Alewife (MBTA Station) - Arts On The Line

Arts On The Line

As a part of the Red Line Northwest Extension, Alewife 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.

Six of the original twenty artworks are located at Alewife station. These works are:

• Untitled by Richard Fleischner - A 3-acre (12,000 m2) large environmental work containing an artificial pond and large granite blocks
• Untitled by David Davidson - 200 feet (61 m) of abstractly painted, light blue tiles arranged in various ways
• Alewife Cows by Joel Janowitz - A mural of a false exit to the bus terminal with cows grazing in a pasture outside.
• Untitled (Kiss and Ride) by William Keyser, Jr. - Two sculptural benches
• The End of the Red Line by Alejandro and Moira Sina - 1000 neon art tubes suspended from the ceiling of the station directly over one of the tracks
• Untitled by Nancy Webb - 100 6" square tiles scattered throughout the station lobby with low relief images of plants and animals found in the Alewife Brook Reservation