Oh, give me a home where the Buffalo roam Where the Deer and the Antelope play; Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the sky is not cloudy all day. --- Dr. Brewster Higley, Kansas, 1876 Jonathan Stangroom and Jennifer Weigel collaborated on Home on the Range, located at Curlz & Cutz salon [...]

"This box showcases my love of natural objects and shiny objects. I spend a lot of time outdoors, birdwatching, taking photographs, looking for interesting natural objects which I then pair with glitter/glass/other shinies. The inside of the phone box I was assigned was a challenge to work with (wires, metal [...]

I explored many ideas for this phone box before deciding to create a dreamscape in the forest. I wanted a box that little children, teenagers, adults could respond to, perhaps even marvel at a little. I grew up in the country with nature all around me, and found it transporting [...]

"While finishing up the installation of this piece, I had a conversation with a four-year old who happened by. "What's this?" he asked, pointing to the cow. I told him and then asked, "Did you know that Somerville used to have lots of cows? Somerville used to be mostly farms, [...]

I grew up in the country but have lived in many places including several cities worldwide. Wherever I live, I look out for the wildlife. They are always among us but only certain species have learned to adapt to life in an urban environment. There are more species in Somerville [...]

Public Privacy Hotline (2015) informs listeners about government surveillance, reclaiming the telephone as a site of communication and information in the wake of recent revelations about bulk phone metadata collection by the NSA. Mimicking the very surveillance technologies it critiques, the phone uses a motion sensor to “ring” at passersby [...]

Gary Duehr's Phone Fossil is outside the Holland St side of the Davis Square T stop.   The work is based on a sculpture from his series “Relics.”  Inside the box is a plaster cast of an old-fashioned Princess phone, “Phone Fossil” is a mini-monument to outdated technology. Mounted on a steel base (12” x 4” [...]

Completed by Akil Williams and James Fox for the Trustees and Friends of the Somerville Public Library.  The shelves of this “little library” are loaded with fiction, non-fiction, children’s literature, and foreign language works to be freely taken and enjoyed by passers-by; no return necessary! Books are restocked each week by the [...]

I wanted to create a piece with physical depth as well as narrative depth; illustration work is so often viewed digitally, and my goal was to build something that could be photographed truthfully, but is enhanced by in-person viewing. I hope that the evolution of this phone box from an [...]

"Forty bicycle parts, two ride-share station connecting pins, tallbike disco-ball cradle (formerly an iMac part), three flanges, twenty eight square punch blanks fourteen flooring nails, twenty-one washers, two castle nuts, two cover plates, two CO2 cartridge tops, copper, bronze. Obviously I named Davis j325 after the square she inhabits. I [...]