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title: Infrastructure
date: 2025-07-28T15:15:10Z
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The Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture supports and develops cultural infrastructure through a range of different tactics. Including leading the development of infrastructure, partnering with organizations, and grant funding projects.

**City as Cultural Developer:**

- **Boston Arts Academy**, a Boston Public School dedicated to providing students with a rigorous arts and academic education, preparing the next generation of artists, scholars, and engaged citizens.
- **290 North Beacon Street** – Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture is working in collaboration with the Boston Housing Agency to deliver 40,000 sq ft of music rehearsal space with over 100 units of public housing.
- **Re-Imaging The Strand Theatre** – Developing a path forward for an over 100 year old historic theatre located in one of Boston’s most diverse neighbourhoods.

**Unlocking Space through Partnerships**:

- **Making Space for Creative Enterprise in Downtown Boston** – working in partnership with the Downtown Boston Alliance and our real estate community to unlock vacant spaces for culture.
- **Future Proofing Boston Centre for the Arts** – a nonprofit multidisciplinary arts organization that supports emerging and established artists through residencies, performances, exhibitions, and creative community programming in the historic South End.
- **Boston Public Art Triennial** – Partnering to find space for fabrication for this high profile public art exhibition.

**Investing in community-led Cultural Space:**

- **Theatre Offensive** – Theatre organization that creates liberating art by, for, and about queer and trans people of color
- **Artisans Asylum Maker Space** – created a new state of the art 52,000 sf nonprofit maker and art space
- **Jazz Urbane** – a new arts and restaurant venture planned to launch soon in Boston’s Nubian Square neighborhood
- **Jean Appolon Expressions** – Rehearsal and showcase space for Haitian Folklore inspired dance company