In the fall of 1989 a small group of Boston-based environmental artists, landscape architects and architects began meeting once a month over potluck dinners to discuss forming a group of like-minded professionals concerned with organizing exhibitions of site-specific work on parcels of land in and around Boston that appeared to be overlooked, ruined and forgotten. In investigating the parcels that interested us, we found they were hardly overlooked! They were located in areas contained within a massive highway construction project, the Central Artery Project (CAP): the largest highway-building program in the United States to date (Fig. 1). We continued to meet, reviewing our organizational options and reviewing the CAP plans as they became available through public hearings and public design reviews. We visited the CAP offices to look at the models and maps, and we attended meetings sponsored by those communities most directly impacted by the project. The more we became involved, the more committed we became to reclaiming these parcels for public debate through exhibitions on and about them. We called ourselves Reclamation Artists (RA) and decided on a few guidelines. Membership would be open to all artists interested in participating and an annual fee of $30 was to be charged of each participant ($10 for students) to be used for general exhibition expenses. We strongly affirmed that no curatorial decisions would be allowed; exhibitors were free to present whatever they wished. We asked an experienced arts administrator, Ann Graham, to oversee the group, collect dues, assign tasks, mail the minutes and act as our representative for fundraising and information gathering. Since the two sites in which we were interested were already under construction, Graham contacted the necessary agents for permission to use the sites on long weekends (so our exhibitions would not interfere with construction work). Tasks for each exhibition included publicity, documentation, creation of maps and signs, clean-up and the preparation of an inexpensive catalog. Since 1990, RA has produced five exhibitions: three on Site #1, one on Site #2 and one at Boston's Government Center Plaza, as part of the annual convention of the American Institute of Architects in June 1992 [2]. This last exhibition was the only collaborative work done by RA members; the remainder were made either by individuals or by teams of two or three.