Lillian Hsu

Lillian Hsu has been Director of Public Art and Exhibitions since 2006 at Cambridge Arts, the arts agency for the City of Cambridge, where she manages the Percent-for-Art program and conceives and implements temporary projects in the public domain.  Lillian directs exhibitions and educational projects in the City’s Gallery 344 to deepen public understanding of contemporary issues related to the public domain. In addition, Lillian works with numerous partners in the public and private sectors to support, advocate for, and implement initiatives that bring the arts in a variety of forms into daily life for all.

In 2017 Lillian successfully led a team of artists in a workforce development proposal that was awarded a grant from ArtPlace America to form a radio/podcast studio in the Port neighborhood of Cambridge for building employable sound production skills in young adults. In 2014 Lillian created Let the Public Play (NEA supported), part of multiple efforts with City departments to build a more playful city. These efforts resulted in an Edgar Klugman Award from the Play, Policy and Practice Interest Forum of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. From 2002 to 2005 Lillian administered education and outreach programming, including Public Art ACTS, in collaboration with the Underground Railway Theatre, (NEA supported) and Public Art/Moving Site (NEFA supported), in partnership with New Haven, CT and Bellows Falls, VT, which was awarded one of the best public art projects of 2006 by the Americans for the Arts/Public Art Network.  Lillian is also an artist (www.lillianhsu.net).  She studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Wellesley College.