Art Builds Community

FAN stands for feeding and nurturing. We will address food insecurity in Chinatown seniors. Nurturing our restaurant community is also a goal. Challenged like never before, the economic heart of Chinatown needs our support. Public art nurtures community, too. We are committed to supporting existing community organizations and addressing the needs that exist in gaps between these efforts. We will bring diverse networks into the work of preserving Chinatown and will innovate and build new models to help sustain our Chinatown.

Public murals have long been a part of Chinese culture and this Chinatown’s history. Our organization came to life just a shade too late to contribute to the repair of Shaina Lu’s “Tied Together by a Thousand Threads” mural on Harrison Ave. With the artist’s permission, I’m sharing a cartoon she recently posted depicting how the community rallied to help the restoration project come to life. Read more about this project here in the Boston Globe. We are grateful to ACDC, Shaina Lu and all the community represented in, and supporting the restoration of, this mural.

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