The Metropolitan Area Planning Council is a regional planning agency serving the people who live and work in the 101 cities and towns of Metropolitan Boston. Our mission is to promote smart growth and regional collaboration.

We work toward sound municipal management, sustainable land use planning, protection of natural resources, efficient and affordable transportation, a diverse housing stock, public safety, economic development, an informed public, and equity and opportunity among people of all backgrounds. Our regional plan, “MetroFuture,” guides our work and engages the public in responsible stewardship of the region’s future.

MAPC is governed by representatives from each city and town in our region, as well as gubernatorial appointees and designees of major public agencies. Each municipality in our region belongs to one of eight MAPC Subregions, led by an MAPC staff member and governed by appointees from each city and town.

Metropolitan Area Planning Council

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council seeks an Arts and Culture Data and Planning Intern to contribute to a unique inventory of creative space developed for Boston, Cambridge and Somerville as part of the Making Space for Art Project, to support other projects to organize, compile, and simplify regional arts data, and to compile information about arts and culture planning and policy across the region to inform a regional arts assessment.

The intern, working in the agency’s Arts & Culture Department and in collaboration with staff in the agency‘s Data Services Department, will collect information about creative spaces in the region through research and outreach to municipal staff and...

Arts and Culture Data & Planning Intern

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