+ Pressure-treated wood framing and plywood, welded steel tube, hardware, paint / 2022
+ Installed at Mary Soo Hoo Park, Boston Chinatown, MA
+ Commissioned by the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy and the Pao Arts Center
Engineering: SGH
Fabrication + Installation: Sunset Park Fabrications
Drone photography by Chris Rucinski
Thanks to Sheila Novak, Audrey Lopez & the Greenway team, Cynthia Woo & the Pao Arts Center team, and the Soo Hoo sisters!
YEAR OF THE TIGER is a community pavilion and a site-specific public artwork composed of vibrantly colored seating, podium "stages" and a sprawling ground mural. Originally installed in Mary Soo Hoo Park, the installation leapt across the plaza, embodying the dynamic and bold spirit of the tiger-- the year’s Chinese zodiac animal. As both stage and seating, YEAR OF THE TIGER creates a new, intergenerational hub to gather outdoors, perform, or engage in public programs.
YEAR OF THE TIGER honors the legacy of Mary Soo Hoo, for whom the park was named, who was a longtime resident of Boston Chinatown and an ardent community advocate who dedicated decades of her life to forging public and recreational spaces in Boston’s Chinatown.
The pavilion creates a site for public programs and for casual encounters, gathering and hanging out. The goal of the artwork has been to create human connection and to make a longer-lasting contribution to public space. The artwork has been reinstalled permanently on the rooftop playground at local Chinatown elementary school, Josiah Quincy Elementary School.
+ Installed at Mary Soo Hoo Park, Boston Chinatown, MA
+ Commissioned by the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy and the Pao Arts Center
Engineering: SGH
Fabrication + Installation: Sunset Park Fabrications
Drone photography by Chris Rucinski
Thanks to Sheila Novak, Audrey Lopez & the Greenway team, Cynthia Woo & the Pao Arts Center team, and the Soo Hoo sisters!
YEAR OF THE TIGER is a community pavilion and a site-specific public artwork composed of vibrantly colored seating, podium "stages" and a sprawling ground mural. Originally installed in Mary Soo Hoo Park, the installation leapt across the plaza, embodying the dynamic and bold spirit of the tiger-- the year’s Chinese zodiac animal. As both stage and seating, YEAR OF THE TIGER creates a new, intergenerational hub to gather outdoors, perform, or engage in public programs.
YEAR OF THE TIGER honors the legacy of Mary Soo Hoo, for whom the park was named, who was a longtime resident of Boston Chinatown and an ardent community advocate who dedicated decades of her life to forging public and recreational spaces in Boston’s Chinatown.
The pavilion creates a site for public programs and for casual encounters, gathering and hanging out. The goal of the artwork has been to create human connection and to make a longer-lasting contribution to public space. The artwork has been reinstalled permanently on the rooftop playground at local Chinatown elementary school, Josiah Quincy Elementary School.
