MIT is collaborating with the Cambridge Arts Council for Art Up Front, a community-building initiative presented through June 19 in conjunction with the 26th Cambridge River Festival (June 18). Art Up Front matches visual artists to local businesses to create window displays. Amy Sanford, administrative assistant in the Admissions Office, is showing her ceramic tiles (above) at Kirkland Cleaners (86 Kirkland St.). The MIT Coop will exhibit works by Amy Ross; the MIT Press Bookstore will feature works by James DeLancey; and the MIT Grounds Department in Building NW62 is hosting: works by Franceska Schifrin and Tova Speter. Image courtesy / Amy Sanford
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