"Remembering Boston's Children 1980–2005," a mobile artwork memorializing children who were victims of urban violence, is traveling through Boston neighborhoods. Created by Thomas Starr, associate professor of graphic design at Northeastern University, in association with the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute of Boston, and funded through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the artwork transforms an MBTA bus into a rolling memorial. The bus serves passengers on rotating routes and will eventually travel the entire city.

The bus exterior is yellow, to resemble a school bus, and is covered with text recording children's memories of young loved ones lost to violence, accompanied by the dates making clear the brevity of the lost lives. Phrases such as " 'He was cuddly' 1999–2001," are meant, according to Starr, to evoke "loving, positive and cheerful aspects of the children's lives. At first reading they present an uplifting addition to the urban landscape. [But] when the reader realizes why these children are being represented, the work conveys its emotional civic message."