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Cambridge Open Studios May 13 – 14
May 13 - 14, 2017 12:00 noon - 6:00 pm Maud Morgan Arts 20A Sacramento St. Cambridge, MA 02138 Join us for Cambridge Open Studios at Maud Morgan Arts on May 13 and 14! View work by our faculty, staff and adult students as well as visiting artists Emily Cobb, Mireli Brooks, Katherine Boice, and Nancy Hart. In addition to paintings, prints and ceramics, join us for performances both days! Saturday, May 13th 1:00 pm The Tremendously Terrifying Talkie Tangle…
Find out more »Sketching & Painting Cambridge
May 20 - 21, 2017 10 am to 4 pm Adult / Teen Workshop Experience the intensity of looking anew at your familiar surroundings. Actually looking while drawing and painting is a profoundly different experience that just passing through. Alexandra will guide you in your explorations with pen and pencil, paper and paint. An exhibition will follow in August 2017 in the Chandler Gallery and the Foyer Gallery.
Find out more »ORDINARY SIGHTINGS: WATERCOLORS BY BRENDA S. ENGEL
May 24 - June 11, 2017 Hours: Monday to Friday, 3:00 - 6:00 pm Community Artist Spotlight Space at Maud Morgan Arts is a new exhibition space that showcases the work of artists living and working in the community. Watercolors have been my art medium for most of my life although, when younger, I tried out acrylics and oils. I turned exclusively to watercolor painting when I had young children and time for painting was limited, often interrupted. Watercolor paints…
Find out more »From the Studios: Artwork by ABC and MMA Students
June 6 - June 23, 2017 Reception: Thursday June 8, 5:30 - 6:30 pm Chandler Gallery showcases works by young artists. These works remind adults what it means to have fun. Clay animals, wooden treasure boxes and a sparkling unicorn are the creations of students at Maud Morgan Arts and Agassiz Baldwin Afterschool. The artists, ranging in age from kindergarten through 8th grade, offer perspectives that older artists can mimic and aspire to, but can no longer truly possess. The…
Find out more »Reception: From the Studios / Artwork by ABC and MMA Students
5:30 - 6:30 pm The Chandler Gallery 20 Sacramento St. Cambridge, MA Join us for a reception with students and their families for light refreshments on the front porch. From the Studios highlights the creations of our youngest artists. Works include self-portrait prints, ceramic work, puppets, creature boxes, circus pop-up posters, and a giant 3D unicorn and treasure box. Artwork is created by students in Maud Morgan Arts and Agassiz Baldwin Community programs. Artwork will be on display until June 23rd.…
Find out more »Making a Mandala
Saturday, June 10, 2017 1 - 3:30 pm Free, all ages welcome Create surprising and fun works by designing and assembling fabrics to form a mandala. Explore ideas, imagery, color, symbols and materials in a celebratory mandala that draws inspiration from your own experiences of your community and the world around you. Make your own mandala and contribute to a large collaborative mandala for all to enjoy. Join us for this multi-age workshop during our Backyard Block Party for the whole community.…
Find out more »Summer Creative Arts Workshops
Rising Grade 6 - 9 Monday - Friday 1:30 - 5:45 pm | Week 1 July 9 - 13th Explore, Create, and Challenge Yourself Six unique weeks of creative art workshops for youth entering grades 6 through 9. Programs begin the week of July 9th and run through the August 17th. Students will explore two subjects for two hours each day, ceramics and one of a variety of other subjects including painting, photography, illustration, screenprinting, sculpture, depending on the week.…
Find out more »Sketching Cambridge: Work by Alexandra Sheldon
July 10 - August 4, 2017 Reception: July 13, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Artist Alexandra Sheldon’s sketches of Cambridge speak to locals. In “Sketches of Cambridge,” her upcoming show at the Chandler Gallery, Sheldon eschews city squares and tourist hot-spots and finds beauty in the paved streets, traffic cones, bare tree limbs, and power lines of residential neighborhoods. Sheldon combines her two passions—painting from life and abstract collage—to create realistic scenes in acrylic, gouache and watercolor that also incorporate collage,…
Find out more »Week 1: Paint with Fabric, Ceramics
Rising Grades 6 – 9 July 10 – 14, 2017 1:30 – 5:45 pm Paint with Fabric: Color, Form, Pattern Working with a collection of artist designed cloth and using glue as the primary means of assemblage, your pieces will take diverse forms such as a mandala wall cloth, wearable art, a large serving tray or a string of flags. We will incorporate acrylic paint and stitched elements layering color, pattern, and representational images if you choose, focusing on a…
Find out more »Week 2: Screenprinting, Ceramics
Rising Grades 6 - 9 July 17 – July 21, 2017 1:30 - 5:45 pm Screenprinting: Colorful Multiples Discover wild colors and combinations to create colorful prints on a variety of surfaces. Learn the art of screenprinting and more, everything from hand-cut stencils to painted, drawn, and photo images. One of the most colorful of processes can be applied in crazy layers on almost any surface. Ceramics Learn or progress the satisfying skill of throwing pots on a potter’s wheel while you…
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