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The Hurley K2 and 1st grade students have just begun their classes through the Children’s Art Centre’s Studio Arts In-School Residency! We are so excited to continue to partner with the Hurley School and build on last year’s work! Stay tuned for frequent updates… This fall, K2 is exploring the unit Our Community and focusing especially […]

Sculpture in the Park Opening Reception  will take place on Saturday October 11th from 1 – 3 pm at Franklin Square Park in Boston’s South End. Participating artists include: Andrea Zampitella “What remains of a home?” refers to the text in Gaston Bachelards “Poetics of Space.” Bachelard speaks to the primitive feelings of pleasure and […]

For those who missed the Children’s Art Centre Centennial Celebration pARTy on September, 23rd or would just like to relive it, enjoy this video from WGBH. The video features WGBH’s Jared Bowen as host, Katie Getchell, Deputy Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, USES Board Member Bill Meserve, and the presentation of the Centennial […]

Session 4 of the Summer Arts Program at the Children’s Art Centre means summer is almost over! We kept ourselves busy with these fun projects: Building Our City Working collaboratively, the Calder Kids created visual representations of buildings they know and used their imagination to envision new buildings and ways of organizing a community. This […]

Young artists at the Children’s Art Centre have been busy during our Summer Arts Program. Check out our projects from Session 3: Sewing Shape Monsters Students used their imaginations to create an invented animal and thought about what abilities or qualities it would have. Using fine motor skills, students planned the basic shapes they needed, […]

If you have walked by the Children’s Art Centre this summer, you will notice how busy our young artists have been making and exploring art techniques. Here are a few things we learned over the past two weeks: Paper Construction: Scrap materials are always available for students to experiment with and are a good way […]