How do i find out more information about the art in the subway stations in Cambridge?
The Cambridge Arts Council, working in collaboration with the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, designed and initiated this Country’s first comprehensive art-in-transit program for the U.S. Department of Transportation, known as “Arts On The Line.” Over an eight year period, beginning in 1977, CAC implemented a community-based artists selection process to commission many artists to collaborate with the architects designing transit facilities in Boston and Cambridge (the Kendall, Central, Harvard, Porter and Alewife transit stations.) The award-winning Arts On The Line program catapulted the Cambridge Arts Council into the forefront of the national public art movement. The program is documented on a 16mm film available from Northern Lights Productions in Boston. A handbook produced by the program’s director, Pallas Lombardi, is available from the Arts Council along with other materials on this well-known public art program. An audio-tape also can be acquired from the Arts Coun
