Winners have been selected in a city contest that means empty storefronts citywide could soon become filled with images of a snowbound People’s Republik bar, oppressive edifices or street-level windows, lush beachfront or abstractly rendered autumn leaves. 

From the oil rigs to the crews’ “man-camps,” artist Valery Lyman’s two-day power plant pop-up “Breaking Ground” looks unflinchingly at the oil industry and its workers – in MIT’s little-seen electricity, steam heat and chilled water utilities plant in Cambridge.

Artist and curator Gemica Rosenberg has been organizing “Care”: Workshop and Performances since 2016, investigating how acts of care connect people, and brings it to Harvard Square on Saturday to end Spaceus’ run as a popup gallery.

The city hopes to fill some empty storefronts with the work of local artists, awarding five contest winners $1,000 for the license to original designs that property owners can put up in their windows.

One’s a multilayer interactive experience meant to absorb and regurgitate our urban surroundings; the other is an ominous summation of our ever-changing climate. Both have strong Harvard roots.

The visual arts have a Harvard Square patron of sorts in the developer Regency Centers, enabling a small, temporary boom in gallery space: Susan Miller-Havens has opened a four-month residency at 9 JFK St., and MIT grad startup Spaceus is at 20 Brattle until Jan. 15.

The pop art of the 1950s captured a time of mass consumption, advertising, comic books and Elvis; artist Liliana Marquez offers “re pop art” made from the remains of that mass consumption, where colors are muted but the message is optimistic.

Eleven art projects grouped under the name “Flow” should start trickling through The Port neighborhood soon, named in part for their funding source: a multiyear flood control project.

The second art gallery closing in two months was announced Thursday by the Nave Gallery Annex just outside Somerville’s Davis Square, following the December closing of Out of the Blue Art Gallery Too in Cambridge’s Central Square.

Visual and performing artists in all media are invited to participate in the 10th annual citywide Cambridge Arts Open Studios. Registration opens Jan. 15 and ends March 15, but there are discounts for artists beating an early registration deadline of Feb. 15.