The Boston Public Art Triennial brings artist Gabriel Sosa’s free community print studio, Ñ Press, to Maverick Landing Community Services
A new wave of creativity has arrived in East Boston with the Boston Public Art Triennial, the city’s first and only dedicated public art organization. As part of its inaugural exhibition, Triennial 2025: The Exchange, the Triennial has brought artist Gabriel Sosa and his community printmaking project Ñ Press to Maverick Landing Community Services (MLCS) in East Boston.
Since opening in May, Ñ Press has been operating as a community print studio that transforms zines, posters, pamphlets, and artist books into vessels of connection, activism, and education. By folding public art into the fabric of everyday life, Sosa seeks to embrace print’s ephemeral nature to dismantle typical barriers to public art.
The project has become a center for collective expression and has invited the community to take part in hands-on artmaking at MLCS every Saturday from 12–6 p.m. with Gabriel and his team offering free access to risograph and screen printing.
Sosa developed Ñ Press in partnership with MLCS—a nonprofit supporting families, youth leadership, and community health across East Boston—in a collaboration that has been essential to its success. With MLCS, Ñ Press has become a gathering space for neighbors to connect and create.
“A lot of my work explores language in different ways, which is shaped by my experience growing up in a bilingual Cuban American household in Miami and later working as an interpreter in the state court system in Boston,” said Gabriel Sosa. “With Ñ Press, I wanted to create something rooted in those ideas but to also be grounded in community, work with youth, and especially be amongst a strong Spanish-speaking population. Opening Ñ Press in East Boston and working with MLCS has been exactly that and more; they’ve been an incredible partner in bringing this project to life and ensuring that it truly belongs to the people who make it.”
The Triennial 2025: The Exchange is an artist-driven and expert-supported initiative pairing exhibiting artists like Sosa with local subject experts and community partners, all with the goal of fostering relationships between artists and the public to create bold public art experiences that open minds, conversations, and spaces across Boston, resulting in a more open, equitable, and vibrant city.
“From the very beginning, Gabriel’s energy and ethos aligned beautifully with our values at MLCS,” said Rita Lara, Executive Director of MLCS. “His work with Ñ Press resonates with our belief in creativity as a force for community connection and healing. The collective art-making that’s been happening in the print studio has been soothing our souls—it’s become a space where young people and adults alike can slow down, experiment, and rediscover joy through hands-on creation. Our youth are not only uncovering traditional printmaking techniques but also exploring how to merge these art forms into their own creative processes using the tools of our makerspace.”
Beyond the studio, Sosa’s bold prints and posters can be spotted around the city—including at the East Boston Public Library, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and the ICA Watershed—extending Ñ Press’s reach beyond the walls of MLCS.
Upcoming Ñ Press open community hours will be held at Maverick Landing Community Services located at 31 Liverpool Street Boston, MA, 02128, on the following dates:
- Saturday, October 18, 12–6 p.m.
- Saturday, October 25, 12–6 p.m.
- Saturday, November 1, 12–6 p.m.
In addition to open community hours, you can also join Ñ Press at MLCS on Wednesday, October 22 from 6:30–8:30pm for Planet Posters, an environmental activism workshop with Colomba Klenner.
