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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)

Courses
Paul Tomkavage
Juan Perez
Day of week: 
Tuesday
Dates:April 2-June 25, 2024
Time:7:00 PM-9:00 PM

In this 2-hour-long life drawing class, you'll draw from a live, nude figure model at your own pace.  Sessions are overseen by a professional artist who can help answer questions and/or provide critique.  However, no formal instruction is provided in this class.

Price: $0.00
Materials fee payable to instructor in class: 
0.00
Paul Tomkavage
Juan Perez
Day of week: 
Tuesday
Dates:January 2-March 26, 2024
Time:7:00 PM-9:00 PM

In this 2-hour-long life drawing class, you'll draw from a live, nude figure model at your own pace.  Sessions are overseen by a professional artist who can help answer questions and/or provide critique.  However, no formal instruction is provided in this class.

Price: $0.00
Materials fee payable to instructor in class: 
0.00
Paul Tomkavage
Juan Perez
Day of week: 
Tuesday
Dates:September 12-December 19, 2023
Time:7:00 PM-9:00 PM

You can register for this class starting July 15. 

Want to develop your drawing skills?  

In this 2-hour-long life drawing class, you'll draw from a live, nude figure model at your own pace.  Sessions are overseen by a professional artist who can help answer questions and/or provide critique.  However, no formal instruction is provided in this class.

Price: $0.00
Materials fee payable to instructor in class: 
0.00
Brigid Watson
Day of week: 
Thursday
Dates:July 13-August 31, 2023
Time:2:15 PM-5:15 PM

Join our friendly and casual group as we explore the Museum of Fine Arts and the Gardner Museum, through drawing.

Drawing provides us the opportunity to study and absorb art work in a unique way. To draw something is to be in dialogue with it.

Each week will visit a different exhibit at either the MFA or the Gardner museums to capture art, people, and architecture through live sketches.

Price: $365.00
Materials fee payable to instructor in class: 
0.00
Rob Stull
Brigid Watson
Day of week: 
Tuesday
Dates:September 6-December 20, 2022
Time:7:00 PM-9:00 PM

Want to develop your drawing skills?  

We'll provide a live figure model at each session and a skilled, professional artist to instruct (developing artists) or critique (experienced artists). 

Want to work independently?  You are welcome to.

Bring your preferred drawing implements (we can recommend some!) and paper; we'll provide the art-boards, easels, and tables. 

We'll invite varied body-types and genders to model and encourage dynamic poses each week so you can truly explore the human form.

Price: $0.00
Materials fee payable to instructor in class: 
0.00
Zahirah Nur Truth
Day of week: 
Tuesday
Wednesday
Dates:September 15-October 13, 2021
Time:7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Supporting the Processing of Experiences through the Arts during Crisis (SPEAC Professional Development Program for Arts Educators)
SPEAC is a summer intensive designed to prepare teaching artists to guide students through online and in-person arts education that effectively supports students to process and express their lived experiences due to the current health crisis, ongoing racial injustice, and the racial awakening and opposition in society, therefore working toward personal and community transformation.
Price: $0.00
Materials fee payable to instructor in class: 
0.00