Boston has historically lacked the tools to save artists threatened with displacement. Now, an infusion of funding offers hope -- but the clock is ticking.
There’s a sign in Wayne Strattman’s studio with six words spelled out in slender glass tubes: helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, mercury. Each is lit up with the gas it describes. Helium glows a light peach; neon, the most common, blazes red-orange. Krypton is white, argon is fuchsia, xenon a muted blue, and mercury a bright azure. Although, technically, mercury is not a gas. “It’s a vapor,” says Strattman.
He has every reason to feel pessimistic at the moment. The building where he rents his studio is set to be torn down and redeveloped into lab and office space, causing over 100 artists and craftspeople to lose their workspaces. Strattman despairs that he won’t find an affordable replacement. And it’s not for lack of trying.
“They do a lot of studies and whatnot, and it's not what we need,” he says. “We don't need more studies. The problem is obvious.”Strattman’s story is in many ways emblematic of the experience of creative workers facing the squeeze in Boston’s hot real estate market, where music venues struggle to stay afloat, performers lament the dearth of rehearsal space and developers gobble up the industrial buildings that have long served the city's painters, sculptors and craftspeople.
“We really need to be putting a lot of time into: where is cultural work happening now? What does that look like? What's at risk?” says Boston’s chief of arts and culture, Kara Elliott-Ortega. “You know, how are we building relationships from the ground up so that we understand when a building could be going on the market?”
119 Braintree St., a building where many artists currently work, is scheduled to be pulled down for redevelopment.
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