Public Art for Spatial Justice Info Session

Public Art for Spatial Justice (PASJ) provides grants of $15,000 to $30,000 to support public artmaking in Massachusetts that helps us see, feel, experience and imagine spatial justice now, while we are still on this journey towards realizing more just futures for our public spaces and public culture.

This virtual info session is designed for folks interested in applying for NEFA’s PASJ opportunity. Hear reflections from recent grantee Anastaci Pacella , who received a PASJ grant in 2023 for with the Arts and Justice Collective in Hyannis, MA. Attendees will also hear more about PASJ from NEFA staff and have time to ask questions.

Registration is required. A zoom link will be emailed after you register. Automated closed captioning will be provided. Please let us know if you have any accessibility accommodation requests that would support your participation in this session in the comment section of the Zoom webinar.

With artist Anastaci Pacella

Co-Executive Director, Curator, and Founder, the Cordial Eye (visual artist + educator) 

Anastaci Pacella is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works as an artist in Barnstable. Anastaci received her BFA of Art Education from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an MFA of Visual Art at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has participated in and curated exhibitions in Vermont , Pittsburgh, and on Cape Cod. Anastaci’s work explores questions about the female gaze, sensuality, and domesticity. 

Anastaci founded The Cordial Eye in 2019 in part due to a need to display her own, somewhat scandalous work, but mostly because she sensed a need in the community for a space for people who have been left out of the dominant culture on the Cape. She is deeply committed to creating the Cape she needed when she was young and a space of belonging for the weird, the smart, the creative, and the cast aside.