[responsive_youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlJ6HZSlCyY] North End artist, Nathan Swain, updated residents on his latest efforts to cover blank walls with scenic murals. Swain intends to begin work on a wall at the Gassy flights this week. The above video is from the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association (NEWRA) meeting held on June 12, 2014. See NateSwain.com Read More…
The above photo was a concept for Commercial Wharf or Lewis Wharf? in a late 1960s publication by the Boston Society of Architects. The image of a “Miami-style” project was found and shared by local artist and North End resident, Nathan Swain. He says, “let’s be thankful they never got a chance to build this,” Read More…
Local artist Nathan Swain took a space formerly used for billboards and transformed it into public art. The space is located on Cambridge Street above the Red Hat in Beacon Hill. The North End resident hand painted the murals with images of a forest of dandelion wishies. They are each 25 feet wide by 37 Read More…
Nathan Swain, famed North End artist, presented his plans for creating murals on the walls of “The Flights” in DeFilippo Playground (“The Gassy”) on Prince Street. The proposal was introduced at the January 10, 2013 meeting of the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association (NEWRA). NEWRA voted 28-1 to support the proposed murals. As shown Read More…
Nathan Swain, a local artist and North End resident, is proposing a “Glass Garden” at the corner of Richmond and North Street within the empty concrete fenced space. Nate brought the concept to the June 14, 2012 meeting of the North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association where it was generally well-received by those in attendance. Read More…
There are many Boston blogs with pretty streetscape photos. The new blog by North End-based artist Nathan Swain is not like that. By now, you probably know Nate’s work. He did the Salem St. powerhouse building windows, the greenery walls in St. Leonard’s Peace Garden and Polcari’s rolldown door, just to name a few. Last Read More…
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If you have walked down Salem St. at night, you probably have noticed how storefront roll down doors have turned into neighborhood art, courtesy of local artist Nate Swain. Shown above is Polcari’s door where an antique photo image is printed on sticky vinyl. Up the block at Rabia’s, the four roll down doors Read More…
In this excerpt from Chronicle’s episode on the North End’s Hanover Street, we learn more about how Italian immigrants assimilated to their new home with the help of the Post-Gazette (formerly La Gazzetta del Massachusetts) from current publisher, Pamela Donnaruma. Then, switching gears to neighborhood beautification is the work of artist Nathan Swain and his Read More…
North End artist, Nathan Swain, is one of those people that walks through the city and looks for ways to spruce up its drab infrastructure. To the amazement of many, he has already completed several projects. First, he painted large-scale murals for the “windows” of the Salem Street powerhouse building. More recently, he beautified the concrete wall in Read More…
Local artist, Nathan Swain, has struck again. This time, he saw a planter left by the city on Salem St., painted it and planted it with flowers. Swain noted that he did this at his own expense since he understood no one was taking ownership of the dilapidated street structure. “I wanted it to look Read More…
North End resident Nate Swain has been looking out for the trees at the City park on the corner of Richmond & Commercial Streets. A week ago, Nate sent in the following pictures, noting that 5 trees were dead and the remaining 9 were “bricked in” and having difficulty with irrigation. After a month and Read More…