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From YouTube: Artists Fellowship Award Ceremony
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Mayor Walsh and Chief of Arts and Culture Julie Burros gather on the 3rd Floor Mezzanine at Boston City Hall to congratulate the five winners of the Mayor's Office first-ever Artist Fellowship Awards. The five recipients were selected from a pool of over 300 applicants and will receive $10,000 to create public art installations for the City of Boston.
A
Thank
you
everyone
for
being
here
today,
I
want
to
welcome
you
to
City
Hall.
My
name
is
Julie
burrows
I'm,
the
chief
of
Arts
and
Culture,
but
the
city
of
Boston
and
I
have
the
honor
of
overseeing
the
mayor's
office
of
arts
and
culture
and
the
Boston
Cultural
Council,
which
is
our
grant-making
entity.
A
Boston
is
a
city
that
believes
so
powerfully
in
the
transformative
power
of
the
arts
and
thanks
to
mayor
Raj's
leadership
and
vision,
we
were
able
to
talk
to
the
people
of
Boston
about
the
Arts
and
put
all
of
that
into
a
plan.
A
plan
for
supporting
the
arts
called
Boston
creates,
and
one
of
the
things
we
heard
so
strongly
is
that
people
really
believe
that
Boston
can
only
reach
its
full
potential.
A
When
we
really
tap
into
the
creativity,
creativity
of
everyone
and
we
support
artists,
we
heard
so
strongly
from
artists
that
they
need
resources,
they
need
opportunities
and
they
need
this
support
of
the
city
and
they
wanted
City
Hall
to
be
easier
to
navigate
and
easier
to
work
with
the
artists.
Fellowship
award
is
really
responding
to
all
of
those
needs.
We
want
to
keep
artists
in
the
city
of
Boston,
so
we
did
a
lot
to
start
implementing
the
Boston
creates
cultural
plan,
we're
incorporating
arts
into
the
construction
of
roadways.
Public
Works.
A
We
just
came
from
a
groundbreaking
this
morning
at
North
Square,
where
a
major
piece
of
permanent
public
art
is
incorporated
into
the
public
works
budget
for
that
project.
We're
incorporating
artists
in
renovation
of
public
buildings,
including
city
hall,
we're
bringing
artists
and
residents
into
our
key
policy
work
and
into
our
agencies,
and
we're
also
creating
grant
programs
to
support
the
work
of
artists
to
keep
them
in
their
creative
field
and
to
keep
them
here
in
the
city
of
Boston.
A
F
E
In
my
early
days,
my
father
was
a
journalist
when
I
was
growing
up
in
Cuba.
He
was
a
writer,
and
even
though,
when
I
was
younger,
I
didn't
want
to
write.
It
was
something
that
was
always
part
of
my
life.
I
was
a
reader
and
when
I
decided
to
go
to
school
in
the
US,
so
the
University
I
was
reading
a
lot
and
decided
to
become
a
writer
I
wanted
to
try
writing
short
stories.
It's.
D
C
F
Made
a
lot
of
different
kinds
of
performance,
but
lately
I've
been
working
more
in
response
to
very
particular
sites,
and
often
oddly
enough
military
sites
in
other
parts
of
the
world,
between
2015
and
2016,
I
did
a
100
day
performance
at
the
Museum
of
Fine
Art.
Every
day,
I
was
there
for
six
hours
and
did
a
different
performance
that
had
to
do
with
the
topic
of
time.
F
C
E
B
E
About
money-
and
you
know,
Boston
is
a
city
that
has
a
lot
of
artists,
but
in
a
long
history,
but
it
also
can
feel
intimidating
for
new
people
like
me,
and
so
I
think
it's
important
to
support.
You
know
writers,
who
come
maybe
from
a
different
background
and
to
continue
to
encourage
them
and
make
them
feel
like
they're
part
of
the
city-
and
you
know
this
fellowship
is
an
example
for
you
to
feel
like
you
belong
here
and
that
you
should
be
working
here
and
should
be
writing
here
or
doing
your
art
here.
G
Before
the
video,
because
what
I
can
say
now
can't
compete
with
the
five
of
you
in
the
video
and
for
the
yellow
to
say
so,
thank
you.
Congratulations,
first
of
all
and
I'm
going
to
get
into
in
a
minute.
I
want
to
thank
City
Council
resource
I'll
be
George's
with
us
today
for
being
with
us
part
of
out
of
this
great
day.
One
thing
truly
balanced:
the
Boston
Cultural
Council
I
want
to
thank
the
Office
of
Arts
and
Culture.
G
A
lot
of
thank
you,
sir,
because
we
you
know,
we've
come
in
this
city,
I
think
a
long
way
in
in
three
and
a
half
years.
As
far
as
what
we're
doing
and
and
it's
exciting,
we
have
more
to
go.
I
want
to
thank
the
jurors
who
worked
on
the
over
300
applicants
that
were
received.
That
is
not
an
easy
job.
It
is
a
complicated
job
and
I
want
to
thank
you
for
your
work.
G
I
want
to
welcome
to
congratulate
all
the
first-class
Boston
Cultural
Council
artists,
fellows,
congratulations,
I
mean
just
seeing
the
video
and
seeing
your
talents
is
exactly
what
we
want
to
see
bar
of
in
Boston.
We
want
people
that
live
in
neighborhoods
people
that
are
part
of
you're,
doing,
whether
it's,
whether
it's
concrete
on
we
said
love
or
playing
musical
instrument,
or
it's
filmmaking
painting
all
the
other
things.
G
Thank
you
for
that,
because
you
know
you
truly
are
an
inspiration
to
some
of
the
young
people
in
our
city
and
you're,
an
inspiration
to
who
you
should
be
as
a
city.
So
again,
thank
you
for
that,
because
your
vision
is
Boston
story,
and
certainly
that's
what
we
want
to
talk
about.
Boston
the
story
and
continue
to
that
answer.
G
Odds
are
crucial
to
the
success
of
our
city.
Oftentimes
people
won't
realize
that
unless
we
don't
have
it,
the
elbow
I've
seen
certainly
is
a
good
indicator
of
the
wall
being
about
whole
city
at
rhyming
on
scene.
We
have
rain
in
our
city
means
that
our
diverse
communities
are
expressing
themselves
in
so
many
different
ways.
That's
that
really
is
exciting,
that
that
happens.
It
means
you're
more
opportunity
for
our
youth
as
well,
and
you
know
a
lot
of
people
are.
We
have
a
de
better
forms
right,
debate
tonight
and
people
on
target.
G
You
know
whether
lies
behind
numbers
or,
even
though
the
increase
in
shootings
and
things
like
that
and
there's
no
magic
answer,
but
true
I
think
culture.
There
is
a
magic
answer.
Allows
young
people
to
express
themself
in
a
whole
different
way,
allows
quiz,
opens
up
doors
and
opens
up
opportunities
for
young
people
in
our
city,
something
that
we
have
to
continue
to
do.
In
our
city
we
launched
Boston
cranes.
G
As
you
know,
it's
a
cultural
plan,
we're
cutting
through
the
red
tape
and
the
performance
venues
we're
working
with
local
artists,
we're
working
on
rehearsal
space,
live
studio,
space,
we're
working
on,
affordable
housing,
I
work
on
all
those
issues
that
we
have
to
continue
to
work
on,
because
I
know
that
the
the
small
stipends
you
get.
Don't
you
can't
pay
a
lot
of
rent
on.
So
it's
an
opportunity
for
us
to
do
that.
We
hired
an
artisan
resident
manager.
Julie
who's
here
with
us.
We
want
to
see
me,
show
the
odds
everywhere
today.
G
Front
of
Paul
Revere's
house,
so
you
think
about
that
for
a
minute
people
are
gonna,
be
coming
for
their
story.
Aspect
of
this
house,
but
they're
also
going
to
see
what
we
have
the
town
we
have
in
our
city
and
in
our
region
there.
So
we're
excited
about
it.
This
Fellowship
is
exciting,
is
an
exciting
next
step
and
I.
Just
again,
I
know
we
will
get
into
the
ox
and
the
certificates
in
a
second
but
I
just
want
to.
Thank
you
all
and
what
an
opening
was
here.
G
All
the
other
participants,
but
I
won't
think
that's
Ranna
participants
because
of
the
Dean
out
training
participants.
Not
we
don't
come
down
to
this
quality
that
we're
doing
today.
You
saw
the
video
it's
right
there.
It
talks
about
the
great
incredible
talent
that
we
have
in
our
city
and
in
our
state.
We
just
have
to
continue
to
to
work
off
that.
So
again,
congratulations
to
all
of
you
and
now
I
get
a
chance
to
present.
You
now
come
on
I'm
married.
G
G
Also,
only
man
also
said
in
Soviet
boss
University.
She
presented
her
award
in
28
countries
and
now
she's
a
resident
dragged
a
plane,
so
think
about
think
about
that
impact
of
an
artist
in
JPA,
28
countries
and
all
that
she's
done
so
again.
Thank
you
very
much,
for
you
have
done.
I
didn't
see
the
next
day.
G
G
Michelle
the
conceptual
artists
from
Roxbury
she
was
trained
as
an
architect
and
in
questions,
the
controversial
rule
of
architecture,
and
that's
somebody
Michele.
She
welcome,
says
the
VRA
or
the
VP
DFL,
because
we
will
convene
that
as
well
and
I.
You
know
again,
you
see
the
talent
of
this
woman
to
my
left
in
in
our
city
in
Roxbury,
incredible
stuff.
So
thank
you.
G
A
G
A
A
It's
not
a
strings
attached
when
sees
a
couple
of
little
strings
attached,
but
but
one
of
the
things
we
want
to
do
with
with
all
of
you
is
collaborate
to
share
your
work
with
the
public.
So
that's
something
that
my
office
will
do
in
just
a
couple
of
words.
In
conclusion,
this
is
the
first
time
we've
done
this
sort
of
award.
It's
something
we
wanted
to
do
from
the
minute.
We
heard
so
strongly
from
artists
that
they
need
resources.
A
We
do
have
funding
to
do
this
award
again,
Thank
You
Mara
wash
so
it
was
the
pilot
year.
We're
gonna
make
a
lot
of
improvements.
Our
jury,
who
many
of
them
are
here
today,
extremely
distinguished
master,
creatives
of
Boston.
They
really
helped
us
think
through
a
process
in
order
to
make
it
even
better
next
time
around
so
I
do
want
to
encourage
all
of
you
to.
Please
help
us
get
the
word
out
about
this
fantastic
opportunity,
because
we
know
we're
going
to
do
it
again
and
we
also
are
so
proud.
A
We've
tried
to
be
as
inclusive
as
possible.
The
application
was
in
five
different
languages.
We
got
responses
in
four
different
languages,
so
we're
going
to
continue
to
work
with
the
whole
community
to
get
the
word
out
and
really
honor
the
gifts
of
our
artists
here
in
Boston.
So
thank
you
so
much
for
joining
us
I
think
we'll
stick
around
for
one
group
photo.
Thank
you
for
making
this
a
reality
and
thank
you
for
sharing
your
gifts
with
the
people
of
Boston.