Artemisia Luk is the 2026 arts and culture reporting fellow.
She previously worked at Brookline.News as an arts columnist, social media producer, and freelance photojournalist.
Her interest in storytelling began with a camera. For the past decade, she has documented local stories focused on community, personal identity, and the arts. Her work has been featured in GBH, NBC Boston, and Boston Magazine.
Artemisia studied Media Arts & Sciences at Wellesley College and completed a documentary short film program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She enjoys being near bodies of water and the color blue.
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50 years of art-inspired floral installations at the MFA
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts' annual spring tradition "Art in Bloom" pairs floral arrangements with art in the museum’s collection. In honor of the anniversary, 50 objects across the museum’s...
What does the city sound like? This festival wants you to walk to find out
Produced by the Harvard ArtLab and artist-researcher Jacek Smolicki, the Walking Festival of Sound features a lineup of 19 soundwalks, listening sessions and talks from local artists and practitioners. The...
Three Greater Boston artists receive $75,000 awards
Tomashi Jackson, Yu-Wen Wu and Lucy Kim make up the new cohort of Wagner arts fellows. The fellowship is designed to build the artists’ practices and continue making socially engaged...
Boston Fleet's Olympians get hero's welcome from fans
Four Boston-based Olympians received a hero's welcome Monday, as hundreds of fans crowded the top floor of the Prudential Center to see the ice hockey medalists.
Local artist Rixy selected as next Dewey Square muralist
This year, The Greenway Conservancy sought proposals responding to the country’s upcoming 250th anniversary. The selection panel unanimously chose Rixy’s fantastical depiction of a lesser known part of American history....
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Boston City Hall turns into a street snowboarding competition, drawing thousands
Despite snowfall and grey skies, the Red Bull Heavy Metal competition brought thousands of onlookers to Boston City Hall this past weekend before the nor’easter. The emcee’s shouts, crowd’s cheers...
6 ways to eat, craft and dance your way through Lunar New Year
Feb. 17 marked the start of the Lunar New Year and the Year of the Horse. Boston offers plenty of celebrations featuring traditional foods, arts and crafts and several lion...
‘Souper Bowl’ in Roxbury swaps footballs for bowls of soup
Haley House is teaming up with Massachusetts College of Art and Design and local restaurants for their largest community fundraiser. The Souper Bowl, happening this Sunday, Feb. 15 at Hibernian...
Inside the year‑long restoration of a 16th century painting
A world-renowned Chinese conservator and a Somerville conservation studio completed a complicated restoration of a Chinese scroll painting. “The Immortal Magu: A Sixteenth Century Painting Up Close” is on view...
Dance and sculpture defy gravity in ‘Noli Timere’
Sculptor Janet Echelman returns to Boston with a bold, innovative collaboration with choreographer Rebecca Lazier and composer Jorane. Noli Timere runs from Jan. 29 through Feb. 1 at the Emerson...