By Silvina Mizrahi
“Everything that comes in the mail, little toys from my daughter’s childhood, buttons and different types of laces from my father store in Argentina, play key roles as both inspiration and tools to imprint my ideas on the canvases.
By Silvina Mizrahi
In “Dalilah’s dream” we can see a myriad of colors merging with textiles.
By Silvina Mizrahi
The artwork “Secret Garden” emphasizes the artist’s perspective of the most magnificent landscape.
By Silvina Mizrahi
“The moon and the river” is a mixed media collage with recycled materials, pompoms, acrylic paint, ribbons from my father’s old store in Argentina, and a paper boat.
By Silvina Mizrahi
“Homes and Ladders” is a simple, yet tasteful architectural design, with many households such as the ones traced by a child.
By Silvina Mizrahi
“Wonderful Encounters” explores how the artist imagines the world and nature.
By Edgar Calaveras
Here is one of Edgar’s many takes on La Catrina, also known as a sugar skull girl.
By Edgar Calaveras
The predecessor of black-and-grey and hyperrealism tattooing, Chicano style is a broad style which encompasses Mexican experience and focuses on realism.
By Soraya/Ivan Flores
Here Ivan captures tattoo artist Soraya, at work in one of her many temporary studios in Kabul, Afghanistan.
By Evaristo Angurria
Part of the Doña Patria: Belleza Dominicana series, Angurria celebrates Dominican culture and the everyday beauty of womanhood.
By Martyna Wójcik-Śmierska
Martyna Wójcik-Śmierska is a graphic designer and illustrator from Poland.
By Jessica Sabogal
This artwork is a product of a project by the Amplifier Design Lab to promote hope and COVID-19 safety.
By Unnamed artist of the Massachusett nation
The area that is now Chelsea, Massachusetts, was known as Winnisimmet by the Massachusett people who originally inhabited the area.
By Don Rimx
Don Rimx is a classically trained fine artist, graffitist, grand scale muralist and new school tattoo artist.
By Helen Burr
The woman featured in this mural is actually the artist’s grandmother, an influential figure in Burr’s life.
By Marka27
Marka27 blends elements of street/pop culture with Mexican and indigenous aesthetics—a signature look the artist has coined “Neo Indigenous.
By Golden
“I would like to create powerful emotions such as love, gratitude, happiness, and hope through bright colors and expressive art messages.
By Cedric “Vise 1” Douglass and Julz Roth
Watch a video about the creation of this mural [.
By Dharmendra Acharya
While the Indian color festival is most popular in India, Holi celebrations happen around the world from city-wide celebrations to backyard family festivities.
By Diya Ghosh
As the most romanticized bird in South Asian literature, held in high regard for its beautiful song, the Koel has been a common symbol of love.
By Miroslaw Oslizlo
While Holi is widely known as the festival of colors, celebrants traditionally wear white garments.
By Helen Yeryomenko
Of course Holi is well most well known for the colorful powders and water which people douse one another in, but the savory and sweet favors and aromas of food are just as joyous and just as important.
By Dinesh Patel, MD
Lamprocapnos spectabilis, or the Bleeding Heart, is a member of the poppy family and native to northern Asia.
By Alex Nikada
Shades of red and orange often feature in Holi celebrations and are popular amongst adherents of the Hindu faith.
By Hélène Vallée
While Holi is widely known as the festival of colors, celebrants traditionally wear white garments.
By Simone De Santis
Fire is a significant element in the Hindu tradition, symbolizing the purification of evil energies and attraction of divine protection.
By Bartosz Hadyniak
Holi marks the beginning of the spring season in the Indian subcontinent.
By Nuno Valadas
Powdered pigments feature in the celebration of Holi around the world.
By Tina Lorien
Holi is often celebrated by singing in large choruses with instrumental accompaniments, similar to the tradition of Christmas caroling.
By Bartosz Hadyniak
Throwing of colored powders is the most renowned of Holi traditions worldwide.
By Sunanda Sahay
This traditional illustration depicts Krishna, hero of the Hindu epic Mahabharata, celebrating Holi with his divine consort, Radha.
By OFF THE GRID photography
What stands out immediately about this picture is the sheer defiance.
By OFF THE GRID photography
A diner staff preparing for the morning breakfast rush.
By OFF THE GRID photography
Here we see Joanne, the sole named participant of the Off The Grid Project (right) and whose story can be found here and here, in a candid moment with a resident of the Lynn Emergency Homeless Shelter whom she had not seen for some time.
By OFF THE GRID photographer
Here the artist photographs a keychain with a collection of pendants.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Father Edgar Gutiérrez-Duarte, St Luke’s Episcopal Church–I came to Chelsea 13 years ago to take over St.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Fidel Maltez, former Public Works Commissioner,current City Manager, Chelsea–There were three fires in Chelsea, the 1908 fire, the 1973 fire, and the third fire was receivership, which decimated the city administratively.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Adalinda and Luisa Guerrero Ferrera, Orlan Tailoring–Adalinda: I married an American citizen and was able to come with my documents.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Roy Avellaneda, owner, Pan y Café–I thought I’m not building just a coffee shop like I did last time.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Wieslawa Walsh, Supervisor, Kayem–I arrived in Chelsea from Poland in 1981.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Brandon Ray Garcia–Chelsea is my home, which is why I’ve been such an active member of the community.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Elizabeth and Bryssa, diaper day at La Colaborativa–I like living in Chelsea a lot.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Joan Cromwell, president Chelsea Black Community (CBC)–Six generations of my mother’s family, the Smiths, have lived in Chelsea.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Norieliz DeJesus, Director of Policy, La Colaborativa,& Chelsea City Council President–My daughter Naleyah has my teacher, Mr Gomez from Kelly School.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Dennis Paul Smith–My family lived in Chelsea since about 1886.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Daniel Hamilton (aka The Bicycle Guy)–People ask me how it started with the bicycles.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Javier Villeda, owner/designer Kliq–My family’s everything to me, and then my friends that started this with me.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Helen-Anne Keith–It was through the Senior Center that I made friends.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Molly Baldwin, founder & CEO, Roca–Roca always found people who weren’t ready to get support, who were always getting in trouble.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Jose and Miguel Quintero, Eastern Salt Co.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Richard Katz, owner, Katz Bagel Bakery–My name is Richard Katz, K-A-T-Z.
By Darlene Devita & Sarah Putnam
Sargent Star Chung, Chelsea Police Department–I will always look after Chelsea.
By Jessica Skintges Wallach
The new accessibility symbols sports a yellow background.
By Jessica Skintges Wallach
A cacophony of colors, lines and glitter swirling in a woman’s head highlighting especially her hair.
By Jessica Skintges Wallach
Photograph of a shape of a girl’s profile embossed with the texture and pattern of a curb cut.
By Jessica Skintges Wallach
Many silhouettes of Jessica in all her splendor.
By Jessica Skintges Wallach
A colorful bubble with the blind/low vision symbol of a person with a cane superimposed on it.
By Jessica Skintges Wallach
A photo of a stencil of a woman sitting in a wheelchair, in the stencil we see a shadow of her as if it is a part of her shirt.
By Poetry of Science
Daniel B Chonde, MD PhD is a radiology resident, diversity advocate, and researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital interested in understanding how art can be used to create more empathetic, culturally aware, and equitable healthcare spaces that empower both patients and providers.
By Poetry of Science
Inspired by the scientific interests of Jason Samaroo, a Cellular and Molecular Biologist at Boston University, this poem, “Phylum Cnidaria,” is intended to introduce biological nomenclature and classification about this group of organisms in plain English.
By Poetry of Science
Makinde is currently a PhD candidate in Physics at MIT.
By Paul Sayed
Man dressed in stone Cat in the church Emerald are eyes of god- pray man dressed up in irone & stone to bless you pray with a son of beige skin & sapphire eyes pray because daughter would be a woman pray like ugly cats no matter brown or black pray are homeless or wander in houses pray for love that does not exist.
By Amir Leung-Tat
Teaching the next generation about the ongoing struggle is critical in equipping them with tools needed to stand proudly in who we are as a people.
By Amir Leung-Tat
The catalyst that sparked the protests in the summer of 2020 was a phone recording which documented the evident brutality against humanity and blatant disregard for the back body.
By Amir Leung-Tat
Freedom can sometimes be elusive, out of reach in the distance far, far away.
By Amir Leung-Tat
Black people have dreams, they’re forward thinking, they work hard, they’re ambitious.
By Amir Leung-Tat
The historical stronghold of our ancestral fortitude provides the backdrop on which we often lean.
By Amir Leung-Tat
The downpour of tears shed cannot wash away the names of the many lives stolen from our collective memory.
By Amir Leung-Tat
No matter where you are, stepping into manhood is a significant rite of passage.
By Amir Leung-Tat
A sense of community and brotherhood can sometimes be cultivated on college campuses through fraternities like Phi Beta Sigma.
By Amir Leung-Tat
Summer of 2020 could possibly be titled the year of the reveal.
By Amir Leung-Tat
In spite of our displacement, multitude of hues and backgrounds, our friendships are stronger than the chains that bound us together.
By Amir Leung-Tat
When we speak of immigrants, it always seems as though they exist outside the fabric of what it means to be American.
By Amir Leung-Tat
So often what it means to be a Black man hinges on the lack of emotional expression.
By Amir Leung-Tat
Throughout the African diaspora, when we come together from near and far, the connection of who we are as a people no longer needs words.
