The MLCS’ Grab & Go Produce hub is not a food pantry or food bank, but a community-based affordable produce hub that rescues fresh surplus vegetable and fruits, fairs foods’ network makes it available to households at deeply reduced prices.
A Shared Space for Collective Making and Community Life
East Boston Community Studio is a free, open studio space for collective making, learning, and creative exchange, stewarded by Maverick Landing Community Services (MLCS) as a long-term public resource for the East Boston community.
The studio operates as a cultural infrastructure, supporting connection, expression, and belonging through shared creative practice.
Participation is always free, no prior experience is required, and the space is designed to be inclusive and low-barrier.
Embedded within MLCS, the studio strengthens community life alongside the organization’s broader work supporting stability, access, and wellbeing across East Boston.
Developing the Studio
East Boston Community Studio grew out of MLCS’s collaboration with artist Gabriel Sosa and the Boston Public Art Triennial.
In 2025, as part of a site-specific installation at MLCS, ñ press activated a collective making and publishing practice that invited residents into an open, participatory creative process. From May through October 2025 community members gathered regularly to experiment, create, and contribute work rooted in place and shared authorship.
Participation was organic and sustained. What began as a time-bound installation revealed the need for something more permanent.
As the work evolved, it became clear that it required two distinct but complementary containers. ñ press continues its community-centered publishing practice at MLCS, while East Boston Community Studio now holds the open, collective, drop-in studio practice, led by artist-in-residence Iz Hall who also forms part of the ñ press team.
ñ press
ñ press is a community print studio and publishing platform focused on connection, activism, and education. Launched by artist Gabriel Sosa as part of the inaugural Boston Public Art Triennial, ñ press conceptualizes print as public art, embracing its capacity to circulate in the public space while providing opportunities for shared learning.
Through screenprinting and risography, ñ press produces posters, zines, pamphlets, books, that prioritizes care, solidarity, and social advocacy. In addition to public events, ñ press engages in specialized print initiatives with various groups, organizations, and fellow artists.
ñ press has collaborated with City Life/Vida Urbana, Phillips Brooks House Association at Harvard University, Suffolk University, Eastie Coalition, Tufts University Art Galleries, ICA/Boston, Boston Public Library, MassArt, Boston Scores, Zumix, and Boston Art Review.
Based at MLCS, ñ press consists of Iz Hall, Colomba Klenner, Riley McLaughlin, Nate Bourget, and Gabriel Sosa.
