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Un-monument

Boston Art Review in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture

What is a monument? Who do we choose to memorialize? How can our public spaces reflect what is important to us?

For the years 2024 through 2026, the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture (MOAC) received a major grant from the Mellon Foundation to bring free public art installations and programming to the City of Boston that grapple with these questions. Some projects and programs are being presented through partnerships with five cultural organizations that are serving as curators, while others are being supported through direct grants from the City to create new, temporary public art.

Boston Art Review is pleased to be serving as an Un-monument partner by providing opportunities for writers to research, write, and publish work about the projects and ideas that are being developed through the Un-monument initiative. MOAC and BAR consider writers an essential part of our creative field who can investigate, celebrate, and document discourse about monuments through alternative mediums.

In 2025, Boston Art Review will publish a series of texts that will serve as a compendium to the Un-monument projects.

Current Opportunities

Call For Writers

Boston Art Review is inviting writers to submit their interest for receiving an assignment that will be commissioned either in January or March 2025. While writers are welcome to submit pitches for specific stories, it is not a requirement. Selected writers will be invited to pitch or receive an assignment based on the materials submitted in this application. 

Sign up for a Zoom info session: 

Register for Tuesday, December 10 at noon
Register for Tuesday, December 10 at 5:30pm

Submit

Writers will be selected and stories will be assigned on a rolling basis as projects within the Un-monument initiative continue to unfold. 

Applications must be submitted by 11:59 PM EST on one of the following deadlines:

Round 1: Saturday, Nov 30 (currently reviewing applications) 

Round 2: Tuesday, Jan 7 

Round 3: Wednesday, March 12 

 

Contact

For questions about your submission or to learn more, please contact: 

Camila Bohan Insaurralde, Programs and Partnerships Manager
camila@bostonartreview.com