Recent Projects
Truth Be Told in collaboration with Beyond Walls of Lynn, MA
Photo courtesy of Beyond Walls featuring Truth Be Told art created by Ashley Chavez, age 17 accompanied by her story depicting life as a grocery worker during the early days of the pandemic.
In March of 2020, Harbor Voices received a generous grant from Mass Humanities to create a forum for dialogue, creative expression, and connection during these uncertain times.
In conjunction with Beyond Walls, we launched Truth Be Told in June. Truth Be Told begins as a web portal where the youth of Lynn can submit “Photo Stories” and “Drawing Stories” about their experiences in the year 2020. Each submission will be a visual art piece paired with a written story.
Once the submissions are in, a small group of students will be selected for a free Spoken Word Workshop to develop audio tracks for an immersive and experiential Harbor Voices installation this fall.
If you don’t know about Beyond Walls, please follow their creative placemaking nonprofit from Lynn, MA! Truth Be Told is an ambitious and exciting project for us both. Submitted Photo Stories will become a tiled wheatpaste mural, in partnership with Shepard Fairey’s Inside Out Project. Drawing Stories will inspire a mural by JR’s Amplifier Art. Both of these organizations are internationally recognized for the public art they create.
Student Art Submissions Are Still Open
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THANK YOU FRONTLINE HEROES
In early May, Harbor Voices created a multilingual projection as a sign of hope and solidarity, displayed at the busy intersection of Grant Circle at the entrance to Cape Ann. This project came to fruition through generous partnerships developed with LuminArtz and the Cape Ann Museum. The work was projected on a historic barn at the Cape Ann Museum’s new campus, the Cape Ann Museum Green, in Gloucester.
When our final night of projection was cancelled due to inclement weather, museum leadership, in conjunction with the Mayor of Gloucester, created a Pop-Up Rally parade of cars, that drove from a local school, past Addison Gilbert Hospital, and around Grant Circle. Lines of cars showed up for this event, making an incredible tribute to each and every essential worker and frontline hero on Cape Ann.
IM|MIGRATION in conjunction with
Punto Urban Art Museum
Salem, MA 2019
Laser & sound installation featuring the voices of 100 immigration storytellers, past & present, emerging from the Point neighborhood in Salem, MA. Harbor Voices produced augmented reality experiences and life scaled outdoor photography to augment the stories shared in this community collaborative installation.
New Media
Augmented Reality Content & Application
Photography
Photography of El Punto storytelling participants by Jeff Barnett-Winsby.
Photography by
John Andrews/
Creative Collective