Zone 3

Zone 3 is a Harvard-sparked initiative to further activate and energize Western Ave with creative programs, events, and retail.

Zone 3 is a Harvard-sparked initiative dedicated to energizing and activating spaces in Allston and beyond through vibrant creative programs, dynamic events, experimental retail, and compelling public art.

09/09/2026

Save the dates to dance! 🤠🗓️ Everybody Dance Now returns in two weeks from today! We’re bringing our friends from 617 Country back to The Grove for six more weeks of outdoor line dancing while the weather is still dreamy.

If you joined with us last season, come back and learn some new moves. If you’ve never tried line dancing before, now’s your chance! Come solo or grab a partner and spend Wednesday evenings outside with us.

📍 The Grove (N. Harvard St & Western Ave)
🗓 Wednesdays starting September 23
🕕 6:00–7:30 PM
🎟️ $10 per class
Tickets will be on sale online soon, or you can always grab one at the door! Stay tuned at hellozone3.com/dance

08/14/2026

🗞️ One last spotlight for Volume 24! 🐸 Meet Lionel J. Frogby (the “J” stands for “just a little guy”), the lovable adventurer created by artist Alexandra Gallant-Lee. In this playful mixed-media piece, Frogby journeys through a winding forest creek, meeting a few fellow creatures along the way.

Alexandra Gallant-Lee is an award-winning cartoonist, illustrator, sculptor, and science communicator whose colorful work is fueled by science, nature, technology, and curiosity.

Please note: All of our Volume 24 prints are out in the world, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. Grab your quarters and collect your favorites while you still can. 👀 If you missed your opportunity we’ll be back with Volume 25 this fall.

🔗 Explore the artists and bin locations at hellozone3.com/artinprint

08/13/2026

👋 Over the past ten years, we’ve been here to bring people together through public art, creative programming, dynamic events and neighborhood happenings.

We’ll continue to make space for connection and a little experimentation along the way.

Join us for an event, make something with us, share your work, or just follow along to see what pops up next.

📍 Find us at Zone 3
🔗 Explore more at hellozone3.com

08/06/2026

🎣🪁 Have you found the eel yet? Sadie Saunders’s print began with a simple idea: draw something delightful. Inspired by a love of eels and dramatic lighting, the result is a playful scene that’s hard not to smile at.

Sadie Saunders is a cartoonist, educator, and community organizer whose work centers joy, humor, and storytelling.

📍 Find this poster at Harvard SEAS
🔗 Learn about the artists and bin locations at hellozone3.com/artinprint

07/31/2026

Headed to the Rat City Arts Festival this weekend at the The Charles River Speedway? Don’t forget to bring a few quarters. 🪙🐀 Just down the street at Pavement Coffeehouse, you can pick up Cat and Mouse by Freddy Thomas.

With playful shapes and plenty of personality, this whimsical composition is strange, charming, and a reminder that art can simply be fun.

Freddy Thomas is a q***r interdisciplinary artist working across printmaking, fibers, and installation.

📍 Find this poster at Pavement Coffeehouse.

🔗 Learn more about the artists and find all Art in Print locations at hellozone3.com/artinprint

07/27/2026

👋 Hi there! You may have noticed some changes around here. After more than 10 years of activating and energizing Western Avenue, our community has grown well beyond it. That’s why we’ve moved to Zone 3 and hellozone3.com, an online home that better reflects our mission.

New name. Same Zone 3. We’re still bringing people together through creative programming, events, and public art.

✨ Follow us here Zone 3
🌐 Visit us at hellozone3.com

07/24/2026

Beautiful summer weekends are made for exploring. ☀️ Pick up a poster, discover a new neighborhood, and support local artists along the way.

Meet Volume 24 artist Isabelle Higgins. 🍜🌊 A Feast began as one of Isabelle’s first experiments with gouache and painting water. Created during a period of uncertainty, the self-portrait became a playful and hopeful way back into making art.

Isabelle is a Boston-based painter whose work explores atmosphere, color, and imagination.

📍 Find this poster at the Harvard Ed Portal.
🔗 Learn about all the artists and bin locations at hellozone3.com/artinprint

07/17/2026

🗞️✨ Art in Print bins have been restocked!

We’ve just refilled all of our Art in Print bins with the remaining batch of Volume 24 posters. If you’ve been meaning to start your collection, or you’re still hunting for a favorite, now’s the time to get out and explore. Once these prints are gone, they’re gone!

Meet Saira Munshani whose print, Working Theory, brings together science, nature, and storytelling to explore how knowledge evolves over time. A growing plant winds through competing scientific models, connecting discovery, curiosity, and the natural world.

Here and there is a mixed-media artist whose work bridges science and lived experience. She’s drawn to the patterns that show up at every scale, such as branching, symmetry, recursion, and iteration. Using discarded materials and outdated textbooks, she works mostly in collage and watercolor.

📍 Find this poster at the Harvard Office for the Arts.

🔗 Learn about all the artists and find bin locations at zone3westernave.com/artinprint

07/10/2026

🍉🥝🍊 What might fruit look like in the future? Leah Netsky’s Triangular Melons imagine a world where cultivation and creativity reshape the foods we know. Part science fiction, part playful observation, the piece comes from her ongoing Future Fruit series.

Leah Netsky uses photographs as a material to create larger works. Pairing images with other images, as well as digital or mechanical processes and products, she explores the growing interaction between animal and plant life, science, and technology.

📍Find this poster at The Grove before it’s gone!
🔗 Learn about the artists and bin locations at zone3westernave.com/artinprint

07/01/2026

Now on view: Gardens by Lamees Rahman 🌷🌳

This immersive ART SCRIM is built from thousands of fragments, colors, textures, prints, and patterns assembled into vibrant, layered landscapes. Drawing from Bangladeshi woodblock printing, monotype techniques, and digital processes, the work creates imagined ecosystems filled with movement, energy, and discovery.

Lamees Rahman is a Bangladeshi interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores the intersection of printmaking and new media through abstraction. Her work invites viewers to experience color, texture, and form intuitively, creating moments of curiosity and wonder.

📍 On view along Memorial Drive surrounding the Eliot House at Harvard University. 🔗 See more at zone3westernave.com/art-scrim

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267 Western Avenue
Boston, MA
02134

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