Reclamation Artists: A Report from Boston

Environmental artists, landscape architects and architects joined in 1989 to form Reclamation Artists (RA), a group dedicated to organizing exhibitions on “unused” sites in and around Boston, Massachusetts. The group became involved in efforts to reclaim two sites that are part of a major highway-construction and relocation project—the Central Artery Project. The author discusses the exhibitions of sculpture, installations and performance art that RA has created on these sites to increase public appreciation for the sites as they presently exist She provides a context for the group’s culturally and environmentally sensitive alternative proposals for the sites, while outlining the evolution of RA and possible directions for the group.