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JoyWalk
A Fenway Cultural District Art Crawl
Join us on Thursday, May 7th from 4pm-8pm for JoyWalk: A Fenway Cultural District Art Crawl. Admission at all participating locations is free of charge. Please NOTE: Check the exhibition list below for the most up-to-date gallery and exhibition times and information!
*Massachusetts Historical Society will be closing for a private event at 4PM. Start your JOYWALK early here for a terrific exhibition: "1776: Declaring Independence."
New to JOYWALK 2026
Edgerly Plaza: Junkyard + Carcass Art Market
Vendors, music, and more. Your chance to take home Art!
Visit the JOYWALK info table for free tickets to the MFA!
https://www.fenwayculture.org/edgerly-plaza
Berklee Art Windows: In collaboration with the Winsor School, check out student art on Mass Ave!
YMCA Huntington Ave: Portraits of community members by YMCA Huntington Avenue teens accompanied with an audio reading via QR Code.
Walking Tour of the Fenway: Join Fenway resident and "Urban Detective" Ed Ballo for two public art walking tours. Registration is required. See below for link to register.
See below for Gallery & Exhibition Information!
Join Fenway’s own “Urban Detective” for 2 Public Art Walking Tours.
Registration required.
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Tour 1
Ed Ballo
Tour 1 will focus on the "East Fens". Historical and prehistoric foundations of the Massachusett peoples. Sights include the Christian Science Complex, Fenway-Boylston Street Historic District (Johnson Gates), row houses. Urban Planning initiatives of the late 19th century, "Beaux-Art" architecture and urban planning.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Tour 2
Ed Ballo
Tour 2 will have a "West Fens" focus. Starting at the John Boyle O'Reilly Statue. Olmstead's Vision, the Back Bay Fens as water management and urban amenity along with subsequent additions and degradations of the water plane in the late 20th century.
