Arts On The Line
As a part of the Red Line Northwest Extension, Davis was included as one of the stations involved in the Arts on the Line program. Arts on the Line was devised to bring art into the MBTA's subway stations in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was the first program of its kind in the United States and became the model for similar drives for art across the country.
Four of the original twenty artworks are located at Davis station. These works are:
- Ten Figures by James Tyler - Life-size people created out of cement, placed in areas around Davis Square
- Children's Tile Mural by Jack Gregory and Joan Wye - Many tiles created by children placed on the brick wall of the station mezzanine. In 2009, a group of local artists attempted to find as many of the tile-makers as possible. The schoolchildren are now 35–45 years old
- Poetry by various poets - Lines of poems are embedded into bricks on the station platform floor
- Sculpture With a D by Sam Gilliam - A large scale, brightly colored, abstract work
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