Join us for a community gathering on Saturday, October 19 at The Grove

The Zone 3 Community Sketchbook, located at The Grove in Allston (Western Ave & N. Harvard St across from Trader Joes) is a publicly accessible green space that was reimagined in 2022 as a new community asset to foster experimentation, practice, and self-expression. 

On Saturday, October 19 join us to turn the page on the sketchbook as local artists Caoin O’Durgy, Gregg Bernstein, Kristen Giuliano, and Meagan O’Brien bring their unique styles to complement the existing murals by Allston-Brighton artists Nell Valle and Tianna Rivera.

Watch as the mural comes to life with the artists at work, enjoy donuts and apple cider, and groove to the music of A Trike Called Funk. Additionally, unleash your creativity by participating in an art activity inspired by the mural.

Caoin O’Durgy

Originally from Ogden, UT, Caoin O’Durgy moved to the Boston area to get his degree in Illustration from MassArt. Today, Caoin works as a high school math teacher while expanding his creative career through public art. In the next year, he hopes to launch The Good Boy Collective – a collective aimed at supporting artists through access to tools, funding for merch making, and the logistical objects needed for art vending.

Gregg Bernstein

Gregg Bernstein is a muralist with over twenty years of experience enriching Boston’s communities through vibrant public art. His work, which reflects local history and culture, can be seen throughout nearly every neighborhood in the city. As the Assistant Director of the City of Boston’s Mayor’s Mural Crew, he has collaborated with hundreds of teens, believing that community-driven art fosters belonging and transforms spaces. Inspired by his skateboarder roots in the 1980s, Gregg draws from skateboard graphics, graffiti, global letterforms, and the Mexican muralist movement. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art with a BFA in printmaking, he continues to leave a lasting mark on Boston’s neighborhoods.

Kristen Giuliano

Kristen Giuliano is the Founder and Creative Director of Giuliano Design Co., a Boston-based mural and design company. She’s passionate about working with organizations and small businesses to transform their spaces through large-scale art and design.

Meagan O’Brien

Meagan O’Brien is an illustrator and artist based in Revere, MA. She creates playful, bold and colorful art and has worked on a huge range of projects from packaging and advertising to large murals. She works primarily in acrylic and digitally to create illustrations. In 2024 she created the brand Ohello Boston which focuses on art capturing iconic places, community, and urban life in Boston, MA. When she isn’t drawing you’ll often find her socializing at community events, traveling to far off places, or walking to get ice cream on Revere Beach.

A Trike Called Funk

A Trike Called Funk is a Boston-based creative venture co-founded in July 2021 by MC & Dance Lead Aaron Myers and DJ Edward Galan, whose community-based activations feature music genres & dance forms spanning the African Diaspora in the Americas–from Funk to Hip Hop and Salsa to Samba.