Interconnected
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<p>Photo Credit: Kris Snibbe/Harvard Staff Photographer</p>
<p>A front side view, looking up at a roughly 3 story-building painted with a dark green background. The first story of the building is wider than the upper stories. On the dark green background are creatures like a hummingbird, butterfly, flower, and more, with different colored lines connecting them all.</p>
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<p>Photo Credit: Drew Katz, Graffito</p>
<p>A front side view, looking down at a roughly 3 story-building painted with a dark green color background. The first story of the building is wider than the upper stories. On the dark green background are creatures like a hummingbird, butterfly, flower, and more, with different colored lines connecting them all.</p>
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<p>Photo Credit: Rose Lincoln/Harvard Staff Photographer</p>
<p>The mural Interconnected is reflected on the windows of the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science Building at Harvard University.</p>
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<p>Photo Credit: Drew Katz, Graffito</p>
<p>The artist, Sophy Tuttle, is sitting down in front of her signature on the mural. She is wearing a gray beanie, red and black plaid shirt, jeans, and brown boots.</p>
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Sophy Tuttle Walls on Western Mural
Interconnected
Location: 135 Western Ave., Allston (Old New England Deposit Library building)
In October 2020, Zone 3 worked with Boston-based artist Sophy Tuttle, to transform the facade of the old New England Deposit Library at 135 Western Avenue. This project contributed to Walls on Western, a mural-focused public art program of Zone 3 intended to highlight Boston area artists with a connection to Allston and Brighton. Sophy's nature-focused mural takes up more than 3,000 sq ft, making the 7th mural in the series the largest one yet.
Interconnected is a joyful reminder that, as Tuttle says, we—humans, hummingbirds, succulents, butterflies, and all of our fellow creatures—are all deeply dependent on each other. This 3,000 sq ft mural is painted on a building erected at the turn of the century to house the New England Deposit Library, which once held the overflow of research materials from both Harvard and other research collections around the region.
Walls on Western is a mural-focused public art program run by Zone 3 to highlight Boston area artists with a connection to Allston-Brighton.
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Interconnected