Northeastern Hidden Worlds
Spring  2017

Nate Swain, a  multidisciplinary artist based in Boston,  often creates ephemeral, guerilla-style  street art.  He focuses on transforming public spaces in  unexpected  ways.

Swain, a self-taught artist trained in landscape architecture,  also wants to inspire  children  to paint giant murals, which is why his work at  Northeastern’s  Russell J. Call Children’s Center—the university’s on-campus preschool in Boston—is particularly fitting. He  turned  a concrete retaining wall at  the  Children’s Center playground  into  a series of  nature  scenes  that include a forest, mountains, and  a house with a stream running  under a bridge. He describes  the  mural as  “an arcade of hidden worlds to inspire  curiosity and wonder.”