LIMITED EDITION POSTERS BY A LOCAL ARTIST FOR 25¢
Art in Print is a public art program by Zone 3 that makes collecting local art as easy as grabbing a newspaper. Since launching in October 2018, we’ve collaborated with over 280 Boston-area artists to produce limited-edition posters available for just 25¢ from custom newspaper bins throughout Allston and Cambridge.
Explore the bin locations, meet the featured artists, plan your route, and find out how to get involved.
MEET THE ARTISTS
*GUEST CURATOR PICK*
Britt Bowen
Guardians – Find this poster at the Harvard Office For The Arts
Britt & Mars Print Co. is the work of Britt Bowen, a Salem-based artist and printmaker. She holds degrees in Art & Arts Management from Salem State University and the University of Oregon. She finds inspiration in the forms, movements, and behaviors of those found in nature.
Britt & Mars Print Co. was established in 2023, popping up at markets in Salem and Beverly, MA. Our first storefront at 1 Derby Square in Salem opened May 2026.
Britt frequently collaborates with her husband, Tyler Twombly, a therapist and magician, on creative projects.
Britt & Mars Print Co. is named for their late cat, Mars (2010 – 2025).
Q: What’s this piece about?
A: This piece is inspired by the awesome and benevolent power of cats, Studio Ghibli, and Godzilla. This is the third piece in my “kaiju cat” series. For this design, I wanted to bring in all my favorite elements: cats, nature, miniatures, and celestial bodies. I hope there is something for everyone to discover in this work, and that they feel a sense of peace and protection when viewing it.
Q: Where else can we find your work?
A: My print shop at 1 Derby Square in Salem, MA
Q: Where is your favorite public art piece in the area?
Q: What have you learned about your creative practice in recent years?
Q: What is a piece of advice you would give to your past self as a young artist?
A: Make bad art until you don’t think it’s so bad.
Q: What’s your favorite way to spend a day off?
A: Either printing, or on the couch with my cat, Nemo.
This piece was selected by Guest Curator, Stephanie Vecellio
CURATORIAL STATEMENT:
Britt works in relief printmaking, a process done entirely by hand through drawing, carving, inking, and printing with linoleum blocks. In an age where artists are confronted by the use of AI generated images, Britt’s work is a reminder of the joy of making an object with your own two hands and of the beautiful imperfections of physical media. Not only that, but I love her subject matter of focusing on wildlife. She is constantly adding to her menagerie zoo of animal prints so you can find your favorite creature immortalized in her playful style. She also does great work for the community, often donating portions of sales to local animal and youth organizations.
ABOUT THE CURATOR:
Stephanie Vecellio is an illustrator and designer based in Somerville, MA. Inspired by the small moments of everyday life, she draws local places from observation. She loves to illustrate every detail that makes a place feel like home, from cool trees to messy telephone poles, so that each drawing feels like a whimsical photograph of that specific time and place. Her drawings are characterized by free-handed outlines drawn directly onto the paper in pen and colored in bright, saturated marker. When she’s not drawing from life, Stephanie creates illustrative designs, posters, branding, murals, and more for clients. She earned her BFA in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design and works in Communications at the Harvard Art Museums.
John Rego
Aspic No.1 – Find this poster at The Grove
John Rego is a painter, illustrator, and educator living. His work focuses on occasionally chaotic and or surrealist narratives referencing lived experiences, observed narratives from everyday life, and human relationships with the natural world. Although Rego’s paintings depict dreamlike landscapes, he is deeply inspired by reportage illustration and the world around him. John has experience in editorial, book cover, package design, advertisement, and fine art illustration. A recent notable project John has worked on is the Boston’s World Cup poster.
Q: What’s this piece about?
A: Aspic No. 1 was created in 2021 in addition to several other pieces exploring the theme gelatin. This painting was made shortly after working on a few more complicated pieces.
Q: What have you learned about your creative practice in recent years?
A: In the past, my work focused on more surrealist and absurdist themes. In recent years I have explored concepts from daily life, and I try to incorporate influences from observational drawing into my paintings. Additionally, I have learnt to be more patient with my work and to give paintings the time they need to properly develop.
Q: What is a piece of advice you would give to your past self as a young artist?
A: When working as an artist it is important to be consistent, find new ways to have fun while working, and to be okay with rejection and minor setbacks. I would tell my past self to keep creating, and everything will work out.
Q: Book club pick?
A: Reading a depressing graphic novel or comparing Stardew Valley Farms
Q: Where else can we find your work?
A: I am currently preparing for a solo show at Arch Enemy Arts in Philadelphia. The show will be on display in January 2027.
Haley Wood
Hawthorn Panel 3 – Find this poster at Zone 3 – 267 Western Ave
Haley Wood is a fiber artist and educator living in Cambridge, Mass. She has shown her work at the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery in Los Angeles and Boston, Montserrat Galleries, the MassArt Auction, and the SPRING/BREAK Art Fair in Manhattan. She holds a BFA in Fibers from Massachusetts College of Art & Design. She has received the Mass Cultural Council Grant for Creative Individuals, MassArt Milestone Grant, Marilyn Pappas Award, and the Barbara L. Kuhlman Award.
Q: What’s this piece about?
A: Hawthorn is a twelve-part series of narrative tapestries following a young brown bear who, desiring escapism, slips into the fairy realm. Led by the Guide, Bear encounters a variety of playful fairies. However, Bear is frequently reminded of the cause for its escapism. Soon, the fairies’ horseplay becomes overwhelming and Bear wishes to return to the natural world. A long awaited visit to the Doctor of Physick reveals that Bear has been in a deep trance, dreaming through the passing of a calendar year. In order to awaken from this trance, Bear must learn to find solace in the soft soil and sprouting of the spring crocuses.
Q: What have you learned about your creative practice in recent years?
A: Trying to make money as an artist can be extremely draining, so it helps to have small creative projects that are only for me- not for selling or social media validation. It can be something tiny like sewing a silly outfit for my cat. These things fill my cup far more than escaping into doom-scrolling.
Q: What is a piece of advice you would give to your past self as a young artist?
A: Find the most creative era of yourself, perhaps the fourth grader who wrote and illustrated short stories every day, cherish her, and channel her spirit that was so compelled to create without worrying what the world thought.
Q: What is your dream project to work on?
A: I would love to make a medieval folk horror movie.
Cozette Russell
Antigone v. 3 – Find this poster at the Cambridge KiOSK in Harvard Square
Cozette Russell’s interdisciplinary practice is rooted in photography and sculpture. Using self-portraiture to excavate a gesture or moment, she constructs photographs that build duration through layers of cutting, projecting, and rephotographing. She also hand-punches braille onto photographic surfaces, creating tactile sculptures that invite touch and alternative ways of reading photographs.
Q: What’s this piece about?
A: In Antigone v.3, I’m summoning the presence of Sophocles’ Antigone. In the collage, a fractured figure is kept behind a surface or veil. Framing the figure are vignettes of hands busy moving sheets of paper. I’m inspired by Anne Carson’s Antigonick, a timely retelling of Antigone. I’m thinking about this proto‑feminist heroine, who dares to speak truth to power. Through collage, the image of the figure is cut and repaired; the paper is pinned in place, fragile, and could be undone.
Q: What have you learned about your creative practice in recent years?
A: Listen to the seemingly random ideas that pop up in your thoughts and dreams, or when falling asleep, and always write them down, then bring them into the studio!
Q: What is a piece of advice you would give to your past self as a young artist?
A: Make work across many mediums.
Q: Where is your favorite public art piece in the area?
A: A little off the radar, on Linden Street in Cambridge, the artist Katarina Burin created concrete sculptures in front of the Linden Street Studios that can also be used as seating. I love when public art or art in a landscape creates a space for community, and that’s just what these sculptures do.
Nicolas Touron
2 Persons – Find this poster at the Harvard Ed Portal
Born in France Nicolas Touron is a New York City based artist He received his MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York and was a 2001 recipient of a Fullbright Scholarship. He studied Sculpture, ceramic and audio visual at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam during is BFA.
Long before their capitalization by Disney and on-screen animators, tales were told to children for a much more serious purpose. This narrative form, best exemplified in stories like “Hansel and Gretel,” served to prepare the young for a life of malnutrition, disease, poverty and exploitation at the hands of feudal lords. Nicolas works are visual fables, but contrary to the classic fables, his pass no blame, contain no call to action, and offer no solutions. They simply exist on landscapes of absurdity, collapsing and deforming due to a lack of objectives and destinations.
Touron’s quixotic narratives, are situated in abstracted microcosms and laced with colorful confections and bubble-gum landscapes, not surprising choices considering his past as a professional chef in Paris and Amsterdam.
G.Q: What’s this piece about?
A: 2012 oil paint on wood panel.
Q: What have you learned about your creative practice in recent years?
A: Transform it and transform it again.
Q: What is a piece of advice you would give to your past self as a young artist?
A: Start to create earlier.
Q: Where is your favorite public art piece in the area?
A: Os Gemeos mural in Dewey Square in Boston
Q: What is your dream art project to work on?
A: 3d clay printing a house.
Q: What’s your favorite way to spend a day off?
A: Visiting the Brooklyn Botanic garden.
Q: You’re hosting book club next. What is everybody reading?
A: Anything by Henry Bergson
Yi Cynthia Chen
Seeking to Live – Find this poster at Pavement Coffeehouse
Yi Cynthia Chen is an interdisciplinary painter. Her work explores the history of painting, ranging from early Chinese frescoes and ink paintings on scrolls to oil paintings and painting’s relationship to photography. Chen questions contemporary relationships of representation through the the lens of psychology, ecology, and culture-making.
Chen is an SMFA Traveling Fellow and is currently studying representations of suffering and joy in Mogao Grottoes. Chen was selected as one of Artsy’s AAPI in Focus artists in 2026 and curated Willful Dialects: Asian American x Diaspora x Boston in 2025.
Q: What’s this piece about?
A: Seeking to Live is a mind landscape and grapples with the myths and hopes of transformation and change. The sunflower moves from a wilted state to two dimensional success, finally breaking free from the wall itself.
The flower’s goal is only to survive and this endeavor in and of itself is viewed as a worthy goal.
Q: Where else can we find your work?
A: I’ll be in a group show at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago which opens September 19 for a year. This is an exciting group of artists who are exploring one’s relationship to farming and land. It is in this wonderful context in Chicago’s Chinatown, where I am able to share my sculptural painting Footprint that expresses my diasporic relationship to my Hakka background.
Q: What have you learned about your creative practice in recent years?
Q: What is a piece of advice you would give to your past self as a young artist?
A: The best part of being an artist is that you don’t have to fit in, the whole point is to think outside the box and to explore new ideas. So my advice is to embrace and not shame the parts of yourself that feel different, flawed, incoherent, unaligned. It’s impossible to have all the ducks in a row at the same time, and sometimes I still get caught up in wondering how I can show up as my best self in all areas of my life. During difficult times, I get hyper fixated on areas that I can improve. Instead I’m trying to focus on what I *am* doing well as personal positive reinforcement.
Aster Martel Reid
Stellers Jay Decay – Find this poster at the Harvard Science and Engineering Complex
Aster Martel Reid is an illustrator and storyteller from the Canadian Pacific Northwest with a passion for natural science. They are currently based in Boston while finishing the final year of their BFA in Illustration alongside a Minor in Creative Writing. With an emphasis on comics, zines, and risograph printing, they explore the duality of decay and growth in the organic world alongside narratives drawn from the diverse experiences of queer identity, chronic illness, and mental health.
Their prints, paintings, and book arts have been exhibited at the Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland as well as at Spontaneous Celebrations in JP and the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where they also won the 2025 Illustration Department Best in Show and help run the MassArt Zine Scene. Their illustrations have been featured in various publications, including the annual Zine Scene Anthology and their work as a Publishing Design Assistant and illustrator at 826 Boston.
Q: What’s this piece about?
A: This piece was originally risograph printed in Black, Blue, Yellow, and Kelly Green and was inspired by a juvenile Steller’s Jay that hit my window and died the day before my high school graduation ceremony. I climbed out onto the roof, carried him to a shoebox, and buried him in my yard. When I came home the next summer after a difficult first year at college, I went back to that little marked grave to clean and honor his bones, only to find them completely decomposed. Ever since this experience, I’ve thinking a lot about the transfer of life as organic energy and the dead that feed the earth around us; when I pick the mushrooms that grow incessantly in my backyard, I wonder if a ghost of this bird still exists in the mycelium beneath my feet.
Q: Where is your favorite public art piece in the area?
Q: What have you learned about your creative practice in recent years?
Q: What is a piece of advice you would give to your past self as a young artist?
A: Try your best to let go of perfectionism. It is a tricky tool that can be wielded with practice and patience, but it’s unruly and will eat you alive if you let it. Also, don’t let yourself feel silly for drawing things that bring you joy. Somebody out there will find joy in them too.
Jonathan Pinto
High Fashion – Find this poster at Allstonway
Jonathan Pinto is a Boston area visual artist working across film photography, collage, printmaking, and mixed media to explore the complexities of human experience and capture glimpses of our individual and collective humanness. Much of his collage work specifically leans into absurdity and whimsy to examine the contradictions and sometimes ridiculousness of contemporary life, while his figurative works deal with themes of memory, experience, and identity.
Q: What’s this piece about?
A: Most of my collage work explores themes of absurdity and whimsy, particularly in relation to contemporary life. This piece focuses on luxury, consumption, and vanity, meant to be both comical and jarring.
Q: What have you learned about your creative practice in recent years?
Q: What is a piece of advice you would give to your past self as a young artist?
A: Stop treating your art supplies as precious. Use them, use them, use them.
Q: Who is your favorite Boston artist to follow?
Q: Where else can we find your work?
A: My studio is in Boston’s south end neighborhood and I love visitors, whether at open studios or a scheduled drop-in. I am a member of both the Salem Arts Association, and the United South End Artists Association.
Pamela Acosta
Ghost Musician – Find this poster at the Honan-Allston Library
Pamela Acosta Hernández is a Mexican artist from the borderlands along the Rio Grande Valley. She draws on dreams of flourishing inner lives & creates visual narratives about a myriad of beings, quests and the symbiotic relationships formed between beings and their environments, exploring how we construct, transform and are transmuted by our surroundings. In addition to her own artistic & publishing practice she strives to create spaces for others to explore diy publishing & share their work. She is the co-host of a zine club at her local library & one of the organizers of the Winter Exquisite Zine Fest in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Q: What’s this piece about?
A: It’s the first in a series of pieces depicting ghosts outside of the usual horror settings. In this instance we see a ghost with a love of music & flora practicing harp near its familiar. This was one of the first pieces I worked on as I recovered from tendinitis. Usually my work is done with very fine brush pens & is characterized by lots of details. During my recovery, I couldn’t sustain the tension of my usual inking. I had to pivot to thinking & drawing in far looser terms. The result, Ghost Musician, brought me so much joy as I made my way back to drawing & painting.
Q: What have you learned about your creative practice in recent years?
Q: What is a piece of advice you would give to your past self as a young artist?
A: Never stop drawing & experiment with as many materials as you can.
Q: What is your dream art project to work on?
A: I’m currently very excitedly working on an art book called Baba Yaga’s Neighborhood. I’d also love to illustrate picture books one day!
Q: Where else can we find your work?
A: If you have a library card you can request some of my zines through the commonwealth catalog! I also participate in zine fests & art book fairs primarily in New England & ocasionally around the country. You can follow me on social media to stay in the loop about upcoming shows & new projects.
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