Northeastern Grad Featured In Dedham's Legacy Place's Art Post

DEDHAM, MA — Legacy Place is offering an alternative to the Zoom calls and Facetimes we all may be getting sick of this year, and is attempting to bring back snail mail.

Having its first debut back in March with a design by local Dedham resident and New York Times best-selling author and illustrator, Peter H. Reynolds, Legacy Place’s new Art Post initiative has the center partnering with local artists on free seasonal postcards, each one raising awareness for a different charity.

In honor of Pride Month, Legacy Place’s new Art Post postcard was created in partnership with Youth on Fire, a program of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts.

The newest Art Post postcard features the work of Molly O’Neill, a Northeastern grad, an award-winning graphic designer, muralist and small business owner (Fred&Co.), and a proud part of the LGBTQIA+ community.

"I came out when I was twenty four, and since then I have been deeply lucky and privileged to find acceptance from almost everyone in my life. When working on this project, I was able to reflect on how being a part of the LGBTQIA+ community has made my life even fuller than I ever thought someone’s life could be."

(Legacy Place, Maggie O'Neill)

For this piece, the text reads "That big kind of love that people always talk about." O'Neill says, "This captures the freedom, openness, and acceptance I have found as I continue to come into my identity as a queer woman. I have found love in a way that we always see in movies, not only for and from my partner, but from my family, the community I get to be a part of, and most importantly--for myself.”

All postcards can be picked up at Legacy Place from the Art Post box in front of Kendra Scott, (across from Banana Republic).