Dianna Bell

Senior Editor, Arts & Culture

Tania Ralli

Assistant Managing Editor, Arts & Culture

Arielle Gray

Reporter

Amelia Mason

Senior Arts & Culture Reporter

Andrea Shea

Correspondent, Arts & Culture

Solon Kelleher

Arts Writer

Cristela Guerra

Amanda Beland

Senior Producer

Meet the 2024 Makers


<ul>
 	<li><a href="#intro">Intro</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#caleb">Caleb Hawkins</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#chenoa">Chenoa Baker</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#elizabeth">Elizabeth Mochizuki</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#feda">Feda Eid</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#jameel">Jameel Radcliffe</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#jonathan">Jonathan Suazo</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#maria">Maria Servell&oacute;n</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#mushen">Mushen Kieta</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#naomi">Naomi Westwater</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#pranav">Pranav Swaroop</a></li>
</ul>


Beth Mochizuki watches Asian American Ballet Project dancer Rheya Shano as she rehearses for an upcoming performance. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Artist Feda Eid holds up and examines a piece of fabric she hemmed for a new gown she is making for her next photo piece. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Jameel Radcliffe works in his studio at the Boston Center for the Arts in the South End. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Saxophonist Jonathan Suazo onstage at the 2024 Charles River Jazz Festival at Herter Park Amphitheater in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Filmmaker Maria Servell&oacute;n watching the latest edits of her upcoming film &ldquo;Phantasma&rdquo; at her home studio. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Producer and director Mushen Kieta leans on a camera as he talks with a visitor at his studio in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Naomi Westwater performing at the 2024 We Make Noise Festival at Downtown Crossing. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Carnatic violinist Pranav Swaroop stands on the rooftop of his apartment building in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Caleb Hawkins installs a lens into a light projector at MASARY Studios during a test for an upcoming project. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Chenoa Baker standing in front of works by Allan Rohan Crite on display at the Boston Athenaeum. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

WBUR Presents: The 2024 Makers

The 2024 Makers. (Lillian Lee/WBUR)

Arts & Culture

A series highlighting creatives of color making an impact in the local arts scene.

The Makers

Arts

From the Boston Calling Music Festival to a new exhibit at the ICA Watershed, there&rsquo;s plenty to do over the holiday weekend.

5 things to do this Memorial Day weekend

Installation view of Hew Locke's &quot;The Procession&quot; (Tate Britain Commission 2022) at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. (Courtesy Mel Taing)

Evan Taylor and Chloe McFarlane in Actors&rsquo; Shakespeare Project&rsquo;s production of &quot;Romeo and Juliet.&quot; (Courtesy Maggie Hall Photography)

A full crowd watches the Foo Fighters perform on first day of Boston Calling 2023. (Courtesy Alive Coverage/Boston Calling)

Our team rounds up the best of arts and culture for the weekend ahead. 

The ARTery's Weekend Preview

A collection of stories from our ongoing series, Field Guide to Boston. The series at wbur.org/fieldguide offers guides and public service journalism focused on how residents can better connect with each other while exploring the city's neighborhoods and rich culture. 

Field Guide to Boston

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Music

Sydney Jackson as Dailyn and Kaili Y. Turner as Mia in Company One Theatre's production of &quot;Morning, Noon, and Night.&quot; (Courtesy Ken Yotsukura)

5 things to do this weekend, including a production of 'Morning, Noon, and Night' and the Greater Roxbury Book Fair

Sydney Jackson as Dailyn and Kaili Y. Turner as Mia in Company One Theatre's production of "Morning, Noon, and Night." (Courtesy Ken Yotsukura)

Jacob Garcia

Newsroom Fellow

The cover of Adrienne Maree Brown's book &quot;Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry,&quot; (Courtesy AK Press)

The cover of Monique Adelle Callahan's book &quot;Rupture.&quot; (Courtesy Codhill Press)

Duane Slick, &quot;Crafting a Consequential Narrative,&quot; 2020. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

These artists shared what inspired them in 2023

Duane Slick, "Crafting a Consequential Narrative," 2020. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Composite image of four works from Dyani White Hawk's "Takes Care of Them" suite. From left: "W&oacute;wahoku&#331;kiya" (2019), "W&oacute;ka&#487;e" (2019), "Nak&iacute;&#269;i&#382;i&#331;" (2019) and "Wa&#269;h&aacute;&#331;tognaka" (2019). (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Stories from WBUR that reflect on news and pop culture in 2023. 

2023: Year in review

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Lauren Williams

Arts Editor

Meet the 2023 Makers


<ul>
 	<li><a href="#intro">Intro</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#alex">Alex Diaz</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#alison">Alison Croney Moses</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#qu">Alison Qu</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#arson">Arson Fahim</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#danny">Danny Rivera</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#dzidzor">Dzidzor</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#gabriel">Gabriel Sosa</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#kimaya">Kimaya Diggs</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#rixy">Rixy</a></li>
 	<li><a href="#yun">Szu-Chieh Yun</a></li>
</ul>


Theater producer, director and dramaturg Alison Qu is executive director of CHUANG Stage in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Pianist, composer and conductor Arson Fahim plays a piano at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Singer Danny Rivera at the Holy Tabernacle Church in Dorchester. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Poet and performance artist Dzidzor plays a tambourine in a Boston studio. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Public artist and educator Gabriel Sosa at the Essex Art Center in Lawrence. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Kimaya Diggs before going on stage at a Sofar Sounds night at Sam Adams Brewery in Jamaica Plain. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Artist and muralist Rixy stands in front of her work &quot;Pa*Lante&quot; in Roxbury. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Szu-Chieh Yun at work in her studio. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Alex Diaz performs under the b-boy name El Ni&ntilde;o because of his fast paced and aggressive style. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Artist and woodworker Alison Croney Moses in her woodshop. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

WBUR Presents: The 2023 Makers

The 2023 Makers (left to right): Gabriel Sosa, Dzidzor, Szu-Chieh Yun, Arson Fahim, Rixy, Alex Diaz, Kimaya Diggs, Alison Croney Moses, Alison Qu. Not pictured: Danny Rivera. (OJ Slaughter for WBUR)

The family breaks into dance awaiting Grandma at her birthday party in Jackie Sibblies Drury's &quot;Fairview&quot; at SpeakEasy Stage Company. (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios)

Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924, United States), &quot;Travel Album: India, Pakistan, Yemen, and Egypt, Volume VI, page 38, 1884.&quot; Bound album including collected photographs, found papers, pressed botanicals, and pen and ink annotations. (Courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)

5 things to do this weekend, including an improv show and a travel-inspired exhibit at the Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1924, United States), "Travel Album: India, Pakistan, Yemen, and Egypt, Volume VI, page 38, 1884." Bound album including collected photographs, found papers, pressed botanicals, and pen and ink annotations. (Courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston)

Artist Robert Greene's &quot;mixer&quot; on display in The Umbrella Arts Center's 2022 Art Ramble in Concord's Hapgood Wright Town Forest. (Courtesy Ron Mann)

5 things to do this weekend, including an artsy ramble in the woods and a Brooke Adams double feature

Artist Robert Greene's "mixer" on display in The Umbrella Arts Center's 2022 Art Ramble in Concord's Hapgood Wright Town Forest. (Courtesy Ron Mann)

Environment

5 things to do this weekend, including a reverse staging of 'La boh&egrave;me' and a screening of 'Nosferatu'

The cast of Boston Lyric Opera's "La boh&egrave;me." (Courtesy Olivia Moon)

Jenn Stanley

Quincy Walters

Producer, WBUR Podcasts

Daniel Callahan - The Makers

Left: Daniel Callahan asks questions and studies the face of WBUR's Arielle Gray before starting to paint a 

Harley Takagi Kaner working on the Penumbra podcast in a studio at The Bridge Sound and Stage in Cambridge. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Harley Takagi Kaner - The Makers

Left: Harley Takagi Kaner at work in a studio control room at The Bridge Sound and Stage, Cambridge. Right: Takagi Kaner answers podcast listener questions with actor Joshua Ilon and writer Kevin Vibert. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Documentary photographer Iaritza Menjivar looks through prints of her work. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Iaritza Menjivar - The Makers

Documentary photographer Iaritza Menjivar at her studio in Somerville. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Motorcycle designer J. Shia in her art bike studio in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

J. Shia - The Makers

Motorcycle designer J. Shia (left) cuts a metal bar in her art bike studio in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Dancer, artist and transgender activist Lilly Rose Valore at the Harp &amp; Bard in Dorchester. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Lilly Rose Valore - The Makers

Dancer, artist and transgender activist Lilly Rose Valore performing at the Harp &amp; Bard in Dorchester. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Artist Lily Xie at the River Stream Fountain in Chinatown Park on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Lily Xie - The Makers

Artist Lily Xie looks up at the &ldquo;Lantern Stories&rdquo; installation by Yu-Wen Wu as she walks through Auntie Kay &amp; Uncle Frank Chin Park on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Michael Aghahowa working in his studio in Lynn. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Michael Aghahowa - The Makers

Left to right, two of Michael Aghahowa's paintings, &quot;Woman of Gold, Man of Slate&quot; and &quot;The Numbers Game.&quot; (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Three of Michael Aghahowa's paintings. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Creative entrepreneur, urban planner and founder of Baldwin in the Park and Nubian Nights, Anita Morson-Matra. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Artist Nygel Jones pins a frame together in his workshop. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Nygel Jones - The Makers

Artist Nygel Jones pins, lines up, cuts and assembles frame material in his workshop. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Artist Nygel Jones looks through some of his paintings in his studio. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Dancer and photographer Olivia Moon practicing on a flying pole. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Olivia Moon - The Makers

Olivia Moon performs moves on the pole at Boston Pole Fitness. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Anita Morson-Matra

Actor and writer Shanelle Chloe Villegas at her home in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Shanelle Chloe Villegas

Actor and writer Shanelle Villegas at her home in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

SuperSmashBroz Muyi Fre$co and Noma Nomz work on a track at The Record Co. in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

SuperSmashBroz - The Makers

SuperSmashBroz Noma Nomz and Muyi Fre$co work on a track at The Record Co. in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

VLA DANCE director and choreographer Victoria Lynn Awkward works through some dance moves at Midway Artist Studios in Boston. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Victoria Lynn Awkward - The Makers

Anita Morson-Matra holds a portrait of James Baldwin. Morson-Matra is a creative entrepreneur, urban planner and founder of Baldwin in the Park and Nubian Nights. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Artist, poet, writer and community organizer Yvette Modestin in Nubian Square. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Yvette Modestin - The Makers

Arts administrator Christa Brown at the Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Christa Brown - The Makers

WBUR Presents: The Makers

The 2022 Makers (OJ Slaughter for WBUR)

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Lia Cirio in Mikko Nissinen's &quot;Swan Lake.&quot; (Courtesy Rosalie O'Connor/Boston Ballet)

5 things to do this weekend, including Boston Ballet's 'Swan Lake' and the Coolidge Corner Arts Festival

Lia Cirio in Mikko Nissinen's "Swan Lake." (Courtesy Rosalie O'Connor/Boston Ballet)