Our Public Art Partners
Truth Be Told would not be possible without our partners.
Harbor Voices Public Art has partnered with Beyond Walls to create the Truth Be Told initiative. This malleable, innovative digital solution generates community-driven public artwork and dialogue in times of social distancing.
Harbor Voices is a catalyst for the collaboration of artists, nonprofit organizations, and community. We create public art and facilitate social practice approaches to public art curation with our community partners.
We believe that Art, particularly participatory and inclusive projects, has the ability to bring people together and impact communities. Social collaboration and storytelling strengthen family and community bonds, creating resilience in our youth and increasing connectivity and social activism within diverse populations.
In 2011, JR won the TED prize at the TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and called for the creation of a global participatory art project with the potential to change the world. This project is called INSIDE OUT.
Inspired by JR’s large‐format street "pastings", INSIDE OUT gives everyone the opportunity to share their portrait and make a statement for what they stand for. It is a global platform for people to share their untold stories and transform messages of personal identity into works of public art.
Each INSIDE OUT group action around the world is documented, archived and exhibited online. Over 260,000 people have participated in 129 countries.
The INSIDE OUT project has traveled from Ecuador to Nepal, from Mexico to Palestine, inspiring group actions on varied themes such as hope, diversity, gender-based violence, climate change.
Amplifier is a design lab that builds art to amplify the voices of grassroots movements. We work with our community of social change partners, in both the for-profit and non-profit worlds, to build symbols, language, and distribution strategies that can change the national narrative. We draw from a deep portfolio of artists to commission new art, then take the work and distribute it in unparalleled numbers through creative space hacks, reaching new audiences and driving real change.
We flip artists into activists, and observers into participants. Our experiments are built on a foundation of free and open source art, the unlimited possibilities within a human centered design process, and the potentials when analog and digital technology merge. Drawing from a newly formed education cohort of teachers in every state, and Stanford d.School Media designers, we build campaigns that can and do change the national narrative.
Answer 3 questions when you submit your work to be considered for a FREE 2-week online Spoken Word Workshop with Cliff Notez!
Boston native, Cliff Notez is an award-winning multi-digital media artist, musician, entrepreneur & filmmaker. Their art is a continuous exploration of the black mind. Rooted in hip hop, their art tackles the political and the personal, exploring the intimate consequences of a society where black bodies are easily ignored, forgotten, or disregarded.
Cliff's Second full-length album, Why The Wild Things Are, was released September 11, 2019. their films have won over 5 and been official selections for 20 and counting film festivals globally. In 2017 they was the grand prize winner of the March on Washington Festival and honored alongside Ta-Nehisi Coates.
In 2018 they took home Best New Artist at the Boston Music Awards while racking in over 11 nominations between 2019-2020 including Artist of the Year and Live Artist of the Year. In 2019 Cliff became the first musician to be named "Musician of the Year" for Boston Magazines 'Best of Boston and their 100 Most Influential Bostonians in 2020.
Community Partners
This program is generously funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Thank you to all our supporters!
