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Earth and Fire: Work by Maud Morgan Arts Clay Faculty
Earth and Fire: Work by Maud Morgan Arts Clay Faculty Reception: Thursday, August 18, 6-8 pm Jasmine Baetz Nina Berinstein Rachel Eng Jessica Gaddis Zachary Mickelson Tiffany Playford
Find out more »Here / There: Works by Wendy Prellwitz
WATER IN UNEXPECTED WAYS Wendy Prellwitz Floats Metaphors into the Chandler Gallery “I wanted to challenge myself to represent water in unexpected ways”, says artist Wendy Prellwitz. The paintings and monotypes in her upcoming show at the Chandler Gallery juxtapose night with day, solidity with fluidity, and the concrete with the unknowable while depicting water in abstracted textures and shades of magenta, orange and black. The exhibition is part of the annual Spirit Awards Benefit for Maud Morgan Arts, at…
Find out more »The Spirit Awards 2016
2Visionaries in the Arts Sunday, September 18, 2016 6:30-9:30 pm 20 Sacramento Street, Cambridge Tickets: $40 in advance, $50 at the door Please come and enjoy a night of Art, Music, Friends and Fun! Your support helps us provide scholarships and expand programming that fulfills our mission of connecting, inspiring and transforming individual lives by building community through the visual arts. Each year Maud Morgan Arts honors one or two artists who embody the “spirit” of Maud Morgan and the…
Find out more »2016 Past Spirit Awards
Visionaries in the Arts: Spirit Awards Benefit in support of Maud Morgan Arts The 2016 Spirit Awards Benefit honored art leaders and advocates who worked to establish two of Cambridge’s major resources for artists and art-lovers. Artist and architect Wendy Prellwitz was the driving force behind the conception, design, and creation of Maud Morgan Arts. Meanwhile, as President of Lesley University (2007-2016), Joseph Moore guided the development and construction of the Lunder Arts Center in Porter Square, and transformed the…
Find out more »Collage & Sketch Cambridge
September 25 - 26, 2016 10 am to 4 pm Adult / Teen Workshop In this class we will prepare papers with elements of collage and then go out and make some sketches over these surfaces. The next step will be adding color using acrylic paints. This is for those of you out there pining to respond to this beautiful city. It is perfect for people who are intimidated by drawing because we can make simple line drawings and raw intimations…
Find out more »Snack ‘n Track
Monday - Friday 2:30 - 3:30 pm Snack N' Track is for children grades K to 5. If your child is unsupervised between arrival of the buses and the beginning of classes, you must sign up your child for Snack 'n Track. REGISTER TODAY... What is Snack 'n Track? A program offered to ensure the safe arrival and supervision of students whose parents and guardians are unable to bring them to their Maud Morgan Arts class. Students registered for Snack 'n…
Find out more »The Great Kapok Tree
Grade K Mondays, 3:30 - 5:30 pm September 26 - December 5, 2016 Excludes October 10, 2016 What lives in the jungle? Jungles! What lives there? What grows there? What is the Great Kapok Tree? We will celebrate the vibrant life that inhabits these exotic environments around the world; birds, trees, fruit, plants and animals. Students will explore color, texture, and various art mediums. We will also source inspiration from the book, The Great Kapok Tree. Snack 'n Track is available for students who…
Find out more »Hands in the Mud: Clay
Grades 1 - 2 Mondays, 3:30 - 5:30 pm September 26 - December 5, 2016 Excludes October 10, 2016 What does clay feel like? As little hands grow, and their experience of the world expands, clay becomes a perfect way to express and describe and invent reactions to so much that is new and stimulating. The feel of smooth, cool clay, easily shaped into anything, is a sensory pleasure, and once fired, the end result is something that never fails to…
Find out more »Hands on Sculpture
Grades 3 - 5 Mondays, 3:30 - 5:30 pm September 26 - December 5, 2016 Excludes October 10, 2016 Imagine and Build Design and create sculptures from the ground up using student-inspired assemblages of cardboard, paper mache, plaster, paper and more. Students will develop all elements of their designs and transform them into 3D forms through construction, collage and painting. Snack 'n Track is available for students who are registering for this class.
Find out more »Spin Control: Ceramics
Adult / Teen Mondays, 6 - 8:30 pm September 26 - December 5, 2016 Excludes October 10, 2016 For beginner to intermediate students Relax with your hands in the mud, test your strength as you move and shape the clay. This class covers all the fundamentals of learning to use a potters wheel, and will introduce a variety of techniques for making ceramic art. Our studio is intimate enough to allow us to address each potter’s needs at their own level as we move to…
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