Think Outside the Box

Phase 3 of Think Outside the Box has been completed. Twenty-one utility boxes are changing Attleboro’s landscape.

Phase 1 (2021)

  • Park Street and South Main Street – Artist: Kerry St. Pierre
  • Park Street and Railroad Street – Artist: Lindsay Nygaard
  • Park Street and Bank Street – Artist: Jess Tracy
  • Park Street and Union Street – Artist: Dave Laferrierre
  • Gilbert Perry Square – Artist: Abby Rovaldi
  • Veteran’s Park (Across from Gilbert Perry Square) – Artist: Tim Elliott

Phase 2 (2022)

  • North Main Street and Elizabeth Street – Artist: Andrea Warner
  • County Street and Wall Street – Artist: Sandy Coleman
  • Kevin J. Dumas Ten Mile River Walkway (Wall Street entrance) – Artist: Kim Gale
  • County Street and Olive Street – Artist: Carol Wontkowski
  • South Main Street and Maple Street – Artist: Darren Baldwin
  • Union Street and Mill Street – Artist: Lisa Granata
  • Newport Avenue/West Street and Orr Avenue – Artist: Amanda Sharples
  • Thacher Street and Rathbun Willard Drive – Artist: Tracy Korneffel

Phase 3 (2023)

  • South Attleboro Fire Station – 1476 West Street – Artist: Adrian Negenborn
  • North Main Street and Holcott Drive – Artists: GoFive & TakeOne
  • County Street and Thacher Street – Artist: Kristina Occhino
  • 252 Washington Street (Route 1) – Artist: Maya Alho
  • Washington Street (Route 1) and Angeline Street – Artist: Lee Ann Beaulieu
  • Pleasant Street and Perry Avenue – Artist: Kevin Grady
  • Balfour Riverwalk Park – Artist: Nick Guilbert

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Public art enlivens and enhances cities and can turn public spaces into destinations.  Weaving visual art into an urban environment by offering public art encounters brings people together, creates pride-of-place and invites engagement. 

A collaboration between the City of Attleboro, Transformative Development Initiative (TDI) Partnership, Keep Attleboro Beautiful, Attleboro Arts Museum, volunteer artists that either live and/or work in Attleboro, and generous individuals has been activated to transform the surface of Attleboro’s sidewalk utility boxes into gallery-worthy works of art.   

The Fungus Among Us by Abby Rovaldi appears on a utility box in Attleboro’s Gilbert Perry Square.  This photo is a rendering of the completed Phase 1 box.

Each box is marked with a QR code. When viewers scan the code with a smartphone camera they’ll find a statement about the artwork pictured on a given box, background on each artist and an online survey to capture their feedback on the program.

Organizers hope to expand the program throughout the city and turn other basic, functional structures into contemporary, eye-catching street markers.

SHARE YOUR FEEDBACK! Let us know your thoughts on Think Outside the Box. Complete this brief survey: https://forms.gle/934UHpvyUtnCEvU4A

Sponsorship opportunites for additional boxes are available.  Email office@attleboroartsmuseum.org to learn more. 

The follow list represents all those that have either funded, produced, or supported Think Outside the Box: Attleboro Arts Museum, Lisa and Darren Baldwin, City of Attleboro Department of Public Works, City of Attleboro Veteran’s Department, City of Attleboro Parks & Forestry Department, Cool Air Creations, Inc., Consigli, Rick Correia, Laurie Drucker, George Durante, Catherine Feerick, Mim Brooks Fawcett, Former Mayor Paul Heroux, Mayor Cathleen DeSimone, Brian Hodess, Kathy Ilkowitz, Kaylyn Lockyer, Keep Attleboro Beautiful, Attleboro Cultural Council, Mass Cultural Council, Transformative Development Initiative (TDI) Partnership – Attleboro, MA.

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