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35 temporary banners across Ames Street Memorial Drive Main Street and Broadway announcing MIT List, New Art on View, Contemporary Art from February 2022 through October 2022. CHARTER RIGHT EXERCISED BY COUNCILLOR CARLONE IN COUNCIL FEBRUARY 28, 2022

How it started
Feb 28, 2022 · Requested by MIT List Visual Arts Center: a request that needs the Council’s permission.
What happened
Feb 28, 2022 · Held by charter right exercised by Councillor Dennis Carlone; the item returns at the next meeting
Mar 7, 2022 · ✅ Adopted: the Council approved it (Order adopted, unanimous)
View the roll call

Voted yes (9), unanimous

  • Paul F. Toner
  • Patty Nolan
  • Burhan Azeem
  • Sumbul Siddiqui
  • Quinton Zondervan
  • Dennis Carlone
  • Marc McGovern
  • E. Denise Simmons
  • Alanna Mallon
Roll call of Mar 7, 2022 · from the city’s record · photos: City of Cambridge
What’s next
🚪 End of the line.
The document Agenda item attachment · 1 page

Dear City Council of Cambridge, On behalf of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, I am writing to apply for new banners on lamp posts: Ames St., Memorial Drive to Main St. (16 poles): 21, 19, M19, M17, M15, M13, M9, M7, M5,

M3, M1, M2, M4, M6, M8, M10

Ames St., Main St. to Broadway (8 poles): 6, 4, 2, M41, M42, M44, M52, M54 Broadway, Ames St. to Third St. (8 poles): M30, M26, M22, M18, M16, M12, M8, M4 Third St., Broadway to Main St. (2 poles): M25, M23 Main St., Third St. to Broadway (1 pole): M21 to direct students and public audiences to the contemporary art museum at MIT.

The banners say: “MIT List Visual Arts Center, Free and Open to All, The Contemporary Art Museum at MIT, Listart.mit.edu, MITList, New Art on View, Contemporary Art.” with our logo and renderings of our public art, building exterior, and exhibition artworks. We intend to attach the banners this February and remove them in October 2022. Banner attachment/removal will be facilitated by Heritage Flag Co. Thank you for your consideration,

Chloe Tomasetta

MIT List Visual Arts Center

Marketing Associate

[phone removed] [email removed]

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Feb 28, 2022