Cate McQuaid

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Activist, public historian, and fiber artist L’Merchie Frazier recovers lost Black histories and stitches community together. Frazier is the executive director of creative strategies and partnerships at SPOKE, a South Boston arts agency focused on healing and social progress. In May, “Call and Response,” a metal sculpture inspired by characteristics of cloth and by her work in holograms, will be installed at a new Roxbury fire station.

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Robert Bennet Forbes and John Murray Forbes, who ran a China trade business with their older brother, Thomas Tunno Forbes, built the Greek Revival house in 1833. “The oldest brother was killed in a typhoon in Southeast Asia when he was 27 years old,” said Lorie Komlyn, the museum’s assistant director. “The two other brothers built this house as a memorial for him,” and placed the heart above the door.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

Artist Merill Comeau started talking to others back in 2022 about Gather 2025, a monthlong series of events in April exploring fiber arts in the Greater Boston area. “I was thinking it would be four events over four weekends,” she said in a phone conversation from her home in West Concord. But interest snowballed. Museums, galleries, groups, and makers jumped in. “Now it’s like 70 events,” Comeau said. When you add opening and closing receptions, it’s closer to 100.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

“Utopian Hotline,” an immersive experience coming to the Museum of Science in May from Theater Mitu, mingles the vast expanse of projections on the Charles Hayden Planetarium’s dome with the hushed intimacy of voices speaking through headphones. Add live performers, and you get a sense of how the Brooklyn-based company bridges theater, sound, art, and technology. They opened a phone hot line at the height of COVID-19, posting flyers on telephone poles.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Cate McQuaid

As department head of violin making and repair at North Bennet Street School for traditional crafts and trades, Roman Barnas likens his teaching to training athletes, “because the body position matters,” he said. “This is muscle memory.”He’s an expert in the craft and history of the instrument. He once collaborated with a team of mechanical engineering scholars from MIT on a paper about the evolution of the violin’s F-shaped sound holes, published in the Royal Society journal in 2015.