Porter (MBTA Station) - Arts On The Line

Arts On The Line

As a part of the Red Line Northwest Extension, Porter was included as one of the stations involved in the Arts on the Line program, 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 works, five of which remain, were placed at Porter:

• Gift of the Wind by Susumu Shingu, a 46-foot tall kinetic sculpture with three large red "wings" that rotate the structure in response to the wind
• Ondas by Carlos Dorrien, a 24-foot tall piece of undulating granite affixed to the station wall both inside the station and outside
• Glove Cycle by Mags Harries, a large number of bronze gloves of varying types and sizes scattered inside the station, including on one of the escalators
• Untitled by William Reimann, six granite bollards with various ethnic designs carved into them
• Porter Square Megaliths by David Phillips, four boulders with large "slices" removed and replaced with bronze casts of the missing pieces
• The Lights at the End of the Tunnel by William Wainwright, a large reflective mobile in the station's mezzanine. It was removed after a lead weight fell off in 1993.