Brookley Flats Mural

Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA

TYPE:
Public Art, Mural

PLANNED INSTALL: Winter of 2025

ARTIST: Liz LaManche

FUNDING: Stonley Brookley LLC, JPNDC

Project team includes artist Liz LaManche, Stonley Brookley LLC, JPNDC, and Neighborways Design.

Brookley Flats is a new community destination and affordable residential development with five artist live-work units and exhibition space opening in 2025!

Architectural rendering of completed building with area designated for mural

You are invited:

Join us at a virtual public meeting to see the final design for the mural at Brookley Flats and let us know your thoughts.

Wed Feb 5th at 6pm

Project Timeline

Sept – Nov 2024 – Collect community ideas, themes, stories, and preferences to develop DRAFT mural concept designs
Wed 11/13/24 – Online Public Meeting where we previewed three draft concept designs for feedback & discussion
Nov – Dec 2024 – open online survey for feedback and voting on preferred mural design concept
Jan 2025 – Online Public Meeting #2 to present the final concept for feedback
Jan 2025 – Artist develops and finalizes design
Feb 5 - Design unveiled to the public
Winter 2025 – Mural Installation

Our Process

Artist

Liz LaManche was selected from a pool of artist applicants based on many factors: art portfolio, experience with similar large murals, community-centric approach, and ties to the neighborhood. Examples of their work can be seen in our Projects pages, and on their art website Earthsign.com.

Outreach

Drawing on the community outreach of Neighborways collaborators, we’ve been able to canvas for community input through flyers, posters, an online survey and two in-person popups, talking to residents about what makes the Stonybrook community special.

Design

Taking into account neighbors stories and opinions, historical research and on-the-ground site impressions, the artist drafted a number of different design idea sketches, which got narrowed down to the 3 best for public comment.

Feedback

In a public Zoom meeting Nov. 13, we previewed three draft concept designs for feedback.

Based on this conversation, designs were refined and new ones created.

An online survey in December took further feedback and voting on preferred mural design concepts.

The Art!

These were the Round 1 choices: Based on a community design conversation, a second round of design choices was developed.

The final design direction, the Garden, is being refined and finished, to be unveiled at a meeting Feb 5. Installation is expected to happen in winter of 2025!