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We welcome proposals from prospective teachers and ideas from students on an ongoing basis, throughout the year.

Call for Proposals

Propose a class in any of the disciplines we offer, for any age group. Prior teaching experience is required. 

Some of our classes emphasize traditional crafts. Others celebrate experimentation. We want to send our students home happy, fulfilled, inspired, ready to do their own work and eager to learn more.   

Join us throughout the year for artists’ talks and arts forums, faculty exhibitions, art sales, concerts, and more.


Craft Schools: Boston Nexus

Join us for our next conversation on craft during Boston Design Week, on May 2nd via zoom.⁠

Boston is a city admired as a nexus of craft. A network of craft schools holds this rich history, supports its current dynamism, and pioneers its future possibilities. These sites of knowledge transfer have long been places that embody educational idealism, and where art, craft, home, and industry converge.

Join MFA curator Michelle Millar Fisher as she moderates a conversation with:

Dr. Mary K. Grant, President of Massachusetts College of Art and Design,

Sarah Turner, President of North Bennet Street School

Alison Croney Moses, Associate Director of Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts

With respondent Dr. Juliana Rowen Barton, Director of Center for the Arts at Northeastern University.

This conversation is hosted by the city’s oldest craft education site, Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts and is supported by Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.

 

Register here!


"Spaces of Belonging" AIR Exhibition & Artists

Teen Bridge/Artist in Residence Opening Reception
Friday, August 5 at the Piano Craft Gallery

6:00 - 8:00 pm: Join us for the reception
7:00 pm: Gallery Talk with GoFive and TakeOne and Teen Bridge artists

Click Here to Register

Join us to celebrate the culmination of the GoFive's and TakeOne's residency with an opening reception for "Feel the Flow" on view at the Piano Craft Gallery, August 5 - 28. The show features work created by our Teen Bridge students and inspired by the residency. Come for exciting new youth art, good conversation, and light refreshments. Admission is free, but please register so we will know you are coming. This is an excellent opportunity for friends and supporters of the Teen Bridge and Artist in Resident programs to see the latest creations from this dynamic group of young adults.

How do we shape the spaces that shape us? The 2022 Eliot School Artist in Residence Project—“Spaces of Belonging”— explores this question by engaging Teen Bridge artists, students from English High School, and members of the surrounding community in the process of planning and creating a public mural at The English High School in Jamaica Plain. The exhibition at Piano Craft Gallery provides a insider look into the process of creating the mural that was installed on English High School's campus as part of the residency. The exhibition also showcases the artwork that demonstrates the artists' growth.

Teen Bridge and Artist in Residence program are made possible through the generous support of The Adelard A. and Valeda Lea Roy Foundation, Boston Private Industry Council, BPS Arts Expansion Fund at EdVestors, City of Boston Department of Youth Engagement & Employment, Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee, The Joe Kalt & Judy Gans Family Foundation, Linde Family Foundation, Maureen and David Moses Family, National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Art’s Public Art for Spatial Justice program, with generous support from the Barr Foundation, New World Foundation, general support from Mass Cultural Council, and individual donors.

Teen Bridge and Artist in Residence are also funded in part by Boston Public Schools (BPS) Arts Expansion, a multi-year effort focusing on access, equity, and quality arts learning for BPS students. The BPS Arts Expansion Fund, managed by EdVestors, is supported by the Barr Foundation, The Boston Foundation, Katie and Paul Buttenwieser, The Klarman Family Foundation, Linde Family Foundation, and other individuals. BPS Arts Expansion is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

COVID-19 vaccinations are highly encouraged and indoor masking is required.


Eliot Schoolyard Concerts 2022

Sundays, June 5–Sept 25, 4:00 PM @ the Eliot Schoolyard

Join us LIVE for 15 outdoor summer concerts. Hear a rich selection of Boston's incredible musicians, from jazz to electro-pop, sax to steel drum.

Admission free. Donations gratefully accepted. A suggested donation of $10, $20 or more will help pay the artists and support the series.

Bring your own seat. All are welcome (no dogs, please).

RSVP   SUPPORT THE SERIES

CURATORS:  Dunamis X Meraki • Brian Friedland • Hoopla Productions

AUDIO by Carlito Blu

Look HERE for details.

June 5: Shaw Pong Liu & Brian Friedland (violin & keyboard, improvisation & new compositions)

June 12: Niu Raza (Malagasy singer-songwriter + band)

June 19: Dis N Dat Band (neo-reggae)

June 26: Schoolyard Quartet: Lihi Haruvi, Brian Friedland, Keala Keala Kaumeheiwa & Jorge Perez-Albela (globally-inspired jazz)

July 10: Ava Sophia (soulful grooves)

July 17: Nadia Washington & Brian Friedland (soul, R&B, jazz)

July 24: Akili Jamal Haynes (Positive African Images)

July 31: YBH Trio (jazz trumpet & more)

August 7: Naomi Westwater (folk, jazz, soul, electro-pop)

August 14: Miguel Landestoy Trio (jazz)

August 21: Phil Sargent & Brian Friedland (boundary-pushing jazz)

August 28: Trio Let's Vamos (Brazilian forró)

September 11: John Williams Jam Band (movie music takes a funky twist)

September 18: Shavonne Brown (classic soul vocals)

September 25: Stan Strickland Trio (jazz & soul)

Can't Find It? Ask!

We are constantly trying out new classes. You may be searching for a past class that we don’t currently offer. Some classes occur in alternate seasons. Others may currently be out of rotation.

Please ask us for anything you don't see on our site. We’ll see whether it’s possible to offer it again.

Courses
Jennifer Turpin
Day of week: 
Saturday
Sunday
Dates:June 24-25, 2023
Time:10:00 AM-2:00 PM

In this weekend workshop, you'll learn how to transform images into embroidered pieces of art.

Combine basic embroidery with traditional drawing techniques like contour, gesture and hatching to create portrait drawings with thread.

Transfer an image to fabric, then select the right embroidery materials to make your portrait come to life!

Price: $120.00
Materials fee payable to instructor in class: 
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