Sketchbooks (related website: Sketchbooks).

Gregory Williams is Assistant Professor of contemporary art in the Art History Department at Boston University. His recent research has focused on West German art of the 1970s and 1980s. He has published numerous exhibition catalogue essays, as well as articles and reviews in periodicals such as Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, frieze and Art Journal. From 1996 to 1999 he was the director of apexart, a non-profit exhibition space in New York City.